iflfiO^' 1 -MiteBffot ^mmmmm '^rPm* f . '§f\n^^[- [ i fmm M5*fir 7 >nw iwv Cte, "PA V\0 / Punk ■"& < 8*B>iT BRIEF SKETCHES, ETC. " If any there be which are desirous to be strangers in their own soile, and forrainers in their own citie, they may so continue, and therein flatter themselves. For such like I have not written these lines, nor taken these paines." •' Out of the olde fields, as men saithe, Cometh all this newe corn from yere to yere j And out of olde bookes, in good faithe, Cometh all this science that man lere." BEIEF SKETCHES OF THE PAEISHES OF IN THE COUNTY OF DUBLIN ; Wt| $ofcs grtr %vadt. THE EEV. BEAVEE H. BLACKEE, M.A., INCUMBENT OF BOOTERSTOWN, AND RURAL DEAN. 11 Attamen audendum est, et Veritas investiganda, quam si non omnino assequeremur, tamen propius ad earn, quam nunc sumus, tandem perveniemus.' 1 "SPARSA COEGV DUBLIN : GEORGE HERBERT, 117, GRAFTON-STREET. LONDON : SIMPKIN, MARSHALL, AND CO. 18 74. DUBLIN : PRINTED BY GEORGE DROUGHT, 6, Bachelor's-walk. COZLTTZEiLTTS- Page Preface iii. Parish op Booterstown . 7 Booterstown Parish Church 7 Parish of Donnybrook . . 10 Donnybrook Parish Church . 10 Sandymount Church . . 15 Irishtown Church . 20 APPEITDIX I. Notes — Consecration of Booterstown Church . 25 Grant of the Site ..... . 25 The Archdeaconry of Dublin . . • . 26 Formation of Booterstown Parish . 27 Cost of building Booterstown Church . 28 James Digges La Touche, Esq., and Hi chard Yerschoyle, Esq. . . 29 The Rev. Robert H. Nixon . 30 The Rev. Anthony Sillery . 31 Bounds of Booterstown Parish . . . . 32 Population of Booterstown Parish • . 34 Donnybrook Church . . . . . 35 Symond's-court Tower . . 35 The Dodder . 36 Donnybrook ...... . 36 The old Church of Donnybrook . 36 Sir Edward Lovet Pearce • . 37 Vi CONTENTS. Page Bartholomew Mosse, M.D. . 38 The Right Hon. John Radcliff, LL.D. . 38 Bishop Clayton, and Richard Graves, D.D., Dear L ofArdagh 39 Donny brook Parish Registers . 41 Archbishops King and Magee . 41 Sandford 42 The Duke of Wellington 42 The Hospital for Incurables, Donnybrook . 43 Donnybrook Fair ..... 44 Bounds of Donnybrook Parish .... 48 Population of Donnybrook Parish 50 Oliver, Earl of Tyrconnel . . . 51 Tombstone in Merrion Graveyard , 52 Derivation of " Ringsend " 53 The Pigeon-house and the Light-house 54 King James's Visit to Ringsend 56 Ringsend Cars ..... 57 Monuments in Irishtown Church . . 58 Annals of the Parishes, 1st Series ♦ 59 Archdeacons of Dublin, 1580-1864 . 99 Incumbents of Booterstown, 1824-1873 # 100 Incumbent of Donnybrook, 1858-1864 101 Chaplain of St. John's, Sandymount, 1850-1864 101 Chaplains of St. Matthew's, Ringsend (Irishtown Church), 1723-1869 101 Churchwardens of Booterstown, 1821-1859 101 Churchwardens of Donnybrook, 1825-1859 103 ^.^^EisriDix: ii. Preface 105 Notes — Fitzwilliam Family 108 The Half-Barony of Rathdown . . 114 Donnybrook Church , 119 CONTENTS. vii Page Derivation of " Donnybrook " . • 120 Downes Family . 122 Donny brook Graveyard . ► 124 Donnybrook Parish Registers . 138 Donny brook Fair . 129 Royal Chapel of St. Matthew, Ringsend . 146 Yarranton's Survey of Ringsend, 1674 . 148 St. Matthew's Churchyard . 152 Annals of the Parishes, 2nd Series • 158 .A-IFIPEIfcTIDIX: III. Preface 213 Notes — ' The Derivation of " Booterstown " 217 Booterstown Church . 221 Booterstown Parish Registers . 223 Population of Booterstown Parish, 1861 . 224 The Archdeaconry of Dublin . * 226 Lady Arabella Denny . . , . * 231 James Digges La Touche, Esq. , 237 The Right Hon. James Fitzgerald 241 Lord Herbert of Lea t 243 Field-Marshal Viscount Gough 247 The Blackrock Township, and Blackrock . 253 The Geology of Booterstown and Donnybrook . 259 Population of Donnybrook Parish, 1861 . 268 Donnybrook Parish Registers .... 269 Extracts from the Donnybrook Parish Registers 271 Donnybrook Graveyard 288 The Pembroke Townshio, St. Bartholomew's Church, and Bagotrath Castle . 309 Fitzwilliam Family 314 John Fitzgibbon, Earl of Clare .... 317 William, Lord Downes 319 Robert Perceval, M.D 323 Vlll CONTENTS. Page The Hibernian Nursery, Ringsend . • ,330 The Grand Canal Docks, Ringsend . . .332 The Dublin and Kingstown Railway . . 333 Sir Bernard De Gomme's Survey of the Harbour of Dublin, 1673 335 St. Matthew's Churchyard .... 341 The Dodder ....... 356 Simmon's-court 361 Archbishop King and Archdeacon Dougatt . 363 The Archdeacons of Dublin, 1180-1580, 1864-1873 370 Donny brook Fair 375 The Hospital for Incurables, Donnybrook . .380 Population of Booterstown and Donnybrook Parishes, 1871 396 Annals of the Parishes, 3rd Series . .398 Rectors of Donnybrook, 1864-1873 . . .480 Chaplain of St. John's, Sandymount, 1864-1873 480 Chaplain of St. Matthew's, Ringsend . . 480 Incumbent of St. Matthew's, Irishtown . „ 480 Churchwardens of Booterstown, 1860-1873 . 480 Churchwardens of Donnybrook, 1639-1854, 1860-1873 481 Postscript 486 **$%* BRIEF SKETCHES OF THE Urajps rf $wrtersto&m wfo Jtogfrmlt, IN THE COUNTY OF DUBLIN; WITH %n %j»nttt* t mttammg Indies mt& ^Limak BY THE REV. BEAVER H. BLACKER, A.M., Incumbent oj Buo?erst.own. " Attamen audendum est, et Veritas investiganda, quam si non omnino a quercniur, tamen propnus ad earn, quam nunc sunius, tandem perveniemus.' DUBLIN : GEORGE HERBERT, 117, GRAFTON -STREET. LONDON: BELL AND DALDY, 186, FLEET-STHEET. 18 6 0. DUBLIN : PHINTEP BY GEORGE DROUGHT, 6, Baohelox's-wulk. PBEFACE. The substance of these Brief Sketches of the four churches in the parishes of Booters- town and Donnybrook lately appeared in the Christian Examiner, under the title of " Sketches of Suburban Churches " (Nos. L- IV.) ; and having been carefully revised and enlarged by the writer, they are now pro- duced in a permanent form. A view of Booterstown Church (from the Cross-avenue) is prefixed ; but, as it does not convey an exact idea of the adjacent grounds, as they are at present, it is right to mention that many improvements have been effected since the copperplate was engraved ; and particularly, that the Right Honourable Sidney Herbert, M.P., in the year 1854, added considerably IV PREFACE. to the grounds, and made a new and handsome approach from Mount Merrion- avenue. A view of the church on an enlarged scale, with descriptive particulars, has likewise appeared in the Church of England Magazine, vol. xlvi. p. 361 (London, 1859). The writer is indebted for several interest- ing particulars to the long-continued labours of Mr. Y? Alton, who, in his " History of the County of Dublin," " Memoirs of the Arch- bishops of Dublin/' and many other well- known works, has collected together a vast amount of useful information. Some of his statements, however, are not a little tinged with prejudice (e.g. in his account of the late Archbishop Magee, whose advancement to almost the highest ecclesiastical dignity in Ireland was justified, in the general opinion, by the eminent service he had performed in vindicating the doctrines of his Church, but who has been held up to public view as a flagrant instance of " arrogant and uncharita- PREFACE. ble bigotry") ; while other statements, perhaps from the want of proper answers to his in- quiries, are incorrect, and consequently leave him exposed to critical objections. Thus (to take an instance near home), he states in his " History of the County of Dublin," p. 861, that " the Incumbent [of Booterstown] has also a glebe-house and glebe " — which unfor- tunately is not the case. A long and intimate connexion with Don- nybrook has enabled the writer to give many particulars of that parish ; and having spared neither time nor trouble, he hopes that he will not be found to be very inaccurate in any of his statements. Being indebted to some kind friends for assistance, he takes this oppor- tunity of acknowledging his obligations. ROKEBY, BlACKROCK, DUBLIN. 1st December, 1859. " &ll onls for to imolisi) Elaine, 3Tgtne uast, t$me present ootfj; Cljat tctne to come, mag toell retatne, Of eacf) flooU t$me, tfje trotf)." — Thomas Churchyard. PAEISH OF BOOTEBSTOWN. INCUMBENT. KEY. BEAVER HENRY BLACKER, A.M. This church, dedicated to St. Philip and St. James, and beautifully situated in the vicinity of Dublin, was consecrated and opened for Divine service on Sunday, 16th May, 1824, by the late Dr. Magee, Archbishop of the diocese (a) ; the site (with the sum of £1,000) having been given by George Augustus Earl of Pembroke (b). The parish, which is a portion of the corps of the archdeaconry of Dublin (c), had been formed out of the parish of Donnybrook in the year 1821 (d) ; and the patron- age is vested in the Archdeacon. The structure, which was designed by Joseph Welland, Esq., and completed at the cost of nearly £5,000 (V), is handsome, in the later English style, with a square embattled tower with crocketed pinnacles at the angles, and surnioimted by a lofty spire ; the walls (a) Notes applicable to the reference-marks will be found in the Appendix. BRIEF SKETCHES OF are strengthened with buttresses terminating in pinnacles, and crowned with an embattled parapet. In the interior, which accommodates about 500, there are monuments to James Digges La Touche (the early and devoted friend of Sunday Schools in Ireland) and Eichard Verschoyle, Esqrs. (/) ; and also one to the Eev. E. H. Nixon (g), with this appropriate inscription : — "Erected by the parishioners of Booterstown, to the memory of the Rev. Robert Herbert Nixon, A.M., who died on the 22nd of January, 1857, in the 75th year of his age, having been for 24 years Incumbent of this parish. Humble in his deportment, affectionate and impressive in his teaching, and uncompromising in his testimony to the truth, he strik- ingly exemplified the mild and attractive graces of the Gos- pel. ' Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth : Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours ; and their works do follow them. 7 — Rev. xiv. 13." The Eev. James Bulwer was the first Incumbent of the parish ; and Eobert Alexander, of Seamonnt (now St. Helen's, the seat of Lord Viscount Gough), and James Digges La Touche, of Sans Souci, Esqrs., the first Churchwardens. The Eev. Anthony Sil- leiy, A.M. (" distinguished for singleness of mind, genuine piety, unostentatious benevolence, and deep learning," and subsequently well known for his great exertions in behalf of the Waldenses), succeeded Mr. Bulwer in 1825 ; and during his incumbency, THE PARISH OF BOOTEESTOWN. 9 which lasted until 1832 (when he effected an ex- change with Mr. Nixon, who held the chaplaincy of Dr. Steevens' Hospital, Dublin), he established the Sunday and Daily Schools, and some of the other existing parochial institutions. The inhabitants are to this day reaping the fruits of his untiring exer- tions in the cause of God. (h) The parish of Booterstown (termed Ballybotter, Ballyboother, Butterstown, and Boterstone in sun- dry old documents) comprises the villages of Boo- terstown and Williamstown, and a small part of the town of Blackrock, with an area of 541 acres ( i) ; and forms a very nourishing portion of the large Irish estates of the Bight Hon. Sidney Herbert, M.P., who some years since erected and endowed the neighbouring Church of St. John the Evangel- ist. The district is on the road from Dublin to Kingstown and Bray, and on the southern coast of the bay of Dublin, the shores of which here assume a highly interesting and picturesque appearance. The population, according to the census taken in 1851, amounted to 3,512 (j) ; of whom about 1,800 (the number varying considerably in summer and winter) are members of the United Church of Endand and Ireland. PAEISH OE DONNYBBOOK. INCUMBENT, REV. FREDERICK FITZGERALD, A.M. !§8nnvhx88k, |)ans|} €\utt\* This church, dedicated to St. Mary, is a handsome building, in the early style of English architecture, with a vaulted roof and lancet-formed windows. (1c) It was erected in the year 1827, after a design of John Semple, Esq., at Simmon's- court (likewise known as Symond's-court and Smot's-court) (T), close to the river Dodder (ra), and about midway between the adjacent villages of Donnybrook (in former days termed Dovenachbroc and Dona- brok) (n) and BalPs-bridge, by means of a loan of £4,153 16s. lid., from the late Board of First Fruits. The tower was surmounted by a well-pro- portioned spire, which was so much damaged by the dreadful storm in January, 1839, that it was soon after taken down ; and it has not as yet been rebuilt. There is accommodation for about 500 THE PARISH OF DONNYBROOK. 11 worshippers ; the attendance, as in all suburban churches, being larger in the summer than in the winter months. The old church, situated in the village from which the parish derives its name, and for many years surrounded by a highly respectable and thriv- ing population, was small and inconvenient : the materials of it were sold and removed shortly after the opening of the present church ; and of the monuments in the interior, not one was rescued from destruction! (o) The graveyard is still in use, and contains the dust of many distinguished individuals, being " rich," according to Archdeacon Cotton, " in buried ecclesiastics." Of the laity we may specify sundry members of the Fitzwilliam family (now represented by the Eight Hon. Sidney Herbert) ; Sir Edward Lovet Pearce, " a celebrated architect, and the builder of the Irish Parliament- house of his day" [ob. 1733] (ji) ; Bartholomew Mosse, M.D., founder of the Dublin Lying-in Hos- pital [ob. 1759] (q) ; and the Rfc. Hon. John Rad- cliff, LL.D., Judge of the Prerogative Court [ob. 1843] (r) ; and of the clergy, Archbishop King [ob. 1729], Bishop Clayton [ob. 1758], and Dean Graves, Regius Professor of Divinity [ob. 1829]. Tombstones, with particulars (which will soon, we hope, be regularly placed on record, in compliance 12 BRIEF SKETCHES OF with the notice of the Society of Antiquaries of Lon- don), cover the remains of Bishop Clayton and Dean Graves (. 12. Archbishops King and Magee. — "Archbishop King died May 8, 1729, and was buried in the churchyard of Donnybrook [on the north side, as he had directed in his lifetime] ; but no monument or other memorial of him can 42 APPENDIX. now be found there. Archbishop Magee died August 19, 1831, and was buried in the old churchyard of Rathfarnham, likewise not far from Dublin. His tomb stands exactly in the centre of the ancient church ; but as no inscription has been placed on it, the spot will ere long be forgotten. This treatment appears somewhat strange in connexion with two of the ablest and greatest of the archbishops of Dublin. It ought, one would think, to be corrected ; and yet perhaps Sir William Jones* plan is the wisest : ' The best monument that can be erected to a man of literary talents is a good edition of his works.'" — Notes and Queries, 2nd S., i. 148. Note (v),p. 12. Sandford. — Mention of this place naturally recals to one's mind the late Yen. Henry Irwin, of whom it has been well observed by his successor in the chaplaincy, the Rev. W. P. Walsh, in the Notice prefixed to his " Remains," p. xxv., that " it was in his beloved church and parsonage, at Sandford, that Archdeacon Irwin gathered around him the deep love of that inner circle of friends and hearers who were there privileged to attend upon his faithful teaching. By a ministry of two and-thirty years he made that quiet spot a consecrated ground, and hallowed it into a centre from which blessed influences were diffused upon the Church and country that he loved." Sandford Church is in the parish of St. Peter, Dublin, only a few yards beyond the bounds of the parish of Donnybrook. Note (w), p. 12. The Duke of Wellington " It was not in India, as commonly supposed, but on Donnybrook-road, that his first laurels were won. This appears from the Freeman's Journal, September 18th, 1789, where we learn that in consequence of a wager between him and Mr. Whaley of one hundred and NOTES. 43 fifty guineas, the Hon. Arthur Wesley walked from the five- mile-stone on Donnybrook-road to the corner of the Circular- road in Leeson-street, in fifty-five minutes, and that a num- ber of gentlemen rode with the walker, whose horses he kept in a tolerable smart trot. When it is recollected that those were Irish miles, even deducting the distance from Leeson- street to the Castle, whence the original measurements were made, this walk must be computed at nearly six. English miles." — Notes and Queries, 1st S., viii. 491. Note (x) p. 13. The Hospital for Incurables. — The Buckingham Hospital, near the Donnybrook-road, originally intended for a small-pox hospital, was, for some time prior to 1792, used as a Lock hospital ; but being insufficient for the purpose, and inconveniently situated for the necessary medical attendance, it was in that year transferred to the governors of the chari- table foundation for incurables, who gave in exchange their hospital in Townsend-street, which has since that time been denominated the Westmoreland Lock Hospital, from the nobleman who was then Viceroy, and at whose instance the exchange was effected. The following extracts are from a recent appeal to the citizens of Dublin from the Governors of the Hospital for Incurables : — " The Hospital is situated near Donnybrook, in a pecu- liarly healthful and secluded situation ; and although so pre- eminently an institution of mercy, and altogether peculiar, both in the objects that it relieves, and the relief that it affords, is too little known, and has consequently not met with as large a portion of public sympathy as it so well merits. "The Institution is intended for those whom incurable disease has rendered incapable of effort ; it therefore does not aim beyond the alleviation of confirmed and hopeless disease. The victims of Cancer, Consumption, Paralysis, and of every 44 APPENDIX. variety of incurable malady, are received within its walls, and are nursed with unremitting care and tenderness. It receives those who are rejected as incurable from other sana- tory institutions, and is the last refuge on this side the grave for suffering mortality combined with poverty. " This account is in no respect exaggerated, and every person who will walk through its wards may satisfy himself of the truth of this statement. He will there witness per- manent, unmixed suffering — disgusting and wasting disease — and a wretched, hopeless struggle with pain and debility. All that can be effected by medical care, by judicious nourish- ment (which in many instances is necessarily costly), and by tender watchfulness, is freely given ; and the Governors have the satisfaction of stating, that the Hospital has in every case been a blessing, and an acknowledged blessing, to its incurable inmates." For many interesting particulars connected with the Hos- pital (including a copy of the charter of incorporation granted by King George III., 7th January, 1800), see the " Report of the Commissioners appointed to inspect Charita- ble Institutions, Dublin " (1842), pp. 118-135; the " Re- port of the Commissioners appointed to inquire into the Hospitals of Dublin " (1855) ; and the " First and Second Annual Reports of the Board of Superintendence of Dublin Hospitals" (1858 and 1859). Note (y), p. 13. Donnybrook Fair In the year 1204 King John granted his license to the corporation of Dublin to hold an eight -day fair at Donnybrook, commencing on the day of the finding of the Holy Cross (3rd May), with similar stall- ages and tolls as established in Waterford and Limerick. King Henry III., by charter in 1252, extended the duration of the Fair to fifteen days, and changed the day of its com- mencement to the 7th of July ; which was further altered to the 10th of the same month, and by a subsequent charter fixed to the 26th of August. Many attempts have been NOTES. 45 made from time to time to curtail the nuisance, with more or less success ; and the patent passed through various hands until it reached the representatives of the late John Madden, Esq., of Donnybrook, from whom it was purchased, in 1855, for the sum of £3,000. Since the foregoing paragraph was in type, a copy of the following " Statement in relation to the Fair of Donnybrook " (through the kindness of R. R. Madden, Esq., M.D.) has been furnished by Thoma3 Carmichael, Esq., who was pro- fessionally engaged in the purchase of the patent ; and being an important document, it is inserted in full, though, when compared with what immediately precedes it, a few repe- titions and slight differences cannot fail to be seen : — "By a King's Letter enrolled in the Close Roll of the sixth year of King John (1204) in the Tower of London, that King commanded Meiler FitzHenry, Justiciary of Ire- land, amongst other things, ' as he had informed the King that he had not a place where the King's treasure could be safely deposited, and that for this cause and many other necessary causes a fortress was required,' to build a castle in a proper place, and to protect and defend the city, and to surround it with a fosse and walls fortified with competent towers, bulwarks, and other defences, as he should consider the King's peace and safety ; and that for this purpose he should get 300 marks, owing by E. FitzRobert. He com- manded also by letters patent that his citizens of Dublin " should have the city enclosed, and that they should be com- pelled to do so, if unwilling. " He willed also that there should be a fair at Donny- brook every year for eight days' duration, at the Invention of the Holy Cross (3rd May), and another at the well of St. John the Baptist, likewise for eight days, allowing to them toll and stallage ; another at Waterford, on the day of St. Peter in Chains ; another at Limerick, on the feast of St. Martin, for eight days ; and he commanded these things to be announced, that all merchants should come there freely. Witnessed, &c, 31st day of August. (The original record of Chancery, and the translation, preserved in the Tower of London.) " The right of the citizens to hold this fair is recognised in 46 APPENDIX. two other letters of the same King, also enrolled in the Close Koll of the sixteenth and seventeenth years of his reign (1214 and 1215) ; and by the latter, the time for holding the fair is enlarged to fifteen days, saving to the Archbishop of Dublin the said fair for the first two days thereof. " By charter dated 1241, 26th Henry III., reciting that he had granted, and by that his charter confirmed, to his citizens of Dublin that they and their heirs for ever should have a fair at Dublin within their bounds every year for fifteen days, that is to say, on the vigil, the day, and the morrow of the Translation of St. Thomas the Martyr, and for twelve days following, which they had theretofore had, by grant of King John his father, beginning at the feast of the Invention of the Holy Cross for fifteen days, saving to the Archbishop of Dublin and his successors the aforesaid fair for two days, that is to say, the vigil of the said Translation and the day of the same ; therefore the King willed and firmly commanded for him, his heirs, and successors for ever, that his said citizens of Dublin and their heirs for ever should have a fair for ever within their bounds every year for fifteen days' duration, that is to say, on the vigil, the day, and the morrow of the Translation of St. Thomas the Martyr, and for twelve days following, with all liberties and free customs to the same fair belonging, which they had hitherto held by grant of the Lord John the King, his father, commencing on the vigil of the Invention of the Holy Cross, for fifteen days' duration, saving to the Venerable Father Lord Archbishop of Dublin and his successors, of the said fair two days, that is to say, the vigil and the day of the Translation aforesaid. Witnesses, W. Bishop of Worcester ; Richard le Clare, Earl of Gloucester and Hertford ; Master William de Kilkenny, Archdeacon of Coventry. Given under the King's hand, 28th May. " By charter dated 1279, 8th Edward L, the time of com- mencing the fair was further postponed at the instance of the citizens, and for their greater convenience, as therein stated, to the eve of the Translation of St. Benedict the Abbot, in July, to be held for fifteen days. u By a subsequent charter the time of holding the fair was changed to a still later period ; and from time immemorial the same has been held in the Green of Donnybrook, on the 26th of August, continuing during periods varying from a week to fifteen days. "Although some title on the part of the Archbishop of NOTES. 47 Dublin to two out of the fifteen days during which the fair was to last, is alluded to in some of the late charters, there is no trace on record of its ever being exercised. " The corporation of the city of Dublin having in the course of time absolutely disposed of the right of holding this fair, with the tolls and customs thereof under the aforesaid charters, the same, upon the death of Henry Ussher (the preceding proprietor) in the year 1756, became vested in Sir William Wolseley, Bart., who in the year 1778 made a lease thereof to the late Joseph Madden, of Donnybrook ; and in the year 1812 the then Baronet absolutely assigned same for ever to the late John Madden, his [Joseph Madden's] son, by the representatives of whom, and of Peter Madden his brother, the same were conveyed in the year 1855 to the Right Hon. Joseph Boyce, then Lord Mayor of the city of Dublin, and Edward Wright, Esq., LL.D., in trust for the Committee then formed for the abolition of said Donnybrook Fair, and for their fellow-citizens subscribing to the contri- bution." The following extracts are from the circular issued by the Committee for the Abolition of Donnybrook Fair : — " The annals of social and commercial life in this metro- polis afford sad and abundant records of the ruin and degra- dation which, dating their commencement with a visit to this Fair, have befallen many who once enjoyed a character for industry and morality, and who, but for the contamination there contracted, might still have enjoyed it. "The facts, that large sums of money are annually drawn from the Savings' Banks, to be squandered at the Fair ; that every anniversary is followed by a fearful increase of disease, as attested by the Hospital and Dispensary Reports ; and that the amount of crime, as shown by the Police Reports, is fearfully augmented, afford conclusive evidence as to the vast amount of social mischief generated on these occasions. " Deluded by the specious show of recreation and amuse- ment, multitudes are caught in the meshes of temptation, and allured into the snares of vice. Servants, mechanics, trades- men, and even clerks and shopmen, all in respectable employment, have been thus led into courses which have entailed the loss of situation, the forfeiture of character, and consequent misery to themselves and their families. To the young of both sexes it has been the source of unnumbered 48 APPENDIX. evils, whilst, to young females especially, it has proved an easy and fatal descent into the lowest depths of infamy and shame. "Happily, an opportunity for putting an end to the occa- sion of these evils now presents itself. The proprietors of the patent under which the Fair is held, are willing to sur- render their claims for .£3,000 ; a sum which, if considered in relation to their vested interests, is fair and reasonable, and if compared with the amount of good to be accomplished, is trifling and insignificant. " The Committee invite the aid and co-operation of every friend of religion andgmorality, to the completion of a work now auspiciously begun." Though the patent was purchased, and safely vested in the hands of those who will not abuse it, the expectations of the Committee and Subscribers were not at once realised. An individual, who lives in Donny brook, and has had for some time past the lease and license of a public-house, with a field attached to her holding, persisted in having a fair on her premises, and occasioned no small amount of damage to the public ; but the Fair has been abolished, and it is to be hoped that ere long no traces of it may be found. For a strong, but not too strong article on the subject, see the Irish Times, 23rd August, 1859. It is satisfactory to & be able to add, that cogent reasons against the renewal of the license having been urged by the Crown, and both sides of the case fully argued, in the College-street Police Office, the presiding Magistrates have given judgment against Miss Eliza Dillon, as detailed in Saunders's News-Letter, 9th November. The certificate for her license has been very properly refused ; and thus the so- called fair of Donnybrook is at an end. Note (z),p. 15. Bounds of Donnybrook Parish Within the bounds of this parish (partly in the half- barony of Rathdown and NOTES. 49 barony of Uppercross, but chiefly in the barony of Dublin), which are well defined in the Ordnance Survey, the fol- lowing, with other avenues, are comprised : — Donnybrook- road, from Upper Leeson-street to Donnybrook ; Stillorgan- road, from Donnybrook to Priesthouse ; Clonskea-road, from Cullenswood-terrace to Clonskea ; Sallymount ; Bushfield- avenue ; Belmont-avenue ; Seaview-terrace ; Simmonscourt ; Blackrock-road, from the College Botanic Gardens to Trim- leston, Merrion ; Beggarsbush-road ; Bath-avenue, with Va- vasour-square ; Sandymount-road, from near Ringsend- bridge to Sandymount ; Irishtown- strand ; London-bridge- road ; Tritonville- avenue ; Serpentine- avenue; Sandymount- avenue ; Sandy mount-green ; Seafort-avenue ; Newgrove- avenue; Sandymount- strand; Park- avenue ; Sydney-parade ; Merrion- strand ; White's-avenue ; and Merrionview- avenue. Amongst the principal residences are — Nutley, of Alder- man Roe, D.L. ; Woodview, of Captain Frederick J. Isacke ; Greenfield, of Randle H, M'Donnell, Esq. ; Thornfield, of Richard Wilson, Esq. ; Montrose, of Wm. Jameson, Esq, ; Airfield, of James Jameson, Esq. ; Mount Errol, of William Bredin, Esq. ; Shamrock-hill, of Edward Hornsby, Esq. ; Plantation, of John Hewson, Esq. ; Floraville, of Edward Wright, Esq., LL.D. ; Vergemount, of Patrick Donegan, Esq. ; Swanbrook, of the Rev. John L. Chute ; St. Ann's, of Colonel O'Neill ; Simmonscourt Castle, of Bartholomew M. Tabuteau, Esq. ; Erith Lodge, of John Spain, Esq. ; Will- field, of Mrs. Clarke ; Willrield House, of Miss O'Reilly ; Sandymount Castle, of Robert Corbet, Esq. ; Claremont, of Mrs. Lovely; Belvedere, of the Hon. Mrs. Butler; Fairfield House, of Thomas Reilly, Esq. ; Kirkville, of Alex. Sanson, Esq. ; Elm Park, of Joseph Watkins, Esq. ; Low- ville, of Robert Murray, Esq. ; Bloomfield, of Mrs. Aylmer ; and Merrion Castle, of Mrs. Low. Amongst the maps of the Down ( t.e., "laid down") Survey, safely deposited in the Custom-house, Dublin, there is one of " the Parishes of Donnabrook and Tannee [Taney], somewhat D 50 APPENDIX. worn at the edges." See the " Supplement to the Third Report of the Irish Record Commissioners " (1813) ; and also Sir William Petty's " History of the Down Survey " (1655-6), edited by the present Major-General Larcom for the Irish Archaeological Society. In Hardiman's " Catalogue of Maps, Charts, and Plans relating to Ireland, preserved amongst the MSS. in Trinity College, Dublin " (1824), p. 10, there is mention of " a ma- nuscript plan of an encampment, without name or date. It appears, however, to have been in the neighbourhood of Dub- lin, from the outlet marks, as follow : — St. Steven's-street waye ; Colledge-green waye ; Baggatrough-waye ; Dunna- broke-waye ; St. Kevan's- street waye; and may have refer- ence to the situation of the Marquis of Ormond's camp before the fatal battle with Colonel Michael Jones, near Dublin, in 1649." By Act of 5 and 6 Vict. c. 96., the townlands of Bagot- rath, Ballsbridge, Beggarsbush, Clonskeagh (formerly Clan- skiagh) Donnybrooke east and west, Forty-acres, Irishtown, Merrion, Ringsend, Sandymount, and Smotscourt, in this parish, have been transferred from the ancient county of the city to the new barony of Dublin. The exact area of the parish is as follows : — 1313a. 2r. 9p. in the barony of Dublin; 363a. 3r. 26p. in the half- barony of Rathdown ; and 10a. 2r. in the barony of Upper- cross; total, 1687a. 3r. 35p. Note (act), p. 15. Population of Donnybrook Parish According to the census taken in the year 1821, which (as already mentioned) is the first authentic statement of the actual number of souls in Ireland, the population of the parish of Donnybrook, in- cluding Booterstown, amounted to 9,219 ; comprising 4,267 males and 4,952 females; forming 2,049 families ; and oc- NOTES. 51 cupying 1,235 houses. There were also 96 houses uninhabit- ed or building. In 1831, when the next census was taken, the population amounted to 10,394; comprising 4,729 males and 5,665 females; forming 2,170 families: and occupying 1,212 houses. There were also 100 houses uninhabited or building. In 1811 the population amounted to 9,825 ; comprising 4,161 males and 5,361 females; forming 1,865 families; and occupying 1,244 houses. There were also 106 houses uninhabited or building. In 1851, as stated in the text, the population amounted to 11.178; comprising 4,971 males and 6,207 females; form- ing 2,229 families ; and occupying 1,524 houses. There were also 175 houses uninhabited or building. [For some particulars not here repeated, see Note (/), p. 34.] Note (bb), p. 19. Oliver Earl of Tyrco>~xel. — " In Archdall's edition of * Lodge's Peerage of Ireland,' Yol. IY., p. 318, it is stated that the Earl of Tyreonnel lies buried under a handsome tomb of black marble, in the chapel of the family's founda- tion in Donnybrooke-Church, with this inscription, over which are the arms of Fitzwilliam, and the coronet, but no crest or supporters : — " ■ Here iyeth the Body of the Eight Honourable and most Noble Lord Oliver, Earl of Tyreonnel, Lord Yiscount Eitz williams of Meryonge, Baron of Thorn-Castle, who died at his House in Meryong April 11th, 1667, and was Buried the i2th day of the same month.' " As I can testify from my own observation, the church, chapel, and this and many other tombs (Archbishop King's included [if he had one]) have disappeared; but when and how. I cannot tell." — Notes and Queries, 2nd S., iv. 90. / 52 APPENDIX. Note (cc),p. 19. Tombstone in Merrion Graveyard. — The following inscription is on the tombstone :— " Sacred to the memory of the soldiers belonging to his Majesty's 18th Regiment of Foot, and a few belonging to other corps, who, actuated by a desire of more extensive ser- vice, nobly volunteered from the South Mayo and different regiments of Irish Militia into the Line, and who were unfor- tunately shipwrecked on this coast in the Prince of Wales packet, and perished on the night of the 19 th of November, 1807. This tribute to their memory has been placed on their tomb by order of General the Earl of Harrington, Com- mander of the Forces in Ireland." In the old churchyard of Carrickbrennan, in the parish of Monkstown, there is a stone in memory of Major Charles Gormocan, who perished in the Rochdale transport ; and near the entrance is a mound thrown over, and a stone commemo- rative of the unfortunate officers and soldiers of the 97th regiment. The "Prince of Wales" and the "Rochdale." — The Rev. C. H. Minchin has supplied these particulars from an old scrap among his disjecta membra variorum : — . "Dublin, 19th November, 1807 — On Wednesday morn- ing the ' Prince of Wales,' Captain Edwards, sailed from our port for Liverpool, in company with two transports. They were perceived working about the bay on Thursday morn- ing ; and when the fall of snow commenced, it was supposed they were endeavouring to regain the harbour. The snow fell so thickly, that they were not able to discern their way ; and the surge, even if they did, broke so violently against the beach, that they could not come to an anchor. The • Prince of Wales ' struck immediately under the battery of Dunleary point, when Captain Edwards, the crew, and two officers immediately hoisted out the boat, jumped into it, and gained the shore. The remainder of the passengers, 120 in number, volunteers from the South Mayo regiment for the 97th and 18th, unfortunately perished in the wreck. The NOTES. 53 point at which she struck is immediately opposite Sir John Lees' house, Seapoint. The transports which sailed in com- pany with the ' Prince of Wales ' have not yet been heard of. Among those lost in the ' Prince of Wales ' was Lieutenant Maclean, a promising young man, who had the care of the recruits. " The ' Rochdale ' of Liverpool sailed on the same day, in company with seven transports, for England. On Thursday she was discovered in the offing off Blackrock, in great dis- tress. The blue lights were hoisted, and the guns repeatedly fired. The state of the weather and the violence of the surge prevented any succour from reaching them. She had on board part of the 97th, or Queen's Germans; and some volunteers from the South Cork and Mayo regiments were also on board. The embarkation-return of this vessel is as follows : — 1 major, 2 lieutenants, 1 ensign, 8 Serjeants, 9 cor- porals, 173 rank and file, 42 women, and 29 children; in all 2«J5 souls, not one individual of whom is known to have escaped. The names of the officers were — Major Gormocan, 97th Foot ; Lieutenants Long and Power, and Ensign Way. The vessel lies alongside of the Tower. Her bottom is com- pletely bilged, though her decks are said to remain entire. A great part of the beach from Dunleary to the Rock was covered with the dead bodies, &c." Note (dd\p. 21. Derivation of " Ringsend." — According to a writer in Notes and Queries, 2nd S., ii. 315, " the explanation of this apparent bull, ring's end, is very simple. Previous to the formation of that portion of Dublin which is now called Sir John Rogerson's-quay, there were great piles of wood driven into the sand, and to each of these piles were attached large iron rings, for the convenience of the shipping moored there. The outermost of those piles having a ring was called ring's end, that is, the end, or last of the rings ; and hence the name given to the place at the end of Sir John Rogerson's- quay. Sir John Rogerson, the maker of the quay, was at one time [1693-4] Lord Mayor of Dublin ; and my inform a- 54 APPENDIX. tion as to the derivation of the name 'Ring's End was received from old Jemmy Walsh, a Dublin pilot, who remembered seeing the ships moored, and their ropes run through the rings of the wooden piles on the river." The foregoing is quoted merely to be refuted in the words of another correspondent, who well observes (2nd S., iv. 298) that " Ringsend was so called for generations before * old Jemmy Walsh ' was born. His derivation, fanciful as it is, I could almost imagine was given to try how far Irish wit could impose on English credulity." Mr. Lascelles, in " Liber Munerum," &c, Part V., p. 142, writes as follows : — " Ringsend or Rinksen [forsan a northern word, signify- ing a sewer, which the river Dodder is to that part of the county.]" However, the derivation given in the text is probably the correct one, namely, Rinn-Aun — " the point of the tide." In fact, the name of Ringsend, as in the case of the Phoenix Park, is a corruption of an Irish word or words, for which a more familiar English one resembling it in sound was sub- stituted. Bishop O'Brien, it may be added, gives in his " Irish-English Dictionary" (Paris, 1768), " Abhan, a river; rectius Amhan " ; and remarks, that the names of places in Ireland with a similar beginning (Rinn) would more than fill a sheet. Note (ee), p. 22. The Pigeon-house and the Light-house. — From the " Point " of Ringsend, the South- wall extends into the bay 17,754 feet; nearly three English miles and an half. It was commenced in 1748, and finally completed in 1796; and is composed of blocks of mountain granite, strongly cemented, and strengthened with iron cramps. The breadth of the road to a strong artillery station called the Pigeon-house NOTES, 55 (which was erected near the close of the last century, and is 7,938 feet from Ringsend), is nearly forty feet, and thence to the Light-house thirty-two feet at bottom, but narrows to twenty- eight feet at top ; the whole rising five feet above high- water. There is a basin at the former place, 900 feet long by 450 broad, and a landing-place raised 200 feet broad, on which are several convenient wharfs, now but little frequented. The pier at this point is 250 feet wide ; and on it are raised buildings, which were formerly used as a magazine, an arsenal, and a custom-house- In the channel between the Pigeon-house and the Light-house is the anchor- age called Poolbeg (formerly denominated Cleer-rode, Clare- road, and Clarade) where vessels may lie in fifteen feet at low water. At the extremity of the Wall is the Light-house, commenced in 1761, and completed in 1768, under conside- rable difficulties, by Mr. Smith. See Whitelaw and Walsh's " History of Dublin," Vol. II., p. 1084 ; Brewer's " Beauties of Ireland," Vol. L, p. 178 ; and D' Alton's " History of the County of Dublin," p. 853. Woodcuts of the Light-house and the Pigeon-house are given in the Dublin Penny Journal, Vol. III., p. 281 ; and a view of the Light-house in " Illus- trations of the Scenery and Antiquities of Ireland," Vol. I., p. 104. In an interesting and authentic MS. in the writer's pos- session, entitled " Observations made by Colonel [afterwards Major- General] Roy during a Short Tour in Ireland, 1766 " (see Notes and Queries, 2nd S., vii., 358, 442), the follow- ing passage occurs :< — " If at any time hence it should be thought necessary to build a fort or citadel near Dublin, the sandy point where now the village of Ringsend stands would seem to be a pro- per situation to make choice of, as it would effectually secure the entrance of the harbour, in some degree command the bay, might always be supplied by sea, and being overlooked by nothing, might therefore be made strong, especially by means of the little river Dodder. The tide might be made to flow round it." 56 APPENDIX. The Pigeon-house Fort was subsequently erected, and formed, in the plans of Robert Emmet in 1803, one of his chief points of attack. See Dr. Madden's " Life and Times of Robert Emmet," pp. 89, 110, 127. Note (ff), p. 22. Kixg James's Visit to Ringsend. — " Sir Cloudesly Shovel came on the 12th to Belfast, as convoy to several ships that brought over necessaries for the army ; and there having intelligence of a frigate at anchor in the bay of Dub- lin, and several other small vessels loaden with hides, tallow, wools, some plate, and several other things designed for France, he sailed April the 18th (being Good Friday), to the mouth of the bay of Dublin, and there leaving the Monk, and some more great ships, he took the Monmouth yacht, and one or two more, with several long-boats, and went to Polebeg [Poolbeg], where the frigate lay (being one half of the Scotch fleet that was taken in the Channel the year be- fore), having sixteen guns and four pattereroes. King James when he heard it, said, It was some of his loyal sub- jects of England returning to their duty and allegiance ; but when he saw them draw near the ship, and heard the firing, he rid out towards Rings-end, whither gathered a vast crowd of people of all sorts, and there were several regiments drawn out, if it were possible, to kill those bold fellows at sea, who durst on such a good day perform so wicked a deed (as they called it). Captain Bennet that commanded the frigate, run her on ground, and after several firings from some other ships of theirs, as also from that, when they saw a fireship coming in (which Sir Cloudesly had given a sign to) they all quitted the frigate, being at first about forty ; but they lost six or seven in the action. Sir Cloudesly was in the Monmouth yacht where Captain Wright was very serviceable both in carrying in the fleet, and in time of action. In going off, one of our hoys ran a-ground, and was dry when the tide NOTES. 57 was gone ; the rest of the boats were not far off, being full of armed men ; and a Frenchman, one of King James's Guards, coming nigh the boats to fire his pistols in a bravo, had his horse shot under him, and was forced to fling off his jack-boots and run back in his stockings to save himself; some of the sea-men went on shore, and took his saddle and furniture. When the tide came in, they went off with their prize to the ships below. King James went back very much dissatisfy'd, and 'twas reported he should say, That all the Protestants in Ireland were of Cromwell's breed, and deserved to have their throats cut : but whatever his thoughts might be, I suppose his discretion would not allow him to say so. However all the Protestants that walked that way during the action, were secured in prison, and two made their escape to our boats." — Story's " Impartial History of the Wars of Ireland," p. 58. Note (gg\ p. 23. Eingsexd Cars. — " The hackney-coaches we borrowed from our English neighbours, as their name imports ; but our one-horse vehicles have always been peculiar to ourselves, and were in use long before anything of a similar kind was introduced into England. The earliest and rudest of these were the * Ringsend cars,' so called from their plying princi- pally to that place and Irishtown, then the resort of the beau monde for the benefit of sea-bathing. This car consisted of a seat suspended in a strap of leather, between shafts, and without springs. The noise made by the creaking of the strap, which supported the whole weight of the company, par- ticularly distinguished this mode of conveyance." (" Sketches of Ireland Sixty Years Ago," p. 77.) See also Whitelaw and Walsh's " History of Dublin," Vol. II., p. 1173. This " History '' may not be particularly well arranged ; but con- taining a great mass of useful information, and very little extraneous matter, it is oftentimes too hastily condemned. 58 APPENDIX. Note (M), p. 23. Monuments in Irishtown Church In the church there are four small-sized monuments — " In remembrance of Elizabeth, the beloved wife of Co- lonel Munro, Royal Artillery. She died in Dublin, 20tb December, 1843." Robert Alexander and James Digges La Toache. 1823. ) 1825* C -^°^ ert Alexander and Isaac Matthew D'Olier. 1826. Isaac Matthew D'Olier and Samuel John Pittar. 102 APPENDIX. 1827. Robert Roe and Henry Lanauze. 1828. John Elliott Hyndman and Charles Smith. 1829. John Elliott Hyndman and Henry Lanauze. 1830. Hill Wilson and Patrick Stack. 1831. Jonathan Deverell and John Gill man. 1832. Henry Cole and William Henry. 1833. Henry Higinbotham and John Woods. 1834. Isaac Matthew D'Olier and Charles Smith. ' 1835. Sir J. H. Cairncross, K.C.B., and Hickman Kearney. 1836. Thomas Beasley and Joseph Webster Talbot. 1837. Arthur Ormsby and John Gillman. 1838. Captain J. F. Cockburn and Charles Fletcher. 1839. Capt. William Osborne and Nicholas W. Monsarrat. 1840. James Kelly and Henry Carey Field, M.D. 1841. George Bury and Richard Purdy. 1842. Robert Kelly and Captain Charles Woodward. 1843. Major William St. Clair and Digby Marsh. 1844. Edmund Ball and Charles John Bond. 1845. Captain William Smyth and Edward Browne. 1846. Colonel Joseph Kelsall and Henry Wm. Mulvany. 1847. Captain Richard J. Annesley and Wm. Pennefather. 1848. Hugh Carmichael and James Wright. Captain An- nesley, vice Wright, resigned. 1849. Edward Browne and David Wilson Hutcheson. 18 1851 50 ) fi1 ' > Colonel Joseph Kelsall and Joseph Webster Talbot. 1852. John Fitzgerald and George Reade Mac Mullen. 1853. John Maturin and John Fitzgerald. 1854. William P. Alcock and George Reade Mac Mullen. 1855. John Fitzgerald and George Reade Mac Mullen. ANNALS. 103 1856. George Reade Mac Mullen and Eugene Le Clerc, M.D. Richard Waring Pittar, vice Mac Mullen, deceased. 1857. John Maturin and Henry Loft us Tottenham. 1858. Henry Leland Keily and Edward Clark. 1859. George Charles Armstrong, M.D., and John Reid. (from the year 1825.) 1825. Francis Thos. Russell and Robert Wright. 1826. Francis Thos. Russell and Daniel Ashford. 1827. Thomas Wright and James Hill. 1828. Capt. Christopher Foss and Thos. Popham Luscombe. 1829. James Jameson and Alderman Thomas Abbott. 1830. Captain C. Foss and Henry D'Anvers. 1831. Charles Tisdall and Crofton Fitzgerald. 1832. Captain C. Foss and Courtney Kenny Clarke. 1833. Crofton Fitzgerald and J. V. E. Cartwright. 1834. Alderman Arthur Morrisson and William Power. 1835. Captain Wm. Loftus Otway and Sir Richard Baker. 1836. Theophilus Page and Captain W. L. Otway. 1837. Robert Corbet and James F. Madden. 1838. John Porter and John Semple, jun. 1839. Captain W. L. Otway and Robert Lovely. 1840. Thomas Bridgford and George M. Walthew. 1841. Henry Humphry s and John Hawkins Askins. 1842. Patrick William Brady and William Henry Murray. 1843. John Hewson and Robert Lovely. 1844. Patrick Wm. Brady and George M. Walthew. 104 APPENDIX. 1845. Robert Lovely and Captain William Harris. 1846. John Hewson and Wm. V. R. Buckley. 1847. Henry Forde and Edward R.T. Colles. 1848. Daniel Kinahan and John Wight. 1849. Captain John W. Welsh and Robert Lovely. 1850. Wm. V. R. Ruckley and James Kildahl Atkin. 1851. John Taylor Hamerton and Henry Humphreys. 1852. Alexander Sanson and James Jameson. 1853. Bartholomew M. Tabuteau and Thos. H. Taylor. 1854. Edward J. Quinan, M.D., and Robert B. Brunker. 1855. Wm. V. R. Ruckley and Francis Salmon. 1856. John Browne Johnston and John Richardson. 1857. Edward Blacker and George Torrance. 1858. Wm. V. R. Ruckley and Edward C. F. Hornsby. 1859. William Henry Morris and John Brereton. BRIEF SKETCHES OF THE ! arises of ^wtatofon Eittr jpimjjkad, IN THE COUNTY OF DUBLIN. REV. BEAVER H. BLACKER, A.M., Incumbent of Booterstown. " Attamen audendura est, et Veritas investiganda, quam si non omnino t querernur, tamen proprius ad earn, quam nunc sumus, tandem perveniemus." ' Ell onlp for to publish plafne, ftpine past, tcine present, fcotl) ; STijat tpme to come, map toell retatne, Qi eaci) gooU t$mz t^e trotf)." — Thomas Churchyard. SECOND PART. DUBLIN : GEORGE HERBERT, 117, GRAFTON-STREET. LONDON : BELL AND DALDY, 186, FLEET-STREET. PRINTED BY GEORGE DROUGHT, 6, BachelorVwalk. APPENDIX II. [Ix the composition of this Second Appendix to his " Brief Sketches of the Parishes of Boot erst own and Donnybrook " (which little volume was much more favourably received than he had reason to expect), the writer has taken no less care than in the pre- ceding portion. He could not, in an undertaking of the kind, lay claim to any great amount of origin- ality ; nor indeed, however troublesome (but not unpleasing) his task may have proved, would he seek the credit of being much more than a painstaking compiler. His object, in fact, has been not unlike that of Cicero, but under different circumstances : " Xon ut aliquid novi attulerim, sed ut ea, quae in infinito pene occurrunt, sub uno aspectu ponerentur." The Editor of Notes and Queries ', 2nd S. ix. 316, has well observed of Sir James Emerson Tennent's " Ceylon," that " the author is scrupulously careful in giving his authorities." This is a most impor- tant feature in a book, not always attended to ; and the writer of these pages has endeavoured, in an humble way, to merit the same commendation. H 106 APPENDIX II. He cannot but be aware that many persons, even amongst those connected by residence or otherwise with the localities described, have little or no taste for publications of the kind. This is only to be expected ; and therefore he would say with Cam- den, who certainly is no mean authority : " If any there be which are desirous to be strangers in their own soile, and forrainers in their own citie, they may so continue, and therein flatter themselves. For such like T have not written these lines, nor taken these paines." Sir David Dalrymple (Lord Hailcs), in his "Annals of Scotland," vol. i. p. 336 n. (Edinburgh, 1797), writes, " I do not applaud Mr. Milne's Description of the parish of Melros, as very intelligent or very cor- rect ; yet I wish that every minister would do as much for the history of his own parish ;" and a writer in the Gentleman's Magazine, 1789, Part I., p. 223, ob- serves that " topography would afford great assist- ance to our antiquaries, if every clergyman was to adopt Mr. Warton's advice, and write the history of his parish." It was a feeling of this kind that in- duced the writer to draw up his " Brief Sketches," &c, and to commit them to the press. Conscious that what he has done can only be looked upon as an imperfect, though faithful, attempt to rescue some interesting particulars from oblivion, NOTES. 107 and estimating it as merely preparatory to a complete description of these localities, he gladly takes the opportunity of thanking those friends who have aided him in his researches (especially William J. Fitzpatrick, Esq., of Kilmacnd Manor, Stillorgan, and John D'Alton, Esq., of Dublin), and of soliciting a continuance of their kind contributions. To adopt Archbishop Nicolson's words, as given in his " Irish Historical Library," p. xxxvi. : — " Great room there is for amendments, as well as additions ; and either of these, in what dress soever they come, rough or smooth, will be very heartily welcome to me." B. H. B. ROKEBY, BLACKROCK, DUBLIN, 1st January, 1861.] Bffto [Continued from p. 58.] Note (ii) 9 p. 9. Fitzwilliam Family. — Some account of this noble family, which was for centuries so very closely connected with these parishes, and is now represented by the Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, M.P., the proprietor of "the Fitzwilliam Estate" (embracing the whole of the parish of Booterstown, and the greater part of Donnybrook), would naturally be looked for in these pages. Mr. Archdall, in his edition of " Lodge's Peerage of Ireland," has devoted sixteen closely-printed pages (vol. iv. pp. 306-321) to its history, to the year 1789. The present writer, feeling (as he has stated in p. 94) that even " more might well be in print respecting the Fitzwilliams of Merrion," hopes shortly, with the aid of unpublished docu- ments, to compile, and issue in a separate form, a full and detailed account ; and meanwhile he inserts, as being perhaps better adapted to the scope of this volume, a summary of what has appeared, taken chiefly from Archdall, and (with addi- tions) nearly the same as what may be found in the third edition of Burke's "Extinct and Dormant Peerage," p. 667 (London, 1846). Mention has been made of many members of the family in the preceding pages. This family, presumed to have been a branch of the ancient house of Fitzwilliam in England, settled in Ireland in the time of King John. Richard (or Robert) Fitzwilliam, of Ballymon, living in the reign of Edward II., left issue by Ellena, his wife, two sons, William; and Robert, living in 1342. William Fitzwilliam, in 1348 (22 Edw. III.), was par- doned by the King all transgressions and murders he had, or NOTES. 109 might have committed in the exercise of martial law upon the Irish, who bordered on the English Pale ; to restrain whose incursions, he built the castle of Wicklow, of which he was made Constable; and in 1375, was appointed Chief Com- mander and Governor of all that part of the country. He left a daughter Elizabeth, m, Sir Thomas de Musgrave ; and a son, William Fitzwilliam, who was Sheriff of the county of Meath in 1381, held several very responsible offices, and d. in 1397. He left a son, John Fitzwilliam, who was slain the year following, and left by Christiana, his wife, a son, Henry Fitzwilliam, who had a lease of certain lands and tenements in the Nardenesse, Berragh, and Fingowere, in the marches of the county of Dublin, which were the King's demenses, and which he preserved at very great expense and care ; in respect whereof, King Henry IV. committed unto him the custody of those lands for twenty years, with the fee of ten marks a-year thereout, by patent dated at Dun- boyne, 14th June, 1403. He was s. by Thomas Fitzwilliam, who, in the said King's reign, was Constable of the town of Swordes, and had a daughter Feli- cia, m. Walter, third son of Sir Robert Cruise, of Grallagh and Tirrelston ; and a son, Richard Fitzwilliam, living at Donnybrook in 1432, and (it is presumed) the father of Philip Fitzwilliam, to whom King Henry VI. granted a sum of money out of the ground-rents, which he was to pay for his manor of Thorncastle, in order to enable him to build a fort there, which in 1437 had been destroyed by the Irish. In 1442 he was living at Merryong ; and in 1446, being one of the counsellors and servants of Richard Duke of York, had a remittal of all the chief rent he was to pay the King, during life. He was s. by Stephen Fitzwilliam, who in 1463 held the manor of Thorncastle, and was s. by William Fitzwilliam, m. Anne, only daughter of Thomas Cruise, Esq., of the Naull, in the county of Dublin, and left a son, 110 APPENDIX II. Richard Fitzwilliam, m. Genet (or Margaret) Hollywood, of Tartaine, by whom he had a sod, Thomas Fitzwilliam, of Meryon, Brey, and Bagotrath, in the county of Dublin, of which he was Sheriff in 1511 (3 Henry V1IL), and is proved by inquisition to have died in 1529. He m. Eleanor, daughter of John Dowdall, Esq., third son of Sir John Dowdall, of Newtown, and had three sons and two daughters, 1. Richard, of Bagotrath, his heir. 2. Sir William, of the Great Park at Windsor, Clerk of the Hanaper in 1552, M.P. for the county of Carlow in 1559 (2 Eliz.), and by Jane, his wife, had four daughters, the third of whom m. Christopher, fourth Viscount Gor- manstown. 3. Sir (?) Nicholas, Prebendary of Bally more, and Trea- surer of St. Patrick's, Dublin. See p. 63. 4. Margaret, m. William (Mac-Theobald) Walsh, Esq., of Carrigmaine, in the county of Dublin, and had issue. 5. Alison, m. first, Christopher Ussher, Bailiff of Dublin in 1500, and twice Mayor thereof; secondly, Sir James Fitz-Symons, of Dublin; and thirdly, Alderman James Sedgrave. Richard Fitzwilliam, of Bagotrath, * who in 1527 (19 Henry VIII.) was one of the Gentlemen of the Bedchamber. He m. Catherine, daughter of Robert Bathe, Esq., of Kepoke, in the county of Dublin, and had three sons, 1. Thomas, his heir. 2. Michael, of Donamore (or Dunore), in the county of Meath, Surveyor- General of the Crown-lands in the reigns of Edward VI., Mary, and Elizabeth ; m. Mary, daughter of Jenico, third Viscount Gormanstown, and had a son, William, who s. his father at Donamore, and left a son Patrick, and other issue. 3. John. Sir Thomas Fitzwilliam, Knt., of Meryon and Bagotrath, M.P. for the county of Dublin in 1559, Sheriff thereof in 1561, Constable of Wicklow in 1566 (8 Eliz.), &c. He m. Genet, daughter of Patrick Finglas, Esq., of Westpalston, Chief Baron of the Court of Exchequer in Ireland, and d. 9th November, 1592. He had three sons and one daughter, 1. Richard, his heir. NOTES. Ill 2. Nicholas, of Holmpatrick and Balldungan, in the county of Dublin, m. Mabel, daughter of Walter Nangle, Esq., of Kildalky, in the county of Meath. He d, 5th December, 1635, and "was buried with his ancestors in the church of Donnybrooke," leaving two sons, Thomas and Nicholas (or Patrick), and tive daughters. 3. Thomas, of Moylagh, m. Mary, daughter of Chris- topher Segrave, Esq., of Dublin, and had a son, Thomas, d. s. p. 4. Catherine, m. first, James Plunket, Esq., of Dun- soghly, in the county of Dublin, son and heir of Sir John Plunket, Chief Justice of the Court of King's Bench in Ireland; and secondly, Christopher, fourth Viscount Gor- manstowu. She d. in February, 1602. Sir Richard Fitzwilliam, of Meryon, Constable of the cas- tle of Wicklow, and Lord Warden of the marches of Leinster in the reign of Queen Elizabeth. He m. Jane, daughter of Preston, and d. 5th March, 1595, leaving five sons and two daughters, 1. Thomas, his heir. 2. William, of Dundrum, m. in 1614, Mary, widow of Henry Ussher, D.D., Archbishop of Armagh, but d. s. p. 16th July, 1616. . 3. Christopher, d. s. p. in 1649. 4. Patrick, killed by Sir Robert Newcomen, leaving no issue. 5. Richard, u of the Rock," m. the daughter of Sir Thady DurTe, Knt, of Dublin. 6. Catherine, m. Henry Cheevers, Esq., of Monkstown, in the county of Dublin, and by him, who d. in June, 1640, had, with others, a son Walter, m. Alison, daughter of Nicholas, first Viscount Netterville. 7. Mary, m. first, Matthew, fifth Baron Louth, who d. 19th July, 1629, leaving issue; and secondly, Gerald Ay 1- mer, Esq. Sir Thomas Fitzwilliam, of Meryon, knighted 23rd Au- gust, 1608, and Sheriff of the county of Dublin in the ensuing year; and created, 5th August, 1629, Baron Fitzwilliam, of Thorncastle, and Viscount Fitzwilliam, of Meryon, in the peerage of Ireland. His lordship repaired to Dublin, 24th October, 1641, the day after the breaking out of the rebellion, and waiting on the Lords Justices, made a tender of his best 112 APPENDIX II. services to the Crown ; but, being a Roman Catholic, his offer was refused, and he went to England, where, with his two sons, he faithfully served King Charles L, who, in recom- pense, granted him a privy-seal for an English earldom, dated at Oxford, 1st May, 1645, but the Great Seal not being then in the power of that unhappy monarch, the patent was not legally perfected. He m. 23rd August, 1605, Margaret, eldest daughter of Oliver, fourth Baron Louth, and had four sons, 1. Richard (by some wrongly named Thomas), m. Elinor, daughter of Stanihurst, and widow of Sir Henry Pierce, of Shercock, in the couuty of Cavan, d. s.p. in his father's lifetime. 2. Oliver, his heir. 3. Christopher, m. Jane, daughter of Brereton, Esq., of Maipas. in Cheshire, and left a daughter, Alicia. 4. William, s. his brother Oliver. Oliver, second Viscount Fitzwilliam, a distinguished mili- tary officer, and in command of 3000 men, whom, as he had stipulated with the King of France, he brought there from England and Ireland. Being Lieutenant- General under the Marquess of Ormonde, he achieved a complete victory at Roscommon, by which he gained the province of Connaught to the King's service. He was created Earl of Tyrconnel by King Charles II., by patent dated 20th April, 1663 ; or rather 1661, as we find him Earl of Tyrconnel 29th July in that year, and 9th July, 1662, he took his seat by proxy in the House of Lords. He m. first, Dorothy, sister to his brother Christopher's wife ; and secondly, Lady Eleanor Holies, eldest daughter of John, first Earl of Clare; but d. s. p. 11th April, 1667 (see p. 51 for a copy of the inscription on his tomb at, Donnybrook), when the earldom became extinct, while the other titles devolved upon his brother, William, third Viscount Fitzwilliam, Lieutenant- Colonel of the 3000 men who were taken to France by his brother, and in the time of the civil wars Governor of Whitchurch, in Shropshire, and Lieutenant-General of that county. He m. the daughter of Thomas Luttrell, Esq., of Luttrellstown (now known as Woodlands), in the county of Dublin, and sister to Thomas Luttrell, Esq., of Kanaghan, in the county of Westmeath (who by will, dated 4th July, 1673, settled his estate of Ranaghan, and Caliaghtowne, on his nephew NOTES. 113 Thomas, afterwards Viscount Fitzwilliam), and dying before the year 1681, had issue the said Thomas, his only son, and five daughters, of whom the second, Rose, m. Christopher Malpas, Esq., of Winston, and d. 1st March, 1744, leaving a son, John Malpas, Esq., of Rochestown, in the county of Dublin. Thomas, fourth Viscount Fitzwilliam, who for his attach- ment to King James II. was outlawed, but the outlawry was subsequently reversed. (See D'Alton's " King James' Irish Army List, "l689," vol. ii. p. 792.) Hem. first, Mary, daugh- ter of Sir Philip Stapleton, Bart., of Wigill, in Yorkshire, by whom he had Richard, his heir ; and a daughter, m. her first cousin, Stephen Fitzwilliam Browne, Esq., of Castle -Browne (now Clongowes' Wood College), in the county of Kildare. He m. secondly, Elizabeth, sister of George Pitt, Esq., of Strathfieldsaye, in Hampshire, and by her had a daughter Mary, m. 11th March, 1718, George, fourteenth Earl of Shrewsbury. Dying 20th February, 1704, he was s. by his only son, Richard, fifth Viscount Fitzwilliam, who conformed to the Established Church, and took his seat in the Irish House of Lords, 25th May, 1710. He was called into the Privy Council 9th October, 1714, as he was also by King George II. on his accession to the throne ; and in January, 1726, be was elected M.P. for the borough of Fowey, in Cornwall. He m. Frances, only daughter of Sir John Shelley, Bart., of Michael- Grove, in Sussex, and dying at Thorpe, in Surrey, 6th June, 1743, was buried at Donnybrook. By her, who d. 11th December, 1771, aged 99, he had three sons and two daughters, 1. Richard, his heir. 2. W T illiam, appointed in July, 1747, Usher of the Black-Rod in Ireland, m. 4th December, 1750, the only daughter of Thomas Bouchier, Esq., and had an only child Julia, d. unm,. in July, 1770. 3. John, elected M.P. for New Windsor in 1754, Colonel of the second Regiment of Foot, and made, 26th March, 1765, a Lieutenant- General. In October, 1751, he m. Barbara, daughter of Edward Chandler, D.D., Bishop of Durham, and widow of Cavendish, Esq. ; and d. s. 2?. 31st July, 1789. See the Gent. Mag. 1789, Part ii. p. 766, for particulars of his property. 4. Mary, m. first, 28th August, 1733, Henry, ninth 114 APPENDIX II. Earl of Pembroke (and sixth Earl of Montgomery), by whom she had an only son ; and secondly, in September, 1751, North Ludlow Bernard, Esq., Major of Dragoons. She d. 13th February, 1769. 5. Frances, m. 18th (or 23rd) May, 1732, George, se- cond Baron Carbery, and had three sons and a daughter. Richard, sixth Viscount Fitzwilliam, K.C.B., a Privy Councillor, Vice- Admiral of Leinster, and a Fellow of the Royal Society. He m. 3rd May, 1744, Catherine, daughter of Sir Matthew Decker, Bart., of Richmond, in Surrey, and dying 25th May, 1776, " was interred in Donnybrook- chapel." By her, who d. 18th March, 1748, he had four sons, 1. Richard, his heir. 2. William, m. 25th August, 1782, the only daughter and heiress of John Eames, Esq., Master of Chancery in England. 3. John, s. his brother Richard in his titles. 4. Thomas, m. in July, 1780, Agnes, daughter of Macclesfield, Esq. Richard, seventh Viscount Fitzwilliam, of whom several particulars have been given in p. 89, and who d. unm. 4th February, 1816, when the principal portion of his property passed, according to the terms of his will (dated 18th Au- gust, 1815, and printed at full length in 3 and 4 Wm. IV., c. xxvi. s. 1, and 5 and 6 Vict. c. xxiii. s. 1), to George Augustus, eleventh Earl of Pembroke, and are now in the possession of that nobleman's second son, the Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, while the honours of the family devolved upon his brother, John, eighth Viscount Fitzwilliam, on whose death s.p. in 1833, the viscountcy of Fitzwilliam, of Meryon, and the barony of Fitzwilliam, of Thorncastle, which had existed for more than two hundred years, became extinct. Note (jj), P- 9. Thr Half-Barony of Rathdown. — In the year 1654 (see p. 67), on a minute survey of this district, it was stated to contain twenty-three castles in good preservation, besides the remains of others, and of fortified houses ; that its extent NOTES. 115 in length was eight miles, and in breadth four ; and that of its superficial contents, 5,945a. belonged to Irish Papist pro- prietors, 1,752a. to English Protestant proprietors, and 1,595a. to the Church. The document in question, entitled " A Survey of the Half-Barony of Rathdown, in the County of Dublin. By Order of Charles Fleetwood, Lord Deputy, October 4th, 1654," is given in Lodge's " Desiderata Curiosa Hibernica," vol. ii. pp. 529-568 ; and will amply repay the reader for his trouble. " The soil thereof," as it is stated, "for the most part is dry and hot, having nor woods, bogs, mines, or quarries thereon, only some rocky pastures, which are of very little use;" and "the said half- barony contains eleven parishes [Donnebrook (the greater part of), &c], whose names are expressed in the title of this Survey." Ac- cording to " an abstract of the number of acres in the respective parishes aforesaid, belonging to Irish Papist proprietors," there were in Donnebrook — 40 meadow, 140 arable, 10 pasture and mount : total. 190. Belonging in same parish to English Protestant proprietors, there were — 5 meadow, 200 arable, 35 pasture : total, 240. There were no Church-lands. As the clearest method of conveying the desired informa- tion to the reader, an exact reprint of two pages in the second of Mr. Lodge's very valuable volumes is here presented : — '"I es a £ 4 5 o § 2 c3 S3 3^ o 0> j3 k O 5 rf» r^ a be c3 |12 >>££ ^ a 43 o ^ a •3 £ o> a> a £ A '^ *"• 3 0>

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" The demand for crown glass for the French market has encouraged a wealthy company from England to build a glasshouse in the neighbourhood of this city : the situa- tion they have chosen is at the foot of Ringsend-bridge." — Dub. Chron. 30th August. 1787. " We have the satisfaction to acquaint our readers, that the Bar of Dodder is no more, and where this sand- bank stood, the water is actually deeper than it is in many other parts of the ship channel, between that place and Poolbeg. The public may form an idea of the labour and attention bestowed on this necessary work, when we inform them that since the beginning of last spring there have been upwards of 47,000 tons of sand and gravel raised there." — Dub. Chron. 22nd September. 1787. " It is observed that our manufactures, fine arts, &c, are in a progressive state, not only in the metropolis, but in its vicinity, which is apparent from a variety of in- stances. . . . We cannot conclude these remarks without taking notice of the progress of the salt-works near Ringsend." — Dub. Chron. 6th October. 1787. " The inhabitants of this metropolis, as well as of the kingdom in general, are highly indebted to [Charles ANNALS. 175 Jones, fourth] Lord [Viscount] Ranelagh, for forwarding the great national work, the improvement of the harbour of Dublin, so as to render it safe and commodious for the shipping of all nations. The Wall [see p. 54] has been carried to an amazing length, considering the shortness of the time ; many dangerous sandbanks are removed, and other necessary alterations effected with such judicious attention and spirited activity as reflects high honour on his lordship, and those gentlemen concerned in the ma- nagement of this important business, but particularly to the noble lord who acts as Commissioner without fee or reward." — Dub. Citron. 11th October. 1787. " On Monday, the 12th [November] inst, the late rains had so swelled the rivers as to occasion the most rapid and furious inundation in the city of Dublin, and in general throughout the kingdom, that ever was remem- bered. . . . The river Dodder [see p. 81] appeared like a large sea." (Gent. Mag. 1787, Part. ii. p. 1016.) See also Dub. Chron. 18th November. 1787. The frequent and daring highway robberies committed in the neighbourhood of Dublin, as detailed in the news- papers of the day, fully warranted the following proceed- ings, which are recorded in the Dub. Chron. 15th Novem- ber : — " Blackrock Association. " At a Meeting of the Blackrock Association, held this day, at Jennett's Tavern, in Blackrock, " The Right Hon. Lord Viscount Ranelagh in the Chair, " The following Resolutions [with others] were unanimously agreed to : " Resolved, That we will give a reward of £20 to any person who will apprehend and prosecute to conviction any person guilty of a robbery upon the Blackrock- road, from Dublin to Dunleary [now Kingstown], Bullock, Dalkey, Roachestown, Cabinteely, and Laughlinstown ; and also from Donnybrook to Laughlinstown. " Resolved, That we will give a like sum of £20 to the person who will prosecute to conviction, any one guilty of house-breaking or burglary upon the said roads and neigh- bourhood thereof. 176 APPENDIX II. " Resolved, That we will give five guineas to every person giving any private information to any Member of this Association, which shall tend to the discovery and conviction of such offenders as are described in the former Resolutions. " Resolved, That an application be made to Govern- ment, by this Association, for a Special Commission to bring to immediate trial any persons guilty of the said offences upon the said roads, and upon conviction to bring them to immediate execution from the dock, to some place most conveniently near where the offence was committed. " Resolved, That Sir Nicholas Lawless, Bart., [of Maretimo, Blackrock, created Baron Cloncurry in 1789] be requested to be Treasurer to this Association, and the Rev. Doctor Burrow es [of Prospect School, Blackrock] be requested to be Secretary." In the Freeman's Journal, 12th October, 1771, the fol- lowing robbery bad been reported: — "Two gentlemen were robbed a few nights ago by footpads who infest Stillorgan-road : this is inserted that persons who travel that way may be prepared to receive them." And (not to give too many cases) we learn from the Dub. Chron. 25th September, 1787, that " early yesterday evening three post-chaises, with passengers, and a gentle- man's carriage, were stopped on Donny brook- road, and robbed by a gang of villains to a considerable amount. Two hackney carriages were in like manner stopped near Baggotrath Castle, and robbed." In the same newspaper, 22nd January, 1788, "the gentlemen of the Blackrock Association [are said to] have determined immediately to establish a nightly patrole from the Rock to Baggot- street and back, to secure passengers from any depredations on the road. Several well-appointed persons are already nominated for this service, who will be continued through- out the year." And in the number for 17th September, 1789, it is announced for the information of all concerned, that " Donny brook- road is at present infested with a set of robbers ; scarce a night passes, but one or more rob- beries are committed on that road, or its vicinity." The present very orderly state of the neighbourhood, as com- pared with the past, is subject matter for hearty con- gratulation. 1787. His Excellency the Marquis of Buckingham, on his ANNALS. 177 way from Dunleary to Dublin, 16th December, " was met at Ballsbridge by a great number of weavers belonging to the silk and woollen branches, with orange and blue cockades, who took the horses from the carriage, and insisted on drawing him to town ; the streets through which he passed were illuminated in a most splendid man- ner."—^*. Mag. 1787, Part ii. p. 1116. 1788. On the motion of Edmund (Butler), eleventh Viscount Mountgarret, 5th February, who " informed the House [of Lords] that its privileges had been grossly infringed by certain tax-gatherers, who had insulted a noble lord under pretence of exercising their duty," Messrs. Samuel Robin- son, of Beggarsbush, and Robert Roe, of Ringsend, Church- wardens, and Patrick Dunn, Constable, of the parish of Donnybrook, were ordered to attend at the bar. Monday, the 1 1th, the order of the day having been read for their attendance, Lord Mountgarret stated that he had com- muned with the noble lord who had complained against the Churchwardens ; and that as his lordship was satisfied they intended him no personal offence, he moved that the order be discharged. (Dub. Chron. 7th and 12th Fe- bruary.) At a vestry held by the Minister and Church- wardens of Donnybrook, 13th May, it was u resolved that the thanks of this parish be returned to Mr. Robert Roe and Mr. Samuel Robinson, our late worthy Churchwardens, for their spirited, attentive, and faithful discharge of their office."— lb. 20th May. 1788. Very active measures taken by the Lord Mayor of Dublin (Alderman Wm. Alexander) for the cleansing of Ringsend. — Dub. Chron. 1st March. 1788. For particulars of the very riotous conduct of the crew of the Bushe revenue cutter lying at Ringsend, which was attended with fatal consequences, see the Dub. Chron., 6th May. An instance of " the indiscriminate vengeance of those enraged people " of Ringsend is given in the same newspaper of the 17th inst. 1788. " Died last Saturday at Blackrock, in the 53rd year of his age, George Alcock, Esq., of this city, Alderman, and President of the Court of Conscience [having been Lord Mayor of Dublin, 1786-87] ; a man of sense and sincerity ; of the most amiable virtues and engaging man- ners in private life, of upright conduct in public character." 178 APPENDIX II. (Dub, Chron. 20th May.) Alderman Alcock was the second son of the Rev. George Alcock, A.M., Prebendary of Moville, in the diocese of Derry (by Mary, daughter of Henry Downes, D.D., Bishop of Derry) ; and by his second wife (m. in September, 1765) he had several chil- dren. 1788. " The new watch-house or barrack at the Blackrock is in considerable forwardness. This is the first of those that has been set about, pursuant to the plan for the pre- vention of smuggling — by the erection of barracks round the coasts of the kingdom." — Dub. Chron. 5th August. 1788. " Monday last the ground was surveyed in Ringsend, for the purpose of building a new street, which is to lead from the bridge to the King's watch-house ; the houses are to be uniformly built, and to be two stories high, and the street is to be thirty feet in breadth. This, when com- pleted, will be a great addition to that very improvable and pleasing outlet." — Dub. Chron. 21st August. 1788. " The hailstones which fell in this city and suburbs on Tuesday last about three o'clock, is a very remarkable phenomenon, which was heightened by the warmth of the dog-days, and is a circumstance not paralleled in Dr. Rutty's ' Diary of the Weather,' daring sixty years in this climate." (Dub. Chron* 21st August.) A similar " phoe- nomenon " was witnessed in Booterstown and its neigh- bourhood on Monday afternoon, 6th August, 1860. 1788. " So great is the progress already made in the mole or jettee in our harbour, commonly called the South or Ballast- Office- wall, that besides the mile and one quarter of the old wall from Ringsend to the Block-house (or Pigeon-house), there are upwards of three thousand feet in length of it completed of the new work from the Light- house westward : there are three contractors now at work upon this stupendous undertaking, exclusive of a part, which, as an experiment, the Harbour Commissioners are getting executed under their own immediate direction." — Dub. Chron. 28th August. 1788. " Sir Samuel Bradstreet gave a most elegant enter- tainment on Monday last, at his villa near Booterstown, to his Excellency the Lord Lieutenant, Mr. Secretary Fitz- herbert, and a number of other persons of the first distinc- tion." (Dub. Chron. 2nd September.) Sir Samuel ANNALS. 179 Bradstreet, Bart., Becorder of Dublin, was appointed a Justice of the Court of King's Bench in 1784 ; and in 1788 he was one of the Commissioners of the Great Seal. He d. at Booterstown, 2nd May, 1791. (Gent. Mag. 1791, Part i. p- 491.) See also Smyth's " Chronicle of the Law Officers of Ireland," pp. 42, 110, 257 ; and for particulars of his house, which was situated in Booterstown -lane, and was to be let or sold on the death of Lady Bradstreet, Saunders's News-Letter, 14th April, 1802. 1788. " There is now exhibiting to the curious at Harrison's Tavern, Ringsend, a radish of surprising magnitude ; it measures in length one yard and a quarter, and in circum- ference eleven inches and a quarter." — Dub. Chron. 23rd September. 1788. "Buried, Rev. Dr. Foster, 1st October" (Visitation- return, Consist. Court, Dublin). This was John Forster, D.D. (see p. 130), who had been a Senior Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin, and was " one of the richest private cler- gymen in Ireland." For particulars of his bequests, &c, see the Gent. Mag. 1788, Part. ii. p. 933. 1788. " Thursday morning an accident happened at the Blackrock, which has been attended with most melancholy consequences : — A fine boy, about fourteen years old, passing by a gentleman's house, the lady's lap-dog ran out and bit him ; in about two hours the youth was seized with convulsive fits, and shortly after with the hydro- phobia ; and, notwithstanding every assistance that night, his friends were on Friday obliged to smother him between two beds." (Dub. Cliron., 28th October.) According to a correspondent in the next number, " the improbability of such a murder being committed within three miles of the metropolis, and near so many polished and well-informed people as reside at the Blackrock, is much greater than if it had been asserted to be in a very remote part of the country, far distant from any of the faculty of medicine." There is neither confirmation nor contradiction of the matter in the Chronicle ; but for some particulars of " hy- drophobic patients smothered," see Notes and Queries, 1st S. v. 10 ; vi. 110, 206, 298, 437 ; 2nd S. ix. 454. 1788. " On the low ground leading to Ringsend one way, and Ballsbridge on another, may now be seen the effects of practical industry. Some few years back, this place was 180 APPENDIX II. in winter, and a great part of summer, a noisome and un- profitable morass." — Dub. Chron., 4th December. 1788. " His [Bishop Mann's] family burial-place is in a vault under the chancel [of St. Matthew's, Ringsend]. In excavating for the descending flue of the stoves we unawares broke into it ; and an old woman (Bromlow) told me whose it was." (Information from Rev. Dr. Wall.) But the " good bishop," who had been Chaplain of St. Matthew's, and subsequently Archdeacon of Dublin (see pp. 74, 100), and of whom a biographical sketch is given in the Dub. Chron., 23rd December in this year, was buried in the chapel of Ballinaspic, or Bishopstown, near Cork. In a letter from Cork, dated 1st January, 1789, and published in the Chronicle of the 8th inst., it is men- tioned that " last week the remains of the Right Rev. Dr. Mann, late Bishop of Cork and Ross, were landed here from Bristol, and deposited at the Bishop's Palace [which, in order to provide for the personal superintendence of his successors, he had entirely rebuilt] until yesterday, when they were interred at Ballisnaspig," where was his country- seat, which he had made the abode of innocent cheerful- ness, and decent, but not expensive hospitality. By the writer of the sketch (Rev. Matthew West ?), who describes himself as connected with the departed prela'te by no other ties than those of long acquaintance and friendship, it is confidently afhrmed, that " no promotion to that high and important office in the Church had, in the memory of man, given more sincere or general satisfaction; never had a Chief Governor a more fortunate opportunity of throwing a lustre over the close of his administration ; and with whatever emotions at this day, whether of uneasiness or of pleasure, Lord Townshend might take a retrospect of his conduct in the viceroyalty of Ireland, it may either comfort or delight him to reflect, that he bequeathed to this country a good bishop" See Bp. Mant's " History of the Church of Ireland," vol. ii. pp. 649-651. A portrait is preserved in the see-house of Cork. 1789. "The Wall to the Light-house is now in such for- wardness, that it is expected the whole will be completed in about eighteen months, which will then form one of the finest moles in the world. The stone for filling it up is brought from the nearest parts of the eastern coast ; but the granite flags or masses of stone designed to face it, are ANNALS. 181 quarrying at Loughshinny, in colour and texture equal to the Portland stone. It is but justice to mention, that the indefatigable personal attention of Lord Ranelagh to this great undertaking has been the principal means of its present forwardness." — Dub. Chron. 10th January. 1789. "During the tempestuous wind this morning [13th January], a heavy and most tremendous sea rolled into our harbour, and did considerable damage to the new Wall, where it displaced stones of an enormous weight, and beat in the parapet- wall at the foot of the Light-house. The waves rose to the iron balustrade, against which, as well as the other parts of the tower, the billows dashed with such fury as made the watchmen almost despair of their lives for some hours." — Gent. Mag. 1789, Part i. p. 79. 1789. " About four o'clock on Tuesday morning some villains attempted to enter the house in Booterstown- avenue, lately occupied by the Countess of Brandon, deceased, and now in the possession of Captain Tisdall, with an intention to rob the same ; but the captain hearing a noise at one of the parlour windows, got out of bed, and discharged a pistol towards that place where he conjectured the robbers were at work. One of them must have been wounded desperately, as he cried out twice, ' God ! I'm killed !' They in consequence made a precipitate retreat. . . . The captain took the house only the day before." (Bub. Chron. 12th May.) "I believe," said the late Chief Justice Bushe, " that the shooting of one assailant, in valiant self-defence, has more effect upon evil doers than the capital execution of a dozen criminals." Lady Brandon was the elder daughter of James Agar, Esq., of Gowran Castle, in the county of Kilkenny, and m. first, in 1726, Theobald (Bourke), seventh Viscount Mayo ; and secondly, in 1745, Francis (Birmingham), twenty-first Baron Athenry. In 1758, after Lord Athenry's death, she was created Countess of Brandon, and was for several years the first peeress in her own right in Ireland. Having been " long admired in the first circles of England, France, and Ireland, for genuine wit, elegance of taste, dignity of manners, and superior understanding," she d. s.p. in 1789, in her 81st year. {Gent. Mag 1789, Part i. p. 280.) The house in which she lived (now known as Bellevue, Cross-avenue), was until lately occupied by Mrs. Gillman, and is the residence of Wm. O'Connor Morris, Esq. 182 APPENDIX II. 1789. " Died at Coldblow [near Donnybrook], Co. Dublin, Sir William Fortick." {Dub. Citron." 2nd June.) He had served as Churchwarden of the parish in 1785 ; and was nearly related to the founder of Fortick's Alms-house, Lower Denmark- street, Dublin, which was opened in 1755, for the shelter of aged females. According to the Trea- surer's account for 1859 (" the first statement of the dis- posal of this revenue that, I believe, has ever been printed"), the receipts of the institution amounted to £264 Os. Id. 1789. In the latter part of the last century the name of the village of Ballsbridge was frequently given as " Baal's- bridge"; as, e.g. in the Dub. Chron. 11th June, 1789. See also Sir H. Cavendish's "Statement of the Public Accounts of Ireland" (London, 1791), p. 8, where refer- ence is made to a parliamentary grant of £3,000, in the year 1757, for " Baal's Bridge." 1789. "Last Friday a boat full of luggage, with several passengers on board, sunk near Ringsend, in consequence of which, every soul in the vessel perished, and a vast quantity of valuable articles were irreparably lost." — Dub. Chron. 28th July. 1789. Died at Richmond, Surrey, 31st July, General the Hon. John Fitzwilliam, third son of Richard, fifth Viscount Fitzwilliam, of Merrion. (See p. 113.) He left his house on Richmond- green, valued at £20,000, with the residue of his fortune (after payment of legacies), amounting to nearly £40,000 more, to his " excellent and faithful servant, Thomas Jones," whom, as he expresses it in his will, he "brought out of Wales when a boy, and to whom he and his wife had particular obligations; and God bless him with it." See the Gent. Mag. 1789, Part ii. p. 766. 1789. " Preparations, we hear, are making at the Lord Chancellor's seat on Mount Merrion, for the celebration of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales' birth-day to- morrow ; on which occasion several of the first nobility and gentry in and about this city, are to be elegantly entertained there," {Dub. Chron. 11th August.) The Lord Chancellor was John Baron Fitzwilliam, afterwards Earl of Clare (see p. 79) ; and his residence was on that part of Mount Merrion, which is within the bounds of Booterstown. ANNALS. 183 1789. " The two packet boats, launched yesterday at Rings- end, we hear, are about twenty tons in the burthen and measurement larger than the ones now employed in the service of the Post Office ; they are fine sea-boats, and will be admirably appointed for the public use and accommo- dation." (Dub. Chron. 22nd August.) " Tempora mu- tantur, nos et mutamur in illis ;" and yet, what will our descendants think of us and our packets some sixty years hence ? 1789. " A School for English and French, on the plan of the Portarlington Academies, is now opened by Lewis Gleyre, at Booterstown, within three miles of Dublin, opposite the sea," &c. — Dub. Chron. 5th September. 1789. "November 27th, a duel was fought in a field near Donnybrook, between a noble peer (Lord Mountgarret) and a gentleman of the law ; in which his Lordship re- ceived two wounds ; but no fatal consequence is likely to result." (Gent. Mag. 1789, Part h\ p. 1138.) "These were the good old fighting days, when no learned connsel ever thought of going to the Courts without his briefs in one bag and his case of pistols in another, as he could scarcely tell which would be first required." Duels between men of note (e.g., Mr. Grattan and the Right Hon. Isaac Corry, Chancellor of the Exchequer, at Beggarsbnsh, as detailed in Saunders's Neivs- Letter, 19th and 24th Feb- ruary, 1800), were of very frequent occurrence in these localities ; but what has been given must suffice. For some sensible remarks on " the absurdity of duelling " (to say nothing of its flagrant sinfulness), see the Dublin Magazine, vol. ii. p. 741 (1763). " One would think," wrote Dr. Clarke, " the ways of destruction were but few, and that men were hard put to it to find them, before they could think of sacrificing themselves to the shadow of honour and the silly tyranny of custom." Happily the times are changed ! 1789. " Cannon have been sent to the Pigeon-house, to announce the arrival in the Bay of his Excellency the Earl of Westmoreland, as soon as the Dorset yacht shall appear in sight." — Dub. Chron. 31st December. 1789. A View of the South-wall and Light-house, "taken from Killmacud, 1788," is given in the Gent. Mag. 1789, Part ii. p. 897. 184 APPENDIX II. 1790. His Excellency the Earl of Westmoreland, when riding at Ballsbridge, had a very narrow escape for his life Gent. Mag. 1790, Part i. p.' 171. 1790. " The new bridge [see p. 82] leading to the Blackroek, which is to run parallel with Ballsbridge-road, will prove not only a work of utility, but of ornament to that quarter. It is to consist of three arches, the breadth between the parapet- walls 31 feet." (Dub. Chron 3rd April.) "Balls- bridge is now nearly finished, and open for passengers an handsome construction, that does credit to its architect." — lb. 30th April, 1791. 1790. " As a proof that there is a strong predilection of the city's tending to inhabitation towards the sea, we have only to remark the improvements making at Ringsend and Irishtown, which promise in the course of a few years to make a capital appearance. One individual may do won- ders- When the old bridge was swept away by the mountain floods, which had swelled the Dodder [in 1787], Mr. Roe, the proprietor of the salt-works at this place, was unremitting in his attention to the erection of a new bridge: and we may say he saw it happily accomplished in a very elegant style of architecture, and strong enough to resist any future accident of the elements, except an earthquake. [It was destroyed by an inundation in 1802.] It will not therefore be supposed too much in saying that this beautiful marine outlet will in a short time exceed everything not only in this metropolis, but every other place in a similar situation, in the British dominions." — Dub. Chron. 1 st June. 1790. For a copy of the "Rules and Regulations of the Friends of Industry, an Association established for the Encouragement of Honest Labour, in the Neighbourhood of Donnybrooke," see the Dub. Chron. 10th July. The district, to which the benefits of this institution were con- fined, was limited to the following bounds, viz., Coldblow- lane to the north, Booterstown-lane to the south. Black- rock-road to the east, and Clonskeagh-lane to the west. 1790. "On Friday morning, twenty- seven poor haymakers attending at the Pigeon-house, in order to be put on board ship for England, were seized by a press-gang, and put on board a tender — the commander of the gang telling them at the same time, that if they were able to mow hay, they ANNALS. 185 could have no objection to mow the enemies of their country, and they should have passage, diet, &c, gratis." — Dub. Chron. 3rd August. 1790. " A house is intended shortly to be built on the present site of the Pigeon- house, which is to be fitted up for the accommodation of persons who may have occasion to pass and repass between this city and several parts of England." — Dub. Chron. 4th September. 1790. " A new salt-house is preparing to be erected at Eingsend, on the speculation of a lately associated fishing company. We hope that this spirit of enterprise will extend through the whole kingdom, as the certain means of drawing wealth from the sea." — Dub. Chron. 7th October. 1791. " When completed, it [the South-wall] will furnish one of the most singular and agreeable rides or walks in Europe, allowing an excursion in either way for more than two miles into the sea."-— Dub. Chron. 2nd June. 1791. "The daily drag or haul of salmon, trout, mullet, base, &c, near the Light-house and Pool beg has been of late very considerable, but the fish are kept up at an ex- travagant price, when brought to market. Salmon in particular sometimes turn out to the number of fifty or sixty a day ; the larger kind sold, wholesale, at five shil- lings each, but afterwards retailed at sixpence the pound, though under the notion of being somewhat more stale. The Boyne salmon does not bring half that price, at the same time that it is infinitely superior in quality." — Dub. Chron. 4th June. 1791. " We hear that it is in contemplation to erect, if practicable, a bridge from the lower part of the North- wall to Ringsend, for the purpose of forming a complete junction of every branch of the Circular-road." — Dub. Chron. 4th June. 1791 . " The line of communication between the Grand Canal and the river Liffey, at Ringsend, is carrying on with the greatest forwardness ; and it is expected that it will be completed in less than twelve months." — Dub. Chron. 20th August. 1791. "Such is the present violent rage for building in Dublin, that the town is rapidly running away from its N 186 APPENDIX II. former site. Very little space is left to the eastward from the city to Ballsbridge, which was formerly considered to be at a great distance." — Dub. Chron. 13th September. 1791. " Amidst the various elegant and useful works at present carrying on in the environs of this capital, is a handsome road, forty feet in breadth, from Merrion- strand through Irishtown to Ringsend, an improvement that, exclusive of its great utility, has the pleasurable accom- modation of the citizens to recommend it to the public. . . . The road above-mentioned is not the only im- provement in that neighbourhood ; an ingenious citizen, Mr. Richard Cranfield [see p. 82, where a distinction should have been made between an uncle and a nephew of the same name] has, we find, begun to reclaim from the sea part of the strand near Scaldhill or Sandymount, which he has fenced and ploughed up for the purposes of agricul- ture." (Bub. Chron. 8th October.) As "Scaldhill" is close to the "Pigeon-house," it may be worth observing here, that " a parcell of ground called Scalled Park, alias Pigeon Parke, in St. James'-street, Dublin," was granted to the Earl of Meath and Henry Nicholls, Esq. — Rot. in Cane. Hib. 19 Car. ii. 1791. " By the death of Lord Chetwynd [see p. 82] a pen- sion of £600 per annum ceases on the civil establishment of this kingdom. There is charged on the pension-list the sum of £400 per annum, to Owen Salisbury Brereton, in trust for the sole and separate use of Susannah Vis- countess Chetwynd, which she is to hold during coverture and pleasure." — Dub. Chron. 19th November. 1791. For a long flourish anent the Rev. John Moore, of Donnybrook, who " occupies the house [Donnybrook Castle] lately inhabited by Counsellor Downes" (see p. 92), see the Dub. Chron. 20th December, and other numbers of the same newspaper. Mr. Moore's boarding school (see p. 86) was well known in its day, and was continued for many years by the Rev. Prince Crawford, one of the curates of the parish. " Buried, Rev. John Moore, of Up. Baggot-st, Dublin, aged 89, 23rd March, 1840."— Don- nybrook Parish Register. 1792. A part of the South- wall suddenly gave way, and a dreadful torrent broke into the lower grounds, inundating every quarter on the same level as far as the Artichoke- ANNALS. 187 road. (See p. 82.) " The communication to Ringsend and Irish town is entirely cut off, and its inhabitants are obliged to go to and fro by water." {Dub. Chron. 26th January.) " Yesterday his Grace the Duke of Leinster went on a sea- party, and after shooting the breach in the South- wall, sailed over the Low Ground and the South Lots, and landed safely at Merrion- square. . . . Boats ply with passengers to Merrion-square." — lb. 28th January. 1792. Died at Blackrock, 21st April, John (Bourke), second Earl of Mayo. Not leaving any issue, he was s. by his brother, the Hon. and Most Rev. Joseph Dearie Bourke, D.D., Archbishop of Tuam.— Gent. Mag. 1792, Part i. p. 480. 1792. "The marsh between Beggarsbush and Ringsend, through which the river Dodder passes in its way to Ringsend-bridge, which contains almost sixty acres, we hear is taken by Mr. Vavasour from Lord Fitzwilliam, on a lease of one hundred and fifty years, at the rent of £90 per annum. This tract, which is every tide inundated by the tide and Dodder, the taker, it is said, intends imme- diately to reclaim [see p. 83] by a complete double em- bankment of the Dodder, w r hich, thus confined to a deter- mined channel, will then form an handsome canal through it; a circumstance that will not only ornament an un- sightly spot, but materially improve the salubrity of the air at Irishtown, Ringsend, &c." {Dub. Chron. 31st May.) " The river Dodder is to be turned to its old channel [see p. 84], which is the centre of the piece of ground south of Ringsend-bridge, which is flooded at high water. The edge of the river is to be banked with moun- tain-stone ; and the latter to come within a compass equal to the narrowest part of the Grand Canal." — lb. 25th September. 1792. " The engines at present constructing at the point of the South -wall, for the purpose of draining the water from the ground which is so low situated in that quarter, have never before been seen or used in this country. They are extensive beyond the conception of any person who has not witnessed their operation in Holland. They play entirely by the force of steam, which is supplied by a prodigious fire of -sea-coal, is constantly kept up, and to which floods of water, and the wind of an ample bellows, are alternately 188 APPENDIX II. applied. The materials for the above machine have ar- rived from Holland. Those who are best acquainted with its mechanical powers, give the strongest assurances of its being fully sufficient to keep the Low Ground in a dry and comfortable situation at all seasons of the year, and for little more than the first expense." — Dub. Chron. 26th June. 1792. " Sunday night an affray happened at the Blaekrock : the new carriage, called the Eoyal George, which passes between Dublin and the Rock, and carries with perfect ac- commodation sixteen passengers, was the object of an envious attack made by the drivers of jaunting-cars, nod- dies, &c. Fortunately some gentlemen of rank and spirit were passengers in the George, who, aided by the gentle- men resident in the village, not only protected that useful vehicle, but made two of the assailants prisoners, who were brought to town in the same carriage, and imprisoned in the watch-house." — Dub. Chron. 5th July. 1792. " The effects of prejudice, habit, or a disposition to idleness, were never more observable than last Sunday ; when, in the midst of the most heavy and constant rain that can be remembered, hundreds were seen crowding to Dounybrook, not to enjoy an agreeable walk, or fresh air, but, strange to tell ! to eat sodden beef, drink bad ale, and worse whiskey, in a tent pervious to deluges of rain, and swimming in twelve inches water." (Dub. Chron. 1st September.) " By the vigilance of the magistrates, all the tents at Donnybrook were struck by Sunday last, and much disorder, drunkenness, and riot prevented." — lb. 4th September. 1792. " Sunday morning the heavy floods in the river Liffey and the Dodder meeting an high tide in the harbour, the consequence was, that both rivers rose to an extraordinary height. . . . The torrents in both rivers carried down w T ith them the vestiges of destruction from the lands through which they passed." — Dub. Chron. 4th October. 1792. " For several Sundays past a numerous and terrible mob from Dublin assembled at Irishtown to bait bulls. Last Sunday was eight days a quarrel arose, when several of them were severely mangled and abused. They had also prepared to assemble there last Sunday for the same purpose, which the Lord Mayor being apprised of, sent the ANNALS. 189 High Constable with an officer's guard to prevent them ; this sent them off to the neighbourhood of Sandymount, and afforded an opportunity to the gentlemen of the Sandy- mount Association to exert themselves in support of peace and good order, had they known their intention of coming there." (Dub. Citron. 27th November ) For an account of bull-baiting near Dublin, attended with more melancholy consequences, see the Gent. Mag. 1790, Part i. p. 77. See also the Ulster Journal of Archaeology (Belfast, 1860), vol, viii. pp. 152, 236. 1792. The Rev. Peter Richard Clinch, Parish Priest of 14 Irishtown and Donny brook," d. 29th December, and was buried at St. Matthew's, Kingsend. (See p. 155.) His successor was the Rev. Charles Joseph Finn, D.D. 1793. "A three-gun barbet battery is erected on the new Wall near the Light-house, which commands the entrance of Poolbeg in such a manner as to secure the shipping from the predatory attempts of hostile privateers, who this summer might visit Dublin bay." — Dub, Citron, 28th May. 1793. "Yesterday morning at an early hour, a coach in which some recruits were conveying to the Pigeon -house, in order to be embarked for England, was attacked at Ringsend by a desperate banditti, armed with swords and pistols, who, after wounding the soldiers that accompanied the coach, rescued three of the men from them." — Dub. Chron. 28th May. 1793. " Last Sunday his Most August Majesty, King Ste- phen the First, attended by the Lord Primate, Lord High Chancellor, and several other noblemen, together with the Lord Mayor, Aldermen and Sheriffs, &c., embarked on board the grand fleet, lying off Ringsend, and immediately weighing anchor, stood out to sea for his Majesty's domi- nions, Dalkey Island, where his Majesty was received amidst the acclamations of the people, firing of guns," &c. Seethe Dub. Chron. 25th June, for further particulars of the day's proceedings ; and " Sketches of Ireland Sixty Years Ago," pp. 131-150, for some curious notices of " the Kingdom of Dalkey and its Officers." The last president of this very singular society was a convivial Dublin book- seller, named Armitage, who reigned under the above- named title of " King Stephen the First." 190 APPENDIX II. 1793. The follownig advertisement appeared in the Dub. Chron. 29th June : — " Vauxhall- Gardens, Blackrock, [built, and] formerly occupied by Lord Lisle [see p. 81]. The proprietors of the above place respectfully inform the nobility and gentry residing at, and visiting the Rock, that they have engaged a complete Military Band to attend on Tuesday next, and every Tuesday and Thursday, from 5 to 9 o'clock each evening. They humbly solicit public patron- age and support, which they will anxiously endeavour to deserve. Admittance [on the Music Nights], 6Jd. The house is laid out in a style of elegance, as a hotel and tavern, and provided with every accommodation equal to any house in England or Ireland." In the same news- paper, 6th July, it is stated that "Vauxhall- Gardens were crowded as usual, on Thursday last, with a most brilliant and fashionable assemblage, with increased reputation. . . The house is furnished with everything in season ; bowers, grottoes, &c, interspersed through the dark shady walks, make the gardens truly romantic ; and the effect the music has on the sea, which flows at the foot of the gar- den, can better be imagined than expressed.'' And in the number for 3rd August, it is further stated, that a this charming little spot, heretofore better known by the appel- lation of Fort Lisle, has at last crowned the fascinating vicinity of the Blackrock with a resistless charm, and given to that favourite outlet attractions superior to any heretofore known in the neighbourhood of the metropolis. While its beauties were sequestered under private domi- nion, they seemed * Born to blush unseen, And waste their sweetness in the desert air/ But now that they are open to the public, all may partici- pate their enjoyment. Vauxhall, in London, could it boast situation and prospect equal to Fort Lisle, which borrows its name, would be the pride of England, the rival of Elysium. To form adequate ideas of Fort Lisle, it must be seen ; and those who enjoy this pleasure will admit that language is inadequate to a complete description." It was for sale in 1804 (Saunders's News- Letter, 29th October) ; and for some years past has been a boarding- house. 1793. Judge Hellen (see p. 82) was buried in St. Luke's churchyard, Dublin, near the entrance, on the north side ANNALS. 191 of the church. ("Picture of Dublin," p. 183, Dub. 1843.) His house was on the Donnybrook-road, nearly opposite the Toll-house. 1793. " The battery near the Light-house now consists of five battering cannon, 24- pounders : they are planted as the radii to the segment of a circle, commanding the en- trance of the harbour from the Light-tower to the middle of Poolbeg, so as perfectly to secure the shipping from any hostile attempt by a ship of force." — Dub. Chron. 10th September. 1793. " Last Friday night the inhabitants of Sandymount and its neighbourhood testified their joy for the good news received from the Continent by a general illumination, &c." — Dub. Chron. 24th September. 1793. For two odes on Donny brook, which are referred to in p. 143, see " Anthologia Hibernica," vol. i. pp. 310, 466, published in this year. 1794. Full particulars of the death of the Hon. Baron Power (see p. 82), who "fell a sacrifice to high-spirited pride," are given in the Gent. Mag. 1794, Part i. p. 186. 1794. Archdeacon Hastings (see p. 100) was buried at St. Peter's, Dublin, the following inscription being placed on his tomb :— " Here is interred the mortal part of the Keverend Thomas Hastings, LL.D., Archdeacon of Dublin, who died February 19th, 1794, aged 69 years. He was a man of inflexible integrity, a faithful and generous Friend, an useful and munificent Citizen, a pious and vigilant Pastor, and a sincere Christian. To record his exemplary virtues and her affection, this monument is erected by his affectionate widow, Mary Hastings." 1794. For particulars of " the melon feast at Bishop's Three- Tun-Tavern, Blackrock," 4th September, see Walker's Hib. Mag. 1794, Part ii. p. 286. 1794. Drowned near the first wharf of the South-wall, 10th November, Crosbie Morgell, Esq., M.P. for Tralee, and father-in-law of Sir Barry Denny, Bart., who had lost his life a few days before in a duel. {Gent. Mag. 1794, vol. ii. p. 1062.) See Daunt's " Personal Recollections of O'Connell," vol. i. p. 171 ; ii. p. 146. 1794. The Very Rev. John Brocas, A.M., Chaplain of St. Mat- 192 APPENDIX II. thew's, Ringsend (see p. 80), died at his house near Dun- leary, in December. — Walker's Hib. Mag. 1794, Part ii. p. 568. 1795. A memoir of Lord Carleton (see p. 84) is given in Walkers Hib. Mag. 1795, p. 556. 1798. "An unexpected event has taken place in this city [Dublin] j namely, a cession, made by the corporation for the improvement of Dublin harbour, of their property in the Pigeon-house dock, and the newly constructed hotel, to Government, for the purpose of a place of arms and military post, if not for ever, at least during the present war. The part allotted for this place of arms is, we hear, to be insulated by strong redoubts, mounted with cannon." {Gent. Mag. 1798, Part i. p. 435.) See p. 56. 1798. The French officers and 845 men, who had been taken prisoners by General Lord Lake, were put on board ship at the Pigeon-house, 17th September, and conveyed to England. " The novelty of such a spectacle, as may easily be conceived, attracted immense crowds of spectators, who witnessed, we are confident, the final exit of French invasion from this country." — Gent. Mag. 1798, Part ii. p. 803. 1798. Full particulars of the melancholy death of Alderman Truelock at his residence, Simmonscourt Castle, near Ballsbridge (see p. 85), may be found in the Gent. Mag. 1798, Part ii. p. 994. The" house was for sale in 1799, and is described in Faulkner's Dub. Journal, 16th March. 1799. " So entirely is tranquillity restored, especially in the neighbourhood of Dublin, that all the outlets are filled with summer lodgers, from the Blackrock and Clontarf to Lucan and Leixlip. This is a happy alteration, and, we trust, a grateful earnest of continued quiet." — Faulkner's Dub. Journal, 13th June. 1800. A Committee was formed (consisting of the Rev. Gore Wood, George Heppenstall and John Quin, Esquires, Churchwardens, and six others), and active measures taken to relieve " the miserable state of the helpless poor " in the parish of Donnybrook Saunders's News-Letter, 7th January. 1800. The following is an extract from " a Traveller's De- scription of the Bay of Dublin," dated 10th September : — ANNALS. 193 " I cannot but bear testimony to the uncommon beauty of the bay of Dublin, which is alone rivalled by that of Naples. The vast labour and expense too with which the noble pier, that projects upwards of a mile [nearly three English miles and an half] into the sea, and divides the bay in the middle, must have been constructed, excited my warmest applause. At the extremity of this pier stands an octagonal light-house, which is probably the most elegant in Europe. It is, perhaps, too the most necessary ; for the boisterous seas between the Isle of Anglesea and Dublin, the extraordinary violence of the currents, and the many shallows, rocks, and sand-banks, on the Irish side, render the passage extremely dangerous. The numerous wrecks which take place every winter, apparent from their masts, which are seen every here and there peeping above the surface of the water, as it were to warn others by their fate, are convincing proofs of the truth of this assertion. It is this indeed which is with reason assigned as the cause of the very few English gentry who can be persuaded to visit Ireland." {Gent. Mag. 1800, Part ii. p. 833.) In his " very lively remarks on his journey to Ireland," the traveller, while he gives the foregoing praise, does not speak in very flattering terms of the appearance and manners of the people, he. 1801. Messrs. Duflys, Byrne, and Hamill (see p. 74) were at this date the proprietors of the bleaching and printing factory, Donnybrook and Ballsbridge. — Saunders's News- Letter^ 6th February. 1802. For a full description of Frescati, near Blackrock, (>ee p. 84), which at this date was to be let with a fine, or the interest in a lease of 99 years to be sold, see Saunders's News- Letter, 5th July. 1804. For particulars of the trjal and acquittal of the Earl of Eoscommon, for an assault committed near his lordship's residence at Booterstown, see Saunders's News-Letter, 14th January. 1804. Married, "Major Mitchell, of the 16th Foot, son of H. Henry Mitchell, Esq., of Merrion Castle, near Dublin, to the Right Hon. Lady Harriet Somerset, [third] daugh- ter of the late [Henry, fifth] Duke of Beaufort.' , (Wett- meath Journal, 19th Julv.) She d. his widow, 1st June, 1855. 1804. Frescati — "one of the best family mansions in Ire- land" — having been in the possession of Sir Henry Cavendish, Bart., was for sale on his death in this year, with the adjoining grounds. {Hibernian Journal, 25th September, and Dublin Evening Post, 11th October.) The Right Hon. Sir Henry Cavendish, Bart, M.P., Re- ceiver-General of Ireland, m. 5th August, 1757, Sarah, only daughter and heiress of Richard Bradshaw, Esq., and was the author of " A Statement of the Public Accounts of Ireland " (London, 1791). See " Sketches of Irish Political Characters," &c, by Henry M'Dougall, (London, 1799), p. 208. Lady Cavendish was advanced to the peerage of Ireland, 14th June, 1792, by the title of Baroness Water- park, of Waterpark, co. Cork, with remainder to her issue male by Sir H. Cavendish ; and d. in 1807. 1804. " The building the Martello Towers for the protection of the coast from Bray to Dublin, proceeds with unexam- pled despatch ; they are in general about forty feet in dia- meter, precisely circular, and built of hewn granite, closely jointed. Some are already thirty feet high, and exhibit proofs of the most admirable masonry ; one has been just begun at Williamstown, near the Blackrock ; those from Dalkey to Bray are nearly finished." (Hibernian Tele- graph, 28th September, and Drogheda News- Letter of the following day.) For some very just observations on these towers, see Sir John Carr's " Stranger in Ireland in 1805 " (London, 1806), p. 112. 1805. For a favourable notice of the South-wall and Light- house, but a very unfavourable one of Ringsend— " one of the most horrible sinks of filth I ever beheld " — see Sir John Carr's " Stranger in Ireland in 1805." The same writer (who has been severely handled in " My Pocket Book ; or, Hints for * a ryghte Merrie and Conceitede ' Tour," by Edward Du Bois, the editor of the Monthly Mirror) observes, p. 115, that "the Blackrock and its neighbourhood are filled with the most elegant country- houses, gardens, and plantations, more numerous, and far more beautiful and picturesque than the villas of Clapham- common, to which it may in some respects be compared, and the inhabitants are very elegant and sociable." 1805. About this date Flaherty's Tavern, at the lower end of Booterstown-avenue, facing the sea, was in high repute, ANNALS. 195 and somewhat like the Rose-tavern in Donnybrook. See p. 72. 1806. According to Sleater's " Civil and Ecclesiastical Topo- graphy of Ireland " (Dublin, 1806), Donnybrook Castle was occupied by the Rev. John Moore ; Annfield, by Dr. Perceval ; Merville, by Sir Thomas Lighton, Bart, ; Sans Souci, by the Earl of Lanesborough ; Seamount, by Robert Alexander, Esq. ; and Mount Merrion, by Lord Viscount Fitz william. Robert Herbert (Butler), third Earl of Lanes- borough, d. at Sans Souci, 17th April in this year. He m. 5th January, 1781, Elizabeth, eldest daughter of the Right Hon. David La Touche, and " was a nobleman of most amiable manners, but had lived for many years in a state of seclusion, owing to grief for the untimely decease of his countess in the bloom of youth and beauty." — Gent. Mag. 1806, Part i. p. 480. 1806. " In the evening [Monday, 23rd June] I sailed from Holyhead in the Union packet, Captain Skinner; and after a rough and tedious passage of twenty-three hours landed at the Pigeon-house ; from whence a vehicle, very appropriately called The Long Coach (holding sixteen inside passengers, and as many outside, with all their lug- gage), conveyed us to Dublin, distant about two miles from the place of landing. ... A most daring attack was made a short time ago [21st May, as mentioned in the Gent. Mag. 1806, Part i. p. 575] upon this coach by a large gang of robbers, who ordered the passengers [Lord Cahir, George La Touche, Esq., and six more] to dismount, and plundered them one by one ; the mail carrier was also fired at by the same people. When this vehicle is known to convey so many of the principal nobility, gentry, and merchants from Dublin to the Packet-boat, a regular horse- patrole to attend the coach from the office, could be at- tended with no inconvenience to Government, and would ensure the property of many individuals." (Sir Richard Colt Hoare's " Tour in Ireland, A.D. 1806," p. 1, London, 1807.) In the next page this accomplished tourist thus describes " the plucking of the Pigeon-house," to which Dr. Milner likewise refers (see p. 87) : — " Passengers are allowed to take their parcels, &c, with them ; but carriages and trunks are obliged to go to the Custom House, and undergo a tedious and imposing search. The proprietor must value his carriage as he thinks reasonable : and he is 196 APPENDIX II. charged on that valuation four and a half per cent ; but here the matter does not end ; for besides the duty to Government, I paid no less than twelve different officers of the customs." 1807. Mr. Charles Phillips refers in an amusing strain to Dr. Duigenan's marriage (see p. 87) in his " Curran and his Contemporaries " (Edinburgh, 1851), p. 62; and in the " Correspondence of the Right Hon. John Beresford," vol. ii. p. 179, a favourable character of Duigenan is given. 1807. Full particulars of the wreck of the Prince of Wales packet and the Rochdale transport (see pp. 52, 88) — " one of the most afflicting and tremendous events which this, or perhaps any other country, has to record " — are given, with "a descriptive plate," in Walkers Hlb. Mag. 1807, pp. 642-645. See also Saunders's News-Letter, 21st, 23rd, and 26th November. 1808. u Mrs. Doyle, of Ringsend . . . returning home at night, fell into that awful and most dangerous chasm, the basin, adjoining the temporary bridge near the dock, and was drowned. It is not long since the ingenious Mr. Graves, the artificial florist, and his amiable and interesting wife, were lost in the same place ; and an architect of great celebrity." {Gent. Mag. 1808, Part i. p. 272.) See also Walkers Bib. Mag. 1807, p. 636. "The Hon. Wra. Morres was found drowned in the Canal Docks, near Ringsend, on Monday." (Dublin Cor- respondent, 23rd February, 1809.) The place is still as fatal a trap to many an unwary traveller. 1810. Died "at the Blackrock-road, near Dublin, Patrick Sharkey, Esq., well known as the original proprietor of the * Racing Calendar,' and judge of the Curragh." — Gent. Mag. 1810, Part ii. p. 291. 1811. For " A Trip to Donnybrook, with a striking Repre- sentation," see Walker's Hib. Mag. August, 1811, p. 393. 1812. The tolls and customs of Donnybrook Fair were sold in this year for £750. See pp. 47, 142. 1814. The Rev. Matthew West, A.M., who d. in September of this year fsee p. 88), sent forth, while " Curate-Assistant of St. Mary's, Donnybrook, and Chaplain to the Right Rev. Isaac [Mann], Lord Bishop of Cork," a 4 to volume of " Poems, &c, on Several Occasions," (pp. 184, Dublin, ANNALS. 197 n. J.). They were written, with few exceptions, before he had reached his seventeenth year ; and were published by subscription, with a dedication to Lady Arabella Denny. " More ambitious," as he writes in his preface, u to pre- serve a moral than a poetical character, he will always be content to have his readers despise his head, provided they esteem his heart." While "Vicar of the Union of Clane," he was the author of " Female Heroism, a Tragedy ; founded on Revolutionary Events that occurred in Frauce, in 1793" (8vo. pp. viii. 56. Dublin, 1803). And his widow published by subscription, with a dedication to the [Hon. Charles Lindsay, D.D.J Bishop of Kildare, " Sermons on Various Subjects, by the late Rev. Matthew West, Rector of Carnallaway, and Vicar of Clane, &c, in the Diocese of Kildare" (2 vols. 8vo., Dublin, 1819). Some particu- lars of his dramatic writings are given in the Dublin Uni- versity Magazine, vol. xlvi. p. 141 (1855). 1820. For a few particulars of the parish of Donnybrook at this date, see " Parliamentary Papers on the State of the Established Church of Ireland/' (26th May, 1820), p. 158. 1820. Several particulars of the dramatic writings of Leonard MacNally, who e death occurred in this year (see p. 90), may be found in the Dublin University Magazine, vol. xlvi. pp. 141-143 (1855). ''The Counsellor died in Harcourt-street, Dublin, in February [June], 1820, aged about seventy- four. He was interred in the churchyard at Donnybrook, the old burial-place of his family." (See p. 125.) For mention of a good trait in his character, see Aotes and Queries, 2nd S. ix. 392. 1821. For "The Humours of Donnybrook Fair," see Charles O'Flaherty's "Trifles in Poetry " (Dublin, 1821), p 107. Many of the pieces in this volume had appeared in the Dublin Morning Post. 1822. For two " Sketches of Donnybrook Fair, taken on the spot in the autumns of 1822 and 3," by " Rory O'Reilly " (Charles O'Flaberty), an admirer of "this annual scene of gaiety," see "Retrospection," &c. (Dublin, 1824), pp. 81-89. The former sketch appeared in the Dublin Morning Post in August, 1822, during the Fair week; and the latter in the same newspaper during the Fair week in the following year. 198 APPENDIX II. 1823. " The late James Wright, Esq., of ISTewry, has left £500 to the poor of that town, and £40 to the poor of Donnybrook." — Dublin Warder, 15th February. 1823. Some particulars of "the venerable Judge Fletcher" (see p. 91), who " died at his house in Merrion-square, at six o'clock yesterday morning" (Dublin Warder, 7th June), are given in Phillips' " Curran and his Contem- poraries," p. 427. 1823. Vergemount Boarding School, Clonskea, was at this date under the management of the Rev. C. Crosthwaite. . — Dublin Warder, 2nd August. 1823. Particulars of Donnybrook Fair, as it was in this year, are given in the Dublin Warder, 30 th August. 1823. A plan of " Dublin Bay, Surveyed for the Commis- sioners of Irish Fisheries by Alexander Nimmo, C.E.," was published in this year. 1824. Thomas Dawson and Abraham Mason (see p. 136), Esquires, Churchwardens of the parish of Donnybrook. The extant vestry-book, in which the appointment of the Churchwardens is annually recorded, begins with the fol- lowing year. See p. 103. 1824. Castledawson School, Williarastown, was at this date under the management of "the Rev. Alexander Leney, and his son, William Leney, A.B., late Scholar T.C.D." (Dublin Warder, 24th April) ; and Donnybrook School under that of the Rev. Prince Crawford, one of the curates of the parish. — lb. 24th July. 1824. Died " at his house, Serpentine-avenue, on Friday, the 7th inst., John Burke Fitzsimmons, Esq., for many years a magistrate of the county of Dublin. ... He subsequently [to the year 1798] raised a corps of yeo- manry at Sanclymount, which he continued to command down to the period of its being disembodied. . . . For many years he was the proprietor and conductor of the Hibernian Journal : and since the decease of Mr. Giffard, he has been the leader in the Common Council, and the most influential man in corporate affairs." (Dublin Warder, 15th May.) See p. 156. 1824. For particulars of the consecration of Booterstown Church, see the Dublin Warder, 22nd May. ANNALS. 199 1824. The opening of the Dublin and Kingstown railway in 1834 (see p. 95) makes one the less to regret the abandon- ment of the following plan : — " Within these few days the measurement of the lands, lying between Westland-row, Merrion, &c, has been completed, previous to the sinking of the New Canal, which will be cut near Westland-row, by Haig's Distillery, across Serpentine-avenue, Sandy- mount-lane, and thence through the Marsh and the Baths to Merrion. The passage along Merrion, Blackrock, &c, will be deepened by the erection of a wall, to be built along the strand of Merrion, which, passing by Blackrock, and [Seapoint] the demesne of the Eev. Sir H [arcourt] Lees, Bart., will be continued outside the old, and terminate near the new Kingstown, where a proper pier will be con- structed for the landing of passengers by the new Kingstown and Dublin boats, which, it is supposed, will be propelled by steam ; thus rendering the passage exceedingly expedi- tious. It will be a delightful one, and freed from the inconvenience of a dusty road, and will command a perfect view of the beautiful scenery around the bay of Dublin." — Dublin Warder, 5th June. 1824. On Sunday evening, 4th July, the Rev. Hugh M'Neile preached in St. Anne's Church, Dublin, in aid of the collection made in Irishtown Church, for the erection of a school-house for the male and female poor of that village, Ringsend, Sandymount, &c. (See p. 93.) " Mr. M'ISIeile, being made acquainted with the great poverty of the above-mentioned district, its crowded population, the gross ignorance and consequent vice and disorder of so many unemployed and untaught children, and the utter impossibility, for want of a school- house, of giving them any effectual instruction in morality or religion, kindly consented to advocate the cause of the poor in that neigh- bourhood, which, from its uncivilized state, and its vicinity to the metropolis, is so generally felt to reflect discredit on the inhabitants of Dublin." (Dublin Warder, 3rd July.) " That district,'' as the editor observes in the same num- ber, " has long, too long, remained in obscurity, profligacy, and misery, though, not unfrequently, it is the first Irish village an Englishman passes through ; and what an hum- bling picture of our country does it exhibit? — close to our metropolis — the portion of its archdeaconry — the very gate, as it were, of our city, infested by the worst of the human 200 APPENDIX II. species ; but an opportunity has now offered of redeeming our national character." 1824. Particulars of the alleged right to hold Donnybrook Fair for fifteen days, including Sundays, may be found in the Dublin Warder, 21st August. See p. 145 1825. Samuel John Pittar, Esq., of Southhill, Merrion- avenue, and William Palmer, Esq., of Harcourt-street, Dublin (the latter on the part of the Incumbent of Monks- town, seep. 28), were appointed Commissioners for the Tithe Composition of the parish of Booterstown, and the tithes compounded, as recorded in the vestry- book, for £70 8s. 6d. per annum, for the term of twenty -one years. The tithes of the parish of Donnybrook were compounded for £166 3s. The tithe-rent charge of the former parish now amounts to £48 15s. Id. ; and of the latter, to £124 lis. 8d. 1825. For particulars of the " Coldblow-lane voters," see Abbott's " Questions on the Elections for the City of Dub- lin in 1831," pp. 42-48; or Hudson's "Treatise on the Elective Franchise," &c, p. 98. The leases of the plot of ground, called Lawlor's Garden, in Coldblow-lane (now Belmont-avenue), Donnybrook, had been made in 1825. 1826. Of the money bequeathed for charitable purposes by the Rev. John Barrett, D.D., S.F.T.C.D., the Hospital for Incurables, Donnybrook, received the sum of £3,204. 1827. George Augustus (Herbert), eleventh Earl of Pem- broke, and eighth. Earl of Montgomery, K.G. (who in 1816 had s. Richard, seventh Viscount Fitzwilliam., of Merrion, in his large estates, see p. 89), b. 11th Septem- ber, 1759 ; m. first, in 1787, Elizabeth, second daughter of Topham Beauclerk, Esq., and granddaughter, mater- nally, of Charles (Churchill), third Duke of Marlborough, by whom (d. in 1793) he had issue, Robert Henry, present Earl, b. 19th September, 1791 ; and Diana, m. in 1816, Welbore (Ellis Agar), second Earl of Norman ton, and d. 2nd December, 1841. Lord Pembroke m. secondly, 25th January, 1808, Catherine, only daughter of Simon, Count Woronzow, a Russian nobleman, and by her (d. 27th March, 1856) had issue, the present Right Hon. Sidney " Herbert, M.P., b. 16th September, 1810 ; and five daugh- ters. He d. 26th October, 1827, and was s. by his elder son, Robert Henry, now Earl of Pembroke ; and by his ANNALS. 201 younger son, Sidney (heir-presumptive to his brother), in the Fitzwilliam property, pursuant to the will of Lord Fitzwilliam. 1827. Mr. Finlay, in his book, entitled "The Office and Duty of Churchwarden and Parish Officer in Ireland" (Dublin, 1827), p. 134, mentions the parish of Donny- brook as having no houses valued for minister's money, aud consequently free of grand-jury cess. 1828. Over the grave of the Rev. Robert Ball (see p. 83) in the churchyard of Stillorgan, near Dublin, is a stone with the following inscription : — " Sacred to the memory of the Rev. Robert Ball, late Yicar of Drumkolm, in the diocese of Raphoe [from the year 1817], and Chaplain of St. Matthew's, Ringsend [having been appointed 1st January, 1795], who died near Stillorgan on the 12th of May, 1828, in the 56th year of his age." He m. Cathe- rine (d. 26th January, 1860), eldest daughter of the Rev. St. John Blacker, LL.D., Prebendary of Inver, in the dio- cese of Raphoe, and widow of the Rev. Charles Barker, Canon of Wells, but left no issue. 1828. " A sum of £1,500 was drawn from the [Dublin] Savings' Bank during the week of the ' Brook.' " (Dublin Evening Post, 25th September.) See p. 47. 1829. In this year was published in London by the Ad- miralty a " Survey of Dublin Bay and the Adjacent Banks, bv VVm. Mudge, Esq., Conirn 1 ' R.N., and Lieut. G. A. Frazer, R.N. 1828." 1830. The Right Hon. John Doherty, Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas, occupied Seamount (now St. Helen's), Booterstown, at this date. It came to him from his relative, Mrs. Wall, who had purchased it from the representatives of Robert Alexander, Esq. (see p. 8) ; and he expended a large amount in building and other improve- ments. From him it passed to Colonel Henry White, M.P., who sold it, in 1851, to the present noble proprietor, General Lord Viscount Gough, G.C.B., of whom a bio- graphical sketch is given in the " Remains of the Rev. Samuel O'Sullivan, D.D." (Dublin, 1853), vol. ii. pp. 223-258, reprinted from the Dublin University Magazine. 1830. The following extract from a printed statement issued in the latter part of this year, shows that the state of the O 202 APPENDIX II. poor in the parish of Booterstown was then very different from what it is at present : — " The number of poor in this parish amounts to upwards of 700 ; and owing to the con- tiguity, filth, and wretchedness of their numerous and crowded cabins, particularly in the lanes at Booterstown, Williamstown, Merrion- avenue [see p. 26], &c, fever and other contagious diseases would readily spread. The poor here are all of the labouring class ; during summer and part of autumn many derive some support from attending bathers, but in winter few have any employment. As the Medical Visitor recommends nutriment to prevent the increase of sickness, and to support those who return from hospital to their wretched dwellings, weak and unable to make exer- tions, a soup-kitchen for this purpose has been established — a plan recommended in Dublin by the Board of Health." 1831. T. O'Mara, Esq., " a well-known solicitor, whose warlike habits caused his services to be much sought for at contested elections," resided at Lisaniskea, near Blackrock, at this date. See " Personal Recollections of the Life and Times of Valentine [second] Lord Cloncurry" (Dublin, 1849), pp. 424-429, where some letters from Mr. O'Mara to Lord Cloncurry are given, one of which concludes with these words, u Let what will come, my highly- valued countryman, while I can draw a sword or a trigger, you will find me your attached friend, T. O'Mara." He had occupied, and improved, Williamstown Castle ; but Lisa- niskea (subsequently the residence of Lord William Fitz- gerald) was where he lived for some years preceding his death. 1831. " The grand jury of the city of Dublin have presented £5,603 3s. Id. for erecting a new bridge at Donnybrook (see p. 93), which sum is to be levied by instalments on the citizens." — Dublin Evening Post, 18th June. 1832. A woodcut of St. Mary's Church, Donnybrook (or Simmonscourt Church), is given in the Dublin Penny Journal, vol. i. p. 212, published in this year. 1833. Died at his residence, Merrion Castle, 4th July, aged 75, the Rev. John (Pomeroy), fourth Viscount Harberton, Vicar of St. Anne's, Dublin, leaving the present Viscount and other issue. He had 6*. his brother Arthur James, 27th September,1832. 1833. Nathaniel Sneyd, Esq., was mortally wounded in West- ANNALS. 203 moreland-street, Dublin, close to the Bank of Ireland, by Mr. John Mason, 29th July. (Freeman's Journal, 30th July and 1st August.) Mr. Sneyd, M.P. for the county of Cavan, and universally respected, m. in 1806, Anne, daughter of Thomas Burgh, Esq., Commissioner of Re- venue, and sister to the present Lord Dowries ; was for some years one of the leading parishioners of Booterstown ; and occupied Chesterfield, Cross- avenue, to the day of his death. (See p. 123.) He was buried at St. Mary's, Dub- lin ; and a handsome monument has been erected in Christ Church Cathedral by public subscription, inscribed as fol- lows : — " Sacred to the memory of Nathaniel Sneyd, Esq r , Custos Rotulorum of the county of Cavan, and Repre- sentative in Parliament of the same county, during a period of 36 years. Died 31st of July, 1833, aged 6Q years. [Then comes a lengthened eulogium on his public and private character.] Inscrutable are the dispensations of Providence. This man, so blameless in all the relations of his being, so respected and so beloved, perished by the hand of violence ; but it was the indiscriminating violence of an unhappy maniac ; while the universal sentiment of profound and poignant sorrow, excited by the afflicting event amongst all classes of his fellow-citizens, supplied the truest and the most expressive tribute to those virtues, of which it is the purpose of this memorial to preserve the record, and to perpetuate the remembrance." 1833. By 3 and 4 Win. IV. c. 26 ("Local and Personal Statutes ") further power was granted " to lease certain parts of the devised estates of the Right Hon. Richard, late Viscount Fitzwilliam, deceased, situate in the city of Dub- lin and the neighbourhood thereof." A similar Act was passed in 1842, as stated in p. 96. 1835. In the " Memorandum of Objects of Geological Inte- rest in the Vicinity of Dublin " (published in this year), p. 17, it is stated that "in the quarries at Donnybrook there are numerous strata of calp, passing into the ordinary limestone, and containing organic remains " ; and in the next page, that " on the coast near the railway [at Black- rock] there are a series of rocks which are best observed at low water. The granite may be seen within a few feet of the limestone, but the actual contact of the two rocks cannot be observed. The lime-stone is hard and crystal- line, and appears as if it had been shivered into angular 204 APPENDIX II. fragments, which have been subsequently united." The "Memorandum" was "drawn up at the desire of the Royal Dublin Society, preparatory to the Meeting of the British Association [held at Dublin] in August, 1835." 1837. For some particulars of the parish of Booterstown at this date, see the " Fourth Report on Ecclesiastical Revenue and Patronage, Ireland" (1837), p. 18; of St. Matthew's Chapel, Ringsend, p. 76 ; and of the parish of Donny brook, p. 87. 1838. Confirmations were held in Booterstown Church by the Archbishop of the diocese, for these and the adjoining parishes, 27th June, 1838; 23rd July, 1840; 1st June, 1842 ; 12th June, 1844 ; 1st December, 1846 ; and 9th August, 1849 ; and in Donny brook Church, 4th December, 1860. 1843. The Right Hon. John Radcliff, LL.D. (see p. 38), d. at Rosefield, Williamstown, 18th July, though, in Saunders's News- Letter, 20th July (copied from the Dublin Evening Mail), his death is said to have taken place " at his residence in Leeson- street, Dublin." 1844. The Rev. Hugh White, A.M., of Laurel-hill, Black- rock, whose name and writings are well known, d. 15th May. For a biographical sketch, see the Christian Ex- aminer, July, 1844. 1844. The Rev. Francis Heaton Thomas, A.M., appointed to the chaplaincy of Carysfort Church, Blackrock (which is only a few yards beyond the bounds of the parish of Booterstown), on the resignation of the Rev. Robert Fe- therstone Jessop, A.M., who had been the first resident Chaplain. 1846, The parliamentary grant in this year to the Royal Chapel of St. Matthew, Ringsend, amounted to £106 for maintaining and repairing the building, and £217 to pay the chaplain, clerk, and sexton. 1846. The Donnybrook Relief Association was formed towards the close of this year, and very active measures taken in behalf of the destitute poor of the parish. 1847. " The Fair terminated on Saturday evening. The tents were all shut at six, and the operation of unroofing commenced shortlv after. Some of the skeletons were ANNALS. 205 standing yesterday, and as usual, a large number of people passed through the Green to see the wreck that was left behind. The Fair was a spiritless one in every sense of the word." — Freeman's Journal, 30th August." 1848. In Daunt's " Personal Recollections of O'Connell," vol. ii. pp. 125-129, published in this year, there is a very amusing (true ?) anecdote of the early life of a gentleman, who became a well- known and highly respected parishioner of Donnybrook. 1849. The Rev. Charles J. Finn, D.D., who had been ap- pointed Parish Priest of Irishtown and Donnybrook in 1792, on the death of the Rev. Peter Richard Clinch, d. in this year at his house in Irishtown. His successor is the Rev. Andrew O'Connell, D.D., sometime Parish Priest of St. Michael and St. John's, Dublin. 1849. " The early part of 1849 was not remarkable for the prevalence of any peculiar epidemic, and the health of the district generally was better than it had been for some time before. As the summer advanced, however, cases of diar- rhoea and dysentery became more frequent, and it was soon manifest that they were only the forerunners of that awful scourge with which it pleased Providence to afflict this parish, as well as the country at large. In the early part of June the first case of malignant and fatal cholera was reported in Sandymount. For some time no other case occurred in that village, but the disease spread to Ringsend and Irishtown, and soon after appeared in Ballsbridge and Donnybrook. At a later period it returned to Sandymount and Merrion. The latter villages were very slightly affected ; and we all have reason to be most thankful to the Almighty for His great mercy showed to us, since in no part of our district did this disease assume that very malignant character which marked its progress so fearfully in many other towns and villages in the neighbourhood of Dublin and throughout Ireland. For nearly five months, during the prevalence of this disease, the Dispensary re- mained open all night, as well as during the day." (From the Report of the Donnybrook Parochial Dispensary, for year ending 31st December.) According to the "return of the diseases treated during the same period at the Don- nybrook [situate at Ballsbridge] and Irishtown Dispen- saries " (the latter being auxiliary to the former, and both 206 APPENDIX II. of them for many years under the able and indefatigable superintendence of Edw. J. Quinan, Esq., M.D., the present Medical Offieerof the district), the applications were 6,420 ; patients visited, 1,411 ; and visits paid, 3,671. •* During the prevalence of cholera it was found impossible to keep an accurate account of the first item ; the above therefore are only those that were registered, and not the actual number. Receipts for the year, as per Treasurer's book : — Balance from preceding year, £2 2s. 9d. ; Subscriptions, £81 4s. 6d. ; and County-grant, £81 ; total, £165 7s. 3d. 1850. Died in the Hospital for Incurables, Donnybrook, 20th May, Mary Thompson, at a very advanced age. Suffering from paralysis, she was admitted by the Governors on Tuesday, 17th July, 1798, and enjoyed the benefit and comforts of the institution for nearly 52 years ! {Hospital Register.) An account of the hospital (thirty years before its removal from Townsend-street, Dublin, to Donnybrook) is given in the Dublin Magazine, 1762, vol. i. p. 218; and in the next volume, pp. 577, 611, 699, an engraving of " The Young Woman in the Incurable Hospital," with some " authentic letters and papers relative to her piteous case." For many years the late Robert Perceval, Esq., M.D., of Annneld, Donnybrook (see p. 95), notwithstand- ing his great practice, gratuitously devoted a large share of his time and attention to the afflicted inmates of this truly valuable and interesting hospital (see pp. 12, 43) : under his superintendence it was greatly improved in several respects (see Whitelaw and Walsh's " History of Dublin," vol. ii. p. 730) ; and the vacancy occasioned by his death has been ever since steadily and worthily supplied on equally liberal terms by Charles P. Croker, Esq., M.D., of Merrion- square, Dublin. It may be observed of Dr. Perceval, as a good trait in his character, that all the fees he received on Sundays (and they were not a few) were strictly set apart for charity. 1850. The parliamentary grant to the Hospital for Incurables, Donnybrook, amounted at this date to £500. 1851. An order of the Privy Council directed that the pa- rishes of St. Peter, St. Kevin, and Donnybrook, should be in future the corps of the archdeaconry of Dublin, and that Taney and Rathfarnham should be severed, and form ANNALS. 207 separate parishes. Iu a MS., from which the following particulars are taken, the gross annual income of the archdeaconry at this date (before the separation of Taney and Rathfarnham) amounted to £3,027 17s. 6d. The gross income of the parish of Donnybrook, as set down in the same document, was £367 17s. 0}d. ; i.e., minister's money, £237 3s. 10^1. ; tithe-rent charge, £124 lis. 8d. ; and ground-rents, £6 Is. 6d. 1851. A marble tablet to the memory of Archdeacon Tor- rens, who d. in this year (see p. 97), has been erected in Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, with the following in- scription : — " Sacred to the memory of the Ven ble John Torrens, D.D., Archdeacon of Dublin, and Rector of the parishes of St. Peter's and St. Kevin's, in the same city. Born on the 18th of August, 1769. For a period of 40 years he held the above preferments, and sat in the chapter of this Cathedral, and in that of St. Patrick's. Able, zealous, and efficient to the last in the discharge of the sacred duties which Providence had assigned him in the Church, he lived a bright example of the truest Chris- tian piety, and in charity to all men, died respected and beloved on the 9th of July, 1851, aged 82, and in full as- surance of a blessed salvation through Christ." 1857. The Victoria Bridge, Ringsend-road, was erected, in the stead of the old wooden drawbridge. 1858. Henry Jas. Pelham West, Esq : , of Dublin, purchased in the Incumbered (now Landed) Estates' Court, 29th June, for £2,030, the houses and premises, Nos. 6, 7, 8, and 9, College-street, and 28, 29, and 30, Fleet-street, Dublin, held under a lease from the Commissioners of Wide Streets to Henry Ward, bearing date the 3rd December, 1817, for 999 years from 29th September, 1817, and sub- ject to the payment of a ground-rent of £80 Irish (equi- valent to £73 16s. lid. sterling) to the Incumbent of Booterstown for the time being. (See p. 28.) The pre- mises are described as " All that lot or piece of ground situate on the north side of College- street, and extending back to the south side of Fleet-street, containing in breadth in front to College-street aforesaid 100 feet, in breadth in the rere 80 feet, and in depth from front to rere on the west side thereof 79 feet, and on the east side thereof 44 feet, be the said several admeasurements or any of them 208 APPENDIX II. more or less, bounded on the north by Fleet-street, on the south by College- street, on the east by the junctiDn of To wnsend- street, Great Brunswick-street, College- street, and Fleet-street, and on the west by the holding of Mrs. Eleanor Feroni, situate, lying, and being in the city of Dublin." 1858. The Rev. Wm. Pakenham Walsh, A.M., appointed to the chaplaincy of Sandford Church (see p. 42), on the death of the Ven. Henry Irwin, Archdeacon of Emly. A portion of the parish of Donnybrook is included in the dis- trict which soon after was assigned to that church. 1859. In this year an action was brought by the corpora- tion of Dublin against the Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, to recover several years' arrears of a rent of £10 per annum, which, as alleged, had been reserved by a fee-farm grant of the year 1225, and was due to the Corporation as the owners in fee of the manor of Rath, afterwards called Bagotrath, upon which very valuable house pro- perty is erected, and which extends from the neighbour- hood of St. Stephen's-green to the sea at or near Merrion. The defendant had been, and was then " perfectly ready and willing to pay this £10 a-year, upon simply getting the same form of receipt which had been given in 1735 . . . and 1840 ;' but to this the plaintiffs would not agree ; and after two days' hearing of the case, they with- drew the record. See a " Special Report of the Trial in the Court of Common Pleas, Dublin, on 5th and 7th February, 1859, before Chief Justice Monahan and a Special Jury,'' edited by Francis Morgan, Esq., Law Agent to the Corporation, but not for sale (Dublin, 1859). There is an " appendix, containing copies of, and extracts from, the several original documents produced and given in evi- dence on part of plaintiffs ;" and as many interesting and important particulars relative to Bagotrath in former days are to be found therein, it is proposed, instead of referring briefly to them in this place, to detail them in a Note at another time. 1859. Thomas E. V. Tuthill, Esq., of Rathgar Mansion, near Dublin, left by will £300 to the Hospital for Incurables, Donnybrook, with legacies to many other charitable insti- tutions. — Dublin Gazette, 29th July. 1859. Thomas Bartlett, Esq., of Sandymount (see p. 157), ANNALS. 209 by will bearing date 2nd July, 1858, amongst other lega- cies, " bequeathed to the Chaplain of the Royal Chapel of St. Matthew, at Irishtown, £100, to be placed out at interest by him, one half of which to be distributed in charity by him and his successors for ever, amongst the poor of his congregation, and the other half to be paid and distributed in like manner in support of the Sunday School attached to the said Royal Chapel ; and also bequeathed to the Parish Priest of the Roman Catholic Chapel, then building at Ringsend, £100, to be placed out at in- terest by him, and the produce thereof to be laid out annually in the purchase of bread, same to be distributed by him and his successors for ever, at Christmas, to and amongst the poor of Ringsend aforesaid." His several leasehold properties in the parish of Donnybrook are to be sold after the death of his widow, and the produce thereof, after payment of all costs and charges, to be given to five Protestant institutions in Dublin, which he has specified. — Dublin Gazette, 4th October. 1860. James Murphy, Esq., of Mount Merrion, in the parish of Booterstown, died in this year, and by will dated 26th January, 1858, left £2,000 to the convent of the Immacu- late Conception (until lately known as Lakelands), Park- avenue, Sandymount, £200 for the Roman Catholic poor and schools of Booterstown, and ver} T many large bequests, principally to Roman Catholic institutions in Dublin, amounting to £45,000. — Dublin Gazette, 27th March. 1860. The Hospital for Incurables, Donnybrook, " contained 70 inmates when we inspected it. The entire establish- ment was in perfect order, and the comforts of the patients evidently well attended to. . . . We think it very desirable that the benefits of this excellent institution should, as proposed by the Governors, be extended to the former number of patients [100], by an increase of the [parliamentary] grant to the original sum of £500 [as in 1850], which would enable them to fill the vacant beds." Total income of the hospital from various sources for the year ended 31st March, 1859, £2,146 15s. Id "Third Annual Report of the Board of Superintendence of Dublin Hospitals" (18G0), pp. 9, 30. 1860. Isaac Matthew D'Olier, of Collegnes, Booterstown, and Frederick Archer Barlow, of Willow-terrace, Williams- 210 APPENDIX II. town, Esquires, Churchwardens of the parish of Booters- town ; and William Forde, of Vergemount Lodge, Clonskea, and Alexander Sanson, of Kirkville, Merrion, Esquires, Churchwardens of Donnybrook. 1860. Castledawson, Williamstown (having been occupied for several years, and until recently, by Edward Litton, Esq., M.C), became in this year the " French College of the Immaculate Heart of Mary for Boarders and Day Scholars." 1860. The Eight Hon. Sidney Herbert purchased, in the Landed Estates' Court, almost the whole of the lands of Smoth's-court, otherwise Simmon's- court, in the parish of Donnybrook (see p. 35), the property of George Hayward Lindsay, Esq., D.L. (son of the late Bishop of Kildare and Dean of Christ Church), and held under fee-farm grants from the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for Ireland at an annual rent of £697 8s. 5d. Donnybrook Church is on the estate, but of course was " not sold or conveyed to the purchaser." 1860. For particulars of a second action brought by the corporation of Dublin against the Right Hon. Sidney Herbert for arrears of rent, see the Daily Express, 3rd and 4th July. The case was tried in the Court of Common Pleas, and the jury found that the £10 a-year (referred to in p. 208) was payable to the Corporation as fee and rentcharge on Bagotrath. 1860. Lieut. -Col. Fen wick, 76th Regiment, having died at the Pigeon House, Ringsend, a handsome memorial is to be placed in the Garrison Church, Arbour-hill, Dublin, with the following inscription : — " Sacred to the memory of Lt.-Colonel Collingwood Fenwick, 76th Regt. Born 4th April, 1817. Died at the Pigeon House Fort, 4th July, 1860. He served 24 years and 10 months in the 76th Regiment, in which he was universally beloved. This tablet has been erected by his brother officers as a token of their af- fection and esteem for a dear friend, and their heartfelt sorrow for his loss." 1860. The Sandymount station, on the Dublin and Kings- town railway, was opened, 23rd July. 1860. Donnybrook Church was re-opened for Divine service on Sunday, 28th October. See. p. 119. ANNALS. 211 1860. The Lord Lieutenant having issued his order for " The Towns' Improvement (Ireland) Act, 1854"(17&18 Vict, c. 103), to be applied to the town of Blackrock, Thomas Dixon, Esq., J. P. (Chairman), and fourteen other gentle- men, were unanimously elected Commissioners. The fol- lowing bounds of the township, which embraces Booters- town Church and a considerable portion of the parish, were proposed to his Excellency, and received his sanction :— 4 ' To commence at that part of the strand or sea-shore at low tide, which lies immediately opposite the wall or western boundary of Willow- terrace, and to proceed along said boundary so far as the gate which separates Mr. Bewley's land from said terrace, and thence to the left by the boundary wall of the several holdings in Williamstown- avenue, thence by Mr. Andrews' western boundary wall, thence by a hedge (separating Mr. Bewley's two fields) to a wall which divides the lands of Castledawson from Mr. Bewley's ground, thence by the garden wall of Clareville, including the house and offices of same, to the Cross- avenue, thence across said avenue by the western boundary of the Church grounds to Merrion-avenue, thence across said avenue, and to proceed along the lane or passage at the rere of Waltham-terrace, and leading into the lands of Gracefield, and thence in a straight line (including the house and offices of Gracefield) through Mr. Bussell's ground to Avoca- avenue, thence to the left as far as St. Cloud's, thence to cross said avenue and proceed by Mr. Saurin's western wall or boundary to Lands'-end gate, and thence to the river, where it enters Mr. Saurin's domain, thence continuing by said river to the high-road on New- town- avenue, thence by the high road to Seapoint- avenue, and proceeding along said avenue to, and including Ar- denza- terrace, and thence to the sea, and thence proceed- ing along the strand or sea-shore at low-water mark to the point where the boundary line begins on the strand oppo- site Willow- terrace." Wednesday, 7th November, was appointed for the commencement of the operation of the Act in this place. " Let not love nor grief believe That we assent— who neither loved nor grieve — To all that praise, which on the tomb is read, To all, that passion dictates for the dead ; But more indignant we the tomb deride, Whose bold inscription flattery sells to pride." — Crab be. ON " BRIEF SKETCHES OF THE PARISHES OF BOOTERSTOWN & DONNYBROOK,"* ETC. [The following extracts from a large number of literary no- tices, which have appeared from time to time in different parts of the kingdom, faithfully represent the sentiments of the re- spective writers. Extracts are indeed open to objection ; but to give the notices in extenso would fill a good-sized volume. Other notices appeared {e.g. in the Carlow Post, 31st August, 1861), which, not having been received, cannot be inserted. More than enough, however, will be found to prove the interest felt in a work of the kind by many intelli- gent readers, and the strongly expressed desire to have similar publications for other localities.] PART I. u A carefully compiled volume, relating briefly the annalg of the Fair-renowned Donnybrook." — Notes and Queries, 28th January, 1860. 11 Mr. Blacker, who is well known to our readers, as he has often been good enough to contribute to our pages, has collected in this lit- tle volume a great deal of interesting topographical and antiquarian information." — Church of England Magazine, 29th February, i860. •* We opened the book now before us without having the remotest idea that it could possess any matter of even trifling interest ; but in this we were mistaken, for we find that Booterstown and Donnybrook * Dublin: George Herbert, 117, Grafton- street. London: Bell and Daldy, 186, Fleet-street. Farts I. and II. together, in neat cloth bind- ing, 3s. 6d. OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. are really places possessing a considerable amount of historical and local interest." — Literary Gazette, 3rd March, 1860. M This little volume is very creditable to its author. . . . The information is given in a concise, unpretending form, without any verbiage or make-weight. The addition of the annals, or chronological table of events, known in connexion with these parishes, greatly in- creases the value of the volume, and is an excellent example for other parochial historians. Such a table enables the student of history at once to pick out any facts of importance to him." — Gentleman's Maga- xine, April, 18b0. " The histories of the principal churches in the localities, and bio- graphies of the clergymen who have been, from time to time, connected with them, will be read with interest by the members of their respec- tive congregations. The volume displays much research, and abounds with novel and very curious facts. The notes will please the antiqua- rian, and delight that epicure of intelligence, ' the oldest inhabitant,' by the quaintness of some of the paragraphs, and the curious memo- rabilia to be found in the appendix." — Saunders's News- Letter, 18th January, 18 SO. " They display considerable research, and a clear and entertaining style, and prove that the writer is capable of more important efforts." — Warder, 21st January, 1860. " Contains a great amount of information of a local nature within a email compass, and to those especially who reside in the districts de- scribed, will be most acceptable. The frontispiece is a well-executed representation of liooterstown Church." — Christian Examiner, Fe- bruary, 1860. "The work displays considerable research; and in the numerous notes will be found some curious and interesting matter, chronological, historical, and biographical." — Daily Express, 2nd February, 1860. " The sketches are very descriptive, and compress a large amount of historic matter into a small compass. The notes are instructive, and introduce many of the great lights of our Church. The annals are carefully compiled, and lead us over a long space of time. In short, the volume is one of the most instructive we have 6een for a long time ; and we recommend it con amore." — Armagh Guardian, 7th February, 1860. " This neat duodecimo will be found acceptable to the ecclesiologist and antiquarian, and indeed to all who may be connected by residence or otherwise with the parishes mentioned in the title. Many a note- worthy fact has been lost to the world for want of the recording pen of the chronicler or historian, — car ent quia vute sacro ; but Mr. Blacker has rescued the memorabilia of these parishes from oblivion, as far as in him lies, and with praiseworthy diligence has compiled an interesting volume. It were much to be desired that he would extend his re- searches to the more ancient and remarkable city churches, not, how- ever, suppressing his authorities and sources of information, .... but verifying, as in the present volume, every statement by distinct re- ferences. The venerable churches of St. Audoen's and St. Michan's, Dublin, would themselves supply materials for a volume, which would be acceptable in a patriotic as well as in an ecclesiastical point of view. Mason's History of St. Patrick's Cathedral shews what an earnest scholar can do in this line of writing. Let us, then, look forward to " BPvIEF SKETCHES." having sketches of some of the more ancient city churches from Mr. Blocker's pen." — Irish Ecclesiastical Gazette, February, 1860. *' In the Ordnance Survey Memoir of the parish of Templemore, county Derry, the natural history of the district is illustrated as fully as the topography and archaeology. If we may judge from that speci- men of the projected memoir which was to accompany the Ordnance Survey, and tor which ample materials were collected under the ablest guidance, our literature has sustained an irreparable loss by the aban- donment of that great national undertaking. ' Brief Sketches,' such as those by Mr. Blacker, are a very inadequate substitute for the complete parochial histories which would have been supplied in the Ordnauce Memoir, yet we should be glad to have them for every parish in the island, if they were but to serve as incentives to the researches of those who may hereafter engage in the compilation of Irish local histories. This elegantly printed little volume is at least evidence that its author has been better employed than many. . . . He has not indulged in vivid descriptions of the fun and frolic of Donnybrook Fair, but, with other rightly disposed persons, regards it as having been rather a scene of riotous drunkenness and dissipation. . . . Should his work reach another edition, we trust that Mr. Blacker will take the opportunity of rendering it more complete. . . . His industry and extensive ac- quaintance with authentic sources of information qualify him to pro- duce a work that would be a really valuable addition to our topographi- cal literature." — Freeman's Journal, and Evening Freeman, 21st February, 1860. ** It presents the reader with short sketches of the four churches in the parishes of Booterstown and Donnybrook, in the immediate neigh- bourhood of Dublin. The architecture of the several churches is de- scribed, and a number of interesting historical, antiquarian, and other memoranda are supplied respecting the two parishes, which are enlarged in the appendix. Records of a similar kind, of the different parishes in Ireland, would constitute a valuable and important national work, and materials for such might be collected without much trouble by the respective incumbents." — Londonderry Guardian, 28th February, 1861. ** We are grateful to the writer for having given us glimpses of the past which are both suggestive and curious. Thousands who walk through the now dilapidated village of Ringsend, for instance, know not from whence its oddly sounding name originates ; and still fewer are aware that it was here Oliver Cromwell landed. ... A great number of ' celebrities ' have lived and died within the area which the author covers, and a vast deal of interest attaches to their lives and doings, about which we should like to learn something more in detail than the scope of Mr. Blacker's present work permitted him to give. No doubt, to effect all this would entail a considerable amount of trouble, but we think that the profit would be commensurate ; and from the performance before us, we are satisfied that the task could not be committed to any one more competent to do it justice. In the meantime we have great reason to be thankful for what we have got, and we heartily thank the author for giving us so many interesting particulars in so short a space, and in so elegant a form." — Dublin Evening Mail, 12th March, I860. " Is well calculated to repay a perusal to those fond of ecclesiastical lore. . , . We heartily wish that others would foUow the author iy OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. in giving to their parishioners the annals of their parish." — Leinster Express, 17th March, 1860. 44 Would that the incumbents of all the suburban parishes -were actuated by the same truly laudable zeal in research after the beauti- ful in art, and the venerable in antiquity, as is the author of the work before us. Were it so, much that is now veiled to the public eye would be brought to light ; our ancient relics would have a hand, however feeble, raised to save them from destruction ; the historic memories of our suburbs — and which of them has not some of peculiar interest? — would become popularly familiarized, not as they are at present, clouded in obscurity alone penetrable by the savans ; and localities now disregarded, because forsooth they are not embraced in the circle of the fashionable lounge, would have their claims for appre- ciation fully and fairly set forth. The chronological tables of the events known in connection with the parishes treated of iraterially enhance the value of this book, and afford an excellent example for parochial historians. The animus of the author demands respect, and he has ably fulfilled his mission." — Dublin Builder, May, 1860. " These sketches are not only brief but interesting, and will be read as valuable contributions to local history by every one connected with the locality they describe. The substance of them had appeared in the Christian Examiner ; but the writer did well to put them into a complete and more enduring form The plan of the work might, with great advantage, be adopted by the incumbents of other parishes. 1 ' — Belfast News- Letter, 13th June, 1860. *' It must be borne in mind that Mr. Blacker's book is not devoted to the history of an obscure locality ; but that it describes fully and eruditely two of the pleasantest, longest known, and most favourite points of resort in the vicinity of Dublin. He concludes his very in- teresting narrative— sprinkled with many rare transcriptions from unpublished sources — with some valuable annals of the parishes of Booterstown and Donnybrook, arranged in chronological order, to the latest date, from a.m. 2820 s when the great Judaine plague carried off in one week nine thousand persons on the plain of Moynealta, includ- ing the Blackrock-strand." — Weekly Agricultural Review, 6th July, 1860. " This is a much more interesting volume than any would be led to suspect from its unpretending title. The idea of the work is a happy one, and the plan original, and has that true test of originality- -viz., it is so obvious, that when made known, one only wonders it had not occurred to his own mind. It is simply a record of the principal events and characters connected with Mr. Blacker's own locality. This, at first, might be thought rather a barren and unpromising sub- ject to write a book upon ; but the execution evinces the powerful interest which always attaches to a detail of the facts and incidents of real life, and how a statement of actual occurrences may exceed in in- terest the most lively work of fiction or romance. No one would ima- gine that a comparatively obscure locality could have such historical recollections associated with it. The interest felt in the perusal of the work is not restricted to Ireland. The book possesses much to interest the English mind ; and we should be delighted to see it in the hands of, and read by, our English neighbours. Ireland is too often, alas I connected in their minds with scenes of turbulence and misrule. We should like to bring our English friends acquainted with scenes and " BRIEF SKETCHES." events of a widely different character — with scenes of domestic peace and happiness — with proof's of Ireland's worth — with specimens of her fine characters, and of her noble and generous deeds — with what, in 6hort, will win for her the admiration and regard of England. What- ever tends to cement a good and friendly feeling between the two coun- tries, should be hailed as one of the greatest blessings which the true patriot could desire. We admire thi6 work of Mr. Blacker for this reason, amongst others, because we think its tendency is decidedly to produce and foster a good and friendly feeling between England and Ireland," — Christian Examiner [second notice], August, 1860, PART II " In noticing the first part of the work, we remarked that we opened it without an idea that it would interest us, and that we came to a different conclusion before we had done. Of course, we entered upon a perusal of the second part with a different expectation, and were not disappointed. The author has added greatly to his store of information, and has introduced it in so popular a form, that we do not hesitate to recommend his cheap and modest volume to Irish tourists, in the com- ing summer, as a useful topographical guide. They will find in it many things embalmed in a succinct form, which even the oldest in- habitant would make a bungle of, and many traits, habits, and inci- dents preserved, which will form a strong and strange contrast to those which they meet with in the present day On the whole, Mr. Blacker deserves great praise, both for the value of his materials and the clearness of his style. His book is an evidence of the truth of Wharton's dictum, that if clergymen would take the trouble to collect the topographical liittory of the parishes they are connected with, a great assistance would be given to antiquaries, and a vast deal of im- portant material would be always ready to the hand of the general his- torian, the want of which he must deeply feel." —Literary Gazette, 2nd March, 1861. " We noticed the first part of this little work when it appeared some time ago. In both parts there is a great deal of very curious informa- tion. Our readers will recollect that we have often been indebted to Mr. Blacker for his valuable contributions to these pages." — Church of England Magazine, 30th April, 1861. 44 A painstaking collection of facts, historical and biographical, re- specting the writer's parish [and that of Donnybrook] ; a stone in the edifice of the larger county history, a few grains of wheat to be sifted, and transformed into bread, by the future historian. It is a kind of work which, at his leisure, the parish clergyman, and commonly he only, can well do.' 1 — Guardian^ 22nd May, 1861. ''The work contains some curious and interesting matter, and does great credit to the diligence and research of its author." — Spectator, 15th June, 18 ** This work was highly spoken of by the Chairman and other VI OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. Members present at the Meeting." — Transactions of the Kilkenny Archcpological Society, 3rd April, 1861. " The reader [of ' A Stroll over Donnybrook Fair-Green '] is re- ferred to 'Brief Sketches of Booterstown and Donnybrook,' by the Rev. B. H. Blacker, for nearly every piece of information concerning the annals and statistics of Donnybrook, that could be procured, or references to the books in which they are preserved. His very valu- able little work is full of curious and out of-the-way bits of informa- tion connected with the old families of Dublin and its suburbs since the days of Meyler Fitzhenry, John's locum tenens." — Dublin University Magazine, October, J 861. *• Not many months since we brought under the notice of our readers Mr. Blacker's ' Brief Sketches of the Parishes of Booterstown and Donnybrook ;' and we then expressed our warm approval of his volume, being of opinion that it contained within a email compass a large amount of useful and interesting information. We are very glad indeed to find that the author, whose book has been * much more favourably received than he had reason to expect/ has not rested satis- fied, as others perhaps would have done, with making merely a single effort to rescue the memorabilia of Booterstown and Donnybrook from oblivion. He has followed up his researches with diligence and expe- dition ; and we now have the pleasure of introducing another equally, if not more interesting portion of what is of far too rare occurrence — an Irish parochial history In the Notes (which, as in the preceding part, furnish no small amount of historical, topographical, and biographical matter) we find, in the first instance, a tolerably long sketch of the noble family of Fitzwilliam of Merrion, which was for centuries so very closely connected with the two parishes described, and which is now worthily represented by the Right Hon. Lord Herbert of Lea, the proprietor of ' the Fitzwilliam Estate.' Four or five pages are filled with particulars (so far as relates to these parishes) of the ' Survey of the Half- Barony of Rathdown, in the County of Dublin, [made] by order of Charles Fleetwood, Lord Deputy, October 4th, 1654,' which will amply repay the reader for his trouble. There is an interesting article on the derivation of ' Donnybrook.* by the Rev. Dr. Todd, S.F.T.C.D., and President of the Royal Irish Academy. Amongst the many additional particulars given relative to Donnybrook Fair — the Bartholcmew of Ireland — there is an exact reprint of King John's Letter of the year 1204, which is preserved in the Tower of London ; Andrew Yarranton's Survey of Ringsend in 1674 is fully noticed ; the building of the Royal Chapel of St. Matthew, Ringsend, and ' the estab- lishing a minister ' there, have met with due attention; and (not to anticipate all the items of intelligence which the reader will discover for himself when he consults the volume) we may observe, that, with much more to engage our notice, we have carefully-taken copies of in- scriptions on the tomb-stones of many persons who were more or less distinguished in their day, and who were buried in the churchyard of either Donnybrook or Ringsend. The great value of inscriptions on tomb-stones, which, as daily experience testifies, are in various ways so liable to destruction, can indeed be properly estimated only by those who have had occasion, for legal or other necessary purposes, to consult them. An important point often turns on an inscription ; and hence, if for no other reason, the propriety of preserving such things in print, notwithstanding the absurdity of the phraseology in which they are too frequently conveyed. In fact, though the general purport of innume- rable inscriptions, in churchyards and elsewhere, may well warrant the " BRIEF SKETCHES." vil old adage, • false as monumental brass,' yet the knowledge of a name or a date, not otherwise attainable, is in very many cases by no means to be despised With the Annals, which comprise in chrono- logical order a large stock of * disjecta membra variorum,' we are well pleased If space permitted, we might with no little advan- tage make many further extracts, ecclesiastical and civil ; but we have given enough, we think, to prove our estimate of Mr. Blacker's latest publication, which is, moreover, a very creditable specimen of Dublin typography. Those who are willing to search it for themselves (and we recommend our readers to do so \ will find much to instruct and amuse them ; and while we thank the author for what he has written, we hope he will steadily pursue what has been so well begun, and glean many more particulars from the generally neglected records of the past. The object of the book is well defined in four quaint lines by Thomas Churchyard, which he has adopted as his motto ; — * All only for to publish plaine, Tyme past, tyme present both ; That tyme to come, may well retaine, Of each good tyme the troth ;' and right well has he so far fulfilled his undertaking. There is one other point which we cannot omit to notice; and we think it better to make use of the author's words than to give our own : — ' The Editor of Notes and Queries, 2nd S. ix. 316, has well observed of Sir James Emer- son Tennent's work on Ceylon, that the author is scrupulously careful in giving his authorities. This is a most important feature in a book, not always attended to ; and the writer of these pages has endeavoured, in an humble way, to merit the same commendation. 1 " — Christian Examiner, March, 1861. " When the first part reached us, we were justified and pleased in according to it a favourable notice. The sequel now before us is equally entitled to commendation, and the 4 painstaking compiler,' as the author modestly terms himself, will doubtless reap both the honourable and the substantial benefit so justly due to his devotion to ecclesiological and archaeological research. A lithographed copy of Yarrantou's Survey of Ringsend in 1674 is appended, and is charac- teristic of the eminence (?) atained in engineering draughtsmanship at that early period." — Dublin Builder, 1st March, 1861. ** An Irish aspirant to literary notice, little known in his own day, and entirely unknown in ours, perpetrated a work, gave it for title •Fictions of our Forefathers,' and ventured to send a presentation-copy to a gentleman who had wrought earnestly and efficiently in the mine of national literature. He thanked the humble donor, but said he re- garded the notion of our having forefathers at all as a pure fiction. 4 Had there ever been any,' said he, ' we, their grandsons, would take more interest in their sayings and doings.' Assuming this opinion to come pretty near the truth, we give our author a larger portion of our esteem and gratitude for having devoted so much of his time to pre- serve the memory of the passed-away personages and transactions of the localities with which he is connected. Books on local subjects are seldom valued as they deserve till long after the pen has dropped from the author's hand ; and at any time they are appreciated only by a comparatively small section of readers. Let, then, this select body suppose themselves eitting on the Dodder bank, A.r>. 2000, in the full possession of human faculties, and with a tall copy of the present volume in their hands. Let them only realise this position, and we give them Y111 OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. full permission to think of the book and its compiler even as they will. . . . . We conclude by exhorting both clergymen and others, with means and opportunity, to imitate the Incumbent of Booterstown in his labours, and in the tone of his production, in which there is not a single sentence to offend a reader, no matter what may be his predilec- tions."— Warder, 9th March, 1861. " If it be true that no man is a prophet in his own country, equally true is it that those who are resident on a particular spot of earth are very often those most ignorant of the topographical details connected with it — at least, until they chance to meet with one, who, like the author before us, undertakes to enlighten them, with infinite pains and labour to himself. .... On reading his work, we regretted that so painstaking and trustworthy a student had not extended his researches, and travelled on through Blackrock, Dunleary (now Kings- town), Bullock, Dalkey, and so on, to Bray. What a world of anti- quarian gossip would be found by the traveller over that untrodden ground! .... Our want of information on these and many other points makes us regret that Mr. Blacker has not taken them in hand, as from what he has done for Booterstown and Donny brook, it is certain that topography would have an additional right to be grateful to him, if he had. In truth, he has exhausted, or nearly so, these parishes of topographical material ; and this being the case, we would suggest to him that there is an inviting field in his immediate neigh- bourhood for extending his research." — Weekly Agricultural Review^ 9th March, 1861. " The work which Mr. Blacker has so well performed for these parishes, we aidently desire to see done by every well-read minister throughout the country The present brochure forms the second part of the author's work ; it is composed, principally, of notes explanatory. These contain a great deal of highly interesting infor- mation concerning the state of society and history of Dublin and its neighbourhood Our readers will observe that the work is one of interest." — Iris hma?i i 9th March, 1861. *' When the first part of these sketches appeared, we took the oppor- tunity of commending it to our readers, as a very successful attempt to rescue from oblivion the memorabilia of the parishes above-named. We are now enabled to state that this second part, or appendix, strengthens our favourable impression of the work itself ; not merely as an account of interesting particulars respecting these parishes as such, but as embodying in the notes and annals a fund of * folk-lore,' anec- dotes, epitaphs, newspaper-cuttings, &c, which marvellously illustrate contemporaneous history, and witness to the ability and research of the author. Many a musty as well as costly volume, many a parch- ment register, many a public document, have been consulted in pro- ducing the valuable results before us ; while every statement is verified by citing the authorities. Mr. Blacker has shewn what may be done by a clergyman in his short intervals of leisure ; and how much may be accomplished by one faithful hand, in supplying trustworthy mate- rials for the biographer and historian. We perfectly agree wiih the writer in the Gentleman's Magazine (quoted by Mr. Blacker), who observes that, ' topography would afford great assistance to our anti- quaries, if every clergyman was to adopt Mr. Wharton's advice, and write the history of his parish.' " — Irish Ecclesiastical Gazette. March, 1861. *' Contains much antiquarian and historical information, which ought " BRIEF SKETCHES." IX to be highly prized in the neighbourhood of Dublin. The ' notes ' re- fer to various matters of local and family history. The * annals ' are brought down to 18G0, from an early period." — Londonderry Sentinel^ 15th March, 1861. " We warmly commended Mr. Blacker's previous attempt to enlighten the public regarding the history and antiquities of the district with which he is professionally connected, and we suggested that other parochial clergymen might imitate his example with advantage to the community, and thus preserve many a valuable relic of family or local history from being lost to posterity. In the little volume before us Mr. Blacker has added greatly to the amount of information previously published re- specting the parishes of Booterstown and Donnybrook, prosecuting his researches among the tombs, and, like another ' Old Mortality,' restoring what the corroding tooth of time would speedily efface. He has like- wise carried on his investigations among parish registers, ancient sur- veys, and other documents not generally accessible, and educed therefrom a variety of genealogical and antiquarian intelligence of a useful and instructive kind." — Londonderry Guardian, 19th March, 18G1. 11 The biographical notes are very interesting, and give us in a concise form records of several distinguished families, compiled from authentic sources, and bearing the impress of careful and extensive research. The annals contain a large amount of valuable information, showing the progress of the district to which they refer. We wish that every clergy- man would imitate Mr. Blacker's example, as the parochial statistics of Ireland are calculated to throw much light on the general history of our country. The book is neatly printed." — Armagh Guardian, 22nd March, 1861. «' Mr. Blacker has set a noble example to other parochial clergymen, in having rescued from oblivion so many interesting and valuable de- tails connected with the past history of the district." — Western Star t 30th March, 1861. •• The second part of this work has just appeared, and if possible, is more interesting than the first. It will well repay a perusal, not only to those connected with the locality, but to all who are fond of anti- quarian lore." — Leinster Express, 30th March, 1861. " We agree with Lord Hailes and others, that topography would afford great assistance both to historians and antiquaries, if every clergyman adopted Mr. Wharton's advice, and wrote the historv of his parish. It is not always, however, that clergymen can make time, or have the in- clination, to undertake the series of toilsome investigations, which are not the less troublesome and difficult because they are ' a labour of love ;' and just in proportion to the rarity of such efforts are we inclined to notice and commend Mr. Blacker's painstaking and clever attempt, in the hope that others may follow his praiseworthy example. Having succeeded in popularising his subject, he has published a second part, and has embodied in it a large mass of additional facts, which greatly add to the interest as well as the utility of his book." — Irish Times % 1st April, 1861. "The author of this small but valuable volume has enjoyed great ad- vantages as a topographical inquirer, and has employed them well. Formerly he was connected professionally with one of the parishes of which he treats, and he now is Incumbent of the other. . . . The principal matters of interest are in the notes at the end of the volume ; these are very valuable, inasmuch as the writer deals not only with OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. subjects of general and historical importance, but condescends to minute details which have a special interest for those conversant with the lo- cality, or who desire to become so. . . . Mr. Blacker's account of the customs and habits of the citizens of Dublin and its neighbourhood are racy and characteristic. . . . The volume, from what we have said, may be regarded as one full of research and singul ir details, and capable, in the perusal, of combining pleasure with profit. We may add that it has been brought out in very good style." — Saunders's News- Letter, 2nd April, 1861. " Shows what may be done by steadily pursuing a subject. We have no doubt that Mr. Blacker expected, at first, that the whole result of his labours would have been contained within the limits of a small pamph- let ; they have already produced more than two hundred pages, which could have been readily expanded into six hundred, had the author any wish to swell the volume. These consist of a mass of information in the shape of extracts from annals, deeds, family papers, and records, among which there is much to interest all readers, and yet more which will prove of value to the antiquarian and the student of history. The neighbourhood of Dublin must always have been of importance, and no little assistance is afforded to the historian by investigations such as these. We should like to see as much done for every parish around the metropolis." — Kilkenny Moderator, 3rd April, 1861. " The interest of this work is of course chiefly local, but the narrative refers to many historic names of Ireland, and contains many particulars of a history which, if not illustrious, has had its own share of notoriety, we mean that of Donny brook. The book appears to be characterised by a vast amount of patient research, and much of archaeological learn- ing."— Cork Examiner, 5th April, 1861. " An interesting volume, containing a number of curious details, and a large amount of information relative to the localities of which it treats. . . . It traces the history of those places from an early date in an interesting manner, giving a brief account of the different families whose residences have been in those neighbourhoods. The number of old records which it contains, and the account given of the state of the Donnybrook and Stillorgan localities, some eighty years ago, are highly interesting. This book belongs to a class of publications whose number we would gladly see increased. Local, as an aid to general history, it is in- valuable ; and it is only when we possess a sketch such as the one before us, of every district in Ireland, that we may expect to be presented with a complete and perfect history of this country." — Nation^ 6th April, and Evening News, 8th April, 1861. «' In this good work he has set a bright example to all his brother in- cumbents, who, generally living on the spot, could, with more ease than falls to the lot of any other engaged in archaeological pursuits, compile the existing fragments relating to their immediate districts, and whose learning and abilities fit them so well for the task; and we trust that many others may be induced from the perusal of these ' Brief Sketches ' to engage in similar researches and compilations, which, if carried out in each district or parish, would soon present us with the most perfect and interesting history of the past times of Ireland. It must be confessed that the work would be a stupendous one, too much so for any single individual to engage in ; but when divided amongst the parochial clergy of Ireland, the labour would be comparatively light, and the results most gratifying." — Farmers' Gazette, 1 3th April, 1861. " Very interesting to those possessing property or residing in either of the above-named parishes." — Northern Sta?idard, 13th April, 1861. BRIEF SKETCHES.' 11 "We hope the result of his researches will be valued as it ought. . . • We coincide with the author in one of his quotations in the preface, that great advantages would be gained if every minister was to write the history of his parish." — Roscommoji Gazette, 13th April, 1861. * k This is a rather interesting work. . . . The notes are short, but accurate, and form an excellent compendium of many interesting events which have occurred in the neighbourhood of Donnybrook. By those who are fond of antiquarian discoveries, this book will be read with avidity." — Clare Journal, 15th April, 1861. " Although a large portion of the contents of this second part of Mr. Blacker's 'Sketches ' will be chiefly — if not indeed solely — interesting to those residing or connected with the localities of Boot^rstown and Donnybrook, we notice scattered through its pages scraps of information which will be acceptable to the reading public in general, and which may, at some future period, form the groundwork of a far more pre- tentious and bulky volume than that in which they now stand before us. . . . We hope Mr. Blacker's labours may induce some of his brethren in the ministry to turn their attention occasionally into the same channel, and thus rescue from oblivion records and reminiscences connected with their localities, which at present are a sealed book to almost the entire community." — Westmeath Guardian, 18th April, 1861. "If other clergymen would take as much trouble in collecting the records of their parishes, many extraordinary facts, useful to the historian and the moralist, would be brought to light. Mr. Blacker, at all events, has done his part well."— Belfast News-Letter, 23rd April, 1861. " A very interesting, and we will add, a learned work on the history of the 'Fair-renowned,' the 'immortal Donnybrook,' which in times gone bye was considered emblematic of the fun, frolic, and fighting of the Irishman in as great a degree as the shamrock is now of his nation- ality We recommend a perusal of the various interesting sketches the book contains." — Limeri-k Chronicle, 24th April, 1861. " Mr. Blacker has brought zeal and perseverance to the task of illus- trating the annals of the parishes, and has produced from the materials collected with so much care, two exceedingly interesting little works, which contain a large amount of information, condensed into a small 6pace. Much of it is very curious, and must delight the antiquary."-— Waterford Mail, 24th April, 1861. "Those who have had the good fortune to meet with the first part of this very interesting and unpretending work, will gladly welcome the additions that are now before us. Mr. Blacker has certainly hit upon the plan of making his history useful by appending the notes and annals, which contain a vast amount of curious and valuable research. . . . . It has often occurred to us that clergymen possess peculiar facilities for the office of parochial historians. The success which has attended Mr. Blacker's efforts in this line will, we trust, encourage them to similar efforts; and we feel that in commending this little work as an admirable model of what such histories ought to be, we are only doing justice to its painstaking and accurate author." — Galway Ex- press, 27th April, 1861. " We should like to see every parish clergyman in Ireland devoting some of his leisure moments to a similar task in his own district. The result would be a valuable contribution to our stock of antiquarian Xli OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. lore We can testify that Mr. Blacker has gathered to- gether a book which will interest far beyond the area with which it professedly deals; and we trust he will not pause until he has ex- hausted his materials."— Downpatrick Recorder, 27th April, 1861. " "While the book now before us must be highly prized by those inti- mately acquainted with the locality, and whose legendary lore the ' Sketches ' will rectify and prune, people at a distance will read with pleasure the very interesting biographical and chronological facts which the author has arranged with so much tact and judgment. One result of Mr. Blacker's diligent research will assuredly be this — astonishment, on the part of the reader, that so much of real historical matter could be gleaned in such a fun-and- frolic-famous quarter of the world, as the celebrated, Fair-renowned Donnybrook."— Coleruine Chronicle^ 27th April, 1861. " The continuation of a work of singular local and general interest, although the area of its direct application is limited to the two parishes named in the title-page. . . . Much curious information is scat- tered throughout both parts." — King's County Chronicle, 1st May, 1861. " A large amount of information relative to these localities. . » . We are of opinion that descriptions of this kind should be written, and when published, read by the public. The two localities now delineated, from their connection with the metropolis, are well known, and daily become more known. Therefore faithful sketches are the more impor- tant."— Tyrawly Herald, 2nd May, 1861. " We are glad to see Mr. Blacker's book— first, because it is a step in the right direction, which we hope will be speedily followed by the in- cumbents of other important parishes ; secondly, because a topographical and historical companion of this character is indispensable to every person who feels the slightest interest in the popular and populous districts of Donnybrook, Merrion, Booterstown, and Blackrock. . . An indif- ference to local, archseological, and antiquarian researches is certainly not a creditable feature in the national character ; but, for the honour of the country, we rather cling to the hope that the author of the work before us overrates the extent of that unworthy apathy which, we fear it must be confessed, in some degree exists. But the indifference of which he speaks is more exceptional than general. ... To the success of the first part, the second, now before us, is directly attri- butable. We are rejoiced to perceive that Mr. Blacker, whose book has been ' much more favourably received than he had reason to expect, 1 has not folded his arms in repose, as many others would have done, and hesitated to continue his efforts for the rescue of the memorabilia of Booterstown and Donnybrook from oblivion. He has followed up his researches with singular vigour, efficiency, and success, and the conse- quence is that what may not inapplicably be regarded as the supple- ment, greatly exceeds in dimensions the original work. ... It abounds with the most out-of-the-way and quaint morceaux: facts which seemed the undisturbed property of the past have been reverently and dexterously rescued from oblivion. More curious and interesting matter, chronological, historical, biographical, and moral, we have not read." — Daily Express, 3rd May, 1861. *' This second part of Mr. Blacker's ' Brief Sketches * exhibits advan- tageously its author's fondness for antiquarian studies. With indefati- gable diligence he has gleaned every scattered particle of information relating to Booterstown and Donnybrook that could be found in ancient BRIEF SKETCHES. X1I1 records, parochial registers, and forgotten pamphlets. The result is a very acceptable addition to the topography of the county Dublin. The former portion of the book was published early in last year, and was noticed in the Free/nan's Journal of 21st February, 1860. The second part includes a large body of curious particulars relating to local and personal history, and besides being a necessary sequel to the former, has the advantage of being more comprehensive in its plan. The variety of its contents may be inferred when we mention that there is a long note on the Fitzwilliam family, numerous sepulchral inscriptions, copious annals, and many additions to the history of the famous Fair, which is now a thing of the past, but not to be regretted, having long survived the period in which it was a scene of either business or inno- cent recreation. Still it was to be desired that some record should be preserved of that which had come to be considered as characteristically national, and this we have in the present work. . . . Altogether this second part is much superior to the first, and in its typography is equally creditable to the Irish press." — Freeman's Journal, and Even- ing Freeman, 7th May, 1861. 11 "We have received the second part of this interesting work ; and as the contents are so much to our taste, we the more regret not having the pleasure of a perusal of the first. . . . All our contemporaries, who have noticed the first part, speak of it with uniform praise and com- mendation. "We cannot entertain a doubt that they have done so in any spirit but that of honesty and candour ,- and we entirely concur in the observations of the Dublin Builder,' 1 '' — Wexford Independent, 8th May, 1861. " Exhibits many quaint and interesting phases of the changes through which society has passed from a remote period to the present time. Mr. Blacker deserves credit for the pains he has taken to rescue from ob- livion, and preserve, much that it is really noteworthy. Although an unpretending volume, it will be found rich in antiquarian, historical, ecclesiological, and biographical research ; and we should like to see the author's example followed in many of the other parishes of this 1 Emerald Isle.' " — Fermanagh Mail, 9th May, 1861. u No works are more interesting than those which, in an easy, chatty style, and interwoven with the peculiar phraseology of our ancestors, tell us of the doings of the past. This is one of these (a Second Fart, too), and it indicates without any ostentation an immense amount of antiquarian research on the part of its author. Some of the notices embodied in it will be found very interesting, and many of them not a little suggestive. Mr. Blacker has done good service by a publication, which throughout very sufficiently indicates his scholarly attainments and gentlemanly feeling." — Newry Herald, and Dundalk and Newry Express, 11th May, 1861. " A detailed and most interesting history of the principal persons and events connected with these parishes. . . . We hope Mr. Blacker 'a praiseworthy example will find many imitators amongst the Irish clergy. There is not a parish in Ireland that would not afford mate- rials for a ' Brief Sketch,' if they were sought out as at Booterstown and Donnybrook." — Portadown News, 11th May, 1861. * This is a brochure of over 200 pages ; and taking into considera- tion the views of a Protestant clergyman, and the subjects that would most naturally interest him, it has evidently been compiled with care, and contains a considerable amount of curious information." — Wexford People, 18th May, 1861. XIV OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. ** This second part of the * Brief Sketches ' exhibits the same un- wearied and successful research as the first. . . . The entire volume, in short, is replete with everything that could interest the antiquary, the archaeologist, and the lover of the chronicles and records of the past, and of the memorials of those who have departed to that bourne whence no traveller returns." — Catholic Telegraph, 18th May, 1861. '' To the future historian of Dublin, as well as to every person who takes an interest in the parishes of Booterstown and Dounybrook, these sketches will be found invaluable as a source of information It is indeed an interesting work." — Drogheda Argus, 18th May, 1861. " As a topographical and historical account of these parishes, a most valuable work. . . . We trust that Mr. Blacker will not relinquish his labuurs, chronological, antiquarian, and biographical, until we have sketches of Blackrock and Kingstown from his pen, as class-books to the present volume." — Newry Examiner, 29th May, 1861. "The title of this little work gives some idea of its contents; but it is only after careful perusal that its full value can be known or appreciated When executed in the kindly, loving spirit which characterizes this interesting work, such admirable sketches must prove a valuable addition to the literature and history of our country." — Kilkenny Journal, 29th May, 1861. »* Some very interesting particulars which would have remained buried in oblivion, have been faithfully brought to light. In fact, it contains a vast amount of information in a small compass ; it will be a great boon to those who live in the locality, and we highly recom- mend it to the public." — Sligo Journal, 31st May, 1861. ''The book of course to a certain extent is of a local nature ; but who that has strolled through the suburbs of Dublin, has not found his way to the delightful avenues that intersect the parish of Boo- terstown ? Who has not heard and read of Donnybrook ? ' Brief Sketches' will repay perusal." — Galway Vindicator, 1st June, 1861. " Contains a vast amount of information, which will be perused with pleasure by the historian and the antiquarian Those who are anxious to glance at the lives of eminent families during the past century, will peruse this work with pleasure, every page of which contains something new and interesting in the history of Dublin."— Carluw Sentinel, 1st June, 1861. " One of the best publications of its kind that has been issued from the press for years. It is not merely a history of the parishes of Booterstown and Donnybrook ; it is also a genealogical record of fami- lies connected with those localities. The humours of Donnybrook Fair have been said and sung in every hamlet in Ireland ; but we may safely say that few except the antiquarian and student of ancient his- tory — and not all of them — are aware of the derivation oi the term 4 Donnybrook,' or the origin of the celebrated Fair, now happily a matter of history The foregoing extracts are sufficient to prove the character of the work, and no one who loves the lore of olden days should be without it. Taking it as a whole, with its inscriptions from old tombstones, its anecdotes, and its annals, it will be found an agreeable companion for a leisure hour."— Cavan Observer, 8th June, 1861. " Hypercritics have objected to this and similar publications, that " BRIEF SKETCHES." XV they are of merely local interest and importance ; but, assuredly (as a writer of the present day has 'well observed), the same remark would as justly apply to Milner's learned ' History of Winchester,' Gilbert's ' History of Dublin,' or that charming little volume of the Rev. Gilbert White — the ' Natural History of Selborne.' Hardiman's ' History of Galway,' Stuart's ' History of Armagh,' M'Skimin's 'History of Car- rickfergus,' and such like books, are open to the same frivolous objec- tion. Topographical sketches of particular localities are, in truth, of immense utility to the general historian, whose researches occupy a wider field ; while they possess, besides, an interest peculiar to them- selves. And when written, as Mr. Blaeker's volume has been, by a resident antiquarian who leaves no stone unturned to ascertain a fact or a date, their value is very greatly enhanced. It should also be borne in mind, that the volume before us is not devoted, as many may ima- gine, to the history of an obscure and unimportant locality ; but that it describes, accurately and minutely, the past and present state of some of the most agreeable places of resort in the vicinity of the Irish me- tropolis." — Newry Commercial Telegraph, 11th June, 1861. ** Exceedingly well brought out, and beyond a doubt will soon become a text-book for the curious in such matters." — Roscommon Weekly Messenger, 15th June, 1861, ** In the preface the author says, that in a work of this kind he can- not lay claim to any great amount of originality, his aim being to gain the credit rather of being a painstaking compiler ; and we can fairly congratulate h'.m upon his success, and upon having completely gamed his point. He also informs us that he is scrupulously careful to give his authorities, which we perceive is the case." — Clunmel Chronicle, 19th June, 1861. *' This is an interesting little volume, in which are detailed the most remarkable ancient and modern events that have occurred relative to the above parishes, and many interesting particulars of persons who have been residents therein It is much to be desired that his good example should be followed by other parochial historians, for the inhabitants of many districts throughout the country stand much in need of similar information.'* — Meath Herald, 22nd June, 1861. " Judging from the portion which now lies before us, we should pro- nounce the volume to be an admirable one of its kind If each clergyman in Ireland were to write the history of his own parish, we are persuaded that many interesting facts now unknown, would be brought to light ; many controverted points would be indubitably set- tled ; and the stock of our information relating to the past of our country would be largely increased." — Leilrim Gazette, 11th July, M In a small space the work presents a mass of most interesting notes, historic, archaeologic, anecdotal, and statistical, on these famous Buburbs of the Irish metropolis." — Bray Gazette, 27th July, 1861. " Gives the fullest evidence of care and research The family records are carefully compiled, and the annals abound with matters of the greatest importance. "We do not find anything in the work, which comes from the publishing-house of Mr. Herbert of Graf- ton-street, to which we would take exception." — Meath People, 3rd August, 1861. 44 Deserves the highest commendation, on account of the extraordi- nary research displayed by the author, and the very great diligence XVI OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. with which he has collected a vast amount of information concerning Booterstown and Dannybrook The appendix is full of the most valuable notes, many of them culled, at great expense of time and trouble, from various scarce works." — Downshire Protestant, 9th August, 1861. " Bears evidence of industry and ability on the part of its author, who has gathered into a small space a large amount of very enter- taining matter." — Nenagh Guardian, 14th August, 1861. " Very suggestive of what might, and ought to be done for other parishes in Ireland, besides Booterstown and Donnybrook, for the pre- servation of much information and many facts, that. become lost to the succeeding generation, and rapidly fade from popular recollection, unless fixed in print by some literary labourer such as the author of this book , He sticks closely to his text, and collects the annals of his parish, and furnishes a record of those events and names which make local history. ...... The collection of such details involves a considerable amount of labour and research. Not only has he sought in musty records to collect his facts, but he has reverently swept the mould from the time-worn tombs in the parish churchyard We attach the more value to the labours of the Rev. Mr. Blacker from the general neglect — in fact, the destruc- tiveness which is exercised towards the materials for history, which (shall we say it?) is an Irish characteristic. Vandalism, as regards our ancient monuments, would appear to be the rule. But for the labours of Hardiman, which of us would be able to tell anything of the history of Galway ? And such is our gratitude to the historian, that the next generation may not be able to tell, who or what Mr. Hardiman was A curious illustration of the value of such brief sketches of Galway, had we them, as this work supplies of Donny- brook, is this moment afforded us, by the difficulty with which the Town Board can come at any facts to establish what was the usage as to droits." — Galway Press, 19th October, 1861. BRIEF SKETCHES, BRIEF SKETCHES OF THE PARISHES OF §00tot0krn: mttr gonngtmiak, IN THE COUNTY OF DUBLIN ; SStilj Hate anb %msh. BY THE REV. BEAVER H. BLACKER, M.A., INCUMBENT OF BOOTEBSTOWN, AND BUBAL DEAN. (< Attamen audendum est, et Veritas investiganda, quara si non omnino assequeremur, tamen proprius ad earn, quam nunc sumus, tandem perveniernus." " If anp tfjere fie tofitcf) are fresh-cms to tie strangers in tfjefr oton sotle, antr forratners in tfjetr oton titte, tfjep map so continue, anO tijcrein flatter tljemseioes. iFor suclj lifce I- ijabe not tnrttten tfjcse lines, nor tatten tfjese names." TDBIIIR,!} ^^.Z^T. DUBLIN : GEORGE HERBERT, 117, GRAFTON-STREET. 1872. [Some delay having occurred in the printing of the latter half of this Part, a few matters of a date subsequent to that given in p. 216 have been inserted. Part iv., completing the work, will soon be ready.] DUBLIN : 6, Bachelor's- walk. APPENDIX III. [In the composition of another Appendix to his " Brief Sketches of the Parishes of Booterstown and Donnybrook," the writer has taken no less care than in the preceding portions ; and quoting the words of Dr. John G. Sheppard, he may say : " As a matter of simple duty and good faith, I have done my best, by study of the original authorities when accessible, to avoid that sort of superficiality which misstates facts and misjudges men, or which builds up theories without examining the ground upon which they rest." In fact, like Messrs. Poole and Hugall, the authors of " The Churches of Scarborough," etc., he has " endeavoured to give the work a value above that of ordinary guides, which treat every institution as a blessing, every person as a benefactor and a patriot, every object as a beauty, and every feature as an excellence, in whatever comes within their limits." A friend, whose name stands high in the ranks of literature, has justly remarked, that topography is of peculiar value in Ireland, our parochial records being comparatively scanty ; and that facts like what are recorded here, would in a short time be lost alto- gether, or become vague traditions. " To my mind," p 214 APPENDIX III. as another valued (but too partial) friend has written, " there is a great charm in reverting to the ' good old times,' and in losing oneself, as it were, in the memories of the past. I may be peculiar in this feeling ; but I rather think that T am not. You have the satisfaction of having produced a book of great and varied interest, and one which is in all respects compatible with your sacred calling." The late Rev. Dr. Urwick, in his " Biographic Sketches of the late James Digges LaTouche, Esq." (Dub- lin, 18G8), p. 221, has referred to these "Brief Sketches " in rather flattering terms : " It is a marvel of research and industry. Ireland would be rich in annals, etc., were similar records of all her parishes forthcoming." Another has remarked that "it is hard to feel such memories slipping away day by day. It is a sad experience w^hen you go by old historic scenes, and realize that the busy world around you has swallowed up your sentiment so that it ceases to kindle, and your eye wanders over them as the veriest common-places of the age." And what was the opinion of Dr. Johnson, as ex- pressed in one of his Letters to Mrs. Thrale, ("Works," vol. xii. p. 335, London, 1792)? " Mr. Grene, the apothecary, has found a book, which tells who paid levies in our parish, and how much they paid, above a hundred years ago. Do you not think we study this book hard ? Nothing is like going to the bottom of things. Many families that paid the parish-rates are now extinct, NOTES. 215 like the race of Hercules. Pulvis et umbra sumus. What is nearest us touches us most. The passions rise higher at domestic than at imperial tragedies. I am not wholly unaffected by the revolutions of Sadler-street, nor can I forbear to mourn a little when old names vanish away, and new come into their place." Professor Stephens writes thus in the " foreword " to Part II. of his magnificent work, " The Old-Nor-^ thern Runic Monuments of Scandinavia and Eng- land" : " Delays are dangerous. The Best is too often the greatest enemy of the Good. So I prefer giving at once — however dimmed by my own in- competence — what I have been so painfully gather- ing during many many long years of toil and sacri- fice, rather than to wait months manifold in hopes of an imaginary fulness, an ideal correctness." The same idea has influenced the writer of these pages (though happily he cannot say that in the compo- sition of them he has had " many many long years of toil and sacrifice " — very far from it) ; and besides, he was anxious not to exceed his proper limits, having before him the sage advice of a critic in the " Essays from 'The Times,'" 2nd Series, p. 187 : " It is, we think, the author of i The Vanity and Glory of Literature ' who warns us that it is only the quintessence of things written that will reach that posterity upon whose approval authors build, and for whose unwitnessed smiles they are content in life heroically to suffer. A solitary thought shall 216 APPENDIX III. occupy men's minds when whole libraries will plead in vain for consideration. If authors are sagacious, they will give posterity as little trouble as need be. Their jewels may be transmitted without the encum- brance of setting, and their needles will not be the less welcome without the accompaniment of a bottle of hay. A duodecimo, we know, does not fetch as much money in the market as two volumes quarto, but it may possibly float down the river of time, while the bulkier voyagers are quietly sinking to the bottom." With these prefatory remarks, the writer commits the following pages — the produce of some hours of pleasure and relaxation from strictly professional engagements — to the judgment of all who may be disposed to read them. B. H. B. BOKEBY, BLACKROCK, DUBLIN, January ', 1870.] |toto. [Continued from p. 157.] Note (it). The Derivation of " Booteestown." — la Notes and Queries, 2nd S. ix. 462 (16th June, 1860), there was a communication to this effect : — " Booterstown, near Dublin. — In Mr. G. R. Powell's 1 Official Railway Handbook to Bray, Kingstown, the Coast, and the County of Wicklow,' (12mo, Dublin, 1860), p. 46, the following statement appears : — " ' The district [Booterstown] we are here passing takes its name from one of the features of a past day. It was originally called Freebooterstown, from its being the resort of these desperadoes.' " The parish of Booterstown (termed Ballybotter, Bally - boother, Butterstown, and Boterstone, in sundry old docu- ments) forms a very flourishing portion of the large Irish estates of the Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, M.P. [subsequently Lord Herbert of Lea], and is on the road from Dublin to Kingstown and Bray, and on the southern coast of the Bay of Dublin, the shores of which here assume a highly interest- ing and picturesque appearance. " I am not at all satisfied with Mr. Powell's explanation, which, I am persuaded, is wrong ; and yet I cannot give a better one. Will some one of your many Irish readers kindly assist me? — Abhba." In a small pamphlet by " William Scribble, Esq.," entitled " Hurrah ! The Fleet; or, Greetings from the Shore," (Dublin, 1863), p. 4, the same derivation of the name is implied : — " Free-Booterstown, of bad renown," etc. But a far more satisfactory explanation has been given in 218 APPENDIX III. Notes and Queries, 3rd S. iv. 276 (3rd October, 1863), by the late Rev. Dr. Todd, S.F.T.C.D., who was for several years a parishioner of Donnybrook, and to whom the readers of these " Brief Sketches " are already indebted for a valuable communication respecting the name of that parish, pp. 120- 122:— " Booterstown, near Dublin (2nd S. ix. 462). — In turning over the above-named volume of 'N. & Q.,' I met with the inquiry of your correspondent * Abhba ' as to the original meaning and etymology of the name of this village. He is quite right in rejecting the absurd statement, that it was originally called Freebooter stown from its being the resort of freebooters. This is simply a falsehood. There is no evidence that it ever had the name of Freebooterstown. Nor was it ever, I believe, called Booterstown until after the formation of the Dublin and Kingstown railway. Before that time, it was always called Butterstown ; and in old documents, as your correspondent correctly tells you, it is called Ballybotter, Ballyboother, Butterstown, or Bothars- town, and Boterstone. " The word bothar, or bothair, is a road, a street, in the Irish language ; in some parts of Ireland the th is pronounced as if tt ; in other parts it is slurred over, as if it was h. " Thus, there is a street in Dublin called Stonybatter, the stony road ; there is a Butter sfield Avenue, near Rathfarn- ham ; Bothar mor, or the great road, is the name of the road from Tipperary to Cashel ; Bothar na mac riogh (road of the king's sons) is the road from Corofin, by the Castle of Inchi- quin to Killnaboy, co. Clare {Four Mast., a.d. 1573) ; Bothar-liac Baislice (Grey road of Baisleach, now Baslick), is the name of a high road leading to Baslick, in the parish of Ballintober, co. Roscommon {Four Mast., a.d. 1573, p. 1180). There are hundreds of other instances. " l Abhba ' will, therefore, see at once the answer to his question. The high road from Dublin to Wicklow was called the Botar, or Bothar : in and about Dublin, the th was pronounced as tt. Ballybotter, therefore, or Ballybothar, was the town or village of the Bottar, or high road ; and this was Englished naturally Botterstown, or Butterstown. " The diminutive Botharin, (commonly pronounced Boha- reen, or Boreen,) is familiar to every one who has resided in the country parts of Ireland. It is a word of daily use even NOTES. 219 in the mouths of those who can only speak the English lan- guage. It signifies a little road, a lane, or bridle road, across the fields. James H. Todd. "Trinity College, Dublin." It may be well to observe that the name u Booterstown " is of rather older standing than Dr. Todd believed, as refer- ence (for example) to Dublin newspapers of the last century will show ; but this is a point of minor consequence. " But- terstown " was the more common appellation. (Notes and Queries, 3rd S. iv. 339.) Several letters on the subject appeared in Saunders's News-Letter, in the month of October, 1863 ; but nothing to invalidate the derivation given by Dr. Todd. Mr. Patrick W. Joyce subsequently read a paper before the Royal Irish Academy, 22nd May, 1865, on " Changes and Corruptions in Irish Topographical Names," which was pro- nounced by Dr. Todd and others who were present to be " most valuable in substance and sound in principle," and of which the following is a portion ; — " The principal effect of this practice of retaining the old spelling is, that consonants which are aspirated in the original names, are hardened or restored in the modern pronunciation. A remarkable instance of this hardening pro- cess occurs in some of the Leinster counties, where the Irish word bothar [boher], a road, is converted into batter. This word 'batter' is, or was, well understood in these counties to mean an ancient road. It is used in Wexford to signify a lane or narrow road: — * Bater, a lane bearing to a high road.' ( ( Glossary of the Dialect of Forth and Bargy.' By Jacob Poole : edited by William Barnes, B.D.) ' As for the word Bater, that in English purpozeth a lane bearing to an highway, I take it for a meere Irish worde that crept una- wares into the English, through the daily intercourse of the English and Irish inhabitants.' (Stanyhurst, quoted in same.) The word occurs in early Anglo-Irish documents in the form of bothir, or bothy r, which being pronounced according to the powers of the English letters, was easily converted into bolter, or latter. It forms a part of the following names : — Batters- 220 APPENDIX III. town, the name of four townlandsinMeath, which were alwaj-s called in Irish Baile-an-bhothair, i.e., the town of the road ; and anglicised by changing bothar to batter, and translating baile to town. Batterjohn and Ballybatter are also in Meath. Near Drogheda there is a townland called Greenbatter, and another called Yellowbatter, which are called in Irish, Boher- glas and Bokerboy, having the same meanings as the present names, viz., green road and yellow road. We have also some examples in and around Dublin, one of which is the well-known name of Stony batter. Long before the city had extended so far, and while Stonybatter was nothing more than a country road, it was — as it still continues to be — the great thoroughfare to Dublin from the districts lying west and north-west of the city ; and it was known by the name of Bothar»na~g clock [Bohernaglogh], i.e., the road of the stones, which was changed to the modern equivalent, Stony- batter, or Stonyroad. One of the five great roads leading from Tara, which were constructed in the second century, viz., that called Slighe-Cualann, passed through Dublin by Ra- toath, and on towards Bray : under the name of Bealach Duibhlinne (the road, or pass, of the [river] Duibhlinn [originally the name of that part of the Liffey on which the city now stands]) it is mentioned in the following quotation from the * Book of Rights ':— 1 It is prohibited to him (the king of EriiO to go with a host On Monday over the Bealach Duibhlinne.' The old ford of hurdles, which in these early ages formed the only foot-passage across the Liffey, and which gave the name of Athcliath to the city, crossed the river where Whit- worth-bridge now stands, leading from Church-street to Bridge-street ; and the road from Tara to Wicklow must necessarily have crossed the Liffey at this point. There can be, I think, no doubt that the present Stonybatter formed a portion of this ancient road — a statement that is borne out by two independent circumstances. First, Stonybatter lies straight on the line, and would, if continued, meet the Liffey exactly at Whitworth-bridge. Secondly, the name Stony- batter, or Bothar-na-gcloch, affords even a stronger confir- mation. The most important of the ancient Irish roads were paved with large blocks of stone, somewhat like the old Roman roads ; a fact that is proved by the remains of those that can now be traced. It is exactly this kind of road that would be called by the Irish — even at the present day — NOTES. 221 Bohernaglogh ; and the existence of this name, on the very line leading to the ancient ford over the Liffey, leaves scarcely any doubt that this was a part of the ancient Slighe Cualann. It must be regarded as a fact of great interest, that the modern-looking name Stonybatter — changed as it has been in the course of ages — descends to us with a history seventeen hundred years old written on its front. Booters- town (near Dublin) is another member of the same family ; it is merely another form of Batterstown, i.e., Roadtown. In a roll of about the year 1435 it is written in the Anglo- Irish form, Ballybothyr (Baile-an-bhothair — town of the road), of which the present name, Booterstown, is a kind of half-translation. In old Anglo-Irish documents frequent mention is made of a road leading from Dublin to Bray. In a roll of the fifteenth century it is called Botrryr-de-Bree (road of Bra} 7 ) ; and it is stated that it was by this road the O'Byrnes and O'Tooles usually came to Dublin. It is very probable that the Booterstown road and this Bray road were one and the same, and that both were a continuation of the ancient Slighe Cualann." The paper from which the foregoing paragraphs have been taken, is printed in the Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, vol. ix., pp. 225-252; and also in "The Origin and History of Irish Names of Places," by P. W. Joyce, A.M., M.R.I.A., (Dublin, 1869), pp. 41-44. For information about Booterstown and Bothyr-de-Bree, Mr. Joyce acknow- ledges his obligations to John T. Gilbert, Esq., M.R.I.A., of Villa Nova, Blackrock, author of the " History of the City of Dublin," etc. Note (uu), Booterstown Church. — This Church (more correctly styled the Church of St. Philip and St. James, Booterstown) was not designed by the late Joseph Welland, Esq., as stated in p. 7 : the work was carried on under his inspection ; but the architect was John Bowden, Esq., of Blessington-street, Dublin, Architect to the Board of First Fruits. This appears from the document referred to in p. 28; viz. "Mr. Tassie's 222 APPENDIX III. Estimate for building Booterstown Church agreeably with Mr. Bowden's original Design, £4,886." Deductions, amounting to £869 3s., were made from this design ; and therefore the cost would appear to have been £4,016 17s. The late Dr. Urwick, when writing on this subject in his " Biographic Sketches of the late James Digges La Touche, Esq.," pp. 220, 221, was not as accurate as usual in his de- tails. The building having been found insufficient for the accom- modation of the parishioners, extensive additions were com- menced in the early part of the year 1868, including a transept, chancel, robing-room, and porch. The transept is on the south side, opening by two arches into the nave. These arches rest on a pillar in the centre, and are arranged to correspond with the bays of the vaulting in the nave, so as to preserve the continuity of the ceiling. The transept is lighted by two three-light windows, filled with tracery. The chancel is apsidal, and opens into the nave by a moulded cut-stone arch, resting on pillars and corbels, with carved capitals. It is lighted by traceried windows of a similar character to those in the transept, and has cut-stone but- tresses at the exterior angles, surmounted by pinnacles, be- tween which are continued open parapets similar to those previously around the building. In designing the alterations, which are of the decorated style, care was taken to make them harmonize with the general character of the building, without ignoring the advance which has been effected in Gothic architecture since the church was erected. Alterations were made at the same time in the pewing of the nave. J. Rawson Carroll, Esq., of Dublin, was the architect ; and the Messrs. D. Crowe and Sons the contractors. The works having been satisfactorily completed, the Church (which had been closed for a few months, during which time the adjoining Meeting-room was licensed) was reopened on Sunday, 2nd May, 1869, the Rev. Beaver H. Blacker, M.A., Vicar of the parish, and the Rev. Alured H. Alcock, M.A., officiating. NOTES. 223 The sermon (Psalm Ixxxiv. 1-3) was preached by the Rev. Joseph Baylee, D.D., late Principal of St. Aidan's College, Birkenhead ; and a collection made in aid of the Booterstown Church Improvement Fund. The cost of the enlargement and improvement of the build- ing, amounting to about £1,600, was defrayed by contri- butions from parishioners and other friends, aided by grants from the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for Ireland, the Guardians of the Earl of Pembroke, and the Trustees of the Beresford Fund. Full particulars of the receipts and pay- ments are not given here, but will be found in a printed statement, duly audited, and presented to the subscribers. Note (vv). Booterstown Parish Eegisters. — As Parish Registers are of very great importance, the following summary is laid before the reader, as a sample of what might be done with advantage to the public, and without much trouble or expense, in the case of every register throughout the kingdom. Many such volumes have been lost or mislaid, or somehow have found their way into wrong depositories. One, for example, from St. Peter's, Drogheda, in the diocese of Armagh, has been for some years past in an office in Dublin Castle, and though safe, is not where we might expect to find it. The registers connected with the parish of Booterstown date from its separation from Donnybrook, and (there not being a graveyard) contain entries of baptisms and marriages, but not of burials. They are in good condition, in five volumes, and as follows : — I. Baptisms, from 22nd May, 1824, to 7th March, 1839 ; and Marriages, from 8th July, 1824, to 24th February, 1839. II. Baptisms, from 14th March, 1839, to 5th June, 1853 ; and Marriages, from 16th September, 1839, to 29th March, 1845. 224 APPENDIX III. III. Marriages (under the present law), from 10th April, 1845, to 27th September, 1858. IV. Baptisms, from 4th September, 1853, to present date. V. Marriages, from 15th December, 1858, to present date. Christ Church, Carysfort, Blackrock, is only a few yards beyond the bounds of Booterstown (as stated in p. 204), and is attended by many of the parishioners. There is a register of baptisms (but not of marriages or burials), from 22nd May, 1855, the names being transferred annually to the parish register of Monkstown. Note (ww). Population of Booterstown Parish. — The following particulars, gleaned from the census taken for the night of 7th April, 1861, are given in continuation of what has ap- peared on the same subject in pp. 34, 35. In 1861, the population amounted to 3,219 ; comprising 1,205 males and 2,014 females; and occupying 554 houses. There were also 37 houses uninhabited or building. The General valuation of the parish amounted to £13,961 15s. ; the Poor Law valuation in 1851 having been £13,618. The annexed table shows at a glance the Religious Pro- fession and Education of the parishioners. Under the head of " All other Persuasions " were 4 male and 3 female " Uni- tarians"; 1 male and 1 female "Separatist"; 2 male and 14 female " Christian Brethren " ; 1 female " Lutheran " ; 1 male " Unknown"; 5 male and 3 female " Moravians"; 1 male " Puseyite "; 1 female " Nonconformist"; and 1 male and 3 female " Christians"; Total, 41. . *~ OS i-H O oo to th ire 5 t- CO rf rt< ire -M OS OiOOO h00O» ire o t^ oo 00 ~ T}t — ! t^ i-i N CO OS _• O(NQ0f0 cr o —I — • (NOiC tO ■«* o o o th ire R TH CS 7-1 r-< 00 00 tC m o « co co «3t»iOT r-l o m ..._ CO r-l . c . . . ^ : : : s 52 fa : : : : t^ .«H fH . (M — « OS • • — CO f- CO ~ o 0Q m S O si h-2 S : : : : ** : : ^ r- .-* . TP . . CO t- i— i r • co e TH o fa CKNHin m t os ire ire to — t>- TH r* TH Cl O >re m M s S -(C^IM t^ io to . c \ H II "" ~* Ph *S iJ NCBfl T* CS CO — ire -h o co MNN?) ire rt iO — cs CO CS — CS T* -< kfi CS mo .oo O r-t -H CM ire to co cs 00 Ph CO • H M C Cl u te ^ cj O 0) •* ri "d -o "5 o 6 ^tf*£ O e3 ci — S po o cu ^ 226 APPENDIX III. Note (xx). The Archdeaconry of Dublin. — Reference merely having been made in p. 26 to Mr. Monck Mason's " History of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin," for particulars of the Arch- deaconry, it has been thought well to give the details (some of which have appeared in these pages) in a connected form, inasmuch as they bear very closely on the ecclesiastical history of Booterstown and Donny brook. The succession of the Archdeacons of Dublin, in addition to, and more complete than, what is contained in pp. 99, 100, may be found near the end of the present Part. This dignity " existed in times beyond the date of our earliest written records." Torquil, Archdeacon of Dublin, was witness to a grant of Archbishop Laurence O'Toole (1162-1180-1) to the Cathedral of the Holy Trinity (other- wise Christ Church) about the date of the English Conquest ; and Macrobius, who probably became Bishop of Glendaloch, was a subscribing witness to the foundation charter, granted to St. Patrick's by Archbishop Comyn (1181-1212). Archbishop Alan (1528-9 to 1534), whose " Liber Niger " and " Repertorium Viride " are well known, informs us that before the time when a stall in the choir, with a voice upon the election of an Archbishop, was conferred on the Archdeacon in the Cathedral of St. Patrick, he enjoyed the privilege in the Cathedral of the Holy Trinity. It is not easy to determine what churches in primitive times were annexed to this dignity for its support. William de Northfield, Archdeacon, held one portion of the church of Luske as his prebend, consenting that the present parish of Balrothery should be dismembered therefrom ; and in ex- change for Luske, Archbishop Luke (1228-1255) granted him the church of Tawney (otherwise Tacheny, Tanee, or Taney), reserving to the Legate a Latere the hundredth part, which had been paid by way of proxy from very remote times. NOTES. 227 To the mother church of Tawney, which was the head of a rural deanery of great extent, some chapels were subservient. I. Donabroke, or Donny brook, which, although it appears from an award of Archbishop Comyn to have been a member of Tawney, was nevertheless for a time disunited therefrom, and conferred by Archbishop Luke upon his chaplain, William de Romney ; the same prelate subsequently reducing it to the condition of a chapelry, and making it subservient to Tawney. II. Kilgoban, or Kilgobbin, which was united to Tawney, and, of consequence, to the archdeaconry, almost from the Conquest : it is now a perpetual cure, and forms a portion of the union of Kiiternan. III. Rathfernan, or Rathfarnham. The original lord of this district, and patron of the church, was Milo le Bret. It was united in early times to the corps of the archdeaconry, and, as such, was held by William de Northfield, who had a contest with the Prior and Convent of the Holy Trinity relative to tithes. The difference was finally settled by Archbishop Luke, who decreed in favour of the Archdeacon, with a reservation of the tithes of two townlands, or, in lieu of them, an annual pension of twelve marks. Rathfarnham is styled by Archbishop Alan a chapelry, subservient to the mother church of Tawney. In the year 1322, it was resolved that the rectory of Enisboyne, or Innisbohin (now Dunganstown), in the county of Wicklow, and about three miles distant from the town of that name, should become a prebend after the death of the Incumbent, John de Kingston ; and we find it afterwards united occasionally to the archdeaconry, though it does not appear ever to have been considered part of the corps of that dignity. William Bulkeley, Archdeacon in 1636, was Rector of Enisboyne ; but in 1615, the date of the regal visitation, when Launcelot Bulkeley was Archdeacon, the rectory was held by Roger Danby. In 1727, the vicarage of St. Peter's, Dublin (the rectory being vested in the Dean and Chapter of St Patrick's), was perpetually united to the archdeaconry by act of Council, in lieu of Enisboyne, and Archdeacon 228 APPENDIX III. Whittingham was admitted to the same on the 3rd of March following. This latter parish had been formed in 1680, by an act of Council, which united the parishes of St. Kevin, St. Peter de Monte, and a portion of St. Stephen's — the union to be thenceforth known by the title of the Vicarage of St. Peter's. When the Cathedral of St. Patrick was dissolved in the year 1546, the possessions of the Archdeacon, William Power, were confiscated in like manner with those of the other members of the chapter ; and, during its suppression, the parishes of Tawney and Rathfarnham were leased to Sir John Allen, knight, and Donabroke to John Sharpe. By the Inquisition held 27th January, 38 Henry VI1L, the extent and value of the archidiaconal possessions were reported to be as follows : — TANEE. Demesne In the townland of Tanee there is of demesne, appertaining to said rectory or prebend, one messuage and ix. acres of arable land, one stang of meadow, value, per annum, ixs. Tithes The tithes issue from the townlands of Tanee, Dondrommy, Balawly, Balayn, Kebowe, the " Chantrell ferme," and Challorighe, value xixZ. per annum ; the demesne lands, altarages and oblations of Tanee are assigned to the Curate for his stipend. Amount, xixZ. RATHFERNAN. Demesne In Rathfernan is one messuage and xi. acres of arable land, the demesne of said rectory, worth viis. ivd. per annum. Tithes. — The tithes of Rathfernan extend over the town- lands of Rathfernan, Newton, Piestownland, Bowdanston, Scallardyston, Tyrynowry, Chamyugh, Seynt John-leys, and Ragarth, worth xxi?. per annum, and leased to William Wyrrall for xU. ; the demesne lands, altarages, and oblations of the rectory of Rathfernan are assigned to the Curate for his stipend, paying to the Archdeacon of Dublin xxvis. viiio?. per annum. Total value of the rectory, with demesne lands, xliZ. vis. wind. NOTES. 229 DONABROKE. Demesne. — In the townland of Donabroke the demesne belonging to the Rector consists of a mansion, and iii. stangs of arable land, worth iiis. \vd. per annum. Tithes. — The tithes extend over the tovvnlands of Dona- broke, Meryon, Smothescort, Balesclatter, the lands of Allhalloes, and Bagotrath, worth, together with the tithes of fish, altarages, and oblations, xvZ. per annum (beside the Curate's stipend and repair of the chancel). Amount, xv/. iiis. ivd. KILGOBAN. Demesne. — The demesne lands appertaining to this rectory are ii. acres of arable land, worth xvio?. per annum. Tithes The tithes extend over the to wnlands of Kilgoban and Jamystown, and are worth iii/. per annum, with altarages and oblations (over and above the Curate's stipend and repair of the chancel). Amount, iii/. is. ivd. The archdeaconry was valued by Inquisition 1 Edward VI. at Ixxl xis. ivd per annum, " ultra reprisas." With many other particulars of the Archdeacon's posses- sions, Mr. Monck Mason observes in a long note to p. 46 of his " History " : — " In Donabrook, according to the In- quisition of 1546, he possessed a mansion and three stangs of arable land ; in 1660, his glebe there was one park and three stangs, demised to Mr. William Scott ; it is described in a lease, dated 1684, as adjoining to the churchyard of Donabrook on the north side, and containing half an acre. A survey made about 1750, makes the glebe to contain 2 roods, 24 perches, besides a garden of 24 perches between it and the churchyard, doubted whether part of the glebe or not ; the churchyard itself measures 1 rood, 8 perches." According to a " Return of the Archdeaconry of Dublin," dated 25th January, 1825, and signed by Archdeacon Torrens, the annual income of the parish of Donnybrook was as follows ; — £180, Tithe-composition ; £18 10s., Dues for marriages, etc. ; £40, Mini?ters' money ; and £2 5s., Rents ; making a total of £240 1 5s., Irish currency. The total income Q 230 APPENDIX III. of the archdeaconry, comprising St. Peter's and St. Kevin's (£1,449 12?.), Rathfarnham (£320), Taney (£492), and Donnybrook (£240 15s.), amounted to £2,502 7s., Irish currency. " There are at present within the archdeaconry of Dublin nine churches, numerously and respectably attended, viz. St. Peter's, St. Kevin's, St. Stephen's, Rath- farnham, Taney, Donnybrook, Booterstown, and Kilgobbin, and a Royal Chapel at Irishtown ; and one is about being built at Rathmines." From the " Fourth Report on Ecclesiastical Revenue and Patronage in Ireland" (1837), which furnishes many parti- culars of the archdeaconry, the sources of the Archdeacon's gross income (exclusive of the sum of £206 15s. 7d. from renewal fines, etc.) appear to have been as follows: — Minister's money, £1,343 12s. lOf d. ; Tithe-composition of Donnybrook parish, £166 3s. Id. ; Surplice and other fees in said parish, £13 8s. 8d. ; Tithe-composition of Rathfarnham parish, £290 15s. 4jd. ; Surplice and other fees in said parish, £4 14s. lOd. ; Tithe-composition of Tawney parish, £415 7s. 8Jd. ; Surplice and other fees in said parish, £16 Is. lOd. : Surplice and other fees in St. Peter's and St. Kevin's parishes, £106 13s. 4d. Total £2,356 17s. 8|d. The gross annual income of the archdeaconry, in May, 1851, as given in an authentic MS. statement of that date, amounted to £3,027 17s. 6d., viz.— Parish of St. Peter. — Ministers' money, £1,887 0s. 1 Jd.; Do., by last valuation, £133 0s. Id. ; Rents of premises in Kevin-street, Aungier-street, New- street, Camden- street, and Wexford-street, £60 0s. 2d. ; Quit-rent on St. Peter's, £l 8s. lid. Total, £2,078 lis. 5Jd. Parish of Rathfarnham. — Rent-charge, £218 2s. 3d. Parish of Taney. — Rent-charge, £311 6s. 9d. ; Glebe- rents, £26; Interest on £ , £26. Total, £363 6s. 9d. Parish of Donnybrook. — Ministers' money, £39 16s. 10|d. ; Do. bv new valuation, £197 7s. ; Rent-charge, £124 lis. 8d. ; Glebe-rents, £6 Is. 6d. Total, £367 17s. OJd. Many very heavy deductions were chargeable on the fore- NOTES. 231 going receipts ; and therefore the net income of the arch- deaconry was much less than what it might at first sight appear to have been. In 1851, on the death of Archdeacon Torrens, an order of the Privy Council directed that the parishes of St. Peter, St. Kevin, and Donnybrook, should be the corps of the arch- deaconry, and that Taney and Rathfarnham should be severed therefrom, and form distinct parishes. In 1864, on the promotion of Archdeacon West to the deanery of St. Patrick's and Christ Church, the parish of Donnybrook was severed in like manner from the archdeaconry ; but Booterstown was left as before. According to returns given in " Charles' Irish Church Directory," 1868, pp. 66-70, the gross annual income of the archdeaconry appears as £1,855, net, £943; Rathfarnham, gross, £228, net, £205 ; Taney, gross, £398, net, £282 ; and Donnybrook, gross, £382, net £300. Within the bounds of the archdeaconry there are twelve churches (includ- ing proprietary chapels) ; two in Rathfarnham ; one in Taney ; and three in Donnybrook ; making a total of eighteen places of worship in these parishes, in connection with the United Church of England and Ireland. From the " Report of Her Majesty's Commissioners on the Revenues and Condition of the Established Church (Ireland), 1868," much information may be gained. The gross annual income of the archdeaconry appears as £1,951, net £1,000 ; Rathfarnham, gross £218, net £128 ; Taney, gross £354, net £237; and Donnybrook, gross £460, net £166. Sundry particulars of Booterstown are given in p. 328 ; Donnybrook, p. 334 ; St. John's, Sandymount, p. 340 ; and St. Matthew's, Ringsend, p. 346. See also the "Appendix to the Report," etc. (1868). Note (yy). \c Laivy Arabella. Denny. — "This excellent woman," as 232 APPENDIX III. J<~L... { * I I remarked in Ryan's " Worthies of Ireland," (Loridon, 1822), vol. ii. p. 74, " will long live in the records of humanity, as the protectress of helpless infancy and penitent frailty. Dis- daining the too common pursuits of fashionable life, in the round of dissipated pleasures which her fortune and rank placed within her reach, and equally disinclined to inactivity, she nobly determined to be useful. An opportunity soon offered, and the kindness, patience, and perseverance, which surmounted obstacles that would have appalled a more ordi- nary mind, cannot be recollected without admiration." Lady Arabella Denny, second daughter of Thomas Fitz- maurice, first Earl of Kerry, was born in the year 1707, and having married Arthur Denny, Esq., of Tralee, M.P. for the county of Kerry, was left a widow, without issue, in August, 1742. She passed many years of her useful life at her residence, now known as Lisaniskea, Blackrock ; and the following account of one who was for a long period a worthy parishioner, and a bright ornament of her sex and country, cannot fail to prove interesting. She possessed the means of effecting a large amount of good, and made a noble use of what God committed to her charge. Mr. Ryan has thus written respecting her : — " By an Act of Geo. II. [passed in 1730], the governors of the workhouse of the city of Dublin were obliged to take, without exception or limitation, all exposed and deserted children under the age of six years.* In time the funds became unequal to its support ; not only in consequence of the numerous admissions, but from gross mismanagement and neglect. This, about the year 1768 [1758?] attracted the notice of Lady Denny, and immediately interested her in its behalf. She promptly stepped forward, and proposed, as the most probable means of restoring its original regularity and usefulness, that it should be visited by some ladies of con- sequence, in rotation, rightly judging that the wants of young children, the negligence of nurses, and the general manage- * For a full account of the Foundling Hospital, see Whitelaw and Walsh's " History of the City of Dublin," (London, 1818), vol. i. pp. 578-602. NOTES. 233 meiit of such an institution, fell more within their sphere of observation than of any gentlemen, however wise or discern- ing they might be. Her offer was accepted ; and she soon had many ladies associated with her ; but her visits only were punctual and assiduous ; she felt the importance of the office she had undertaken, and finding herself gradually deserted by her associates, took the whole charge upon her- self, and not only devoted her time and attention to the con- cern, but supported it by several pecuniary contributions, which from time to time were found wanting. She reproved the offending, and encouraged the good ; she provided every article that became necessary, and engaged the nurses to ful- fil their duties with greater tenderness and alacrity (especially to the weak and sickly), by suitable rewards. These en- deavours were attended with, the happiest success ; the numbers of those that had died since the superintendence of this admirable woman, had decreased in the proportion of ten to one ; and by the economy she had established, many more were provided for than before with the same sum ; but the undertaking was too extensive for a private purse, however liberally opened, to answer all its defalcations. She there- fore solicited and obtained a benefaction to the charity from His Majesty ; [and] commenced the building of a chapel, to which the Earl of Northumberland [Lord Lieutenant] subscribed £100, and which stimulated others to follow his example. She caused, in 1764, the state of the charity to be laid before Parliament, stating the debts remaining unpaid, and the necessity of extending the plan, so as fully to answer its original design. A committee was appointed, and in consequence of its report the following resolutions were unanimously agreed to : — " ' That for three years past, by the particular and constant attention of the Right Hon. Lady Arabella Denny, whose direction the officers and servants are ordered to observe, everything relative to the management of the children and other concerns of the house hath been conducted in the most exact and proper manner. " ' That by the extraordinary care of the nurses, excited by the premiums of the Right Hon. Lady A. D. for retriev- ing such of the infants as are sent thither weak and sickly, many of their lives have been saved. " ' That the thanks of the House be given to the Right Hon. Lady A. D. for her extraordinary bounty and charity, 234 APPENDIX III. in promoting the present salutary regulation in the foundling side of the work-house of the city of Dublin ; and that Mr. Cramer do acquaint her ladyship therewith.' " In connection with her exertions for the foundlings it may be further mentioned, that in the year 1760 "the thanks of the governors of the workhouse of Dublin were presented to Lady Arabella Denny for her unremitting attention to the foundling children, but particularly for a clock, lately put up at her ladyship's expense in the nursery, with the following inscription: — 'For the benefit of infants protected by this hospital, Lady Arabella presents this clock, to mark, that as the children reared by the spoon must have but a small quantity of food at a time, it must be offered frequently ; for which purpose this clock strikes every twenty minutes, at which notice all the infahts that are not asleep must be discreetly fed.' "* And in the Freeman's Journal, 20th July, 1765, it is stated that "the Right Hon. Lady Arabella Denny was complimented with her freedom of said guild [of merchants], as a mark of their esteem for her ladyship, for her many great charities and constant care of the poor found- ling children in the city workhouse ; and Friday being Assembly Day, her ladyship was ordered to be presented with the freedom of this city [Dublin] in a silver box." But her exertions were not confined to deserted children. She founded the Magdalen Asylum in Leeson- street, Dublin, which was opened on the 11th of June, 1766, and was the first institution of the kind in Ireland ; and it is gratifying to learn that notwithstanding the many other strong claims on the benevolent, this most valuable charity continues to prosper. Dean Bayly, who preached " A Sermon on the Opening of the Chapel of the Magdalen Asylum for Female Penitents, 31st January, 1768," ends his dedication of it to Lady Arabella with these words : — " I shall therefore conclude, not with frothy compliments, but a sincere prayer, * Edwards' " Cork Remembrancer " (Cork, 1792), p. 196. NOTES. that you may be as successful in saving the souls of sinners, as you have always been in saving the lives of innocents." A sermon by the same preacher " on the Opening of the New Chapel of the Magdalen Asylum, 18th March, 1770," is also in print ; and the appendix contains many curious details of the early history of this " truly Christian institution."* In the Kerry Magazine, 1855, p. 191 (edited by the late Rev. Arthur B. Rowan, subsequently Archdeacon of Ardfert, and a well-known scholar and divine), there is an anecdote of two noble ladies, Lady Arabella Denny, and her niece, Lady Anne Fitzgerald, daughter of William Fitz- maurice, second Earl of Kerry, and wife of Maurice Fitz- gerald, Knight of Kerry. 11 These ladies," says the writer of the article, " both of lively tempers, were of very different characters. Lady Arabella Denny, memorable as the foundress of the ' Magdalen Asylum in Leeson- street, Dublin,' was as distinguished for meekness, piety, and humility, as Lady Anne Fitzgerald, for (with much kindness of disposition) a very sufficient esti- mation of her social.position and long line of ancestral descent. u Both ladies, being adepts in genealogy, would often discuss family anecdotes and antecedents ; and the following characteristic sentiments are handed down to us as having been more than once exchanged between them. "Lady Anne — ' Lady Arabella! you really surprise me at times, I do believe you have no family pride : now, I wouldn't be without it for the world.' " Lady Arabella — ' As I live ! my dear Lady Anne, I am prouder of my grandfather [Sir William] Petty's struggles, and industry, and success in life, than of all the honours of the House of Lixnaw.' " Lady Anne (rising in great indignation)—' May I die ! Lady Arabella, if I would not rather have one drop of Geraldyn blood in my veins, than the value of the whole Down Survey, or of all the iron your grandfather ever smelted, in my pockets.' " We must leave our readers to form their own estimate of the relative common sense of these near relatives. There can * See also Whitelaw and Walsh's " History," vol. i!., pp. 770-773. 286 APPENDIX III. be little doubt which of them inherited moat of the sentiments of their common maternal ancestor." In the year 1783 John Wesley visited Lady Arabella ; and he has not failed to mention the circumstance in his journal. The passage, as given in his " Works " (London, 1810), vol. v. p. 383, is worthy of being transcribed : — " Monday, 5 [May], We prepared for going on board the packet ; but as it delayed sailing, on Tuesday 6, I waited on Lady Arabella Denny, at the Blackrock, four miles from Dublin. It is one of the pleasantest spots I ever saw. The garden is everything in miniature. On one side is a grove with serpentine walks ; on the other, a little meadow and a green-house, with a study (which she calls her chapel), hanging over the sea. Between these is a broad walk, leading down almost to the edge of the water ; along which run two narrow walks commanding the quay, one above the other. But it cannot be long before this excellent lady will remove to a nobler paradise." The hour of her departure to " a nobler paradise " at length arrived. After a widowhood of almost fifty years, spent in the active service of her Lord and Master, she pass- ed from time into eternity, and entered into rest. In the Dublin Chronicle, 20th March, 1792, there is merely this brief announcement of her death (which had been erroneously reported, with some particulars, in the Gentleman's Magazine, 1785, part i., p. 235) :— " Died on Sunday [the 18th], at her house, at the Blackrock, Lady Arabella Denny, aged 85." In the same newspaper, 3rd April, the following paragraph appeared : — " Thursday evening a hearse drawn by six horses, which contained the corpse of the truly pious and be- nevolent Lady Arabella Denny, passed through Limerick, in order to her being interred in the family-vault at Tralee. . . We hear that Barry Denny, jun., Esq., comes in as heir for the principal part of the estate of that late ornament of human nature, Lady Arabella Denny." And in the Kerry Magazine, 1856, p. 12, in an article, entitled " Tralee Seventy Years Ago," we have this account of her funeral : — NOTES. 237 " About the same time, the remains of this estimable lady (in a word, one of the most amiable women in Ireland), who died in Dublin, arrived in Tralee, of a summer's Sunday- evening, conveyed in the first hearse that ever reached Tralee, marked l Fowler, Dublin.' The corpse was privately waked in the church that night, and interred next day in Tralee Church, in the Denny vault, attended by a large assemblage of all classes. The most remarkable circumstance attending the funeral was, the ' wailing of the twelve mourners.' These were twelve widows, who, each, received two suits of black yearly, and donations at festivals, from her ladyship, since the death [in 1742] of Colonel Arthur, her husband." Mr. Ryan concludes his account by stating that he " can- not learn the exact time of her ladyship's decease " ; but as the reader of this article has seen, a little research would have gained him the information. Through the Dublin Chronicle, 10th April, 1792, the public received the following notice : — " The Royal Irish Academy, at their next meeting, pur- pose to offer a prize medal, value 100 guineas, for the best monody on the death of the late Lady Arabella Denny. Six months are to be given for the above performance. That esteemed lady's virtues and angelic life certainly afford an opportunity for touching the most delicate keys of the human heart." A " Monody on the Death of Lady Arabella Denny," by John Macaulay, Esq , M.R.I.A., appeared (8vo., 1792); and in the Dublin Chronicle, 22nd September, some lines " by a Magdalen," of which these are portion : — M By all lamented, but by us the most, Whose wand'ring souls your bounty did reclaim, "Wben on the world's uncertain ocean tost, When lost to friends, to honour, and to fame." Note (zz). James Digges La Touche, Esq. — In pp. 29, 30 (where the inscription on the monumental tablet in Booterstown Church is given, with a reference to Mr. Sillery's sermon), 238 APPENDIX III. mention has been made of Mr. La Touche, the eminent Dublin banker. But the late Dr. Ur wick's interesting volume, entitled " Biographic Sketches of the late James Digges La Touche, Esq.," has since appeared ; and a few additional particulars of a worthy parishioner, which were not then within the reach of the writer of these pages, will prove acceptable. " More than forty years have passed by," wrote Dr. Urwick in his preface, " since what was mortal of James Digges La Touche was laid in the Garden of the Capuchins, not far from St. Patrick's Cathedral, in the city of Dublin. He died when comparatively a young man. But he lived long enough to establish for himself a name of precious fame in Ireland, while personal moral worth, combined with patriotic activity, which seemed to know no limit but that of power, are held dear among her people. I have endeavoured to present a general view of Mr. La Touche's career from its beginning to its close, as what it truly was — .' the path of the just ' — as l the shining light.' I also wished that he should be seen in the various phases under which he appeared in the different circumstances and engagements through which he passed. And I have sought to make him the frank exponent of himself, by quotations from his letters and other manuscripts. ... As Mr. La Touche was, from early years, an example of earnest piety in devotedness to Christ, his life will prove a compensating study for young men, particularly those in our colleges, or embarked in professional or mercantile pursuits. The faithful Christian, walking humbly with God from day to day, cannot fail to be at home in communing with the spirit of one who, while ' in the world,' a man of education, position, and business activity, was l not of the world,' but had his ' affection set on things above.' Earnest workers for others' weal will find his heart beating in full accord with the same noble purpose, holding on continuously, yet punctual in all home duties, and prompt to meet every secular claim as one of the merchant princes NOTES. 239 of our city. . . . Indeed, I think the instances must be rare in which intelligent men of every class will not be better prepared for waging and winning the great battle of life — ' the good fight of faith ' — by making themselves acquainted with the late excellent, honoured, and eminently useful, James Digges La Touche. Besides the interest which at- taches to himself personally, may be mentioned his Huguenot ancestry,* the state of religion in Ireland at his entrance upon life, the share he took in the advancement of Evangelical truth, the great questions of domestic and national education on which he deeply thought, and the various Christianizing and philanthropic projects in which he took part, in addition to what was emphatically his life-work — the Secretariat of the Sunday School Society. Upon these points more or less that may be relied on will be found in the volume, together with allusions to some of his worthy fellow- workers, and to the peculiar circumstances of his times." Merely a few particulars shall be gleaned for these pages. Of Mr. La Touche's father, who purchased the mansion known as Sans Souci> Booterstown (where he resided for several years), and who died 7th November, 1803, the fol- lowing obituary record appeared in Faulkner's Dublin Journal of the 13th : — " Died, on Tuesday morning, at his house in [St.] Stephen's Green, William Digges La Touche, Esq. — a man whose life was a continued scene of unsullied purity and Christian virtue ; in whose bosom charity, delighted, dwelt ; by whom the widow's tears were wiped away, and the orphan's sorrows stilled ; whose universal benevolence was ever active in pouring oil into the wounds of affliction, and binding up the care-worn heart. Possessed of an ample fortune, acquired in a foreign clime by strict uprightness and with the poor man's blessing, he considered it as a boon from Heaven, and so applied it that, whether in his native land, in the West Indies, or in Arabia's sands, the name of La Touche shall be * In Smiles' " Huguenots," etc. (London, 1869), p. 376, an account of his family is given. The family of Mr. D'Olier, whose name appears in this article, is mentioned in the same volume, p. 383 . 240 APPENDIX ITT. remembered with gratitude and love, while mercy and true Christianity (to whose blest abodes his spirit hath departed) demand the tribute of thankfulness and praise." Mrs. William Digges La Touche, besides her attention to domestic duties, was much engaged in works of general benevolence. That in which she was most interested was the Magdalen Asylum, in Leeson-street. Through many years she devoted to it her unwearied and effective attention, long working for it in conjunction with Lady Arabella Denny, and then filling the honourable — but in her case not merely honorary — position of its Vice-Patroness. Their eldest son, the subject of this notice, was born 28th August, 1788. By the entrance-registry of Trinity College, Dublin, it appears that " James Digges La Touche, son of William Digges La Touche, entered as a Fellow-Commoner, on the second day of October, 1803, at four minutes past Twelve o'clock,"— the statement " at four minutes past Twelve o'clock " signifying that he had won the fourth place at the entrance-examination.* Having lost his father a few weeks after, there was a delay in his College course ; but when once fairly at work, his progress was a splendid success, and in 1808 he gained the Gold Medal. Resuming his en- gagements at the Bank in Castle-street, in which he had held a clerkship, he married in September, 1809, Isabella, eldest daughter of Sir James L. Cotter, Bart., M.P., of Rockforest, Co. Cork, by whom he had issue. In December of the same year, the Hibernian Sunday School Society (subsequently known as the Sunday School Society for Ireland) having been formed, he was appointed Secretary — " an Honorary Secretary, who would not merely honour the Society by permitting his name to stand in that relation to it, but who would also serve it and honour himself by faithfully doing the chief work of the position." In truth, notwithstanding the pressure of his many secular engage- * See Notes and Queries, 4th S. iv. 510 ; iv. 83. NOTES. 241 ments, he was unwearied in works of Christian usefulness. By his exertions in conjunction with other gentlemen, includ- ing Mr. Alexander, of Seamount, and Mr. D'Olier, of Col- legnes, the district of Booterstown was formed into a parish separate from Donnybrook in 1821, and the present parish church erected, and opened for public worship in May, 1824. From the prominent part which Mr. La Touche took in this undertaking, and his active co-operation for the good of the neighbourhood, he acquired the honourable title of "The Father of the Parish." But his life on earth was not to be of long duration. Having suffered for some days from an attack of fever, he died at Sans Souci, 13th December, 1826 ; and at the early age of thirty- eight years, his useful career was brought to a close. Note (aaa). The Right Hon. James Fitzgerald. — This eminent lawyer and politician, of whom mention has been made in p. 95, was born in the year 1741, and belonged to a branch of the family of the White Knight, seated in the county of Cork. In 1769 he was called to the Irish Bar, and in a short time attained high professional honours. Having been appointed a Serjeant-at-law in 1784, he was promoted to the dignity of King's Prime Serjeant (Narrator Regis) in 1787, which office he resigned in 1799. He became a Member of the Irish Parliament in 1772, and was the first to propose a bill for the relief of Roman Catholics, successfully carried in 1782 ; by which they were freed from some of the severest re- strictions of the Penal code. In 1784 he was appointed a Privy Councillor in Ireland. After the Legislative Union of Great Britain and Ireland, which he most strenuously opposed, he was returned five successive times to the Imperial Parliament as the representative of Ennis. His eloquence was of the purest style, and the tone of his voice so harmonious, that he was called " the silver-tongued Prime 242 APPENDIX III. Serjeant." The principles which he had embraced in his youth he cherished in his age ; and he retired from public life, having borne a distinguished part in the political history of his country, and having been a Member of the House of Commons in ten successive parliaments. He married, in the year 1782, Catherine, second daughter of the Rev. Henry Vesey, who was cousin-germ an to John, first Lord Knapton, the great-grandfather of the present Viscount De Vesci ; they both being grandsons of John Vesey, D.D., Archbishop of Tuam, who died 28th March, 1716. This lady was created an Irish peeress in 1826, by the title of Baroness Fitzgerald and Vesey, and died at Herbert House (now Cherbury), Booterstown-avenue, 5th January, 1832. Mr. Fitzgerald likewise died at Herbert House, in which he had resided for many years, 22 nd January, 1835, having had three sons and four daughters. Of these, the elder surviving son was the Right Hon. William Vesey Fitzgerald, second Baron Fitzgerald and Vesey, on whom a barony of the United Kingdom was conferred in 1835 ; the younger son, the Hon. and Very Rev. Henry Vesey Fitzgerald, LL.D., Dean of Kilmore, succeeded his brother in the Irish title, in 1843, and died in 1860, without male issue ; the oldest surviving daughter married, in 1809, Sir Ross Mahon, Bart.; and the second " at Booterstown, in 1814," John Leslie Foster, Esq. (eldest son of William Foster, D.D., Bishop of Clogher, and nephew of Lord Oriel), sometime M.P. for the University of Dublin, and appointed in 1830 a Baron of the Exchequer in Ireland. A memoir of Mr. Fitzgerald, with an engraving, appeared in Walker's Hibernian Magazine, January, 1800. "This gentleman," as therein stated, " held high situations in the government of his native country for several years, and until a legislative union between that kingdom and Great Britain was proposed by the Minister ; a measure which Mr. Fitzgerald deeming prejudicial to the best interests of Ireland, exerted every nerve to oppose, and • all his honours, all his trusts NOTES. 243 resign'd,' retiring, when opposition proved fruitless, into private life." Sir Jonah Barrington, in his " Rise and Fall of the Irish Nation'' (Paris, 1833), p. 415, gives his testimony in these words : — " No man in Ireland was more sincere in his opposition to a Union than Mr. Fitzgerald ; he was the first who declared his intention of writing its history. He afterwards relinquished the design, and urged me to com- mence it — he handed me the prospectus of what he intended, and no man in Ireland knew the occult details of that proceeding better than he. He is the father of Mr. Vesey Fitzgerald ; had a very good fortune, and was one of the most successful and persevering lawyers that ever practised in Ireland.'' It is not to be presumed that if now alive, he would advocate the repeal of the measure to which he was so strongly opposed. Note (bbb). Lord Herbert of Lea. — When announcing the decease of Lord Herbert of Lea (the justly-esteemed proprietor of large estates within these parishes, and far better known amongst us as the Hon. Sidney Herbert than by the title which he enjoyed only for a few short months), a writer in the Times, 3rd August, 1861, gave expression to the gene- ral feeling when he said that " death yesterday cut off in Lord Herbert one whom nature had intended for a Prime Minister. It is certain that, had he lived, he would before long have attained that honour, if not by virtue of extra- ordinary intellectual qualities, yet by force of character, by charm of manner, and by aptitude for business. He was one of the most winning statesmen of his time, and, by aid of a great social faculty, rose above men who were on other grounds superior to him. What was most remarkable in him was his anxiety to do everything well. His labours were unceasing: he never spared himself; he gave up life and luxury for toil and trouble ; and, if he did not die in harness, 244 APPENDIX III. it was in harness that he earned his death. It was not merely in the fulfilment of duty that he was thus self- sacrificing : he was equally unsparing of himself in the discharge of those social observances which men usually bend to the convenience or humour of the moment. With great manliness of character there was curiously intermingled an extraordinary desire to please. He studied and strove to please, and heightened by all the arts of style the natural attractiveness of his character. He had in his favour every social advantage — high birth, a great estate, a happy home, a handsome person, irresistible manners, many accomplish- ments, a ready address. He made the most of all this ; so that his good nature seemed to be always overflowing, his frankness to be always unbounded, and his power of pleasing to be always undivided. So he won upon all comers, and won most upon those who knew him best. Men would give up to Sidney Herbert what they would grant to no one else. He inspired no jealousy ; for his superiority was less the result of brilliant parts than of that indefinable charm from which there is no appeal. Add his power of work and of public speaking to his rare power of making friends, and you have the possible Prime Minister. That power and love of work, we grieve to say, has killed him, as it has killed many another statesman, before his time. He gave up the enjoyments of wealth and a brilliant home for the great game of politics, and has been known to pass a whole summer and autumn in London with only perhaps a day and a night at Wilton. He drove a good constitution too hard, and at Christmas last began to feel that sentence of death had been passed upon him. There is some reason to think that even then, had he given up all work, he might have recovered. All that he did was to leave the House of Commons, and to try the comparative repose of the peerage, still retaining his office as Minister for War. The consequence has' been fatal. He dies of over- work at the age of fifty-one — a great loss to society, a still greater loss to his party." NOTES. 245 A brief memoir of Lord Herbert appeared in tbe number of the newspaper from which we have quoted, and a further article in the next number but one ; and also a " Sketch of the Public Life of Lord Herbert" in Frazer's Magazine, February, 1862 (reprinted in an octavo pamphlet, Salisbury, 1862, pp. 40); but the following particulars from the " Imperial Dictionary of Universal Biography," published during his life-time, are preferred :— " Herbert, Sidney, Lord Herbert of Lea, Eight Hon- ourable, Secretary of State for the War Department, son of the eleventh Earl of Pembroke by his second wife, daughter of the Count Woronzow, was born at Richmond in 1810. Educated at Harrow, and at Oriel College, Oxford (where in 1831 he took a fourth in classics), Mr. Herbert entered the House of Commons in 1832, and in the Conservative interest, as Member for South Wilts, which he continued to represent until his elevation to the peerage. His official career began in 1835 as Under-Secretary to the Board of Control in Sir Robert Peel's first Ministry. Active in his opposition to the Melbourne Ministry in its last years, he was appointed Secretary of the Admiralty in Sir Robert Peel's Ministry of 1841. In February, 1845, he became Secretary-at- War, and, throwing in his political fortunes with his chief, disappeared from official life after the repeal of the Corn Laws. In the interval he distinguished himself by various philanthropic efforts for the amelioration of the con- dition of the poor, notably of the distressed needlewomen, in which latter instance he was powerfully aided by his wife (daughter of Major-General Ashe a Court, Amington Hall, Warwickshire, and niece of the first Lord Heytesbury), whom he married in 1846. On the formation of Lord Aberdeen's Coalition-Ministry, he returned with his leading Peelite friends to power, and resumed his post of Secretary-at-War. On the resignation of Lord Aberdeen, he accepted the office of Secretary of State for the Colonies under Lord Palmerston, but resigned it soon afterwards, when the new Premier ac- cepted the select committee of inquiry into the state of the army before Sebastopol, moved for by Mr. Roebuck : a motion the success of which had induced Lord Aberdeen to resign. On the formation of Lord Palmerston's second Ministry, he became Secretary for the War Department. R 246 APPENDIX III. To him are due the reorganization of the Army Medical De- partment and of the Militia, the organization of the Volun- teer-corps, the more rapid and efficient fortification of our dockyards, the extension of the Armstrong-gun factory, and the reorganization of Sandhurst. An excellent article on the sanitary organization of the army which he contributed to the Westminster Review in January, 1859, and which has since been republished in a separate form, bespeaks his con- siderate care for the health and comfort of the common sol- dier. His labours both in the House of Commons and in his office had so impaired his health that he was forced to resign his seat in the House ; and just before the commencement of the session of Parliament in 1861 he was raised to the peer- age with the title of Lord Herbert of Lea. His lordship is heir-presumptive to his half-brother [Robert Henry], the present Earl of Pembroke." In the providence of God, however, it was otherwise ordained. On the 2nd of August, 1861, Lord Herbert of Lea breathed his last at Wilton House, Salisbury ; and his remains were deposited in the family- vault beneath the chancel of the magnificent Byzantine church at Wilton, which (like the church of St. John the Evangelist, Sandymount) owes its existence to his munificence. The roll of his charities would weary the patience of any reader. He was succeeded in his title and estates by his eldest son, George Robert Charles (born 6th July, 1850), who, having sub- sequently succeeded his uncle, the twelfth Earl, in his titles and estates, 25th April, 1862, is now the thirteenth Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery, and the representative of a noble line of ancestors. An ancient chronicler of British worthies thus sums up his estimate of Philip Sydney : " Certain it is that he was a noble and a matchless gentleman, of whom it may be justly written, without hyperbole or fiction, that he seemed born to do that only which he went about. To speak more of him were to speak less." These words well stamp the later kinsman of that old " crown and flower " of English man- hood ; and, as one has rightly observed, the final lines of the NOTES. 247 elder Sidney's epitaph would fit with curious felicity his tablet whom we have lost : " Heaven hath his soul, the arts his fame, All soldiers his grief, the world his good name." Note (ccc). Field-Marshal Viscount Gough. — For many years Lord Gough resided constantly at St. Helen's, Booterstown, and not to insert in these pages a biographical notice of so highly distinguished a parishioner would be an omission. The Right Hon. Hugh, Viscount Gough, of Goojerat, in the Punjaub, and of the city of Limerick (1849), and Baron Gough, of Chinkean-foo, in China, and of Maharajpore and the Sutlej, in the East Indies, in the peerage of the United Kingdom (1846), and a Baronet (1842), K.P. (1857), G.C.B. (1841), G.C.S.I. (1861), P.C. (1859), a Field-Mar- shal in the army (1862), Colonel-in- Chief of the 60th Rifles (1854), and Colonel of the Royal Horse Guards (1855) ; born 3rd November, 1779 ; married, 3rd June, 1807, Frances Maria, daughter of Lieutenant- General Edward Stephens, R.A. ; and by her,* who died at St. Helen's, 15th March, 1863, had issue, one son, the present Viscount Gough (born 18th January, 1816), and four daughters. The following brief memoir of Lord Gough appeared, during his life- time, in the " Imperial Dictionary of Universal Biography * : — " Gough, Hugh, Viscount, a brave and distinguished British commander, the youngest son of the late Lieu- tenant-Colonel George Gough, was born at Woodstown, in * In 1866 a monumental tablet was erected in Booterstown Church, with this incription : — '* In memory of Frances Maria Viscountess Gough, born 9th August, 1787, died at St. Helen's, 15th March, 1863. * When the fruit is brought forth, immediately He putteth in the sickle, because the harvest is come.' * Blessed are the pure in heart ; for they shall see God.' w 248 APPENDIX III. the county of Limerick, November 3, 1779. The family- had been settled in Ireland since 1627, when Francis Gough was appointed Bishop of Limerick. At the age of thirteen Hugh obtained a commission in the Limerick Militia, whence he was soon after transferred as lieutenant to the 119th Regi- ment of the line. On the disbanding of that regiment he passed into the 78th Highlanders, which he joined at the Cape of Good Hope, and was present at the taking of the Dutch fleet in Saldanha Bay. He next served in the 87th, in the West Indies, taking part in the attack upon Porto Rico and Surinam. He was now a thorough soldier, and, as major, had the temporary command of his regiment then before Oporto, and took an active part in the brilliant opera- tions by which Soult was dislodged. At Talavera, while commanding, he was severely wounded, and his horse was shot under him ; and he was recommended, in consequence of his distinguished bravery on the occasion, for a brevet lieutenant-colonelcy. The share which his gallant corps had in the success of the victory at Barossa is upon record. Gough, seeing symptons of wavering, charged at them, and drove the enemy before him. ' The animating charges of the 87th,' writes General Graham in his despatch, * were most distin- guished.' They captured from the 8th Regiment of French Light Infantry an eagle with a collar of gold. In the de- fence of Tarifa, the post of danger, the portcullis- tower and rampart were assigned to Gough and the 87th. They routed their assailants ; Gough, with characteristic bravery, flinging away his scabbard, and his Irish soldiers fighting to the national airs of ' Garryowen ' and ' Patrick's Day,' played by the orders of a chief who so thoroughly understood their tem- per. ' The conduct of Colonel Gough and the 87th,' says the military despatch, 4 exceeded all praise.' Gough next distinguished himself at the battle of Vittoria, where his regiment captured the only marshal's baton taken during the war — that of Jourdan. He was wounded at the battle of Nivelle, and received the Order of Charles III. from the King of Spain. At the close of the war Sir Hugh returned to his native land to enjoy a temporary repose, but was appointed to the command of the 22nd Regiment, then stationed in the south of Ireland. At the same time he discharged the duties of a magistrate, during a period of great excitement and dis- turbance, in a manner that won him the respect and confi- dence of all classes. In 1830 he was promoted to the rank of Major- General, and in 1837 was again called into active NOTES. 249 service, being given the command of the Mysore division of the Indian army. From that he was despatched to China in 1840, to take the command of the troops there. This career was a glorious one. He stormed the heights above Canton, and those above Shanghai ; he captured Amoy, Chusan, Chapoo, Woosung, and Shanghai. Finally, he meditated a great and bold enterprise, which he carried out with entire success. Seeing that the great canal, twelve hundred miles in length, that led to the Imperial city, was the channel through which the whole internal commerce of the country flowed, he, with his gallant comrade, Admiral Sir William Parker, took the fleet and army two hundred miles up an unknown river to the intersection of the canal, and attacked the town of Ching-Kian-Foo, which, after a gallant resistance by the Tartars, was taken. The result, as expected, was to cut off all supplies from the capital. The treaty of Nankin followed in 1842. The war was ended, and the British troops withdrew, exacting twenty-one millions of dollars as the price of peace. Sir Hugh was rewarded for his services with the Grand Cross of the Bath, and was made a Baronet, and received the thanks of Parliament. On the 11th of August, 1843, he was invested with the chief com- mand in India. Here he displayed promptitude, decision, and energy throughout the war ; achieving the great victory of Maharajpoor and Puniar, and thus uniting the two wings of the Indian army under the walls of Gwalior. His next operations were in the Punjaub in 1845 against the Sikhs. On the 18th December, acting with Sir Henry Hardinge, who had succeeded Lord Ellenborough, he defeated the enemy at Moodkee, taking seventeen guns ; and on the 21st attacked the enemy's entrenched camp at Ferozepore, which was taken, with ammunition, stores, and seventy pieces of cannon. Then followed the glorious and crowning victory of the Sobraon on the Sutlej, the route of the Sikhs, and the peace dictated be- fore the walls of Lahore. For these services Gough was again thanked by both Houses of the Legislature, and in 1846 created Baron Gough. But the war broke out again in 1848, and once more Lord Gough had to take the field. Brave, bold, and energetic as ever, he engaged his foe at Chillianwallah in January, 1849. The plan of the battle obtained the approval of the Duke of Wellington ; and, though accidents frustrated its complete success, the enemy received a serious check, and precipitately retreated during the night across the Sutlej. While no one dared to im- 250 APPENDIX III. peach the bravery of Lord Gough, there were not wanting those at home who pronounced him rash, and thus assailed his reputation as a general. Sir Charles Napier was ordered to replace him ; but before the general arrived in India, Gough had completely established his reputation by the splendid victory of Goojerat, which put an end to the war, and justified the words of his farewell address, 'That which Alexander attempted, the British army have accomplished/ Upon Lord Gough's return to England the Houses of Par- liament again publicly thanked him, adding to the title of viscount the substantial reward of a pension of £2,000 a- year ; a similar sum being awarded by the East India Com- pany Service. In 1854 he was made Colonel-in-Chief of the 60th Rifles; and in 1855 appointed to the colonelcy of the Royal Horse Guards. He was at the same time made a freeman of the city of London, D.C.L. of the University of Oxford, and LL.D. of that of Dublin. In 1856 he was chosen by Her Majesty as representative in the Crimea on the occasion of the investiture of a large number of our own and the French generals with the Grand Cross and other de- corations of the Bath. In 1857 he was created a Knight of St. Patrick, being the first who was not an Irish peer that received that honour ; and in 1859 he was made a Privy Councillor of England. Lord Gough commanded in more general actions than any officer of the age, the Duke of Wellington only excepted." In the second volume of the " Remains of the Rev. Samuel O'Sullivan, D.D." (Dublin, 1853), pp. 223-258, there is a biographical sketch of Lord Gough, reprinted from the Dublin University Magazine, from which, if space permitted, many extracts might be made ; but merely the concluding para- graph, which, following Wordsworth's sublime conception of " The Happy Warrior," forcibly expressed the general feeling, shall be given : — "Go, then, grey-headed warrior, to thy happy retirement, not more full of years than of virtues ; with all • That should accompany old age — Honour, love, obedience, troops of friends.* May the evening of thy days be as peaceful as the morning NOTES. 251 was busy and honourable, and the noontide glorious ! May others catch from thine example how Christian excellence is compatible with military renown ; how the man who has learned to govern himself is ever the best fitted for governing others ; and how the Sovereign is ever best served by him s, in the truest sense of the word, the servant of his God ! Mayest thou long be spared to the family by whom thou art loved and honoured, to teach thy children and thy children's children how to live and how to die as best becomes the British soldier !" All this was fulfilled to the letter in the case of Lord At his residence, St. Helen's, Booterstown, he peace- fully expired, 2nd March, 1869, in the ninetieth year of his His funeral, though private, and devoid of all military display, was very largely attended on the morning of the 9th ; and his remains were laid beside those of Lady Gough, who had died six years before, in the family-vault in the churchyard of the adjoining parish of Stillorgan. The following extract from a sermon on Lam. iii. 24-26, 31-33, which was preached on the Sunday after Lord Gough's death, and has been published in the Church of England Magazine, vol. lxvi. pp. 296-299 (1st May, 1869), may not be out of place : — 11 A sad. though not unexpected occurrence in our own im- mediate neighbourhood within the past week renders the sub- ject of affliction — I mean, affliction under the stroke of death — peculiarly well-suited for our meditation upon this Sabbath-day. Amidst the bitterness of some trials which have befallen us, we have very good reason to feel deeply thankful to our gracious God for the tenderness of his deal- vards us. Few. comparatively few, members of our congregation have for some time past been summoned hence, to be no more seen on earth ! We have heard of many dis- tant and affecting deaths, of the heavy trials and afflictions of others ; but. through the tender compassion of a forbearing and protecting God. we have heard of these things merely by the bearing of the ear ; our eyes have not been forced to see them ; and, while death has abruptly terminated the pro- 252 APPENDIX III. ceedings of many in other quarters, we have been permitted to meet Sabbath after Sabbath, to learn more and more of what pertains to the kingdom of heaven. One, however, in whose behalf we here offered up our earnest and heart- felt prayers on the last Sabbath-day, has been taken from amongst us. Long, unusually long, was he spared to his country, his family, and his friends. Until prevented by the inevitable infirmities of age, he was to be seen regularly amongst us, offering his prayers and praises unto God, and showing forth in his own person, as I need scarcely remind any one of you, the beautiful example of a real Christian soldier. He has gone to his rest ! No longer engaged in the busy scenes of life, he is now, we fondly trust, enjoying the blessed consummation of the prayer so forcibly expressed in Cowper's hymn— * Oh ! for a closer walk with God, A calm and heavenly frame ; A light to shine upon the road That leads me to the Lamb I* . . . I might say very much of him, from whom I have through several years experienced no little kindness, and the loss of whom as a parishioner I must deplore ; but I for- bear. What is our loss is his gain. His honourable career on earth is at an end ; and in the flesh we shall see his face no more. But it is a source of great consolation to all, and especially to those connected with him by earthly ties, whom he has left behind, to feel, that so long spared to his family and friends, and beloved and venerated by them, he taught his children, and his children's children, how to live, and (not upon his death-bed, but throughout his lengthened span of life) how to die, as best becomes the British soldier." There is a fine portrait of Lord Gough in the possession of the Senior United Service Club, London, painted by Mr. (now Sir) Francis Grant, and engraved by Lupton. The ** Despatches of Yiscount Hardinge, Lord Gough, and Sir Harry Smith, Bart, on the War in India," have been pub- lished in an octavo volume (second edition, London, 1846). NOTES. 253 Note (ddd). The Blackrock Township. — As mentioned in p. 211, the Lord Lieutenant issued his order for the " The Towns' Improve- ment (Ireland) Act, 1854 " (17 & 18 Vict. c. 103), to be applied to the town of Blackrock, and the 7th November, 1860, was appointed for the commence- ment of its operation therein. Soon after an extension of the beneficial effects of this measure was desired ; and " whereas the districts of Monkstown and Booterstown, in the baronies of Dublin and Rathdown, and county of Dublin, adjoin to the present Blackrock Township [as constituted in 1860], and comprise several villages, and are large, populous, and im- proving districts, and the population thereof has of late years greatly increased, and is increasing ; and whereas it would conduce to the health and welfare of the inhabitants of the districts of Blackrock, Monkstown, and Booterstown, and would be of public advantage, if the districts were formed into one township, and provision were made for the lighting, paving, sewering, draining, cleansing, supplying with water, and otherwise improving and regulating of the township, and if 'The Towns' Improvement (Ireland) Act, 1854,' were put in force in the whole township, as is by this Act provided ; and whereas the objects of this Act cannot be attained without the authority of Parliament,'' an Act (26 & 27 Vict. c. 121) "for the Improvement of Blackrock, Monkstown, and Booterstown," etc., was passed 13th July, 1863. The operation of this Act, which is known as " The Blackrock Township Act, 1863," commenced the 1st September following, and has been attended with very good results, as evidenced by the improved appearance of the district. 254 APPENDIX III. The limits of the Act, and the boundary of the Township to which it relates, are as follows :-— " The boundary commences at the sea at low-water mark outside the embankment of the Dublin and Kingstown Rail- way at the boundary of the parishes of Donnybrook and Booterstown ;* and runs thence to the shore, and thence in a south-westerly direction along the boundary of the parish of Booterstown to the south-west angle of the gate-lodge of St. Helen's on the Dublin and Bray- road ; thence south- ward along the eastern side or wall of said road to Stillorgan Priory gate-lodge ; thence northwardly along the parish boundary until it meets Merri on- avenue ; thence eastwardly along the parish boundary to Grove-avenue or Verschoyle's- lane; thence southwardly along the west side or fence of Grove- avenue to Mr. Geoghegan's entrance-gate at Carys- fort Lodge ; thence eastwardly across the road and along the north-side of the old lane or passage bordering Mrs. Saurin's demesne, until it meets the boundary of the townland of Carysfort ; thence following the boundary of the townland to Carysfort- avenue ; thence across the road and northwardly along the east side of said avenue to the north-western corner of Oakly Park; thence along the northern and eastern boundary of Oakly Park to Newtownpark-avenue ; thence northwardly along the eastern side of said avenue to a point opposite to the narrow passage running eastwardly from New- townpark-avenue to the Bray- road ; thence along the south fence of the said passage to the road from Blackrock to Bray ; thence northerly by the eastern boundary of the same as far as the south wall of the Stradbrook cottages ; thence east- ward by the said wall and a fence in continuation of the same through Mr. Francis Codd's land to the boundary of * There seems to be an inaccuracy inasmuch as a narrow portion of the parish of Taney intervenes between Booterstown and Donnybrook. See p. 1 9, where this has been mentioned. In the " Appendix to the Report on the Revenues and Condition of the Established Church (Ireland), 1868," p. 73, this suggestion from the Archbishop of the diocese ap- pears : — " There is a small district close to the village and church of Booterstown (it contains Trimleston House and Trimleston Cottage, both on the Blackrock-road) which belongs to the parish of Taney; while yet the clergyman of Taney must pass through the parish of Booterstown from end to end, or by another road through a great part of Donnybrook, to reach it. It would, I think, be a clear advantage if this small outlying district were detached from Taney, and annexed to Booterstown." the townland of Monkstown at Charles Alder's holding; thence eastwardly along the said boundary to the south-east angle of Dr. Mahood's holding (Monkstown-hill), and along the eastern boundary of the same northwards to the wall or fence separating Richmond-hill from Yapton, in the occupa- tion of Mr. Thomas Hone, and by the same in a direct line until it meets the boundary of the Kingstown Township at the entrance to Richmond-hill ; thence along the boundary o^ the Kingstown Township to the sea at low-watermark at Salt-hill: and thence along the sea at low- water mark west- wardly, until it meets the point of commencement opposite the boundary of the parishes of Bocterstown and Donnybrook : the several lands, villages, and hereditaments being within those limits, and constituting the Township, are situate within the townlands of Intake, ['taken in ' from the sea], Booters- town. WilliamstowD, Merrioo, Blackrock, Newtown-Castle- byrn. Newtown-Blackrock, Carysfort, Woodland, Stillorgan- grove. Stillorgan-park, Rockfield, Seapoint or Temple-hill, Montpelier, Stradbrook, Monkstown, Monkstown-Castle-farm, Mount-Ashton. Lansville, and Dunleary, all being situate in the parishes of Booterstown, Stillorgan, and Monkstown, in the baronies of Dublin and Rathdown, and county of Dublin." The Township consists of three wards (Booterstown, Monkstown, and Blackrock), the divisions of which are as follows: — " The first division or boundary commences in the centre of Merrion-avenue. at the junction of the township boundary. eleven chains distant from the entrance-gate of Mount Mer- rion. and is continued through the centre of that avenue to the centre of the Rock-road opposite to the eastern boundary of Lisaniskea premises, and by that eastern boundary of Lisa- ni-kea premises in a direct line to the sea at low water, and so much of the Township as lies to the northward and west- ward of the boundary thus defined shall constitute Booters- town Ward : the second division or boundary commences at Rock Villa in Newtownpark-avenu^. and runs thence north- wardly through the centre of Xewtownpark-avenue to the Bray-road, thence through the centre of the Blackrock and Bray-road to Dove House, thence eastward by Seapoint Manor and the northern side of Seapoint-avenue to the entrance of Ardenza-terrace, thence by the said terrace to the 256 APPENDIX III. sea at low-water mark, and so much of the Township as lies to the eastward of the boundary thus defined shall constitute Monkstown Ward : the third division, all the residue of the Township, being the part thereof that lies between those two divisions and wards, shall constitute Blackrock Ward." The area of the Township is 1,078 statute acres ; the popu- lation in 1867 having amounted to 8,143, and the rateable valuation of property for the past yesr being £39,956. Since 1867 the district has been supplied with the Vartry water. The number of the Commissioners was fixed at twenty- four, being nine for Blackrock, nine for Monkstown, and six for Booterstown ; and the first Commissioners, named in the Act, were the following : — Thomas Dixon, Esq., J.P., (Chair- man), Henry Loftus Tottenham, Esq., John Fitzgerald, Esq., George Stormont, Esq., Charles Kernan, Esq., Joseph Craig Scully, Esq., William John Wallnutt, wax-chandler, John Richardson, grocer, and Thomas Magrath, linen-draper (be- ing nine of the Commissioners under the previous Act), for Blackrock ; William Plant, Esq., M.D., John Knight Bos- well, Esq., John M'Curdy, Esq., Adam Seaton Findlater, Esq., Sheffield Betham, Esq., William Crowe, builder, Eldred Oldham, Esq., Stephen Malyn, Esq., and Henry Andrews, Esq., for Monkstown ; Edmund Meares Kelly, Esq., John Rafferty, Esq., Edward Love Alma, Esq., John Barrington, Esq., Alexander Curtis La Nauze, Esq., and Joseph Johnson, Esq., for Booterstown. The 15th October is the day for the yearly retirement and election of Com- missioners. The Cross of Blackrock. — Several letters respecting the old Cross of Blackrock, and the proposal to replace it by a new one, from a design by John M'Curdy, Esq., appeared in the Dublin newspapers in the month of October, 1865. At the adjourned annual meeting of the Blackrock Com- missioners, as reported in Saunders's News-Letter, 26th October, the matter was spoken of at considerable length, and Captain Sheffield Betham gave the following short history NOTES. 2d*< of this ancient landmark : — M In the reign of Queen Eliza- beth, Sir John Travers, a man of note, lived in Monkstown Castle. He had an only daughter, who married a Mr. Cheevers, who had one son, drowned on Merrion Strand, and two daughters. One of those daughters was married to Byrne of Cabinteely, and the other to the ancestor of Lords Longford and De Yesci. The estate was divided — the Byrnes getting the portion called Newtown-on-the-Strand, or New- town-Castle-Byrne. The Cross was the property of the Byrne family, and was always repaired by them, and was the land- mark of the boundary of the city jurisdiction — the line coming down the lane at Old Merrion Churchyard, and running along the centre of the road as far as the Cross of Blackrock ; thence in a straight line to the sea, where old Bath-street used to run, extending out to sea as far as a man could wade at low water and cast a javelin. The Cross is not, and never was, an ecclesiastical one, but simply a boundary, and the city people, when they rode the ' fringes,' came up to it as their extreme limit." In 1546, Sir John Travers, in consideration of his services, had a grant of (inter alia) 207 acres, with the Grange in Carrickbrennan, otherwise Monkstown, three turrets, all the orchards and enclosures, with 131 acres, in said Monkstown, 101 acres in Newtown, etc., the estate of the late monastery of the Blessed Virgin ; 60 acres of pasture and bog in Cornell's Court, the estate of the late abbey of Lismullen, etc. (Rot. Pat. in Cane. Hib.), which possessions afterwards passed to the family of Cheevers. (D'Alton's " History of the County of Dublin," pp. 868-870). John Byrne, Esq., of Cabinteely, an eminent barrister, married, in 1678, Mary, daughter of Walter Cheevers, Esq., of Monkstown (by Alison, his wife, third daughter of Nicholas, first Viscount Netter- ville), and died suddenly in 1681, when he was succeeded by his eldest son, Walter Byrne, Esq. (See Burke's " Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland," p. 165, London, 1855). Part of the lands of Newtown-Castle-Byrne was sold by 258 APPENDIX III. order of the Court of Chancery, 20th May, 1858. For men- tion of the greatly improved state of the joint-property of the Earl of Longford and Viscount De Yesci, see the Church of England Magazine, vol. lxviii. p. 1 (1st January, 1870). Blackrock — The following lines by Dr. D. Joaquin Lorenzo Yillanueva, Chaplain to the Spanish Sovereign, Canon of Cuenca, etc., are taken from his " Poesias Escogidas " (Dublin, 1833), pp. 164-166:— » BLACK ROCK.* "LETRILLA. Y orejas de vaca : " Cuando a King's Town\ fueres, Entra en mi barraca, De las de Black Rock La mas bien labrada. No hallaras portero, Ni rejas ni tapias, Ni perros de presa Que al morder no ladran. Seras alojado En rustica estancia, Do hay mesas de pino Y sillas de paja. Hallaras en cambio De cama emplumada, Forrados de estopa Jergones de lana. No son mis cortinas De seda bordadas, Sino de bayeta Con cairel de sarga. No andaras pisando Alfombras de Holanda, Sino tablas toscas Medio acepilladas. Mi lujo es la huerta, Mi huerta es alhaja ; Rieganla las nubes Con agua filtrada. Miento, si te ofrezco Raciraos, naranjas, Datiles, melones, Higos 6 granadas. Mas a falta de esto Tendras verdolagas, Nabos y pepinos, Apios y espinacas. Darete estofados Sol6mos de cabra, Patas de carnero, * Aldea distante tres millaa E. de Dublin, en el camino de King's Town. t Pueblo moderno junto al mar, con puerto, distante seis millas de Dublin, en las inmediaciones de Dunleary. Y en vez de la sopa Que estilan en Francia, Macarrones gordos Mas que los de Italia : Quesos con gusanos De Chester y Parma, Y manteca fresca, Cual la nieve blanca. Para cada dia Te tendre guardadas Melodias nuevas Con adufe y flauta. Bailaran las viejas De nuestra comarca, No las seguidillas Que vi yo en la Mancha Con las castannuelas Repiqueteadas ; Mas con anteojos Serias zarabandas, Y con toscos zuecos Pastoriles danzas. El mar surcaremos Que mis campos banna, En un barquichuelo, Si estuviese en calma. Mas si soplan cierzos, A puerta cerrada Al whiski y al ponche Les daremos caza. En dias serenos Al romper el alva Iremos en busca De leche no aguada, Cuando asi pasares Un par de semanas, Pica de soleta, Si mi plan te enfada." NOTES. 259 The author, "a distinguished Carlist, was obliged to leave Spain, and taking refuge in Ireland, became as well acquainted with the scenery of our country as he had been with her history." Note (eee). The Geology of Booterstown and Donnybrook. — The following article was composed for this work by the iate George Victor Du Noyer, Esq., M.U.I.A., F.R.G.S.I., Senior Geologist of the Geological Survey of Ireland, a short time before his death, which took place, after a very brief illness, 2nd January, 1869. Mr. Du Noyer was a parishioner of Booterstown, and held appointments under Government for a period of more than thirty years, having commenced his career at an early age, in 1834, upon the Ordnance Survey of Ireland, under the late Major-General Portlock, and the present Major-General Sir Thomas A. Larcom, Bart., K.C.B., of the Royal Engineers ; he was appointed, in 1847, to the Geological Survey, and rose to the second position in this service in Ire- land. He had a profound knowledge of our national anti- quities ; and from his high character, and in recognition of the very many valuable contributions of his drawings to the Royal Irish Academy, he was elected an Honorary Life Member. His loss will be deeply felt by that Society, as well as by other scientific institutions. It may be noted that he made the drawings of the fossils and geological scenery which accompany Portlock's " Geological Report on Londonderry, Tyrone, and Fermanagh "; and that he was associated with the late Dr. Petrie in making many of the investigations and illustrations for the Ordnance Survey. At the stated general meeting of the Academy held 11th January, 1869, the Secretary read a paper by a fellow- academician commendatory of the long and faithful services of Mr. Du Noyer : — It is somewhat remarkable that though the area of the parishes of Booterstown and Donnybrook is not very large, it comprises two rocks which are characteristic of Irish 260 APPENDIX III. Geology, not only in their lithological aspect, but in their mutual mode of occurrence. Many an accomplished English or Continental geologist has never hammered a boss of typi- cal granite, or seen the beautiful conchoidal fracture of a calp limestone ; yet both these rocks occur in the district named, and both are characteristic of their class. Of the two parishes Donnybrook is the more northern ; it lies low, and is flat, the subsoil rock being that middle subdivision of the carboniferous limestone known to Irish geologists as " calp," or black earthy, though compact, lime- stone. The southern end of Booterstown extends on to the granite, and is higher in elevation than the former. The subdivisions into which the carboniferous limestone of Ireland has been grouped, are as follows, commencing from below upwards: — 1. Lower limestone shale;* 2. Lower limestone proper ; 3. Calp, or Middle limestone ; and 4, Upper limestone, which passes up into the coal measure shales and sandstones. In England the term "mountain limestone" has been given to these rocks; but in Ireland, since they rarely form hills or ridges as they do in England, such a name would not be applicable. By reference to the Geological Survey Map, sheet 112, published by Government on the Ordnance Survey Maps, to the scale of an inch to the mile,f it will be seen that the granite forming Tibradden mountain (1,540 feet), the Three Rock mountain (1,475 feet), the Two Rock mountain (1,763 feet), and the hills of Killiney (480 and 472 feet above the sea), all lying to the south of Dublin, and overlooking the plains around the city, has been protruded into the Lower Silurian slates, which appear to the east and west of it, and has metamorphosed them into mica schist for a maximum distance of more than a quarter of a mile from their mutual line of junction.} * In the south of Ireland these beds increase to such an amazing thickness, and occupy such extensive areas, that they are regarded as a distinct geological formation, called 4 * carboniferous slate," with " Coomhola grit " forming their basal portion. The upper part of this deposit passes into the coal measures to the exclusion of the grey crys- talline limestone, which must therefore probably be represented in this district by black slates and shales. t Each sheet comprises an area of eighteen miles by twelve ; and the price (coloured geologically) is 2s. 6d. t For futher information on this interesting point in Irish Geology, see the Memoir published by the Geological Survey of Ireland to explain their Map, Sheets 102 and 112, by J. B. Jukes and G. V. Du Noyer (Dublin, 1861). NOTES. 261 Long after the consolidation of the granite, and the pro- duction by its heat of that peculiar metamorphism in the clay slate just alluded to, both these rocks were elevated above the sea, and formed the land, on the shores of which the ocean, during the carboniferous period, deposited its various- coloured calcareous mud and sand. The relative areas occupied by land and sea at that period were vastly different from what they are now ; and it is not unreasonable to sup- pose that what is now the Co. Donegal, the extreme west of Ireland (forming part of the counties of Galway and Mayo), the Lower Silurian area in the north-east of Ireland, ex- tending from near Longford to Donaghadee, along with that portion of the island stretching from Killiney-hill to near Dungarvan, was, at the geological period I am alluding to, connected with Wales and the north-west of Scotland ; all forming a great island against which the sea deposited the sands, gravels, and conglomerates of the Devonian or red sandstone period, and of that immediately succeeding it, called the carboniferous. It is remarkable that at the junction of the calp limestone with the granite between Williamstown and Blackrock,* in the parish of Booterstown, we do not find any trace of the old red sandstone, which, according to observed facts, should intervene between the carboniferous limestone and any of the older rocks on which it might happen to be deposited. The same fact is observed in the Co. Carlow : and it has occasionally been a source of surprise to students in geology, who, reading that granite is the lowest rock, and that it is overlaid by whole geological formations, with all their sub- divisions, forming a puzzling array of tables and groups, could not easily understand how a carboniferous limestone, which is not a very ancient rock, geologically speaking, could come in contact with the old and deep-seated granite. The explanation which we have given in a few words will help to dispel this not uncommon error of reasoning from insufficient knowledge. The story which the earth itself tells us of its mode of for- mation is not a detail of continued universal creation and con- tinued local progress. On the contrary, local creation and pro- gress have over and over again been suspended, and followed * "What remains visible of " the Black Rock," which gave the name to the place, is a boss of calp limestone, rising out of the sand under the Peafield-baths, and to the rorth of the Blackrock Railway-station ; the granite being within a few hundred feet of it to the south. S 262 APPENDIX III. by local destruction of the created things, both inanimate and animate. And we use the terms advisedly ; for the inanimate must have come before the animate or life-bearing, as the latter depend on the former for existence. But the destruction which went on at one place, was the direct means of production at another: life followed death ; and the new life gave the means of its succeeding death ; and all conduced to the perfecting of the mighty aggregate, as we now behold it. Thus, when we briefly run through the great geological scale of creation, we find the lowest rocks, or those called " Lewesian " in England, and " Laurentian " in North America, were formed, consolidated, upheaved, denuded, or partially destroyed, to make up the " Cambrian " series, as it was called, in Wales. These again underwent the same modifications, and were themselves partially destroyed to make the Lower Silurian rock. These were penetrated by the granite, and both partially worn down to make the Upper Silurian beds. These again, with all beneath them which appeared at the surface, were partially denuded to make the old red sandstone, the lowest beds of which were themselves destroyed partially to make up the concluding portion of their ordained mass. These, being followed by the carboniferous rocks, with the coal- bearing strata above them, were again upheaved, and par- tially destroyed, to form the new red sandstone, which overspread them like a great cloak. And lastly, the new red sandstone was buried by deposits of miles in thickness, iueluding the chalk and its superimposed clays, sands, and gravel.* These great breaks in the process of formation indicate those periods of local destruction, one of which we have presented to us by the fact, that the calp limestone rests on the granite in the district to which these geological notes refer. Geology cannot be studied with accuracy or self-enlight- enment in mere detached localities ; large tracts of country, or at least a subdivision of some group of rock, should be examined, in order to arrive at a correct estimate of the nature and character of that group. And therefore, if any of our readers wish to understand the distinctive features and relations of the calp limestone, they must travel out of the parishes of Booterstown and Donnybrook, and make a lengthened excursion over the plains of Dublin. Not to dishearten them, however, I may assure them that some of * Many minor unconformabilities are not here enumerated. NOTES. 263 the quarries in Donnybrook present most instructive ex- posures of the calp limestone, and will well repay a visit. As we descend the bed of the river Dodder, the fir3t lime- stone appears close to Bushy Park, near Rathfarnham ; it is dark grey in colour, thin and flaggy ; and in some places the carbonate of lime in the rock has given place to carbo- nate of magnesia, which affords those beautiful crystals, locally called " sugar-candy stone," from their clearness and colour. The rock is a bedded dolomite. How this metamorphic action took place is not clearly accounted for ; the general opinion being that it is due to the permeation of gases, or more probably, water surcharged with magnesia, whereby the carbonate of lime was displaced, and the mag- nesia substituted. This change is often very sudden, the two varieties of the limestone being on either side of a mere joint in the rock. In the quarries at Rathfarnham and Donnybrook angular lumps of granite and mica schist have been found imbedded in the limestone ; thus proving that the granite was dry land when the limestone sea washed over its shores. And from the angularity of these granite or mica slate fragments it has been supposed that they originally adhered to the roots of trees, which were swept away from the granite or other shores by the sea of the carboniferous period, and drifted into deep water. In the quarries at Donnybrook the bedding of the lime- stone is very frequently lenticular, and a bed of shale will die out in the distance of a few yards, and its place be supplied by a bed of compact limestone, or vice versa. Occasionally the limestones themselves will end bluntly when the regularity of deposition is thus interrupted. All this is most instructive ; and it shows that the deposit was subjected to local changes in its material and mode of formation — the result of sudden floods from the neighbouring land on the south, or changes in the great tidal currents of the open strait, which extended from east to west across what is now Ireland. Fossils are rather rare in the calp limestone, the most common being crinoid fragments. Why this should be, is not easy of explanation, as the black shales and compact lime- stones of the carboniferous shale are crowded with remains of brachiopodous bivalves and zoophytic life, especially Pro- ducts, Spirift-rce, Encrinites, Fenestella?, and that singular crustracean, the Trilobite. Throughout the whole extent of the carboniferous lime- stone which skirts the northern boundary of the granite and 264 APPENDIX III. Lower Silurian hills, the observed dip of the beds is almost invariably to the southwards, at low angles. Now, it is reasonable to suppose that these beds should dip away from the shore on which they had been formed ; but the reverse is the observed fact ; and we are forced to the conclusion that a fault exists, having an east or west direction, or nearly parallel with the boundary of the two groups of rocks, whereby the limestones have been tilted to the southwards, and have extended the thickness of the calp limestone in the Dublin district to be about two thousand feet. The granite between Dundrum and Loughlinstown has a width of more than six miles, and is well exposed along the shore from Williamstown to Killiney. About Dundrum and Stillorgan it is very feldspathic, and weathers freely into a sand ; but it becomes more quartzose toward the south, between the Three Rock mountain and the sea. This rock is traversed throughout by numerous veins and large dyke- like masses of a compact variety of itself, formed almost of feldspar, with a little quartz, and frequently no mica. This is called Eurite, or Elvanite ; and since many of these veins cross each other, and are bounded by thin strings of pure infiltrated quartz, they are regarded as being intrusive, and therefore newer than the coarsely crystalline and micaceous granite. Beautiful examples of these Eurite veins may be seen all over the hills of Rochestown and Killiney. The large quarry to the west of Windsor-terrace, Kingstown, exposes granite, which is in places of a different mineral structure from that of the neighbourhood. It is traversed by infiltrated veins of quartz, occurring on the main joints, the surfaces of which are thickly coated with large and small crystals of schorl. These are so abundant in places as to give the rock a mottled look. Black mica, or Lepidomilane, is rather common in the granite of this district ; and a beautiful variety of white mica, called Plumose, from the manner of its arrangement or crystallisation, is sometimes found in the quarries on the southern slopes of the hills, and in boulders when broken up in the fields. The granite of Killiney, when seen in junction with the mica schist, often has its micaceous particles rearranged, so as to form thin wavy strings of that mineral, all parallel to the cooling surface of the granite ; while the mica in that portion of the rock close to the slates, is segregated into large blotches. The manner in which the granite is brought into NOTES. 265 junction with the slate is very interesting ; the former rock sending tongues, and thin strings, and dykes into the latter for many yards. The result of the metamorphic action produced by the granite on the clay slates is chiefly the excessive development of mica ; but beautiful stellated crys- tals of andalurite, and some resembling chiastolite, with innumerable small garnets, are very abundant close to the granite.* On the sea-face of the embankment of the Railway, close to and north of the Blackrock station, there is a singular granite boss, which deserves to be noticed. The rock consists of sharply angular fragments of the ordinary granite, varying in size up to a block some feet across, all of which are cemented in a hard granite sand full of white mica. At first sight this looks like a conglomerate, which might be supposed to rest on the surface of the granite, and to be the base of the boulder drift, inland cliffs of which we see over the old harbour of Dunleary, to the south of the Kingstown Gas-works. This granite breccia, however, is, I believe, much older than any of the drift, and is analogous to those dyke-like masses of breccia, which are not unfrequently found in the Trappean rocks of the Lower Silurian period. Such, for example, as is to be seen on the shore near Lady's Cove, to the south of, and close to Tramore, in the Co. Waterford. * The folio-wing are two analyses of the granite of the Three Rock mountain, by the Rev. Professor Haughton, M.D., F.T.C.D., from the Memoir of the Palaeozoic Rocks of the South-east of Ireland (" Trans- actions of the Royal Irish Academy," vol. xxiii.) : — Silica, Alumina, Peroxide of iron, Lime, Potash, Soda, Loss by ignition No. 1. No. 2. 70.28 70.32 16.44 16.12 2.60 3.20 2.04 1.34 5.79 4.65 2.82 3.39 -— 0.96 99.97 99.98 Dr. Haughton aho shows the average constitution of the Dublin and Wicklow granite to be — Quartz, .. .. .. .. 27.66 Feldspar (Tersilicate), .. .. .. 52.94 White mica ( Margarodite"), .. .. .. 14.18 Black mica (.Lepidomilane), .. .. .. 5.27 100.05 266 APPENDIX III. After the thorough consolidation of this greenstone, a fissure was formed in it to the width of eighteen feet, and this extended to the depth of thirteen yards into the slate rock below the greenstone flow. The forces of disruption caused numerous fragments of the greenstone to fall into this open fissure ; but as the whole process took place beneath the level of the sea, the drifted sand and gravel of the greenstone were swept into the crack, along with those angular fragments, and formed a cement binding them together. The granite breccia at Blackrock was formed in a similar way, and its sandy matrix consolidated by subsequent pressure, and that inherent quality which all mud and sand has to crystallize by time under similar circumstances. If the limits of this breccia could be determined, they would be found to be bounded by solid granite, and the boulder drift would be seen to rest on, and cover up both. Space will not allow of our discussing further the interesting story of the junction between granite and slate ; for we have yet to say a few words on the history of the superficial deposits, which have been spread over the rocks we have described. The drift, as it is called, or superficial covering of clay and gravel, which is spread over the whole of the Dublin district, consists of two formations: the Lower, a brown, gravelly, calcareous clay, containing numerous limestone pebbles and rolled fragments ; and the Upper, a loose sand and gravel, formed principally of limestone pebbles, though it contains a large percentage of granite and Lower Silurian fragments, with here and there a pebble of hardened or Antrim chalk and chalk-flint. This Lower drift in the north of the Co. Dublin terminates at a maximum height of about four hun- dred feet, though the summit of Killiney and the adjoining hills are bared of it at one hundred feet ; while the Upper deposit is to be seen on the flanks of Montpelier hill, at a height of twelve hundred and thirty-five feet above the sea. The Lower drift rests in patches on the sides of Howth- hill, Lambay, the adjoining coast at Skerries, Killiney-hill, and along the shore to the southwards and Bray-head, at elevations of more than one hundred feet ; and the sea has everywhere escarped it. Yet this deposit must have formed the sea-floor, and have been since elevated to its present height ; for it is an axiom in Geology, that the sea still retains the same level which it had since its creation, while the land rises or sinks beneath it by volcanic force. How NOTES. 267 remotely ancient, therefore, must be this mere superficial covering of the solid rocks beneath it ! so ancient, indeed, that the whole central limestone plain of Ireland, the bays of Dublin and Bray, and the straits of Lambay, and possibly the very British channel, were not in existence at the close of its formation. Yet these great physical features have been all excavated through it, and the land upheaved to the height of twelve hundred and thirty-five feet at least — the present apparent limit of the Upper drift formation. How wondrous is the power of slow but long- continued denudation, and the erosion produced by the sea acting between the limits of high and low water, like a great horizontal saw on the shores of rock, clay, or sand opposed to it ! Still the same force is now going on before our eyes, and we cannot appreciate its progress as measured by the short experience of human life. Time, therefore, when speaking of geological phenomena, is not to be measured by such finite subdivisions as centuries ; we must regard its effects as the product of the past almost-eternity.* Yv T herever this clayey drift deposit is formed, and the rock surface beneath it bared, we find that the latter is polished and striated ; an effect which could only have been produced by the rapid passage of ice or frozen mud when this part of the land was beneath the sea-level. And so general over the British Islands is this rock-polishing and striation, that from this fact, taken in connection with the occurrence of water-worn erratic boulders derived from rocks in situ, whose locality is known, and many miles distant from where the blocks are found, geologists recognise " a glacial period *' in Tertiary Geology. Over Howth-hill the ice-bearing current set in from the north-west, as is indicated by the direction and form of the striations ; and the same current swept through the hollows of the hills of Killiney, though it was slightly deflected by the summit of Killiney-hill, the granite of which is ground and polished in the direction of east and west. The remarkable looking bosses of granite on the summits of the Three Rock and Two Rock mountains are not perched blocks, but the solid granite weathering in place ; and this weathering is solely the result of long-continued atmospheric * The drift clay on the brow of the cliffs on Howth, near the Light- house, and along the east-side of Baily Point, as well as to the ea6t and west of the cliff called M The Lion's Head," exposes a deposit of recent 6ea-shells at an elevation of more than one hundred feet above the sea. 268 APPENDIX III. action — rain, frost, and snow. The rock, being evenly jointed in vertical as well as horizontal planes, has weathered on the lines of separation ; and some of the rough cubical masses thus formed have resisted the action of the weather more completely than the others. In this way are left those great table-like masses, having thin edges moulded along the horizontal joints. Note (fff). Population of Donnybrook Parish. — In addition to what has appeared on this subject in pp. 50, 51, the follow- ing particulars are given ; — In 1813, the population of the parish (then including Booterstown) amounted to 6,884; viz., 3,129 males and 3,755 females. In 1861, the population, according to the census taken for the night of the 7th April, amounted to 12,151 ; comprising 5,367 males and 6,784 females ; and occupying 1,739 houses. Of these, 262 (216 males and 46 females) were in the Pigeon- house Fort; 70 (27 males and 43 females) in the Hospital for Incurables; and 55 females in the General Magdalen Asylum, Donnybrook. There were also 106 houses un- inhabited or building. The General valuation of the parish amounted to £32,171 10s.; the Poor Law valuation in 1851 having been £26,224 12s. A table, on the same plan as that given for Booterstown in p. 225, and showing at a glance the religious profession and education of the parishioners of Donnybrook, was pre- pared for insertion here ; but as it has been found impracti- cable to print the numerous details in full, a brief summary is substituted, the reader who may wish for fuller information, being referred to " The Census of Ireland, 1861," Part iv. pp. 27, 28, 29, 32, 43, 47. Members of the Established Church, 3,809 (1,712 males and 2,097 females) ; Roman Catholics, 7,747 (3,369 males and 4,378 females); Presbyterians, 258 (124 males and 134 NOTES. 269 females); Methodists, 184 (94 males and 90 females); In- dependents, 57 (23 males and 34 females) ; Baptists, 9 (4 males and 5 females) ; Society of Friends or Quakers, 25 (10 males and 15 females); All other Persuasions, 60 (30 males and 30 females) ; and Jews, 2(1 male and 1 female). The persons returned under the head of " All other Per- suasions " were 10 male and 6 female " Unitarians " ; 7 male and 5 female " Separatists" ; 6 male and 17 female " Chris- tian Brethren " ; 2 male and 2 female " Moravians " ; 1 male " Protestant Dissenter " ; 1 male " Free Church of Scotland "; 1 male " Christian " ; 1 male " Free-Thinker " ; and 1 male not specified ; total 60. Members of the Established Church, 3,809 ; Roman Catholics, 7,747 ; and all other denominations, 595 ; making the total of 12,151. Note (ggg). Donnybrook Parish Registers — As stated in pp. 41, 138, there is not amongst the books of the parish of Donny- brook the vestige of a register of baptisms, marriages, or burials, save a few insertions of marriages, for thirty-two years before 1800. The volume has long since disappeared ; but fortunately the defect may in a great measure be supplied from the annual Visitation-returns, which are lodged amongst the records of the Consistorial Court, Dublin. The returns (more or less detailed) made by the clergymen of Donny- brook to the Archbishop of the diocese from year to year, include lists of one hundred and twenty-five baptisms, forty- two marriages, and thirteen hundred and ten burials, from the year 1775 to 1800. The names of many Dublin citizens and others of note appear in these transcripts. The registers connected with the parish of Donnybrook date from the year 1712, earlier registers having probably ex- isted, and contain entries of baptisms, marriages, and burials. They are in good condition, in eleven volumes, and as follows : — Vol. I. Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, from 1712 (with 270 APPENDIX III. a few entries from 9th August, 1705) to 1768 ; with Mar- riages, from 25th April, 1778, to 17th December, 1784, in the handwriting of the Rev. Gore Wood, Curate ; and Marriages, from 8th December, 1776, to 25th February, 1800, copied a few years ago from the Visitation-returns. II. Baptisms, from 30th June, 1800, to 6th October, 1825; Marriages, from 15th November, 1800, to 16th. No- vember, 1825 ; and Burials, from 25th May, 1800, to 18th September, 1825. III. Baptisms, from 4th October, 1825, to 14th June, 1836 ; Marriages, from 16th October, 1825, to 23rd August, 1837 ; and Burials, from 23rd October, 1825, to 23rd March, 1848. IV. Baptisms, from 15th June, 1836, to 27th April, 1858 ; and Marriages, from 4th August, 1837, to 14th April, 1845. V. Burials, from 24th March, 1848, to 2nd January, 1861. VI. Marriages (under the present law), from 14th April, 1845, to 29th May, 1850. VII. Marriages, from 17th June, 1850, to 26th October, 1853. VIII. Marriages, from 29th October, 1853, to 23rd Ja- nuary, 1862. IX. Baptisms, from 3rd January, 1858, to present date. X. Burials, from 2nd January, 1861, to present date. XI. Marriages, from 30th January, 1862, to present date. At the Royal Chapel of St. Matthew, Ringsend (commonly called Irishtown Church), in this parish, there are the following registers : — Vol. I. Baptisms and Burials (not entered with regularity), from 1812 (before which year all entries were made in the parish registers) to October, 1826. II. Baptisms, from 1st February, 1827, to 22nd July, 1845 ; and Burials, from 3rd January, 1827, to 13th October, 1853. NOTES. 271 III. Baptisms, from 26th July, 1845, to 25th April, 1858. IV. Burials, from 18th October, 1853, to present date. V. Baptisms, from 28th March, 1858, to present date. Marriages have been solemnized in St. Matthew's, but very seldom, and only by special license. At St. John's, Sandymounr, which is likewise in this parish, and was opened for Divine Service, 24th March, 1850, there is a register of baptisms, from 15th August in that year. At Sandford Church, to which a district (including a portion of this parish) has been assigned, there is a register of baptisms. The volume contains six entries from Septem- ber, 1826 (in which year the church was opened), to July, 1827, and a large number from 15th December, 1858, to the present time ; and the names are transferred annually to the register of St. Peter's, Dublin, Sandford Church being in that parish. A district (including a portion of this parish) has been assigned to St. Bartholomew's Church, which was lately erected in the parish of St. Peter, near Ballsbridge, and in which baptisms and marriages are solemnized. There is a register of baptisms, from 7th January, 1868 ; and of mar- riages, from 2 3rd June in that year. Note (hhh). Extracts from the Donnybrook Parish Registers. — The following extracts (to which, if space permitted, large additions might be made) are to be taken as fair specimens of what may be found in many parish registers throughout the kingdom. The spelling in the original is preserved ; and with the view of economizing space, frequent reference is made to preceding pages : — BAPTISMS. 1705, August 9 Elizabeth, daughter of James and Elizabeth Lundy [of Ringsend]. 272 APPENDIX III. 1709, May 14. — James, son of William and Mary Kennell. 1712, April 4. — Marryian, daughter of William and Lettess Cowberth. 1712, May 6 — Susanna, daughter of John and Elizabeth Johnson. 1712, August 17. — Sarah, daughter of John and Elinor Manesergh. 1712, September 16. — Richard, son of Thomas and Eliza- beth Cave. 1713, September 11. — Elizabeth and Wealthy, daughters of William and Eleanor Wathing. 1713, December 5. — Thomas, son of Peter and Alice Vaviser. [The names of many members of the Vavasour family appear in these pages. See p. 153.] 1714, April 25 Wealthy, son of Symon and Eleanor Whathing. 1714, May 30. — Keziah, daughter of John and Margaret Adcox. 1714, November 5. — Christopher, son of Christopher and Margaret Carlton. 1714, November 8. — James, son of Humphery and Margaret Denny. 1716, April 22 Richard, son of Edward and Baptize Anderson. 1716, September 4. — Mahitable, daughter of Richard and Elizabeth Burnett. 1716-7, January 1. — Utilia, daughter of Richard and Elizabeth Deacon. 1716-7, February 14. — Constantino, son of Charles and Sarah O'Neil. 1717, December 13 — Margraer, daughter of Hugh and Margraet at Mill Town [near Donnybrook]. 1718, June 16. — Annistas, daughter of John and Sarah ffoley. 1718, July 27. — Jacob and James Madox, being Quakers. 1718, December 31. — Stephen, son of Peter and . 1723, June 22. — Abernathy, daughter of James and Elizabeth Bromlow. 1725, July 29 Eleanor, daughter of Richard and Eliza- beth Colley. [Mr. Colley (afterwards Wesley) was grand- father of the late Duke of Wellington. See p. 162.] 1725, December 8. — Syabella, daughter of John and Margaret Wallis. 1726, June 19.— Jamitt, son of William and Mary Arthur. NOTES. 273 1726, September 8. — Regina, daughter of Magnus and Elizabeth Syck. 1727-8, February 10 Eunice, daughter of John and Ann Dauncy. 1729, October 26.— Bathia, daughter of James and Eliza- beth Bromlow. 1730-1, February 14. — Ananias, daughter of Peter and Sarah Portovine. 1731, October 14 Thomas, son of James and Barbara Twigg. [Mrs. Twigg was the daughter of Stewart Blacker, Esq., of Carrick, Co. Armagh, and had at least five children, whose baptisms are recorded. See p. 162.] 1731, October 24. — Levina, daughter of John and Mar- garet Griffith. 1733, September 2 Teasia, daughter of William and Elizabeth Young. 1735, April 21 Hugh, son of Paul and Hannah Twigge. 1735, April 21. — Lundy, son of Geoffry and Jane ffoot. [He was afterwards Alderman Lundy Foot, and well known. See p. 153.] 1737, April 11. — Elizabeth, granddaughter of Mr. Thomas, of Donebrook. [Mr, Thomas Thomas was Churchwarden in 1719.] 1740-1, February 18. — Brillany, daughter of Henry and Elizabeth Bom bury. 1742, December 18. — Robert, son of Arthur and Florence Newburgh. [Mr. Newburgh's burial in 1762 will appear.] 1746, October 20 George, son of John and ElizabethEccles. 1752, June 19. — Mary Ann, daughter of John Bingam, Esq., and Frances, his wife. 1756, September 1. — Neptune, son of Harris and Mary Blood, of Ringsend. 1762, February 4. — Elizabeth Jane, daughter of William and Jane White, of Merrion. [White's-avenue, Merrion, still exists. Mr. White's marriage in 1761 will appear.] 1763, June 12 Anne, daughter of St. John and Arabella JefTer} T s, Esq. 1763, September 18. — Mary, daughter of Charles Coote, Esq., and Mary Dermoot. 1764, June 10 Marcus, son of William Beresford, Esq., and Elizabeth, his wife. [Mr. Beresford, whose marriage in 1763 will appear, became Archbishop of Tuam.] 1768, July 10 Ana Maria, daughter of John Corry, Esq., and Cathren, his wife. 274 APPENDIX III. MARRIAGES. 1714, April 3. — Nicholas Wilkinson. [No female men- tioned.] 1715, October 20 — Richard Archdeacon and Elizabeth Brown. 1730, May 18 — By y e A.D., John Mouls and Eliza- beth 1 homas. 1731, June 6. — By License, Chappell Dawson and Hannah Maria Townly. 1732, April 13 Jeffery ffoot and Jane Lundy. [For particulars of this family, see p. 153.] 1733-4, February 1. — By y e A.D., John Wynne and Elizabeth M'Calley. [Was he the same as the Rev. Dr. Wynne, whose burial was in 1762 ?] 1745, August 22.— By License, the Rev d Mr. Thomas Willkison and Miss Susanna Larive. 1748, August 20 By Consistory License, William Philips, Esq., and Miss Susanna Green. 1750, April 30 By License, Richard Ryan and Mahitable Burnett. 1753, July 30. — Robert Ridge, Esq., and Miss Cathren Stewart. 1755, December 23 By Prerogative License, Kenneth Tolmie, Esq., and Mrs. Anne Morgan. [" Married, Kenneth Tolmie, Esq., to the Widow Morgan, of St. Paul's Parish." — Pile's Occurrences, 30th December.] 1757, June 6. — By Consistory License, by the Rev d John Drury, James Doyne, Esq., and Miss Elizabeth Pratt. 1759, May 24 By the Archdeacon's License, by the Rev d Michael Heatly, Mr. Charles Christian and Miss Mary Lovett. [For mention of the Archdeacon of Dublin's " dor- mant power of granting marriage-licenses within his arch- deaconry," see p. 78.] 1760, April 30. — By Prerogative License, by the Rev d Samuell Whaly, Mr. George Hannell and Miss Elizabeth Davenport, of Ringsend. [Died " last week, at Wicklow, George Hannell, Esq., formerly Surveyor of Ringsend." — Pile's Occurrences, 8th April, 1766.] 1761, March 23.— By the Rev d Mr. Macmullin, Mr. William White and Miss Jane Lee, of Merrion. [In the Dublin Gazette, 30th July, 1772, there is this announcement : — " Married, Benjamin Lee, Esq., of Merrion^o the amiable Miss Smyth, of Drogheda, the smallest of whose accomplish- NOTES. 275 ments is a fortune of £2,000." Mr. Lee was a descendant of the Lees of Quarrendon, raised to the British peerage in 1674, as Earls of Lichfield ; and his eldest daughter and co-heir, Anne, was grandmother of the late Sir Benjamin Lee Guinness, Bait., M.P. for Dublin.] 1762, December 8. — By Consistory License, by y e Rev d Dr. William Dunk in, Mr. Henery Dunkin and Miss Mary Grant. [" Mr. Henry Dunkin, attorney, to the amiable Miss Grant, of Ballsbridge, whose smallest accomplishment is a for- tune of £1,500." — Skater's Public Gazetteer, 11th December.] 1763, June 12. — By License, the Hon. William Beresford and Miss Elizabeth Fitzgibons. [Mr. Beresford, brother of the first Marquess of Waterford, became Archbishop of Tuam in 1794, and was created Lord Decies in 1812. Miss Fitz- gibbon was the second daughter of John Fitzgibbon, Esq., of Donnybrook, and sister of the Earl of Clare. See p. 79. As stated in Walker s Hibernian Magazine, September, 1807, p. 574, Mrs. Beresford, who died in September, 1807, " was forty-four years a wife, and a most interesting example of conjugal affection ; her daughters were all married at very early ages, and have proved the most amiable of wives and mothers, worthy of the domestic and virtuous habits they were educated in."] 1764, February 19 By the Archdeacon's License, Mr. Henery Hoply and Miss Jane Brown, by Rev d Dr. Mann, A. D. of Dublin. [In Sleater's Public Gazetteer, 6th March, this announcement appears: — "At Ringsend, Mr. Henry Hopley to Miss Brown."] 1764, March 7.— By Consistory License, by the Rev d Dr. Isaac Mann, Archdeacon of Dublin, Mr. John Evans and Miss Jane Burns, of Ringsend. 1764, September 11 — By Consistory License, by Mr. Freemen, Mr. Mathew Petters and Miss Ann Dupont, of Booterstown. 1764, September 22. — By Consistory License, by Rev d Mr. Old, Topam Mitchell, Esq., and Miss Jane Lord. [In Skater's Public Gazetteer, 25 th September, this announce- ment appears : — " Married at Booterstown, in the county of Dublin, Topham Mitchell, Esq., to Miss Lord, daughter of William Lord, Esq., Councellor-at-law."] The death of another " Topham Mitchell, Esq., a gentleman whose death is deservedly lamented," and which was caused " by a fall from his horse, near Rathfarnham," had taken place on the 20th of the preceding May lb. 22nd May, 1764. 276 APPENDIX III. 1765, February 16. — By Prerogative License, by the Rev d Thomas Hearty, Mathew Coleman, Esq., and Miss Margaret Hornby. 1766, January 15 — By Consistory License, by the Rev d Thomas Heauy, Captain Charles Vallancey, Esq., and Miss Juliue Blosett. [General Vallancey was buried at St. Peter's, Dublin, where there is a stone with this inscription : — " Here lieth the body of General Charles Vallancey, who died on the 8th day of August, 1812, in the 88th year of his age."] 1767, January 11. — By Consistory License, by Rev d Dr. Man, Archdeacon of Dublin, Mr. Mogens Tronwig and Miss Sarah Dennis. 1768, February 11 By y e Archdeacon's License, by Dr. Mann, Mr. Samuel Robison and Miss Mary Beats. BURIALS. [The Donnybrook graveyard and St. Matthew's churchyard, Ringsend, are both in the parish of Donnybrook ; and until the year 1812 all entries of burials (as well as those of bap- tisms and marriages) were made in the parish registers, and in almost every instance without distinguishing the place.] 1712, May 10. — Ezble, daughter of James and Gudle. 1713, July 19 Richard Pigeon. [Was this the man to whom the present Pigeon-house is indebted for its name ?] 1713, October 5. — Francis Coddin. [Seep. 152, where his name is given as M'Cadden.] 1714, March 26.— Quinn Ello, wife of William Quinn Ello. 1715, September 4 — Widdow Benns Granson. 1715-6, January 27. — Commissary Beckett. 1716, March 31 — The Lieutenant's man of ye Albbrough man-of-war. 1716, November 24. — A poor Spanish sailor, y* died at Mrs. Dreak's. 1716-7, January 1 William Popes, one of the Parish poor. 1716-7, January 24. — A child of one Cook, a Relation of Cook the waterman, of Dunlary [now Kingstown]. 1716-7, February 1 Madam Cleton, in the Chancell of Donebrook. [Was she mother of Bishop Clayton, who was buried at Donnybrook in 1758 ?] 1717, August 12.— ffrancis Malherb, a ffrenchman. 1717, October 2 Cornelious Killick, from on Board. NOTES. 277 1717-8, January 21. — Sarah Robinson at Recool [Rath- coole, Co. Dublin]. 1718, September 12 — Mr. Winsor, Clerk of St. Matthew Chappie [Ringsend]. 1719, April 10. — John Etheridge, Prentice to Mr, Morney. 1719, May 14. — Mary Cornish, from on board Mr. 1719, July 19.— Mr. Thomas Ashley. 1719, December 12 — Mrs. Katherine Ashley. 1720-1, January 18 — William, from on board the John and Ann belonging to Hastead, John Moore, Master. 1721-2, February 5.— Madam Calwell, from the Folly. [See p. 161.] 1721-2, John Thompson died on Ash Wednesday, the 7th of February, and was buried the 9th, being Fryday following, in St. Andrew's churchyard, Dublin : there was a funeral sermon. 1722, September 11. — Martha, a child from Port Mahone. 1724, July 19.— Doctor Walsh. 1724-5, March 12.— Patrick Kelly. [He had been Churchwarden in 1712.] 1726, May 11.— Y e Reverend John Borrough, Minister of St. Mathew's. [He was the first Minister of this Royal Chapel. See p. 162. For mention of him and his family, see Smiles' " Huguenots," etc., p. 350. Sir Edward R. Borough, Bart., of Dublin, is the present representative.] 1726-7, January 13 Mr. Thomas Cave. 1726-7, March 6. — Christopher Carlton. [By com- mission bearing date 12th February, 1700, King William III. (as mentioned in Archdall's "Lodge's Peerage of Ireland," vol. vi. p. 23) constituted Sir Thomas Southwell, Bart, (afterwards first Baron Southwell), Brigadier Ingoldsby, Christopher Carleton (?), and two more, Trustees for the Bar- racks in and throughout Ireland, and made them a body corporate.] 1727, November 19 Madam Claxton. [See p. 163.] 1727, December 3. — Mr. Barry, a Roman Priest. 1727-8, March 8.— Collonel Fitzgerald. 1728, August 2 Grandchild to General Peirce. 1728, November 5. — Mr. Lord, Apothecary. [There is a stone at Donny brook, with inscription. See p. 290.] 1728, November 25. — Peter Winchilto, a Dutch Master. 1728, December 1. — Mrs. Walsh, a Hackney Coachman's wife. 278 APPENDIX III. 1729, April 23.— Mr. Maquea, Minister. [The Rev. Thomas Maquay, who, having been born in Dublin about 1694, was educated by the Dublin Presbytery, and ordained colleague to the Rev. Mr. Synclare, in the Presbyterian church of Plunket-street. In Notes and Queries, 3rd S. i. 320, his death is wrongly stated to have taken place on the 27th of January. His widow married the Rev. Dr. John Leland, whose burial was in 1766. See p. 284.] 1729, May 10.— Archbishop King. [William King, D.D., Archbishop of Dublin. See p. 164.} 1729-30, January 11. — John Murphy, Physition. 1729-30, January 25. — A child of Higgins, y e Meal man. 1729-30, February 24.— Thomas Williams, Quarter Master of Horse. 1730, August 13 — Robert Dougket, late A.D. [Robert Dougatt, A.M., had been Archdeacon of Dublin, and conse- quently Rector of Donnybrook, 1715-1719; and was nephew of Archbishop King. See p. 166.] 1731, September 13.— Madam Whittingham. [Wife of Charles Whittingham, D.D., Archdeacon of Dublin. See p. 72.] 1732, September 8 Ammoross Burges. [Ambrose Burges, " the late famous English undertaker, and builder of the Salt Works" at Ringsend. See p. 166.] 1732-3, January 10.— Edward King, aged 101 years. 1733, November 25. — A child of General Piece's [Pearce's] Servants. 1733, December 10. — By the A.D., Sir Edward Pierce. [Sir Edward Lovet Pearce, M.P., a celebrated architect, and the builder of the Irish Parliament-house of his day. " Last night died at his seat at Still- Organ, Sir Edward Lovet Pearce, Knt, Engineer, Overseer, and Surveyor General of this kingdom.'' (Pue's Occurrences, 8th December. ) " Yester- day morning the corps of Sir Edward Lovet Pearce was interred at Donnybrook Church." {lb. 11th December.) See p. 74.] 1733-4, February 7. — Mr. Watson, from the Workhouse. 1734, May 18 Elizabeth, daughter to theRev d Charles Whittingham, on Wednesday. 1734, October 6 Old Mrs. Birch. 1736, April 26.— The Reverend Mr. Jones. 1736-7, February 20. — Burlanah Bumbarry. 1737, April 7 Old Mr. Dallamain. [In Skater's Piiblic Gazetteer, 11th March, 1760, this notice appeared : — "Tues- NOTES. 279 day last died Mrs. Mary Delaraain, widow of the late Captain Henry Delamain, who was the first that brought the earthen- ware manufacture to perfection in this kingdom ; and since his decease his said widow (endowed with all the virtues of a good Christian, tender parent, and sincere friend) continued it with such advantage to the purchasers as to prevent the further importation of foreign wares," etc. For particulars of Henry Delamain, see Notes and Queries, 4th S. v. 50 (8th January, 1870).] 1737, July 24. — William Jones, of Brickfield. [See p. 74.] 1737, December 15 A Relation of Mrs. Johnson's, from St. Patrick's. [Stella had died 28th January, 1728.] 1737-8, January 11 Thomas Earl, Sexton of St. Mat- thew's [Ringseud] 30 years. 1737-8, January 29.— Reverend Mr. Mullan. 1737-8, March 14.— The Wbitesides. 1738, September 17 Mrs. Morison, midwife. [Some- what like an entry in the parish-register of Alrewas, Staffordshire : — " 1682, September 8, Ellena Alput, vidua (obstetrix felicissiraa), sepulta."] 1738-9, January 20.— General Pierce. [The Right Hon. Lieut. -General Thomas Pearce, who "was at once Governor, Mayor, and Representative in Parliament, of the city of Limerick." " On Saturday night last, past Ten of the clock, the corpse of the Right Hon. Lieutenant General Thomas Pearce was taken out of the vault in Christ Church, where it was deposited, and carried in a hearse, accompanied with a mourning coach, to Doneybrooke Church, where it was interred." (Dublin Gazette, 23rd January.) He w r as bro- ther of Sir E. L. Pearce, whose burial in 1733 has been mentioned, See also p. 74.] 1738-9, February 7 Coronet Pierce. 1739-40, February 13 John, son to James. 1741, August 26 Y e Reverend Michael Hartlip in St. Bride's [Dublin. See p. 167. The Rev. Michael Hartlib was Chaplain of St. Matthew'?, in succession to Mr. Borough, and died of a fever at his house in Ringsend Dublin Gazette, 29th August.] 1741, August 29.— William Roberts, Docter. [In the Dublin Gazette, 29th August, there is this notice of his death : — " Died of a decay at the house of Robert Roberts, at Coldblow, near this city, Doctor William Roberts, son-in- law to Doctor Philip Rudgate, and an advocate in the Spiritual Courts : he is to be buried this evening at Donney- 280 APPENDIX III. Brooke Church." Many members of this family have been buried at Donnybrook. See p. 131.] 1741, November 15 — Jonathan Ponder. [Mr. Jonathan Ponder, who kept the great inn at Rathcoole, near Dublin, was interred at Donnybrook. His corpse was attended to the grave " with an incredible number of coaches, chaises, and cars." — Dublin Gazette, 17th November.] 1741-2, January 11 — Dummee Child. 1742, May 6.— Henry Lord Power, in y e Vault of St. Mathew's Chappel. [Died 5th May, " Henry Lord Power of Ireland, of an antient and noble family. He had for many years a pension of £500 per ann. from the Crown." (Gen- tleman's Magazine, 1742, p. 274.) " Same day died Henry Lord Power, of an antient and noble family ; and his corps was interred on Thursday evening at Ring's-end Church." (Pile's Occurrences, 8th May.) " Last week died Henry Power, commonly called Lord Power. He had a pension of £550 per annum. Having been deemed a lunatic for some years past, he has been under the guardianship of Mr. Shanly. We hear that by his death his sister gets £1,500 due to him." (Dublin News-Letter, 11th May.) For particulars of Lord Power, see pp. 75, 167.] 1742, September 2. — Mrs. Sennit from Butter Town [Booterstown]. 1742, December 10 Frances Trotter in the Cabbage Garden. [See p. 168. In Crook's "Ireland and the Cente- nary of American Methodism " (London, 1866), p. 55, there is a note on the Cabbage Garden.] 1742-3, January 4. — Hannah Williamson in a storm. 1744, May 18 Governor Richard Fitzwilliams. 1745, December 26 Major Francis. 1745-6, January 22.— Mr. Rich. Crosha. [Seep. 160.] 1745-6, February 12 Mr. Nally. [Members of this family have been buried at Donnybrook from time to time during the last two centuries. See p. 125.] 1746, June 23. — Lady Prendergrast. 1746, September 30 Madam Merrett. 1747-8, February 28 Lady Newport. [See p. 75. " Sunday morning last the corps of the Right Hon. the Lady Newport was interred in the Church at Irishtown." — Dublin Weekly Journal, 5th March.] 1748, July 23.— Lord Mayo's Son. [See p. 76.] 1749, July 17.— Lady Pierce. [Widow of Sir Edward Lovet Pearce, who had died in 1733. See p. 278.] NOTES. 281 1750, November 28. — James Lundy. [Died 27th No- vember, " at Ringsend, Mr. James Lundow, aged 106 years " (Exs7iaw's Magazine, 1750, p. 596), and was buried at St. Matthew's, as appears from the inscription on tombstone given in p. 153. There is, as may be observed, a difference in the date.] 1750-1, January 24. — Mr. Carroll, a popish priest. 1753, June 4. — Captain Icaace Wills. [See p. 125.] 1753, December 20.— The Rev rt Dean Watts, Dean of Ossary. [The Very Rev. Robert Watts, D.D., Dean of St. Canice, Kilkenny. " Died, much lamented, at his house near Stephen's Green, the Rev. Dr. Watts, Dean of Ossory." (Pwe's Occurrences, 22nd December.) See p. 77.] 1754, December 22. — A woman from the Quay. 1756, January 1 S r Sheafill Austin. 1756, April 8. — Margrett Mountany, wife to y e Hon. Baron Mountany. 1757, June 11. — Benjman Mounteny, Esq. [Mrs. Mount- ney was the wife, and this probably the son, of the Hon. Richard Mountney, Baron of the Exchequer in Ireland, who died 9th April, 1767. In Skater's Public Gazetteer, 6th October, 1759, the Baron's second marriage was thus announced : — " Married, the Honourable Richard Mountney, Esq., second Baron of his Majesty's Court of Exchequer, to the Lady Dowager Countess of Mount-Alexander." See Notes and Queries, 2nd S. xii.] 1757, August 25. — Thomas Gresdall. [For twentv-five years Principal Surveyor at Ringsend. See pp. 152, 165.] 1758, January 6.— Major John Pluknett. [Major John Plukenett, of Donnybrook. See p. 127.] 1758, January 8 Rob* Roberts, Esq. [See p. 131.] 1758, March 1— Robert L d Bp* of Clogher. [Robert Clayton, D.D., Bishop of Clogher, whose tombstone is at Donnybrook. For inscription, etc., see pp. 39, 168.] 1758, April 12.— James Tent, Esq. [The Right Hon. James Tynte, of Dunlavan, Co. Wicklow, who, with other members of the family, was buried at Donnybrook.] 1758, May 19— Y e R*. Hon. Oliver Fitzwilliams. 1758, June 11.— Y e R* Hon. Cathe Fitzwilliams. [In Archdall's " Lodge's Peerage of Ireland," vol. iv. p. 318, it is stated that Oliver Fitzwilliam, Earl of Tyrconnel, who died 11th April, 1667, lies buried under a handsome tomb of black marble, in the chapel of the family's foundation in Donnybrooke-Church ; but the church, chapel, and tomb 282 APPENDIX III. have disappeared. For the inscription, see p. 51. William, third Viscount Fitzwilliam of Merrion, died in December, 1674, and was buried with his elder brother, the Earl of Tyrconnel. A curious " Note of the payments made in re- lation to the burial " has been preserved, and will be given.] 1759, January 18.— Mrs. Medlicote. [Buried at St. Matthew's (and hot at Donnybrook, see p. 131), where her tombstone may be found. For mention of her death and character, see Shelter's Public Gazetteer, 26th January.] 1759, February 18— Dr. Barth. Mosse. [The noble founder of the Lying-in-Hospital, Dublin, who was buried at Donnybrook. See pp. 38, 169.] 1760/ March 11 Miss Martha Tynte. [Died 10th March, "in Dawson-street, the only daughter of Robert Tynte, of Old Baun, in the county of Dublin, Esq." — Skater's Public Gazetteer, 15th March.] 1760, June 25.— Robt. Tynte, Esq. [He was father of the preceding, and died 13th June. " On his way to Bath, Robert Tynte, of Old Baun, in the county of Dublin, Esq." (Sleater's Public Gazetteer, 24th June.) " Tuesday, the Lively Galley, Capt. Williams, arrived from Park-gate with Mr. Tynte's remains, which were interred at Donnybrook the day following."— lb. 28th June.] 1761, January 24.— Ralph Ellrinton. [The death of Mr. Ralph Elrington, comedian, at his lodgings in Temple Bar, was announced in the Dublin Journal, 27th January.] 1761, September 19. — The Hon. Judeth Fitzwilliams. 1762, January 12. — Rebeck Lescuer. [Among the deaths recorded in the Dublin Magazine for this year, is that of Widow Lescure, of Ringsend, aged 102.] 1762, January 21.— Rev d Dr. John Winn. [The Rev. John Wynne, A.M., Precentor of St. Patrick's, Dublin. See p. 79.] 1762, February 1. — Ralph Lambert, Esq. 1762, March 25.— Arther Newburgh, Esq. [Died 23rd March, "at his house on Finglas-road, Arthur Newburgh, Esq., Secretary to the Right Hon. and Hon. the Trustees of the Linen Manufacture." (Skater's Public Gazetteer , 27th March). He was succeeded by his eldest son, Broghill Newburgh, Esq.] 1762, April 4 John Vavisor. [John Vavasor, who was buried at St. Matthew's, where his tomb mav be seen. See p. 153.] . 1762, May 7. — Mrs. Newburgh, wife to Arth* New- NOTES. 283 burgh, Esq. [She was younger daughter of John Cole, Esq., of Florence-Court, Co. Fermanagh. See p. 168.] 1762, July 14.— Jos. Medlicott. [Died 12th July, "in Stephen-street, Joseph Medlicott, Esq., Register of the dio- cese of Armagh, and one of the Proctors of the Courts of Delegates, Prerogative, Consistory, and Admiralty." (Skater's Public Gazetteer, 17th July.) His wife had died in 1759.] 1762, July 16.— Col 1 George Jocelyn. [See p. 75.] 1762, November 17.— The Rev d John Goodicheau. [?] 1763, March 27.— James Doyne, Esq. [Died 21st March, " at his house near Donnybrook, James Doyne, Esq." — Skater's Public Gazetteer, 29th March]. 1763, August 28. — Nisbitt Usher, Surveyor of Ringsend. [Died 26th August, " at Ringsend, Nesbit Usher, Esq., Principal Surveyor of Ringsend, a gentleman of very amiable character." {Skater's Public Gazetteer, 27th August.) "Richard Charters, Esq., appointed Surveyor of Ringsend," 12th September, in room of Nesbit Usher, Esq., deceased. — Ex sham's Magazine, 1763, p. 564.] 1763, December 3. — Mr. Warner, 2 children, and mead. [See p. 154 ; and Dublin Magazine, vol. iv. p. 771.] 1764, March 21.— Jane Moss. [Died 19th March, "in Great Britain-street, Mrs. Jane Mosse, widow of the late Dr. Mosse, Projector of the Lying-in- Hospital," who had been buried at Donnybrook in 1759. (Skater's Public Gazetteer, 24th March.) Their marriage, which took place 6th October, 1743, was announced in these terms: — " Mr. Bartholomew Mosse, an eminent Surgeon and Man-midwife, was married to Miss Whittingham, only daughter to the late Rev d Dr. Charles Whittingham, Archdeacon of Dublin, a very agreeable young lady with a large fortune." — Dublin News-Letter, 8th October, 1743.] 1764, June 24. — Geo. Clayton. 1765, December 18. — John Joeslin, Esq. [" John Jocelyn, Esq., a Major on half-pay, and nearly allied to the Rt. Hon. Lord Vise. Jocelyn." (Exshaw's Magazine, 1765, p. 784.) See also Skater's Public Gazetteer, 17th De- cember. He was buried " in the family-vault at Irish- town," otherwise St. Matthew's, Ringsend, as stated in p. 76.] 1766, January 8 Cathrcn Clayton, y e Bp' 8 wife. [Widow of Bishop Clayton, who had been buried at Donny- brook in 1758. Died "Jan. 5, at Stephen's-green, Mrs. 284 APPENDIX III. Clayton, relict of the late Lord Bishop of Clogher." — Skater's Public Gazetteer, 7th January.] 1766, January 16. — Zacharias Woodward. 1766, January 19.— The Rev d Dr. John Layland. [See p. 80; Gilbert's " History of Dublin," vol. ii. p. 311; and " The Life of the learned John Leland of Dublin, well known by his writings in defence of Christianity, by Isaac Weld, D.D.," in Exshaw's Magazine, 1766, pp. 217-220. " An excellent likeness, from an original picture in the pos- session of Dr. Wilson," is given in the Gentleman's Magazine, 1803, p. 1129.] 1766, May 28.— Chittwood Eustace, Esq. [Died " May 26, Chetwood Eustace, of Harristown, Co. Kildare, Esq." (Exshaw's Magazine, 1766, p. 444.) For some curious particulars of this gentleman's mansion, see " A Tour through Ireland," by two English Gentlemen, p. 239 (Dublin, 1748).] 1767, July 27 John Cambell, a popish priest 1768, July 1.— Te Rev d Dr. Will Moss. [The parish-register for thirty-two years before 1800 having long since disappeared (see p. 269), the following particulars are extracted from the visitation-returns. These annual returns from the parish of Donnybrook date from 1775.] MARRIAGES. 1778, December 26.— By License, by Rev d George Brad- dell, Michael Croker and Mary Braddell. 1781, April 20.— By License, by Rev d Gore Wood, Walter Wade, M.D., and Mary Chambers. [Dr. Wade was the author of a volume, entitled " Catalogus Plantarum in Comitatu Dubliniensi Inventarum " (Dublin, 1794), and other botanical publications.] 1781, August 20. — By License, by same, William Walker and Henrietta Higginbotham. 1782, July 16 — By License, by same, William Henn, Esq., and Susanna Lovett. 1782, August 10 — By License, by same, Francis Casey, Esq., and Mary Henn. 1783, July 25. — By License, by Rev d Mr. Ryan, Chaplain to the Right Hon. Lady Lisle, John Travers, Esq., and the Hon. Grace Lysaght. [See p. 173.] NOTES. 285 1786, March 11. — William Chapman and Martha Roe. 1790, April 19 Rev d Henry Murray and Emma Dawson. 1796, August 20. — The Reverend Henry Francis Cary, of Staffordshire, and Miss Jane Ormsby, daughter to James Ormsby, Esq., of Sandymount. [See " Memoir of the Rev. Henry Francis Cary, M.A., Translator of Dante,"etc. (2 vols. London, 1847) ; in the first volume of which, p. 84, there is a slight inaccuracy as to the date of this marriage. See also Notes and Queries, 4th S. vii. 137, 465.] 1796, September 9. — Mr. Samuel Ashworth and Miss Eliza Prise. 1798, April 14 — By License, Gabriel Stokes and Eliza- beth Haughton. 1798, May 5. — By License, by Rev d Gore Wood, James Taylor, of the city of Dublin, Merchant, and Wilhelmina Roe, of this parish, Spinster. 1798, June 6 By License, by Rev<* Thos. Goffe, Wil- liam Trocke, of Abbey Street, Dublin, Esq., and Jane Pains, of this parish, Spinster. 1798, June 23 By License, by Rev d Gore Wood, Richard Sunderland, of Liverpool, and Jane Roe, of this parish, Spinster. 1798, By License, by Rev d Gore Wood, Thomas Franklin, of Temple-bar, Dublin, Merchant, and Elizabeth Pidgeon, of this parish, Spinster. 1799, April 15 — By License, Richard Webb, of Long- ford, and Jane Webb, of this parish, Spinster. 1799, October 16. — By License, by Rev d Gore Wood, John Smithers, of Capel Street, Dublin, and Sarah Trocke, of this parish. 1800, February 25. — By License, by same, Andrew Dalton, of Cork Bridge, Dublin, Brewer, and Cecily Porter, of this parish, Spinster. BURIALS. 1775, November 16. — Santrey Francess, Esq. 1775, November 22. — John Usher. 1776, January 7. — Thos. Foot. 1776, March 7 Mrs. Mary Mountainy. [Was she con- nected with Baron Mountney, whose wife, " Margrett Mountany," was buried in 1756 ?] 1776, May 21 Mr. James Harding. 1776, May 25 Miss Foote. < 286 APPENDIX III. 1776, Mav 27— Rich d Lord Vise 6 Fitzwilliam. [See pp. 114, 171.] 1776, December 9 — Sam 1 Thomas. 1778, May 29:— Miss Elizabeth Fleming. 1778, November 23. — Capt a James Langston. [Captain Francis Langston, of Dublin, as on his tombstone at Donnybrook.] 1779, April 20.— Mr, George McQuay. 1779, October 18. — At Ringsend, Margaret Vavasor. 1780, February 4. — John Causier. 1780, July 2.— At Donnybrook, Hon Me Lieut* Col 1 Francis Napier. [See p. 171.] 1781, July 17. — At Donnybrook, James Stewart. 1781, August 12.— At Ringsend, George Macklin. [See p. 152.] 1781, October 11. — At Donnybrook, Leathern Joanes. 1781, November 14. — At Donnybrook, Thomas Newburg, 1782, March 31. — At Donnybrook, Rev d Doctor Wynne. 1782, June 24.— At Donnybrook, Cath r Moulds. [Many members of the Mowlds family have been buried at Donny- brook. See p. 129.] 1782, October 25 Eliz. Sankey. [See p. 128.] 1782, December 6. — Peter Vavisor. [His tombstone is at St. Matthew's. See p. 153.] 1783, August 24 Mrs. Foster, wife of Rev d Doctor Foster. [Buried at Donnybrook. Dr. Forster was buried there in 1788. See p. 130.] 1784, March 9 Rev d Doctor Benson. [Thomas Benson, D.D., Vicar Choral of St. Patrick's, Dublin. See p. 173.] 1784, March 19. — Alderman Sankey. [His tombstone is at Donnybrook. See p. 128.] 1784, March 20 Father Field. 1784, July 21.— Cathrine Roberts. 1784, November 25. — John Taylor. 1785, June 15. — Wm. Owenson. [See p. 157.] 1785, July 27 — Luizia D'Olier. [Daughter of Jeremiah D'Olier, Esq., of Collegnes, Booterstown. Several members of this family have been buried at Donnybrook. See p. 135.] 1785, November 13. — At Donnybrook, Sir Jas. Tent. [See p. 127. A copy of what was on his tombstone, may be found near the close of the next Note.~\ 1786, February 25 At Irishtown, the Rev d Mr. Thomson. NOTES. 1786, May 14. — At Donnybrook, Hugh Henry Mitchell. 1786, May 22. — A: Donnybrook, Steevan Rice, Esq. 1786, June 29. — At Donnybrook, Mrs. Grace West. [Wife of the Rot. Matthew West. Vicar of Clane. Mr. West had been Curate of Donnybrook, and died 11th Sep- tember, IS 14. Their tombstone, with a long inscription, is :ny brook.] 1786, September 7. — At Donnybrook, Bernard St. George. 1786, October 13. — A: Donnybrook, Miss Martha Tent. ghter of the above-named Sir James Stratford Tynte, 1787, October 1 At Donnybrook, Thomas Leech, Esq. 1757. November 20. — A: Ringsend, Surgeon Scott. 1788, March 13. — At Donnybrook. Mrs. Veasey. [Mrs. Frances Vesey, relict of the Rev. George Vesey, of Holly- mount. Co. Mayo. See p. 129. John Vesey, D.D., Arch- er' Tuam, died 28th March. 1716. in his seventy-ninth year, and was buried at Hollymount, his place of residence. ton's "Fasti Ecclesue Hiberniea?," vol. iv. p. 16.) \g this prelate's lifetime, his eldest son. Sir Thomas Vesey. Bart [EneaJ ancestor of Viscount DeVesci), was successively Appointed bo :~e bishoprics of KUlaloe (1713) >s::y (1714).] 1788, May 13 At Donnybrook, John Vesey, Esq. [Second son of the preceding.] 1788, August 26.— Eliz h ^ D'Olier. [See p. 135.] 1788, October 1 Rev 4 Dr. Foster. ^The Key. John Forster. D.D. See p. 130.] 17^S, November 9 Dorothy Whitingham. 17SS. November 2S. — Godfrey Mountain. 17-0. May 11 — Ambrose Mitchell. 1790, January 23. — At Donnybrook, Samuel Thomas. 17J ), August 15. — At Irishtown, Nath. Foot. 1791, February 3. — At Donnybrook, Eliz h Dowries. 1791, April 9."— At Irishtown. Rob* Roe. [His tomb- stone is at St Matthew's. From him was descended, amongst a, the late George Roe, Esq., D.L., of Nutley, Donny- brook.] 1791, April IS. — At Donnybrook, Jos. Butler. Esq. 1791, April 22.— At Donnybrook, Edward Lord, Esq. 1792, Januarv 1. — At Irishtown. Mrs. Evelin. [See P. 152.] 1793 — At Donnvbrook. Miss Carlonia Bellen. 288 APPENDIX III. 1794, June 2. — George Harkness. [His tombstone is at Donnybrook.] 1794, October 26 Rev<* Mr. Nicholson. [Roman Ca- tholic clergyman of Booterstown, Blackrock, and Dundrum.] 1795, April 3.— Mr. Pidgeon. 1796, May 24 Miss Roberts. [Eldest daughter of John Roberts, Esq., of Old Connaught, Bray. See p. 131.] 1796, August 31 Samuel Thomas. 1796, Septembers. — Miss Charlotte Billing. 1796, October 25 Miss Uniack. 1796, December 30.— Mrs. Ball. 1797, May 6 Frances Phillippi Medlicot. 1797, May 7 Mrs. Draught. [Wife of the Rev. Dr. Drought, S.F.T.C.D., and buried at Donnybrook. See p. 130.] 1797, July 16.— Mrs. Whittingham. 1799, January 21 — Lady Barry. 1800, March 6 — Mrs. Eliza Closey, relict of the late Samuel Clossey, Esq., M.D. Note (Hi.) Donnybrook Graveyard. — Many tombstone inscrip- tions having appeared in pp. 124-138, 152-157, it has been resolved to add to the number ; and accordingly other inscriptions, over the graves of persons who were of more or less note in their respective stations, have been carefully transcribed for the purpose. In several cases the stones have suffered severely from the effects of the weather ; for example, the one erected over the grave of Sir James Stratford Tynte, Bart, mentioned in p. 127. The greater portion of the in- scription upon it has disappeared ; but through the foresight of the late Sir William Betham (who copied many of the inscriptions at Donnybrook and elsewhere), the full par- ticulars have been preserved, and are given below. To his- torians, topographers, genealogists, and others, such inscrip- tions have oftentimes proved most useful ; and it is much to be wished that measures should at once be taken through- out the land to have them properly transcribed and recorded NOTES. 289 for the public good. With this object in view, and to show what may be done with a little trouble, the following are submitted to the reader : — [Continued from p. 138.] LXIV. " Here lyes the body of Mr. Anthony Maynard, who departed this life the 6th of Oct r , 1703, in the 76th year of his age." LXV. " Here lyeth the body of John Archdeacon, who departed this life the 27th of May, in the yeare of our Lord 1706. Patrick Archdeacon, his father, caused this stone to be set here." [" This name is traceable in the Local and Family History of the counties of Kilkenny and Galway from a very early period, and subsequently in Cork." (D'Alton's " Illustrations of King James' Irish Army List, 1689," vol, i., p. 382.) Mr. D'Alton makes mention of several members of the family ; and the name appears under dif- ferent forms — Archdekin, le Ercedekne, Lercedekene, le Ercedecyne, Archdakne, and Archdeacon.] LXVI. " Here lies the body of Thos. Motley, of Eingsend, ship- wright, who died 2nd July, 1722, aged 60. Also the body of Elizabeth, wife to the above, who died 5th August, 1747, aged 83. As also the body of James Motley, son of James Motley, who died 31st May, 1752, aged 10. Here also lieth the body of James Motley, of George's Quay [Dublin], Merch*, who died 29th August, 1768, aged 63. This stone was erected bv his wife, Elizabeth Motley." [John Motley was Churchwarden of Donny brook in 1737.] Lxvir. " Here lyeth the body of Elizabeth Quinn, wife of John Quinn, who departed this life the 4th day of December, 1722. Also 4 of her children." " Here lyeth the bodies of Mr. Wm. Hurst and Ellen, his wife; he died April 27th, 1725, aged 74 years; she died August 28th, 1728, aged 64 years. Also the bodies of ten children of Mr. Wm. Hurst, Merch*, son of the above-named Wm. & Ellen Hurst. The last of said children, named 290 APPENDIX III. Wm., the only son, died Nov r 6tb, 1753, aged 5 years. Also tbe body of Ellen Gillmer, wife of James Gillmer, daughter of the above Wm. Hurst, Merch t ; she died August, 1757, aged 27 years. Also the body of Ellen Hurst, wife of Wm. Hurst, mother of the above-named Ellen; she died March 23rd, 1758, aged 58 years. Also the body of James Gillmer, husband of the above-named Ellen ; he died March 28th, 1758, aged 25 years. Also the body of Mary Gillmer, wife of John Gillmer, Esq r , daughter of the above-named Wm. Hurst, Merch* ; she died July 3rd, 1768, aged 40 years." LXIX. " Here lieth the body of Mr. Edward Lord, of St Warbrs Street, Dublin, Apothecary, who departed this life on Sunday, the 3rd of Novb r , 1728, aged 42 years. Also his wife, Lydia Lord, who departed this life ye 14th Jan 7 , 1767, aged 75 years. Also her daughter-in-law, Cassandra Lord, who departed this life ye 29th October, 1769, aged 39 years." [See p. 277.] LXX. " This stone and burial-place belongeth unto Mrs. Ann Black, alias Bently, of Brabston Street, for her and her pos- terity. Here lyeth the body of Mr. Charles Black, husband of y e above-named, who departed this life the 20th day of February, A.D. 173}, in the 53rd year of his age." LXXI. "Here lieth the body of Grizzel Carther, who departed this life y e 1st of March, 1740, aged 52 years. Also one daughter and four grandchildren." " Here lyeth the body of Mr. George Anderson, who died the 31st of December, 1742, aged 37 years." [Mr. Anderson had been Churchwarden of Donnybrook in 1734.] *' This ground and stone was purchased by Mrs. Mary Donovan, in memory of her beloved husband, Mr. Morgan Donovan, who departed this life ye 14th of March, 1746, aged 52 yr s , and was interred here. Also two of his chil- dren. Here also lyeth the body of Miss Mary Donovan, daughter of the above Mr. Morgan Donovan, who departed XOTES. 291 this life the 7th of November, 1751, in the 21st year of her age. Here lyeth the body of Mr. Daniel Donovan, Mer- chant, son of the above Morgan, vrho departed this life the 28th of March, 1758, in the 26th year of his age. Here lyeth the body of Mr. Peter Donovan, son of the above Morgan, who departed this life the 25th of October, 1759, in the 24th year of his age. Here lyeth the body of Mrs. Mary Donovan, wife of the above Mr. Morgan Donovan, who departed this life the 18th day of July, Anno Domini 1762, in the 60th year of her age." LXXIV. 11 Here lieth the body of Arthur Connolly, with two of his children, who departed this life July the 7th, 1746, aged 40." [" Buried, July ye 9, 1746, Mr. Conolly."— Parish Register.] LXXV. u Here lyeth the body of Mr. John Eliot, of the parish of Donnybrook, who departed this life the 19th day of Decem- ber, 1746, aged 70 years. Thi* stone was erected for him, his wife, and family. I. Rid r [sic], died Febr y the 16th, 1753, aged 10 years." ["Buried, December y e 21, 1746, Mr. Elliott"— Parish Register.] LXXVI. M This stone was erected by Mrs. Honor McCarty to the memory of her mother Honor, and sister, Margarett Rans- ford, alias McCarty, October, 1747." LXXVII. " Here lieth the body of Mrs. Mary Butler, who departed this life January, 1748, aged 72. Here also lieth the body of Mrs. Ann Taylor, who died the 16th February, 1778, aged 83. Also John Butler, Esq r , son to the above Ann, who departed this life March 3rd, 1783, aged 58. Here are deposited the remains of Matthew Handcock, who discharged the duties of an important office under Government in the Castle of Dublin [Deputy-Muster-Master-General], with zeal and ability, fur a period of fifcy years, and until its abolition. He died the 2nd day of August, 1824, aged 74 years. The remains of his much loved and deeply lamented widow, Margaret Handcock, daughter of John Butler, Esq r , are placed beside his. She died 20th of March, 1827, aged 66. Their children, in token of their love, have erected a 292 APPENDIX III. tablet commemorating the many virtues of their dear parents, in the parish-church of Tallaght, county of Dublin, near the family-residence of Sally-park," [in the parish of Rath- farnbam. The following is the inscription on the tablet re- ferred to : — " Sacred to the memory of Matthew Handcock, late of Sally-Park, county of Dublin, Esquire. He was appointed Deputy-Muster-Master General to His Majesty's Forces in Ireland in the year 1772 ; which employment he held for a period of fifty years, and until the duties of that Department were transferred to the English Establishment. His talents and services were justly estimated and remune- rated on the reduction of the office. He married in the year 1778 Margaret, the daughter of John Butler, Esquire, late First Clerk in the office of the Secretary for the Civil De- partment in Ireland, by whom he had fourteen children. By a judicious and honourable economy he was enabled to gratify the affectionate and benevolent disposition of his heart towards his numerous relatives, and to provide for his immediate family. This tablet was erected by his widow and children as a memorial of their love. Decessit 2 do Augusti, A.D. 1824, iEtatis 74. Deservedly lamented, Margaret, his widow, died 20th March, 1827, aged SQ^ LXXVIII. " Here lyeth ye body of Mr. George Golding, of ye city of Dublin, dec d April ye 29th, 1749, aged 54." [" Buried, George Golden, 30th April, 1749." — Parish Register. ~\ LXXIX. " 1749. Memento Mori. This burial-place belongs to Jo 11 Burrowes, of ye city of Dublin, Chandler, and his pos- terity. Here lieth ye body of Wm. Burrowes, father of ye above ; and Marg* Burrowes, daughter [illegible."] [" Buried, Mrs. Borros, 6th November, 1749." — Parish Register. ~] LXXX. " This stone and burial-place belongs to Walter Nugent and his posterity. Here lyeth ye body of Mary Sexton, who died the 23rd May, 1754, aged 60 years. Here also the body of Richard Scanlon, who died August 19th, 1754, aged 19 years. Also the body of Catherine Dillon, who died Febr y the — , 1754-5, aged 23 years." LXXXI. " This stone and place of rest belongs to Mr. Thos. NOTES. 293 Mathews, of Gordon's-lane, Surveyor to the Hon ble City of Dublin. Here lieth the remains of Miss Alice Mathews, sister to the above-named Thos. Mathews, who departed this life, expecting a better, which she truly merited, the 18th. day of January, 1757, aged 24 years. Here also lieth the remains of Mrs. Susanna Fitzgerald, who departed this life the 23rd day of November, 1772, aged 72 years. Here likewise lieth the body of Mrs. Martha Mathews, wife to the above-mentioned Thos. Mathews, who departed this life the 2nd day of May, 1782, aged 41 years. The above-named Thomas Mathews died the 27th of June, 1782, aged 63 years, and lies buried here." LXXXII. " Here lyeth the body of Thomas Thomas, late of Saint Kevan's Port, in the county of Dublin, Gentleman ; the kindest father, a dutifull son, most faithfull and tender hus- band, best of masters, a sincere friend and cheerfull com- panion, an industrious honest man, a real Christian, whose many virtues are justly regretted, and will be ever revered by his afflicted, gratefull children, friends, and acquaintances. He departed this life the 13th day of May, 1757, in the sixty-sixth year of his age. [Mr. Thomas had been Church- warden of Donnybrook in 1719.] Here lye also the bodies of Elinor, his wife, fifteen of their children, and four of their grandchildren. William Thomas, his afflicted son, hath placed this stone in gratefull remembrance of his dearest father, and hath reserved this burial-place for himself and his family. 1757." ['■ Buried, Elinor Thomas, 8th January, 1757;" and "Thomas Thomas, 15th May, 1757." — Parish Register. ~] LXXXIII. " Here lieth the body of Mrs. Ann Power, wife to Mr. Anthony Power, who departed this life the 11th of July, 1759. As also the body of Mrs. Margaret Reily, her sister, wife to Mr. Michael Reily, who departed this life the 23rd of March, 1766. As also 3 of her children. Here lieth the body of Mr. Anthony Power, who departed this life the 8th of February, 1769, in the 71st year of his age. Here also lieth the body of Mr. Michael Reily, who departed this life the 24th of April, 1770, in the 61st year of his age. Here lieth the body of Catherine Brenan, otherwise Reily, wife of Thomas Brenan, and daughter of said Michael Reily, who died the 7th September, 1771." U 294 APPENDIX III. " This stone and burial-place belongeth to Philip Emor, of the city of Dublin, Merchant, and his posterity. Here lieth the body of Henry Sandes, Gen 4 , son-in-law to the above Philip Emor, who departed this life the 15th July, 1760, in the 36th year of his age. Here also lieth the body of the above Philip Emor, who departed this life the 31st March, 1762, in the 63rd year of his age." [" Buried, Hen r Sandes, 17th July, 1760"; and "Philip Emor, 3rd April, 1762." — Parish Register,'] LXXXV. " Here lieth the body of Mr. Michael Field, Sycamore Alley, Dublin, who died the 12th of April, in the year of our Lord God 1761, aged 59 years. This stone was erected by his wife, Elizabeth Field." LXXXVI. " This stone and burial-place belongeth to Mr. John Salt, of [Sir John] Kogerson's Quay [Dublin], for him and his posterity. 1762. Here lieth eight of his children." LXXXVII. " Beneath this stone lieth the body of Mrs. Sarah Nangle, of Clarendon-street, Dublin, who died the 21st March, A.D. 1767, aged 64 years. Also the body of Mr. George Nangle, her husband, who died the 29th of April, A.D. 1773, aged 68 years. Also the body of Eleanor Nangle, their daughter, who died the 18th of January, A.D. 1792, aged 53 years." ["Buried, Sarah Nangell, 24th March, 1767."— Parish Register.'] LXXXVIII. " This stone and vault was erected by Capt n Moses Welsh, of the city of Dublin, for him and his posterity, and in memory of his wife, Allices Welsh, who departed this life the 8th of March, 1785, aged 44 years." LXXXIX. " Beneath this stone rest the mortal remains of Thomas Taylor, of Upper Baggot Street, Co. Dublin, Esq r , who died 17th March, 1850, aged 71 years. A sincere Christian, kind husband, fond father, steadfast friend. Here also are deposited the mortal remains of his wife above recorded. [See No. xliii. p. 134.] Th'is simple tribute of affection NOTES. 295 and regret is placed to the memory of her beloved parents by their last surviving child, Jane Anne O'Shaughnessy." xc. " This burial-place belongeth to Mr. Geo. Harkness, of [79, Stephen-street, in] the city of Dublin, Jeweller, and his posterity, A.D. 1774." [See p. 288.] " This ground was purchased by Matt w Rourke, of Mill- town Road, Merchant. Here lieth the body of his dear wife, Abigail Rourke, who departed this life the 5th day of August, 1775." xcir. " This stone and burial-place belongeth to Captain Francis Langston, of the city of Dublin. Here lyeth the body of Elizabeth Langston, his wife, who departed this life the 7th day of December, 1776, aged 61 years. [Here follow twelve lines, which were " set down at the desire of her most affectionate husband."] Here lieth the above-named Cap* Francis Langston, who departed this life Nov r 21st, 1778, aged 56 years. He was beloved by all as a sincere friend, a good companion, and one of the best of husbands. As a small token of his merit, and in grateful remembrance of him, these lines were inserted at the instance of Catherine Langston, his second wife." [" Buried, Capt. James Lang- ston, Nov r 23rd, 1778." — Visitation-return, Dublin.'] XCIII. " This stone is erected by Chas. Swan, of the city of Dublin, Gent., in the year 1778. Here lieth the body of his sister, Elizabeth Dwyer, her husband, and child, departed this life in the year 1775. Here lieth the bodys of two Margarets, children of the said Chas. : one departed this life the 17th Sept 1 , 1778, and [the other] the 1st day of October, 1780. Rich* Swan, father of s* Cha s , aged 68, died 23rd Nov r , 1781. Rich<* and Eliz h , children of s<* Charles, 23rd April, 1781." 11 This stone was erected by Mrs. Christian Sallery to the memory of her beloved husband, Mr. John Sallery, of the city of Dublin, Ironmonger, who departed this life April the 5th, 1780, in the 61th year of his age." 296 APPENDIX III. " This stone and burial-place belongeth to Mr. John Ben- nett and his posterity. Here lieth the body of his wife, Mrs. Mary Bennett, who departed this life 21st May, 1783, aged 46 years." xcvi. " Here lyeth the body of Mr. Joseph Nassau, who departed this life on the 29th of October, 1783, aged 58 years." xcvn. " This stone was erected to the memory of Mr. Robert and Mrs. Honora Rogers, who were interred near this place, by their affectionate son, Jona n Rogers, of Capel-street, in the city of Dublin, Gent n . Here lieth Robt., son of said Jona- than, who died 6th May, 1785, aged 4 years. Also the body of Eliza, daughter of the said Jonathan Rogers, who died March 12th, 1794, aged 6 year3. Underneath lieth the body of Rebecca, the beloved wife of the above-named Jonathan Rogers, who departed this life March the 16th, 1824, in the 75th year of her age." [" Buried, Jonathan Rogers, of Bel- vedere-place, Dublin, aged 82, 11th November, 1832." — Parish Register. ] XCVIII. " Here lieth the body of Mrs. Alice Armstrong, who de- parted this life July the 17th, 1785, aged 27 years." xcix. " Here rest in humble trust of a resurrection to glory, the remains of Mrs. Grace West, wife of the Rev d Matthew West, formerly Cnrate-Assistant of this parish. To those who knew her, a recital of her worth is most unnecessary, and to those who knew her not, truth might appear like flattery. Suffice it, then, to say, that she has left behind her a justly disconsolate husband. She was taken from him on the 27th day of June, 1786, after an union of near sixteen years. ' Too soon divorced, yet oh ! be calm, my heart, And bless the dread award that bade us part. Severely kind the stroke Heav'n's mercy gave, And wounded deep, because it wish'd to save. Taught now the emptiness of all below, In due humility myself to know, The worm's frail brother, offspring of the dust, My bliss a bubble, and a reed my trust. On Thee, great God, then let this soul depend ; Be Thou the solitary mourner's Friend ; Thro' life, thro' death, his wand'ring footsteps guide, And join above whom here Thou didst divide.' NOTES. 297 Also here lyeth the body of the Rev d Matthew West, Vicar of Clane [in the diocese of Kildare], who dep d this life Sep r the 11th, 1814, in the 66th year of his age." ['■ Buried, Mrs. Grace West, at Donnybrook, 29th June, 1786" (Visitation-return); and "Buried, Rev d Matthew West, 13th September, 1814" (Parish Register). For mention of Mr. West and his writings, see pp. 88, 196.] c. " Henry Fox. His remains were laid here 20th Sep r , 1787. He lived a faithfull, diligent, and honest servant to the same master during the last eighteen years of his life, and died at the age of thirty-six. His goodness, benevolence, and charity, particularly to the poor of this neighbourhood, altho' he was not born or bred in Ireland, is the cause why this stoge was erected. Go, do thou likewise." ci. " Here lieth the body of Denis Doran, late of the city of Dublin, Esq r , who departed this life on the thirtieth day of January, in the year of our Lord 1788, in the eightieth year of his age. And also the bodies of Catherine Doran, his wife, and Edmund Doran, his son." " Here lieth the remains of Frances Butler, daughter to Francis Butler, and only child of her disconsolate mother, who died the 12th August, 1788, in the 16th year of her age." cm. " Here lies the body of Mrs. Sarah Keating, daughter of Maurice Keatinge, Esq r , of Narraghmore [in the county of Kildare], who departed this life on the 13th of March, A.D. 1789, in the 63rd year of her age. Her life was devoted to the offices of charity, the claims of friendship, and the duties of religion. The humble, yet steadfast hope of a happy resurrection, which supported her meek spirit through the anguish of long disease, is the sole remaining consolation of her most afflicted friends." [Maurice Keating, Esq r > M.P. for Harristown, died in May, 1777 Exshaw's Magazine, 1777, p. 440.] " This burial-place belongs to Mrs. Margaret Ashwortb, widow, by whom this stone was erected to the memory of 298 APPENDIX III. her eldest daughter, Sarah Ash worth, who lieth here, having departed this life in the 46th year of her age, the 22nd day of March, 1790." " Elinor Mac Carty, widow of the late John Mac Carty, Esqr, Barrister-at-law, and daughter of the late Edward Eustace, Esq r > of Castlemore, in the county of Catherlough [Carlow], She departed this life the 7th day of January, A.D. 1792, aged 65 years." " In memory of Eliza Anne Galway, daughter of Wm. Gamble Galway [Merchant], of [26, North Anne-street, in] the city of Dublin, and Jane Anne, his wife, died y e 11th of April, 1792." cvn. " Here lieth the remains of Mr. William Paine, late of Coldblow-lane [now Belmont-avenue], in this parish, who departed this life the 25th day of September, 1792, in the 78th year of his age. Also Mrs. Judith Paine, his widow, who died the 11th Jan ry , 1795, aged 78 years. Also Mr. Wm. Brady, grandson to the above, who departed this life the 8th October, , in the 19th year of his age." " This stone was erected by John Peters, of [15] Leinster- street, Dublin, as a small tribute of respect to the memory of his amiable and beloved wife, Mrs. Susanna Peters, who departed this life the 21st day of September, 1799, aged 30 years." cix. " This stone was erected by Thomas Geraghty, in order to preserve undisturbed the remains of his father and mother, Daniel and Anne Geraghty, formerly of King's Court, Co. Cavan, which are here deposited. Anne, his mother, died 6th Dec^ 1800, and his father died 31st July, 1804. . . . Here also rest the remains of James Geraghty, son of the above-named Daniel and Anne Geraghty, who departed this life Deer 6th, 1812, aged 38 years. And those of Miss Mary Callaghan, of Denmark-street [Dublin], grand-daughter of Daniel and Anne Geraghty, who died Sepr 18th, 1815, aged 9 years and 2 months." NOTES. 299 ex. M This tombstone was erected Feb y 1, 1801. Here lies interred the bodies of Fergus Fowler, the elder, James Fowler, and Rebecca Fowler, children of the said Fergus Fowler." CXI. " Here lieth the body of Mr. Darby Kehoe, late of Dame St. [Dublin] Silversmith, aged 52 years, departed this life Dec r the 22nd, 1801. Also Elizabeth, his wife, departed this life March the 12th, 1795, aged 40 years. Likewise three of their infant children, viz., Win. T., John N., and Elizabeth Kehoe. Also Mr. John Kehoe, aged 19 years, died 10th Oct', 1802." cxn. " This tomb is erected to the memory of Mr. George Rencher, of Merrion View, in the [parish of Donnybrook, and] county of Dublin, who departed this life on the 18th March, 1803, in the 57th [?J year of his age. Here also lieth the body of his wife, Christiana Rencher, alias Hawkshaw, who departed this life the 7th of Sept r , in the 39th [?] year of her age." cxin. '.' This burial-ground belongeth to John Gold, of Raggot- street, Dublin. Here lies the body of "William Gold, his son, who departed this life the 12th day of July, in the 16th year of his age, in life beloved, in death lamented, A.D. 1803. Here also lieth the body of the said Mr. John Gold, who departed this life the 14th day of April. 1824, aged 70. Also the body of Mrs. Margaret Gold, his wife, who died the 26th of March, 1827, aged 75." [In Mount Jerome Cemetery, Dublin, there is this inscription : — " This vault was erected by John Gold, of Cullenswood Lodge [in the parish of Donnybrook], to receive the remains of his father, mother, and brother, which were removed here from Donny- brook graveyard ; as also the body of his sister, Mrs. Anne Fowler, who died on the 30th day of June, A.D. 1845, aged 61. Here lieth also the body of John Gold, Esq., who died 29th April, 1855, aged 73. Upright in conduct, faithful in friendship, sincere in religion, he left to his friends the remembrance of his kindness, and the example of his virtues. Desiring to perpetuate after death his gratitude to God, who had been his guide through life, he bequeathed a large portion of his wealth for the erection of Zion Church, Rathgar."] 300 APPENDIX III. " Here lieth the body of Thomas Leavy, of Leeson-st., in the city of Dublin, who departed this life the 25th of March, 1805. This stone erected by his father for hirn and his posterity." cxv. " The burial-ground of John Hughes, Esq 1 , Charlemont- street [Dublin]. Here lieth the mortal remains of his mother, Anne Hughes, who departed this life on the 18th Feb y , 1806, aged 80 years. Also his daughter, Susan Fawcett, wife of Capt n Fawcett, Co. Dublin Militia, who departed this life on the 27th Sept r , 1806, aged 18 years, and her infant son, John Hughes Fawcett. Here lieth the remains of Mrs. Anne Hughes, wife of the above-named John Hughes, who departed this life the 5th day of March, 1808, aged 51 years." CXVI. " In this vault is interred the body of Mr. Timothy M'Evoy, of Townsend St., in the city of Dublin, who de- parted this life 15th February, 1801, aged 52 years. He lived beloved, and died regretted. Also the body of his daughter Maria, departed this life 29th October, 1804, aged 5 years. Also his grand-daughter, Annette Doherty, and the body of her father, Wm. Izod Doherty [of 34, West- morland-street, Dublin], who departed this life March 21st, 1829, aged 40 years. The remains of Timothy John M'Evoy, Esq r , who departed this life on the 18th of December, 1829, aged 25 years, are likewise deposited here with his father's." cxvu. " Erected by Mary M'Dowall in memory of her husband, Wm. M'Dowall, who departed this life the 27th March, 1809, aged 62 years." cxviii. " This stone and burial-place belongeth to John Smyth. Here lie the remains of his wife, Elizabeth Smyth, who departed this life February 18th, 1810, aged 33 years. Also three of her children. Here also lieth Tho s [s/c] Smyth, her beloved husband, who departed this life August 11th, 1811, aged 40 years." CXIX. " This stone and burial-place belongs to Sam 1 Neville, of NOTES. 301 Stafford-street, city of Dublin. Here lieth the remains of his wife, Margaret, who departed this life Nov r , 1810, aged 34 years. Also two of his daughters, Frances and Chanty. Frances died May, 1815, aged 16 years. Charity, March, 1818, aged 20 years." cxx. 11 Here lie the remains of Katharine Archer, eldest daughter of Clement Archer, formerly of [St. Andrew's-street, in] the city of Dublin, M.D., and State Surgeon. She departed this life on the 28th of Nov 1 ", 1810, aged 36, rejoicing in hope. Also of Harriet Archer, third daughter of the said Clement Archer, who departed this life on the 7th of February, 1823, aged 46. Also of Jane Schoales, third daughter of John Schoales, Esq r , and Clementina Schoales, otherwise Archer, his wife. She departed this life on the 2nd of March, 1821, aged 12 years." CXXI. " The family burial-place of Thomas Bell, M.D. [of 24, York-street, Dublin]. 1810." CXXII. " Here lies the body of John Piele, who died 24th March, 1811." CXXIII. 11 Here lyeth the body of Thomas O'Neil, late of Donny- brook, who departed this life the 13th February, 1815, in the 60th year of his age." cxxiv. " Sacred to the memory of Mercella, wife of Mr. N. Kelly, S. Great George's Street [Dublin], who died Dec r 22nd, 1815, aged 54." cxxv. 11 Here lieth the body of Charles Moore, Esq r , late of Cullenswood [near Donnybrook], who departed this life July 24th, 1816, aged 64 years. This stone was dedicated by his affectionate wife, Margaret Moore." ex XV I. " This stone was erected by Capt n Grant, of Donnybrook, in memory of Joseph Green, who departed this life the 17th May, 1818, aged 76 years. Also his wife, Hannah Green, who departed this life the 27th of March [? April], 1824, 302 APPENDIX III. aged 80 years." ["Buried, Hannah Greene, 27th April, 1824." {Parish Register.) For mention of Mrs. (not Miss) Green's charitable bequest, see p. 91.] " This stone was erected by Mr. Patrick M'Dermott, of Smithfleld, in memory of his beloved father-in-law, Captain Joseph Grant, of Donnybrook, who departed this life on the 6th of June, 1828, aged 62 years. Also his wife, Catherine Grant, who departed this life on the 1st of Feb y , 1810. And 3 of his grandchildren who died young. Also their brother, Mark M'Dermott, who departed this life the 5th of June, 1829, aged 7 years." cxxviii. " This stone was erected by Charles Kenny, of Coldblow Lane [now Belmont-avenue, Donnybrook], in memory of his daughter, Mrs. Margaret Smyth, who departed this life January 4th, 1819, aged 26 years. Also his beloved wife, Mrs. Anne Kenny, who departed this life May 27th, 1827, aged 61 years." CXXIX. " Sacred to the memory of Mrs. Mary Levingstone, wife of Mr. Daniel Levingstone, of Merville [Donnybrook, and subsequently of Ballsbridge], county of Dublin, who de- parted this life on the 26th day of April, 1820, aged 24 years." [Several members of this family have been here interred.] cxxx. " This stone was erected by Mr. John Sullivan, of Meath Street, in the city of Dublin, in memory of his beloved brother, Mr. Richard Sullivan, who departed this life the 22nd day of April, A.D. 1821, aged 52 years. Also one of his children who died young." CXXXI. " Under this stone are laid the remains of Mrs. Elizabeth Crosthwaite [of Yergemount, Clonskea, in the parish of Donnybrook], who departed this life 1st May, 1821. Also those of her daughter Louisa, who died 7th Sept r , 1820, aged 8 years." CXXXII. " Here lieth the body of Mrs. Waller Ashe [of 45, Leeson- street, Dublin], who departed this life on the 4th of March, 1824, aged ninety." NOTES. 303 "Erected by Andrew Cartan, of [109] Abbey St. [Dub- lin], Merchant, to the memory of his beloved and lamented wife, Mary Cartan, who departed this life the 25th August, 1824, aged 42 years." CXXXIV. " This stone is erected by Mrs. Catherine Finlay, of [44] Townsend Street, in the city of Dublin, in memory of her beloved husband, Michael Finlay [Linendraper], who de- parted this life the 22nd Nov r , 1824, aged 35 years." CXXXT. " Here are interred the mortal remains of Jane Archer, widow of Capt. Benjamin Archer, R.N., who died in jNov r , 1824. Also those of her son, Henry Benjamin Archer, Esq r , Barrister-at-law, who died on the 8th of June, 1830. Also those of his wife Sophia, daughter of Judge Chamberlain ; she died on the 21st May, 1860. Also those of their only child, William Tankerville Archer, who died on the 23rd March; 1868." CXXXVI. 11 This stone was erected by Mr. Wm. Madden, of Arran Quay, in the city of Dublin, in memory of his beloved wife, Mrs. Ellenor Madden, who departed this life 22nd March, 1826, aged 31 years. Also one of her children." CXXXVIT. " This stone was erected by John Evans, of the Black Rock, in the Co. of Dublin, in memory of his beloved wife, Anne Evans, who departed this life 28th of Dec r , 1826, aged 25 years." CXXXVIII. " This stone was erected by Cha s Byrne, of Stephen's Green, in the city of Dublin, in memory of his beloved wife Sarah, who departed this life March 20th, 1827, aged 33 years. Also his father and mother." CXXXIX. " This stone was erected by Daniel Ashford, Esq r , of Simmons Court, Rock Road [in the parish of Donnybrook], in memory of his beloved wife Mary, who died the 4th March, 1830, aged 57 years; and also three of their chil- dren who died young, William, Mary, and Richard. Here 304 APPENDIX III. also is interred his mother, Mary Ashford, who died the 26th August, 1815, aged 81 years. Also his father, William Ashford, Esqr, who died the 17th April, 1824, aged 78 years." [William Ashford, the distinguished landscape painter, who shall be mentioned again, died at his residence, Sandymount-park, to the last " the warm devotee of Nature and her handmaid Art."] CXL. " The family burial-ground of James and Anne Rice, of Donnybrook. Erected to the memory of James Rorke, who departed this life 29th July, 1833, aged 40 years. Also Robert Wilson Rorke, aged 6 months. . . . Mrs. Mary Anne Davys, the dearly loved and much lamented wife of Mr. George Davys, of No. 6, Drumcondra Road, in the county of Dublin, who departed this life on the 20th day of July, 1862. By her sorrowing husband this short tribute of love and respect for her memory is recorded on this tomb by her erected." CXLI. " Here lie the children of James West. Susanna, Mary- anne, Henry W m , who died in infancy. Maria Sarah, died Feb y , 1847, aged 14 years. Susanna Frances, died June, 1847, aged 10 years. Harriet Sophia, died July, 1847, aged 9 years. James Robert, died April, 1848, aged 8 years. Also Brillianna, wife of James West, died July 3rd, 1851. Courteney Clarke, born Oct r 13th, 1845, died" 27th April, 1849. John Clarke, born 25th June, 1841, died 17th May, 1862. Elizabeth Rawson, [born] July 21st, 1848, died 4th Feb ry , 1864. Also the above-named James West, born 13th June, 1805, died 6th October, 1868." [James West, Esq., J. P., of Shanganagh Grove, Ballybrack, Co. Dublin.] " Erected by Mr. Robert Thompson, in memory of his beloved and only daughter, Susan Thompson, who departed this life Saturday, October the 9th, 1858, aged 22 years." "The burial-place of Thomas Wilson, of Donnybrook. Reverend Thomas Charles Wilson, born 22nd of April, 1833, departed this life October 3rd, 1862. Alfred Wilson, born the 5th of September, 1835, departed this life April the 7tb, 1864, aged 28 years." NOTES. 305 " The family burying-place of Wm. Roberts. In memory of Alan, his son, who died 12th April, 1863, aged 2 years." " In memory of John Kilroy, M.D., who died 4th of January, 1864, aged 44 years." " The family burial-place of Isaac Arthur Bernard. Erected to the memory of Isaac Arthur Bernard, who died 26th November, 18 '34, aged 35 years. Also his daughter, Henrietta Frances, died 12th October, 1863, aged 3J years." " France?, daughter of John Armstrong Garnett, M.D., wife of Edward Richards Purefoy Colles, Barrister-at-law, died 30th Juue, 1865, aged 67 years." " Elizabeth Mary, daughter of John Armstrong Garnett, M.D., died July 9th, 1867, aged Q6 years." " Erected by John and Hannah Blyth in memory of their beloved children, Annie Elizabeth Scott Blythe, who died Feb ry 12th, 1867, aged 4 years; James Blythe, died August 29th, 1867, aged 2 yrs 9 months. John Blythe, father of the above children, died Octr 31st, 1867, in his 33rd year. ' Not lost, but gone before.' Also Michael Carr, died Feb ry 12th, 1868, aged 51 years." " Erected by Madame Byrne, Cormeilles-en-Parisis, par Franconville (Seine and Oise"), France, in memory of her beloved husband, Edward Byrne, who died 19th July, 1868, in the 70th year of his age. Here also lieth the remains of his mother, Maryanne Byrne, who died 22nd July, 1831, aged 72 years." '•'Erected by his sorrowing widow in memory of John Radcliff, Esq r , [son of the Right Hon. John Eadcliff, LL.D., 306 APPENDIX III. and] late Chairman of the Board of Public Works. Born 5th Nov. 1799. Died 21st May, 1869." [See pp. 38, 135.] " Sacred to the memory of James Roe, Esq r , who depart- ed this life Janr y 2nd, 1871." " Frederick William Trevor [of Beechhill, Donny brook], Collector of H. M. Customs, Dublin, died January 9th, 1871, aged 66 years." CLIV. " Sacred to the memory of Elizabeth Hayter, who died 19th March, 1871, aged 60 years." il Sacred to the memory of Margaret Stunell Dickson, . the' beloved wife of John Dickson, who died 16th June, 1871, •aged 57 years." i* CLVI. " This stone was erected by Mrs. Dinah Ganly, in memory of her beloved brother, Mr. Joseph Duff, who de- parted this life 4th August, 187i v aged 58 years." [Over the grave of Sir James Stratford Tynte, Bart., there is a monumental stone, in the shape of an obelisk. There was an inscription of considerable length, as men- tioned in p. 127 : but from the effects of the weather little of it is now legible. Thanks, however, to the foresight of the late Sir William Betham, Ulster King-of-Arms, we are not left without a record of the inscription. In his MSS. in the British Museum (Add. MSS. 23,684-7), with tran- scripts of other inscriptions at Donnybrook, it has been preserved ; and the particulars are as follows : — " The body of Sir James Stratford Tynte, General of the Army of Volunteers of Ireland, who died the 10th November, 1785, was here interred with military honors. Near this place are deposited the remains of the Right Hon. James Tynte [of Dunlavin, Co, Wicklow, buried 12th April, 1758], and Robert Tynte [25th June, 1760], Esquires, grandfather and father of Sir James Stratford Tynte. Also the remains of NOTES. 307 Hlie James Tynte, his son, and Martha, his daughter. Whilst the patriotism of a Volunteer, and the social virtue of a tender husband, dutiful child, fond parent, honest man, and loyal subject are thought estimable, the memory of Sir James Tynte will be revered. 4 This last sad token, O my love, receive ; Alas ! 'tis all your Hannah now can give !' " The parish-register of the time, as already mentioned, is not forthcoming ; but in one of the visitation-returns from Don- nybrook, Sir James Tynte's burial is recorded : — " Buried at Donnybrook, Sir Jas. Tent, 13th Novr, 1785." An addition has been made to the inscription No. xxix., p. 131:— "Miss Elizabeth Roberts, died 9th Feb 7 , 1853, aged 70 yrs. Mrs. Charlotte Newbury, died 27th June, 1855, aged 70. Miss Martha Roberts, died 11th Jan y , 1857, aged 77 yrs. Geo. P. Newbury, died 31st May, 1863, aged 36 vears." stone No. xxxii., p. 132, has been replaced by other, -with this inscription: — "This stone was erected by-" desire of his daughter Elenor, who died 10th December, 1859. Sacred to the memory of Joseph Madden, of Donny- brook, who departed this life 29th Nov*", 1799, aged 57 years. He was a tender and affectionate husband and father, and supported the character of a sincere friend, a good neigh- bour, and an honest man. Here also lie the remains of his wife Elenor. Also John [for many years of Donnybrook] and Peter [of Simmonscourt], his sons. Also Mary and her husband, Patrick Dillon. Also Margaret, Mary Anne, and Eleanor, his daughters." An addition has been made to the inscription No. xlix., p, 136 : — " Also to Ana, eldest daughter of Joseph and Mary Wright, died March 21st, 1869." An addition has been made to the inscription No. liii., p. 136,;— "Also the Rev d John Galwey, Rector of Clonbeg, Tipperary [and Prebendary of Cashel], died 10th Nov r , 1849, aged 63 years. Also Lydia E. Galwey, relict of the late Yen ble [William Galwey] Archdeacon of Cashel, and mother of the above, died 17th Aug*, 1862, aged 95 years. Also Isabella Galwey, daughter of the late Archdeacon of Cashel, departed this life 5th April, 1867, aged 73 years. an- &~*~d A^f &{&<. 308 APPENDIX III. s Blessed are the dead that die in the Lord.' Also Elizabeth Frances Webb, sister of the above Lydia E. Galwey, who died 20th Sep tr , 1870, aged 102 years." As stated in Cot- ton's " Fasti Ecclesige Hibernicge," vol. i. p. 56, Archdeacon Galwey resigned his archdeaconry in 1824, and accepted the benefice of Kilmastulla, in the diocese of Emly, where he died and was buried. Close to the stone No. liv., p. 136, another has been erected (1864), with this inscription; — "Sacred to the memory of Edward Tighe, Esq r , who died 27th June, 1864, aged 67 years. This memorial of affection and esteem is erected by his mourning wife, Susan Louisa Tighe." The broken tombstone over the remains of Dean Graves (p. 40) has been replaced by a new one (1868), with this in- scription; — "Here are deposited the remains of Matilda Jane, wife of Robert James Graves, Esq r , M.D., who died Septr 1, 1825, aged 19 years : and of Elizabeth Mary, wife of the Very Rev d Richard Graves, D.D., Dean of Ardagh, and Professor of Divinity in Trinity College, Dublin, who died March 22, 1827, aged 60 years : and of Sarah, second wife of the above Robert James Graves, who died June 16, 1827, aged 26 years : and of the above Very Revd Richard Graves, D.D., Dean of Ardagh, who died March 31, 1829, aged 65 years : and of Eliza Drewe Jane Graves, only child of the above Robert James Graves, Esq r , M.D., by Matilda Jane, his first wife, who died March 4, 1831, aged 5 years : and of John Crosbie Graves, Esqr [i n memory of whom there' is a tablet in Donny brook Church, as mentioned in p. 40], nephew of the above Very Rev d Richard Graves, Dean of Ardagh [and father of the present Bishop of Limerick], who died January 13, 1835, aged 58 years." Dr. R. J. Graves was buried in Mount Jerome Cemetery, Dublin, where there is a stone with this inscription : — " Here repose the mortal remains of Robert James Graves, M.D. He was born the 28th March, 1796, and died 20th March, 1853, aged 56 years. He requested that his only epitaph should be, that he was the son of the late Revd Dr. Rich** Graves, Professor of Divinity in the University of Dublin, and that after a painful and protracted illness he died in the love of God, and in the faith of Jesus Christ."] NOTES. 309 Note (jjj). The Pembroke Township. — " Whereas the district of Ba- gotrath, Donnybrook, Sandy- mount, Eingsend, and Irish- town, in the barony of Dublin, f and county of Dublin, com- prises several villages, and is a large, populous, and improving district, and the population thereof has of late years greatly increased, and is increasing, and it would conduce to the health and welfare of the inhabitants of the district, and would be of public advantage, if the dis- trict were formed into a Township, and provision were made for the lighting, paving, sewering, draining, cleansing, sup- plying with water, and otherwise improving and regulating of the Township, and if Commissioners were appointed for the purpose, with adequate powers and authorities ; and whereas the objects of this Act cannot be attained without the authority of Parliament," an Act (26 & 27 Vict. c. 72) " for the Improvement of Pembroke Township, comprising Bagotrath, Donnybrook, Sandymount, Eingsend, and Irish- town," etc., was passed the 22nd of June, 1863. The operation of the Act, which is known as " The Pembroke Township Act, 1863," commenced the 1st of September following, and has been attended with good results, as is evidenced by the greatly improved appearance of the district. The limits of the Act, and the boundary of the Township to which it relates, are as follows : — " The boundary commences on the north at Eingsend at the junction of the Cambridge-road with the South wall-road, and runs from thence westward along the south side of the Southwall-road to the municipal boundary of the city of Dublin ; thence foljowing the municipal boundary to Eings- 310 APPENDIX III. end-bridge, and by Ringsend-road, Barrow-street, Grand Canal- street, and the Grand Canal to a point on the south- east bank of the canal at Mespil, where the municipal boundary, and the boundary of the Rathmines Township, and the boundary of the barony of Dublin unite ; thence southward along the baronial and township boundary to the north point of the townland of Milltown ; thence following the boundary of the barony of Dublin until it strikes the river Dodder ; thence crossing the Dodder it continues to follow the barony of Dublin boundary until it [almost] meets the boundary of the parish of Booterstown at Merrion [seep. 254 n\ ; thence following the parochial boundary until it crosses the Dublin and Kingstown Railway ; thence northward and westward along the outer or sea-side of the embankment of the railway to Merrion-gate ; thence along the in or western side of the sea-wall of Merrion and Sandymount, Irishtown and Ringsend, until it meets the Cambridge-road, and thence along the southern side of the Cambridge- road until it meets and terminates at Ringsend at the junction of the Cambridge- road with the Southwall-road ; and the lands, villages, and hereditaments constituting the Pembroke Township are situate within the townlands of South Lotts, Bagotrath North, Beggarsbush, Ballsbridge, Bagotrath East, Bagot- rath Forty Acres, Donnybrook West, Donnybrook East, Clonskeagh, Roebuck, Smott's Court or Simmon's Court, Merrion, Sandymount, Irishtown, and Ringsend, in the parishes of St. Mark, St. Peter, and St. Mary's Donnybrook, otherwise Donnybrook, and Taney, in the barony of Dublin, and county of Dublin." The number of the Commissioners was fixed at fifteen, of whom " one shall be an ex-officio Commissioner, namely, the Agent of the Pembroke Estate within the Township whenever there is such an Agent, and the others shall be elected Commissioners." The first Commissioners named in the Act were the following :— John Edward Vernon, Esq., D.L., the Agent of the Pembroke Estate (Chairman) ; Francis Salmon, Esq., Joseph Boyce, Esq., D.L., Michael Murphy, Esq., Edward Wright, Esq., John Hawker Askins, architect and builder, Patrick Leahy, Esq., AndrewRogers, Esq., John Bernard Doyle, Esq., Bartholomew M. Tabuteau, Esq., NOTES. 811 Edward H. Carson, architect, Robert Stanley, Esq., Patrick Sullivan, builder, John Dempsey, Esq., and James Kildahl Atkin, Esq. The 15th of November is the day for the yearly retirement and election of one-third of the Commissioners. The area of the Township, which is almost exclusively the property of the Earl of Pembroke, and forms part of the Pembroke (or Fitzwilliam) Estate, is 1,549 statute acres; the population in 1871, 21,102; and the rateable valuation of property, £69,6-11 15s. Since 1867 the district has been supplied with the Vartry water. A volume, entitled " The Pembroke Township Act, 1863 ; with Notes and Index," by Robert O'Hara, Esq., Barrister- at-law, has been published (Dublin, 1863, pp. 164, 12mo.). In it " will be found the Pembroke Township Act, 1863, and the provisions of the Acts which are incorporated with it. These provisions are embodied in Notes, which either follow those sections to which they are specially applicable, or are collected at the end of the Act. It is hoped that this ar- rangement may prove useful to those interested in the district, and may afford them some assistance in ascertaining what are the laws by which the inhabitants of this new Township will be governed, and what the privileges which they will enjoy." St. Bartholomew's Church. — This handsome edifice, in the early English style, provides accommodation for some of the many Protestant inhabitants of a very improving suburb of Dublin ; and the district assigned to it, compris- ing 194 statute acres, has been duly constituted out of the parishes of St. Peter and Donnybrook, in the former of which the church is situated. A few years ago green fields, and not houses, surrounded the site. Now dwellings, constructed according to the most approved de- signs, stand around ; and in fact, in no other neighbourhood, not excepting Rathmines and Rathgar, have so many im- provements been efTec'ed within so short a period. 312 APPENDIX III. The site of the church, which is close to Ballsbridge, " having been granted by the Guardians of the Earl of Pem- broke (under authority of the Court of Chancery), and funds contributed for the building of the same, partly by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for Ireland, and partly by private subscription, the foundation-stone was solemnly laid, with prayer and praise to the Most Holy Trinity, by Thomas, third Viscount De Vesci [one of the Guardians], on the festival of the Ascension of our Lord, I860." The admirable designs furnished by Thomas H. Wyatt, Esq., of London, were carried out by Mr. James Scanlan, of Dublin ; and the building, having been com- pleted (with the exception of the spire) at a cost of about £7,000, was consecrated by the Archbishop of the diocese on the 23rd of December, 1867. Both outwardly and inwardly it presents an imposing and ornamental appearance. There is accommodation for 550 worshippers. The patronage was vested in the Archdeacon of Dublin, who holds the parish of St. Peter, but is now in the Board of Nomination ; and the Kev. Arthur A. Dawson, M.A., was the first Incumbent. An engraving (from a photograph by Robinson), with a brief description, appeared in the Church of England Maga- zine, vol. lxvii. p. 73 (7th August, 1869). Bagotrath Castle. — Not far from the site of St. Bar- tholomew's stood Bagotrath Castle, of which frequent men- tion may be found in Irish history, and throughout these pages. Mr. Joseph Huband Smith read a paper respecting it, and the manor attached thereto, before the Royal Irish Academy, in 1856 (as given in the " Proceedings," vol. vi. pp. 304-311), and exhibited a drawing from a sketch by Gabriel Beranger, taken about the year 1760 ; also a curious MS. plan of the array of the Parliamentary forces of the garrison of Dublin, as drawn out before the battle which took place in 1649, when the royal army under the com- mand of the Marquis (subsequently Duke) of Ormonde, 1 NOTES. 313 sustained a defeat, the disastrous effects of which ended in the ruin of the royal cause in Ireland. This plan, without name or date, is preserved in a valuable collection of old maps and drawings in the Library of Trinity College, Dublin, and has been noticed, amongst others, in a paper read before the Academy by the late Mr. Hardiman, in 1824. Mr. Smith also exhibited, in illustration of his paper, an enlarged copy of Rocque's map, or " Survey of the City and Suburbs of Dublin," published in 1757, on which is laid down the line of road from St. Stephen's-green to Ballsbridge, over the river Dodder ; on the north side of which road is shown on the map the site of Bagotrath Castle. The original struc- ture was built in the twelfth century, as appears from several notices of it in the public records ; and Mr. Smith adduced some interesting extracts from the Memoranda Rolls of the Court of Exchequer and Patent and Close Rolls, illustrative of the history of its possessors at different subsequent periods. The latest structure, the ruins of which were standing with- in the memory of many, was a massive square tower, built, as there can be little doubt, about the time of King James I. or Queen Elizabeth. The last remarkable event in connec- tion with it was the attempt made to fortify it, which resulted in the battle of Rathmines (already referred to), fought on the 2nd of August, 1649, the details of which have been recorded by Ludlow, who held a military command under the Par- liament, and, at greater length, by Carte, in his " Memoirs of the Duke of Ormonde." It was never afterwards re- paired, but suffered gradually to moulder into ruin, and was for many years the dreaded resort of freebooters. The office of Governor, although a mere sinecure, is stated to have been filled up from time to time, and a salary paid, down to the period of the Legislative Union of Great Britain and Ireland, when, with other appointments of a similar character, it was abolished, and compensation awarded to the then Governor, Sir John (subsequently Lord) DeBlaquiere. For sundry particulars of Bagotrath Castle, see the following 314 APPENDIX III. pamphlets (1649, 8 pp. each), copies of which are in the Library of the Royal Dublin Society : — 1. " The Marquesse of Ormond's Letter to His Majestie King Charles II., where- in is truly related the manner of Collonel Jones sallying out of Dublin, Aug. 2, 1649," etc.; 2. "The Marquesse of Ormond's Letter to His Majesty, concerning the late Fight betwixt the Forces under his command, and the Garrison of Dublin," etc. ; 3. "Lieut.-General Jones's Letter to the Coun- sel of State, of a great Victory," etc. See also the Marquess of Ormonde's Letter to Lord Byron, in Carte's " Collection of Original Letters and Papers, 1641-1660," vol. ii., pp. 408-411. "The upper part, which threatened immediate destruction to all that should approach its base, was in 1785 taken down ; and what small fragment of the tower was left, was entirely filled up with stones, earth, and other matters, and the whole closed at top ; so that it is now almost as solid and compact as a rock, and may bid defiance to the shocks of time." (Lewis' "Dublin Guide," p. 52, Dublin, 1787.) Time, however, has prevailed, and nothing of the structure remains. There are three unpublished drawings of it in the writer's possession; two by Gabriel Beranger (circa 1760), and one by S. Walker (1778). The view given in Grose's " Antiquities of Ireland," vol. i. p. 10, is from an original drawing by Barralet, " in the possession of the Right Honourable W. Conyngham." Note (kick). Fitzwilliam Family. — In addition to what has appeared in pp. 108-114 regarding this noble family, the following particulars have been gleaned from various sources. William, third Viscount Fitzwilliam of Merrion (see p. 112), died in December, 1674. There was inserted in Notes and Queries, 1st S. xi. 462, from the pen of the late James F. Ferguson, Esq., of Dublin, a very interesting " Note of the payments made in relation to the burial of Lord Fitz- NOTES. 315 wifliam [at Donnybrook], in Charles II. 's time, as they appear upon one of the records of the Irish Exchequer, de- posited in the Exchequer Record Office, Four Courts, Dublin." The heading of the document which gives curious details of the funeral expenses of a nobleman nearly two centuries ago, is in- these words ; li The Funeral Expenses of Thomas, Vis- count Fitzwilliam of Merrion, tempore Charles II."; but here there must be a mistake, the individual buried having been, not Thomas, first Viscount (the exact date of whose death appears to be unknown), nor Thomas, fourth Viscount (who died 20th February, 1704), but William, third Viscount, fourth son of the first named Thomas, and successor of his elder brother Oliver, Earl of Tyrconnel (who died 11th April, 1667), in theviscountcy of Fitzwilliam and barony of Thorn- castle. The document furnished by Mr. Ferguson, is as follows ; — £ s. a. i; Paid Doctor Murphy att severall times, 3 3 Paid Quin the appothecary, 2 9 10 Paid Kirrurgion, 9 Paid clergymen, 16 More paid them, 4 10 More paid them, 17 3 Paid for rosemary, 5 Paid for a coach and four horses to carry friends to his buriall place att Donebrooke, 10 9 Paid men for carrying the links, 11 3 Paid for Christ Church bells, 1 2 6 Paid the minister's clerke, &c, of St. Nicholas Church within the walls [Dublin], within whose parish his lordship dyed, 1 10 10 Paid Mr. Kearney, Herald att Armes, prout particu- lars under his hand, More, Paid for franckinsence, and a messenger to prepare the grave at Donebrooke, Paid for making the grave there, Paid for his coffin, To other expenses, Paid the first of January, 1675, to Mr. Dellane and his clerke for his lordshipp's burial att Donebrooke, 18 0." The total expenses amounted to £32 13s. 9d. That William, Viscount Fitzwilliam was the individual in question, is proved by the date given in the last item of the account ; 2 1 2 10 3 1 2 2" 10 12 1- 6 7 316 APPENDIX III. inasmuch as Oliver, who succeeded his father in the vis- county, had died in 1667, and Thomas, fourth Viscount, not until 1704. Archdall, moreover, in his edition of " Lodge's Peerage of Ireland/' vol. iv. p. 318, states that William, Viscount Fitzwilliam, died " before the year 1681." The "Mr. ?Dellane " was Michael Delaune, M.A. (see p. 160), Archdeacon of Dublin, and consequently Rector of Donnybrook, from 1672 to 3rd November, 1675 ; and the " clergymen " were Roman Catholic priests, because Richard, fifth Viscount, grandson of the above-named William, was the first to conform to the Established Church, 18th May, 1710.— Notes and Queries, 3rd S. ii. 123 (16th August, 1862). Richard, sixth Viscount Fitzwilliam of Merrion (see p. 114), married Catherine, daughter of Sir Matthew Decker, Bart, of Richmond, Surrey, 3rd May, 1744. " Sir Matthew Decker, Bart., born at Amsterdam, 1679, came into England, in 1700, and created a baronet in 1716, he left £60,000 to his only child, lady of Ld. Vise. Fitzwilliams. As he ac- quired his fortune not only unreproach'd, but unsuspected, he enjoyed it unenvied His domestick life was an undisturbed series of domestick comforts. By an orderly and well- understood hospitality, the great frequented his house, were properly received, and the poor who crowded it were abundantly supplied." (Gentleman's Magazine, 1749, vol. xix. p. 141.) He died 18th March, 1749. General Fitzwilliam, third son of Richard, fifth Viscount Fitzwilliam of Merrion (see pp. 113, 182), died without issue, 31st July, 1789. In " Miss Berry's Journals and Cor- respondence, 1783-1852 " (London, 1866), vol. i. p. 170, there is a letter from Horace Walpole to Miss Berry, dated 6th August, 1789, and containing these remarks; — "Gen- eral Fitzwilliam is dead, at Richmond, extremely rich. He has not, I believe, extremely disappointed his nephew the Viscount, who did not depend upon hopes that had been thrown out to him, nor is much surprised that the General's NOTES. 317 upper servant, and his late wife's woman, are the principal heirs, as the Abbe Nichols and others long foresaw. Lord Fitzwilliam has only an estate of [?] 550/. a-year. The manservant, whom he originally took a shoeless boy in Wales, playing on the harp, will have above forty thousand pds. ; the woman 300/. a year in long annuities. A will, however, pleases one, you know, if it pleases one anyhow. To General Conway (an old fellow-servant in the late Duke of Cumberland's family, as were Lord Dover and Lord Fred- eric Cavendish, similar legatees,) he has given 500/. This is so much to my mind that I shall not haggle about the rest of the will." For Mr. Richard Owen Cambridge's re- marks on the will, see pp. 182-3 of the same volume. Note (III). John Fitzgibbon, Earl of Clare A brief notice of this great man, who was born in Donnybrook, where his father resided (in a house close to the Fair-green, subsequently known as Bowerville, and within a few yards of the birth- place of another eminent legal functionary and contemporary, William, Lord Downes), and of whom mention has been made in p. 79, is here given from the " Imperial Dictionary of Universal Biography " ; — 11 Clare, John Fitzgibbon, first Earl of, was born in 1749; and being destined by his father, an eminent barrister, to follow the same profession, he received a good education, and entered Trinity College, Dublin, where he was the contem- porary and rival of Grattan for academic honours. When called to the Bar his energy, industry, and talent at once ensured his success ; and in 1777 he was elected to represent the University of Dublin, giving his support to the Govern- ment. In 1784 Fitzgibbon was appointed Attorney -General for Ireland, an office due as well to his high professional position as to his parliamentary services. His position was an arduous one, as it arrayed against him the popular oppo- sition of the demagogues of the day ; and he exhibited undoubtedly much wisdom, courage, and firmness in the 318 APPENDIX III. discharge of his duties. In 1789 Fitzgibbon was promoted to the office of Lord Chancellor, and raised to the peerage by the title of Baron Fitzgibbon. Few men had to contend with greater political difficulties than the Chancellor. Ireland was in a state of secret disorganisation that shortly was to eventuate in open rebellion ; and no doubt the vigour and wisdom of his measures did much to keep the daring spirit of the day in check. In 1795 he was created Earl of Clare; and in 1799 his signal merits were rewarded by a peerage of the United Kingdom as Lord Fitzgibbon. Lord Clare was one of the most prominent and able advocates for the legislative union ; which measure he did not long survive, dying in 1802. His intellect was rapid, clear, and full of power; but its power seems to have consisted more in sagacity and common sense than in depth or extraordinary comprehensiveness. Still, for mere intellect, he may be placed at the head of the eminent Irishmen amongst whom he was an actor. With profound but rough and masculine strength of feeling, he was endowed with an amount of moral firmness and superiority to popular in- fluences rarely found amongst public men. Few men have been more exposed to censure and calumny than Lord Clare ; but we believe that, on the whole, those who carefully weigh his conduct will acquit him of the charges which his enemies were ever ready to bring against him. It is true hi3 zeal may have been sometimes carried beyond the bounds of lenity ; but it must be remembered that the crisis demanded strong action ; and great allowance may be made in minor matters for one who, nearly alone in that trying time, stood firm and unappalled at the post of duty." The remains of Lord Clare were deposited in the church- yard of St. Peter's, Dublin, where there is a stone with this inscription: — "Miss Isabella Fitzgibbon, died July the 18th, 1790, aged three years and three months. Here also lieth the body of the Right Hon. John Fitzgibbon, Lord High Chancellor of Ireland, who departed this life the 28th day of January, 1802, aged 54 years." Biographical sketches of Lord Clare may be found in Wills' " Lives of Illustrious and Distinguished Irishmen," vol. v. pp. 432-476 ; and in the " Remains of the Rev. Samuel O'Sullivan " (reprinted from the Dublin University Magazine), vol. ii. pp. 149-181. NOTES. 319 Note (mmm). William, Lord Downes. — " The day, we most earnestly hope, is far distant," as stated in an article in the Hibernia Magazine, 1810, vol. i. p. 3 (where a half-length portrait of the Lord Chief Justice appears, engraved by Brocas from a painting by Hamilton), " when the life of this excellent magistrate may properly employ the pen of some future bio- grapher. When that day shall arrive, there will be a subject to which the most splendid talents cannot do more than justice ; and it will require splendid and superior talents, indeed, to describe a man so pre-eminently gifted, so pecu- liarly adorned by every virtue, and dignified by so rare a modesty of nature, such singular simplicity, and urbanity of manners, and such a combination of learning, wisdom, and abilities as compose the character of this distinguished and accomplished gentleman. Raised by the native dignity of a great and a highly cultivated mind almost beyond the weak- nesses and infirmities of human nature, he is just without ostentation, and amiable without affectation. His benignity of heart and equanimity have more contributed to mould the suavity of his manners, than the polished society in which he has lived, or the noble ancestry from whom he is de- scended. He is dignified without austerity, and impressive through his gentleness. He commands our respect without ever attempting to exact it — it flows a spontaneous tribute to exalted virtue, to great learning, to patience inexhaust- ible, and to wisdom the most profound ; nor let it be for- gotten, that although from the structure of his person he appears to be sometimes affected by labour and fatigue, yet his bodily weariness is invariably surmounted by a religious and paramount sense of official duty, and no desire, or even necessity, for ease or for rest ever suspends for a moment his exertions in the due administration of justice." In pp. 122-124 many particulars of the Downes family have been given, which need not be repeated. One or two 320 APPENDIX III. matters, however, which have been since ascertained, or have since taken place, it may be well to mention. The whole of Bishop Downes' " Tour through the Dioceses of Cork and Ross," 1691-1709, has been incorporated into the Rev. Dr. Brady's " Clerical and Parochial Records of Cork, Cloyne, and Ross," 3 vols. 8vo., Dublin, 1863-64. (See also Gib- son's " History of Cork," vol. ii. p. 338, n., for mention of the original MS., which was presented to the Library of Trinity College, Dublin, in 1849, by the Ven. Samuel Moore Kyle, LL.D., Archdeacon of Cork.) Lord Downes had a younger brother, Thomas, who died in September, 1793. (Sentimental and Masonic Magazine, vol. iii. p. 288.) General Lord Downes, G.C.B., died at his seat, Bert House, Co. Kildare, 26th July, 1863, without male issue ; and the title is consequently extinct. For an obituary notice of this distinguished Peninsular veteran, see the Gentleman's Maga- zine, 1863, part ii. p. 375. His property in Donnybrook is held by his sole surviving daughter, the Countess of Clonmell. The Right Hon. William, Lord Downes, LL.D. (of whom brief mention has been made in pp. 92, 124), wa3 born in Donnybrook Castle,* in the year 1752. He was the second son of Robert Downes, Esq., of Donnybrook, M.P. for the Co. Kildare, by Elizabeth (whom he had married 18th Fe- bruary, 1737), daughter of Thomas Twigg, Esq., likewise of Donnybrook. In June, 1776, he was called to the Irish Bar; and having practised with success, he was, while M.P. for the borough of Donegal, raised to be a Justice of the Court of King's Bench, in March, 1792 ; and in 1803, on the murder of Arthur Wolfe, Viscount Kilwarden,t who had * In p. 92 it has been stated of Donnybrook Castle, that it " was sub- sequently a well-known boarding school, and is now a nunnery." Thia is a mistake, inasmuch as the house, in which Lord Downes was born, was " demolished in 1759." A sketch of it, from a drawing by Thomas Ashworth, is in the possession of the writer. It was replaced by another building, which (under the same name) was for many years used as a school (Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, Bart., as mentioned in p. 86, having been a pupil), and is now a nunnery. \ See Notes and Queries, 3rd S. xii. 86. NOTES. 321 been for a few years Lord Chief Justice, he was appointed to succeed him. In 1806, on the resignation of Lord Redes- dale, Lord Chancellor of Ireland, the Chief Justice was nominated Vice-Chancellor of the University of Dublin, by the Chancellor, H. R. H. the Duke of Cumberland ; which honourable post he held until 1816, when he was succeeded by the Lord Chancellor, Lord Manners. He resigned the high office of Lord Chief Justice, 21st February, 1822 (when the Right Hon. Charles Kendall Bushe succeeded him), with a pension of £3,800 per annum ; and he was created an Irish peer, by the title of Baron Downes, of Aghanville, in the King's County, 10th December of same year, with remainder, in default of male issue, to his cousin, Sir Ulysses Burgh, K.C.B., Surveyor- General of the Ordnance, and grandson of Anne, daughter of the above-named Bishop Downes. After his retirement from judicial life, he continued to reside at Merville, Booterstown, feeling at all times a warm interest in the welfare of these parishes and their institutions. He was spared to a good old age ; and dying without issue, 3rd March, 1826, in his 75th year, he was buried in a vault beneath St. Ann's Church, Dublin, where the remains of his old friend and companion, Judge Chamberlain, had been deposited. " The deceased peer was highly respected for his great legal knowledge, his strict impartiality, his dignified demeanour, and affable deportment. As Vice- Chancellor [of the Univer- sity], his piety, learning, and virtues were acknowledged and appreciated. He possessed all the qualities that render private life estimable ; his heart was benevolent, and his charities unbounded." (Gentleman's Magazine, 1826, part i. p. 270.) Biographical notices of him may likewise be found in the Annual Register, 1826, p. 230 ; and in the Dublin Evening Post, 4th March, 1826. For particulars of his legal appointments, Smyth's " Chronicle of the Law Officers of Ireland " may be consulted. " Hugh Hamilton's whole-length portrait of Judge (afterwards Lord) Downes 322 APPENDIX III. was one of the ablest efforts of his pencil." (" The Life of James Gandon, Esq.," p. 152.) An admirable whole-length portrait, in his robes as Lord Chief Justice, was painted by Mr. Cregan, of Dublin ; having been engraved by Reynolds, the plate was published by the Messrs. Colnaghi, Son, and Co., of London, in 1827, and " dedicated to the Hon bl Q Society of King's Inns, Dublin, by their most obedient ser- vant, M. Cregan." An engraving by Lupton, from a paint- ing by Comerford, has likewise appeared. It is rather strange that Lord Downes, with many other men of note, has not found a place in the u Lives of Illustrious and Distinguished Irishmen," by the late James Wills, D.D. In the south gallery of St. Ann's Church there is a monu- ment with this inscription : — " In the vault 34 underneath this church are deposited the mortal remains of the B,* Hon bl e William, Lord Downes, and the Honble Tankerville Chamberlain. " They had both sat as Justices in the Court of King's Bench, to the chief seat in which the former had been raised on the lamented event of the murder of their associate and chief, Arthur, Viscount Kilwarden. " In the high offices they fill'd, they equally possess'd the judicial qualities of knowledge of the laws, sound judgment and sagacity in the administration of them. These, with inflexible integrity, and firmness of mind, and patience, and temper, never once known to fail or to flatter, gave to the discharge of their publick duties a general confidence and satisfaction, never surpass'd in any time or country. " In the peculiar characteristics of their minds they dif* fer'd. The first excell'd in general and accurate knowledge, comprehensiveness of mind, composed thought, and coolness of judgment. The latter in promptness and penetrating force of intellect. " They were equally inaccessible to fallacious ingenuity, the influence of power, or of popular blandishment. In zealous sense of duty, candour, and love of justice, neither could excel the other, or be excell'd by any. 11 They each in the highest degree estimated the qualities of the other, and almost in an equal degree were insensible NOTES. 323 of their own. But those qualities were acknowledg'd, and as justly valued, by a contemporary publick. " In private life both were as amiable and beloved, as in their public characters they were approved and respected. " Their friendship and union was complete. " They had studied together, lived together, sat together on the same bench of justice, and now by desire of the sur- vivor they lie together in the same tomb. " In their deaths, as in their lives, they were believing and practical Christians. " Reader, think not this statement the exaggeration of monumental eulogy. For what relates to public station, those of the public who witness'd, or who have heard of them, are confidently appeal'd to — of the rest, much more is felt than here express'd. " Mr. Justice Chamberlain died May, 1802, aged 51 years. " Lord Downes survived him, to be executor to his will, and guardian to his children. To them he was as a parent, and a most generous benefactor, till it pleas'd God to close his virtuous and pious life. He died on the 2nd [3rd] of March, 1826, in the 78th [75th] year of his age. 4 ' This faithful testimonial of long-surviving recollections has been here erected on the 27th of April, 1833." Note (nun), Robert Perceval, M.D This eminent physician and philanthropist, whose country-residence was Annefield (now St. Ann's), Donny brook, and whose name has already ap- peared in these pages, devoted a large share of his valuable time and attention to the Hospital for Incurables. He was, in fact, for many years closely identified with the charitable institutions of the parish of Donnybrook ; and the following biographical notice, supplied (with the exception of some particulars) by his grandson, Robert Perceval Maxwell, Esq., D.L., of Groomsport, Co. Down, will prove acceptable. Robert Perceval, M.D., Physician- General to His Majesty's Forces in Ireland, was born iu Dublin, 30th Sep- tember, 1756; and was a descendant of Sir Philip Perceval 324 APPENDIX III. (a branch of the House of Yvery), being the youngest son of William Perceval, Esq., by his second wife, Elizabeth, daughter and heiress of Robert Ward, Esq., of Lisbane, in the county of Down.* In 1772 he entered Trinity Col- lege, Dublin, where, having distinguished himself, he gradu- ated as Bachelor of Arts : he then prosecuted his studies in the University of Edinburgh, to which he repaired in 1777 ; and he was admitted, in 1779, a member of the Speculative Society. Having taken his degree of M.D. in the year fol- lowing, he passed the next two years on the Continent, with the view of acquiring professional information. On his re- turn to Dublin in 1783, he was appointed Lecturer in Chemistry (and from 1785 to 1805 he filled the post of Professor of that science) in the Irish University. During this long period his lectures were listened to with marked attention ; and so interesting as well as instructive were they made, that he introduced the study of the science to many besides those of the medical profession, numbering among his pupils the learned Dr. Adam Clarke, who retained through life an affectionate respect for his teacher. At this time his fame had extended across the Atlantic ; and accordingly, in 1785, the American Philosophical Society of Philadelphia en- rolled him in the list of members. In the same year also he evinced his zeal in the cause of literature and science by his exertions in the formation of the Royal Irish Academy, at the first meeting of which, 2nd May, he was elected one of the Committee of Science ; and he afterwards acted for a considerable time as their Secretary. In the following year (1786) he married Anne, eldest daughter of William Brere- ton, Esq., of Rathgilbert, in the Queen's County; by which union he secured his domestic happiness. In July of the same year he was appointed Inspector of Apothecaries ; an office which at first exposed him to the unpopularity so fre- quently accompanying the reform of old abuses. Subse- * See Archdall's *■ Lodge's Peerage of Ireland," vol. ii. p. 250. NOTES. 325 quently, however, the Court of Directors of the Apothecaries' Hall bore honourable testimony to his services in their behalf; and in 1807, they presented him with a piece of plate, " as a token of their esteem for his attention to the improvement of their profession." He became about this date an Honorary Member of the Royal Dublin Society. Much of his time and thoughts he devoted to the medical and other charities of Dublin, in which he effected many im- portant improvements, and directed the application of their funds so as to render them more generally useful. Few, indeed, of the hospitals of that metropolis do not exhibit proof of his valuable personal exertions, while many of them are indebted to him for liberal pecuniary aid. Having been appointed a trustee of the property bequeathed by Sir Patrick Dun, M.D., for the purpose of founding a School of Physic, and conceiving that the application of the funds had been confined much within the limits of the testator's will, he directed his energies to effect the establishment of an hospital with a portion of the proceeds. In this project, notwithstand- ing much opposition, he succeeded; and on the 25th Octo- ber, 1808, he had the satisfaction of witnessing the opening of Sir Patrick Dun's Hospital, which has become one of the most valuable and useful in Dublin.* The Hospital for In- curables, Donnybrook, of which he was a Governor, likewise engaged a large share of his attention ; and in its welfare and utility he was always deeply interested-! He was a Member of the Pathological and several other Societies in Dublin ; his philanthropic disposition attaching him not only to those institutions which were strictly professional, but, for example, to the Prison Discipline Society, established in 1818 * The reader who wishes for full and satisfactory information respect- ing Sir Patrick Dun and the fruits of his bequest, is referred to (the now Rev.) Dr. Belcher's »« Memoir of Sir Patrick Dun (Knt.)t M.D., M.P., Physician-General to the Army,'' etc. (8vo. Dublin, 1866). t Mr. Cheyne Brady, M.B.I. A., has printed an interesting 12mo pamphlet, entitled " The History of the Hospital for Incurables " (Dub- lin, 1865). The institution has been briefly mentioned in pp. 43, 44 ; but it deserves, and will receive, a more extended notice. 326 APPENDIX III. for the purpose of visiting and reporting on the state of all the prisons and bridewells in Ireland. This Society after- wards merged in the Howard Society, of which Dr. Perce- val was elected Vice-President ; and at one of their meetings, when an address was voted to him, Sir William Cusack-Smith, Bart,, bore testimony to the zeal and abilities he had evinced in carrying out the happy reformation in the condition and discipline of the Irish prisons. " Do I go too far," said the learned Judge, "in calling this just man our Irish Howard, in philanthropy his equal, his superior in mental power, fertility, and cultivation ?" (Proceedings of the Howard Society, 14th February, 1832). In 1819 Govern- ment awarded him the highest professional appointment, that of Physician-General to His Majesty's Forces in Ire- land ; a post which he held for many years, with no less advantage to the public than credit to himself. He was spared to a good old age, his mental faculties remaining un- impaired, though disease and infirmity made great ravages on his bodily frame ; and he was led by the Spirit to seek in retirement and contemplation that comfort from above, by which he was sustained throughout a lingering illness. Having borne this heavy trial with Christian resignation, the aged philosopher expired in the full assurance of a blessed eternity, 3rd March, 1839, in the 83rd year of his age. His public career as a physician was no less distinguished for success than his private life was remarkable for piety and philanthropy. To professional attainments of the highest order he united the graces of the accomplished scholar ; and while from his numerous friends, and the profession of which he was an ornament, he attracted the warmest admiration and esteem, from the poor and the destitute, the fatherless and the widow, the prisoner and the captive, his benevolence and sympathy drew down the blessings and prayers, which heartfelt gratitude never fails to inspire. This was to him a prize far more valuable than worldly honours, wealth, and NOTES. 327 station. He published some treatises on divinity and other subjects j* and he has left several volumes in manuscript, which have not as yet appeared in print. It may seem strange that so eminent a professional man should not have handed down to posterity some work embodying the result of his experience; but just at the time when he had in view an undertaking of this kind, Dr. Mason Good intimated to him his intention of writing a medical treatise ; and as am- bition formed no part of Dr. Perceval's character, he at once, with that disinterestedness for which he was remark- able, handed over his notes to Dr. Good, in order to render his friend's work as complete as possible. A similar instance of genuine humility may be found in another event of his life. The Howard Society, anxious to have his portrait taken, waited upon him with a complimentary address-; but the strong conviction, that after he had done all, he was still an unprofitable servant, operated so forcibly that he respect- fully declined the honour. The public weal, and to do as much good as lay in his power, seems to have been the ruling principle of his actions, while the satisfaction of an approving conscience was the only reward to which he aspired ; and not only did he reject many a proffered honour during his life, but even in his will he provided against the possibility of posterity raising a costly tribute to his memory, having specially directed that his family should permit no other monument than a marble slab, recording merely his name and the dates of his birth and death. Accordingly, a very plain tablet may be seen in the chancel of St. Michan's Church, Dublin, with this brief inscription : — " Robert Perceval, M.D., late Physician- General. Born 30 th September, 1756. Died 3^ March, 1839." * An 8vo volume, entitled " An Essay on the Divinity of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, and the Doctrine of the Trinity " (Dublin, 1821 ), and printed for private circulation, deserves to be particularly mentioned. 328 APPENDIX III. The following passages are from an address to the Medico-Chirurgical Society of Dublin by the late Dr. Robert J. Graves (see p. 308) : — " I cannot, gentlemen, suffer the public opportunity to pass by without testifying the respect in which 1 hold the memory of that venerable old man and excellent physician, Dr. Perceval. Though sprung from an illustrious family, and possessing an hereditary competency, he was an ardent, assiduous, and successful cultivator of medicine. He took his degree in Edinburgh in 1780 ; was one of the original members of the Royal Irish Academy, and for a long period of time acted as Secretary to that learned body. He filled for many years the chair of Chemistry in the University of Dublin with distinguished credit, and was for a long period Physician-General to the Forces in Ireland. No professional man in Dublin ever reaped greater professional emoluments than Dr. Perceval, and no man in proportion ever amassed less wealth; but his wealth is to be estimated, not by what he saved or hoarded, but by what he so liberally expended in forwarding the cause of science, and relieving the wants of his poor and suffering fellow-citizens. It would be but feeble praise to say he was charitable ; he was munificent ; and that to such a degree as to distance all imitation.* I fear, therefore, that we must content ourselves with recording our admiration of virtues beyond the conception of persons of ordinary mould, and to be attained only by those gene- rous and devoted spirits who are willing to risk everything in the cause of science and humanity. Of this, however, we may rest assured, that no honorary distinction, no title con- ferred even by Royalty itself, no literary or scientific di- ploma, granted to our colleagues by foreign institutions, ever dignified the profession so much, or raised its members so high in public estimation, as the unostentatious and Chris- tian benevolence of Dr. Perceval." — Parthenon, 11th May, 1839. In " The Works of Mrs. Hemans, with a Memoir of her Life" (Edinburgh, 1839), vol. i. p. 244, there are these words : — " Mrs. Hemans entered very little into the general * " It raay be observed of Dr. Perceval, as a good trait in his character, that all the fees he received on Sundays (and they were not a few) were strictly set apart for charity." See p. 206. I NOTES. 329 society of Dublin, but enjoyed, with, a few real and attached friends, that kindly intercourse most congenial to her tastes and habits. Amongst these friends must be particularly mentioned the Graves family, their venerable relatives, Dr. and Mrs. Perceval," etc. And in the same page there is the following note : — " The sonnet ' To an aged Friend,' [writ- ten in 1834, and] published in Mrs. Hemans' Poetical Re- mains (vol. vii. p. 265), was addressed to Dr. Perceval. Its beginning must be read with affecting interest by those who know that that voice is still heard, though feebly and fail- ingly, whilst the ' Daughter of Music ' has long been laid low. The sonnet ' On the Datura Arborea,' in the same volume [p. 273], was written after seeing a superb speci- men of that striking plant in Dr. Perceval's beautiful green- house at Annefield." The former sonnet is as follows : — " Not long thy voice amongst us may be heard, Servant of God! — thy day is almost done ; The charm now lingering in thy look and word Is that which hangs about thy setting sun, That which the spirit of decay hath won Still from revering love. Yet doth the sense Of life immortal — progress but begun — Pervade thy mien with such clear eloquence, That hope, not sadness, breathes from thy decline ; And the loved flowers which round thee smile farewell, Of more than vernal glory seem to tell, By thy pure spirit touch'd with light divine ; While we, to whom its parting gleams are given, Forget the grave in trustful thoughts of heaven." To the foregoing shall be added merely a few remarks by a valued friend, the late Dr. Jonathan Osborne,* of Black- rock : — * Jonathan Osborne, M.D., for many years King's Professor of Materia Medica and Pharmacy, on the foundation of Sir Patrick Dun, M.D., and Physician to Mercer's Hospital, Dublin, died at his residence, Cler- mont, Blackrock, in the parish of Booterstown, 22nd January, 1864. He was an excellent classical scholar, and an esteemed contributor to various medical publications ; and he was likewise remarkable for the possession of a rich store of quaint literature, upon which he was at all times ready to draw for the benefit of others. ( Saunders's News- Letter, 26th January, 1864.) He was buried in a vault under St. Michan's Church, Dublin, where (by his own desire) his coffin stands in an up- right position. See Notes and Queries, 3rd S. x. 423 (24th November, 1866). 330 APPENDIX III. " I have a good right to remember Dr. Perceval ; and it would not be more than his due, that I should erect a tablet to his memory ' ob vitam servatam.' . . . Fortunately the divine old man (a term applied to Hippocrates) was called in ; and to his diagnosis of the real nature of the dis- ease and consequent judicious treatment, I must, under Pro- vidence, ascribe my recovery. His grandfather was Pre- bendary of St. Michan's, and Dean of Emly. As Professor of Chemistry in Trinity College, he introduced the modern or pneu- matic system into this country; and as I have heard, by a peculiarly eloquent, but chastened style of lecturing, caused it to be soon generally understood ; and at the same time he obtained a reputation which brought him into practice almost immediately after his settlement in Dublin. To the necessity of driving instead of walking thereby imposed upon him from an early period of his career, he used to attribute his painful disease, and the coming on of a premature old- age. He was for many years, as Dr. Cheyne justly styled him, l the honoured head of the medical profession.' His charities were unbounded, and for the most part known only to the recipients ; and these were so numerous, that it caused no astonishment that the property left by him bore a small proportion to his means of acquiring wealth. He was at- tacked by a singularly painful complication of disease ; and he gave directions that after death a complete examination should be made, which revealed the causes of an amount of suffering such as few have to undergo, and which he endured with the greatest patience and resignation to the Divine will. During the latter years of his life he was much engaged in theological studies ; and he wrote a work of great research [already referred to] on the opinions of the early Fathers regarding the Trinity. He was indeed a man (to quote the words of Blumenbach) ' elegantissime doctus.' " Note (oooj. The Hibernian Nursery, Ringsend.* — In the year * In pp. 53, 54, may be found a Note on the derivation of " Ringsend." There is some difficulty in deciding the question; and therefore the following extract from Joyce's " Origin and History of Irish Names of Places " (Dublin, 1869), pp. 369-70, will not be unacceptable : — "Rinn means the point of anything, such as the point of a spear, etc. ; in its local application, it denotes a point of land, a promontory, or small peninsula. O'Brien says in his Dictionary: — 'It would take up more l NOTES. 331 1767 there was published "A Brief Account of the Hiber- nian Nursery for the Support and Education of the Orphans and Children of Mariners only [see p. 81] ; with the present State of that Charitable Institution, which the Governors think their Duty to lay before the Public " (12mo. pp. 18). "An House," as stated in p. 6, "has been opened last sum- mer [at Ringsend] for the reception of 40 poor children, and 35 are already admitted, who, under such discipline as tends to improve and strengthen them in the principles of virtue, are maintained, clothed, taught to read and write ; and are to be instructed in navigation, so as to be fitted for the sea- business, to which, at a proper age, they are to be appren- ticed. This singular Institution, recommendable from policy as well as humanity, is as yet in its infant state." A sum of £500 was paid to the Governors, 23rd December, 1767, by the Committee of Merchants conducting the Exchange lottery scheme ; being a portion of £3,100 given to charit- able institutions. QExshaw's Magazine, 1767, p. 782.) Many interesting particulars of the early history of this Institution, now known as " The Hibernian Marine Society in Dublin, for maintaining, educating, and apprenticing the Orphans and Children of Decayed Seamen of Her Majesty's Navy and the Merchant Service," may be gleaned from the first Minute-book of the Governors. For example : — The nature and design of the Institution (p. 1) ; First meeting of the Governors (p. 2) ; House taken at Ringsend (p. 5) ; Donation from Friendly Brothers (p. 34) ; Badge of Infamy (p. 42) ; Boys to walk on the Franchises Day (p. 45) ; Petition for Parliamentary aid (p. 47) ; Payment to Sex- than a whole sheet to mention all the neck-lands of Ireland, whose names begin with this word Rinn. t It is found pretty extensively in names, in the forms Rin, Rinn, Keen, Iline, and Ring ; and these constitute or begin about 1 70 townland names. . . . Ring stands alone as the name of many places in different counties, in all cases meaning a point of land ; Ringaskiddy, near Spike Island, in Cork, is Skiddy's point. I think it very probable that the point of land between the mouth of the river Dodder and the sea, gave name to Ringsend, near Dublin, the second syllable being English: — Ringsend, i.e., the end of the Rinn or point." 332 APPENDIX III. toness of Irishtown Church (p. 68) ; Fifty guineas from City of Dublin (p. 77) ; Application to Lord Fitzwilliam for lease of the Pond (p. 80) ; Conniving House (p. 82) ; and Purchase of present site on Sir John Rogerson's Quay, Dublin (p. 83). A meeting of the Governors of the intended Institution was held at the Custom House, 5th June, 1766 ; the School was opened 1st September, 1766, and 20 boys admitted ; it was resolved on the 9th of the following December that 20 additional boys be admitted; and the first Meeting held by Charter was on the 6th November, 1775. For further information, see Whitelaw and Walsh's 14 History of Dublin," vol. I. pp. 613-18. Note (ppp). The Grand Canal. Docks, Ringsend On the western side of the Dodder, close to the village of Ringsend, are the Grand Canal Docks, comprising an area of twenty-five acres, with two thousand yards of quayage, and about eighteen feet depth of water. They have three commodious graving docks, and are entered by two gates, called the Camden and Buckingham locks. They were opened on the 23rd of April, 1796 ; and the following account of the ceremony may be found in Walker's Hibernian Magazine, 1796, part 1. pp. 383-4 : — " This being St. George's Day, was exhibited one of the grandest and most interesting spectacles ever witnessed by this kingdom, we mean the opening of the Grand Canal floating and graving docks. At eleven o'clock in the morning his Excellency the Lord Lieutenant, attended by his suite, and accompanied by Mr. Secretary Pelham, went on board the yacht (commanded by Sir Alexander Schomberg) lying in the river. The yacht immediately proceeded into the great eastern ship-lock, from whence she passed into the floating docks. ... As soon as the yacht entered the basin a royal salute was fired from the park of artillery on the south bank of the docks, which was returned by the yacht as soon as she came to anchor, when she also hoisted NOTES. 333 the royal flag. About twenty vessels of considerable size, some of them 400 tons and upwards, entered the docks after the yacht, and each of them saluted as they came in ; they were followed by a considerable number of small craft, and a variety of barges and pleasure-boats handsomely decorated, which gave great variety and beauty to the scene. . . . His Excellency, Earl Camden, with Mr. Pelham, attended by Sir Alexander Schomberg, came ashore in the yacht's barge, and was received on the wharf between the two large graving docks by the Court of Directors of the Grand Canal. The company, which consisted of about one thousand of the principal nobility and gentry of this kingdom, went to a breakfast which had been prepared in tents for the purpose, capable of containing twelve hundred persons." In the Earl of ClonmeH's " Private Diary,"* p. 438 (a very curious volume, by no means common, and without a title- page), mention is made of the same event in these words : — " Saturday, 23rd April, St. George's Day. Lord Camden, with a vast concourse of people, nobility, gentry, and rabble, atten- ded at Ring's End, with music and cannon, and a public break- fast, given by the Governors of the Grand Canal, at the opening of the new docks and sailing into them by a vast number of ships and small boats. The judges and bar left the courts to attend so new and splendid a 3i*ght. But what will come of all this expected commerce in Dublin, if an Union must take place?" In 1846, Sir John Macneill, C.E., presented to the Directors of the Grand Canal Company a " Report on the Present State and Proposed Improvement of the extensive Floating and Graving Docks, at Ringsend" (8vo. pp. 14, with a map). Note (qqq). The Dublin and Kingstown Railway — This railway, which was opened to the public in December, 1834, (see p. * A copy of this privately-printed volume is in the Library of Trinity College, Dublin. 334 APPENDIX III. 95), is six miles in length, extending from Westland-row, Dublin, to the Victoria Wharf, Kingstown, and was the first, and for many years the only railway constructed in Ireland. The cost, with appointments complete, was upwards of £63,000 per mile. Share capital, under the powers of the original Act, was created in 2,000 shares of £100 each, called in full and consolidated. An extension Act authorised 4,000 new shares of £50, and 4,000 of £25 each: £25 of the former, and £12 10s. of the latter have been called ; and a further Act, obtained in the year 1860, extinguished these shares, and consolidated the amount paid up thereon, together with the original capital, into one general capital stock. The line came under the management of the Dublin and Wicklow Railway Company, to whom it is leased, 1st July, 1856. See " Thorn's Almanac and Official Direc- tory, 1861," pp. 722, 723, for a table showing the traffic, etc., for the last six years previous to 1st July, 1856 ; and for returns of traffic on the Dublin and Wicklow and Dublin and Kingstown lines, since their joint working under the present Company. In the Dublin Penny Journal, vol. ii. pp. 401-5, and vol. iii. pp. 65-9, 84, 132-4 (published in 1834) s there is an account of the Dublin and Kingstown Railway, with nine engravings. In vol. ii. p. 405, there are these particulars : — " It may be amusing to our readers to know the number of persons and vehicles which pass to and from Kingstown in the course of a year ; the items are extracted from a document in the possession of the Railway Company, and upon which we believe they have founded a calculation of the probable profits to be derived from the road itself. Number of cars, carriages, etc., passing to and from the Rock, from the 12th February, 1831, to the 13th Feb- ruary, 1832, between six o'clock in the morning and nine at night: — private carriages, 36,287; hackney coaches, 7,272; private cars, 133,537; public cars, 186,108; gigs, 24,175; saddle-horses, 46,164; carts, 69,133." "Five Views of the Dublin and Kingstown Railway, from Drawings taken NOTES. 335 on the spot by Andrew ISIichol ; with a Description of this important National Work," were published in 4to., Dublin, 1834. Plate i. is " from Blackrock, looking across Dublin Bay towards Williamstown & Merrion — Dublin in the distance." Note (rrr). Sir Bernard De Gomme's Survey op the Harbour of Dublin, 1673. — Some details of Yarranton's Survey of Ringsend, 1674, having been given in pp. 148-151, a valu- able document, entitled " Observations Explanatory of a Plan and Estimate for a Citadel at Dublin, designed by Sir Bernard de Gomme, Engineer-General, in the year 1673, with his Map, showing the state of the Harbour and River ■at that time, Exhibited to the Royal Irish Academy, at their Meeting on Friday, the 15th of March, 1861," and which was printed by the late Charles Haliday, Esq., for private circulation, is here inserted with his permission : — The map, it will be observed, is entitled "An Exact Survey of the City of Dublin and part of the Harbour belowe Ringsend;" and seems to have been formed by Sir Bernard de Gomme, to exhibit the position of the citadel projected by him for the protection of the city and river. This map, plan, and estimate, never published, and wholly overlooked by local historians, is historically interesting, as showing the earliest design probably for the defence of Dublin against an enemy approaching from the sea, and derives a further local interest from the means which it affords for contrasting the then state of the harbour of Dublin with its present condition. And, first, as to the causes prompting the design of forti- fying Dublin from an attack by sea at this particular period. The defenceless state of the chief ports of England and Ireland had been forced upon the attention of Government shortly before, in consequence of the success of the Dutch Fleet, which entered the Thames in 1667 ; and after break- ing a chain drawn across the mouth of the Medway, took Sheerness and Chatham, and having burned the English 336 APPENDIX III. ships of war stationed there, sailed out again with scarcely an} 1 - loss. This successful invasion spread alarm throughout the kingdom, and the consternation was so great in London that nine ships were sunk at Woolwich, and four at Black- wall, to prevent the Dutch from sailing up to London Bridge and destroying the city. Under these circumstances Sir Martin Beckman and Sir Bernard de Gomme, the Royal Engineers, were ordered to construct works for the defence of the Thames. These officers prepared plans for strengthening the fortifications at Sheer- ness and Tilbury — the works at Tilbury Fort being entrusted to Sir Bernard de Gomme, who had previously been em- ployed on the fortifications at Dunkirk ; and his plans, with specifications, are now among the Manuscripts in the British Museum. Peace with the Dutch was shortly afterwards concluded, but did not last long ; and at the commencement of another war, in 1672, Sir Bernard de Gomme was sent to Ireland to ascertain what works were necessary for the defence of ports in that kingdom ; and after a survey of Dublin and Kinsale, the plan and estimates now exhibited were pre- sented to His Majesty King Charles the Second on the 15th of November, 1673. The citadel at Dublin was designed to be a pentagon, occupying a space of 1,946 yards, with ramparts, ravelins, curtain, and bastions, the walls being intended of brick, faced with stone, and built on a frame of timber and piles. It was to contain barracks for 700 men and officers, with a governor's house, and store-houses for munitions of war, a chapel, a prison, a clock-tower, and gateway and draw- bridges similar to those at Tilbury Fort and Portsmouth — the estimated cost being £131,227 5s. 9d. ; the estimate for constructing a fort at Ring Curran, to defend Kinsale, being £10,350. The site chosen for the Dublin citadel was near the space now occupied by Merrion-square, and it would be difficult to understand the grounds assigned for this choice, viz., its being capable of being relieved by sea, without realising to the mind the fact, that at that day the sea flowed almost to the foot of Merrion-square. That such, however, were the grounds for the selection appears in the Letters of the Earl of Essex, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, the report of Mr. •Jonas Moore, in the year 1675, stating, " that if His Ma- jesty should think fit to proceed in the design of building a NOTES. 337 fort royal on the Strand, near Ringsend, as was designed by- Sir Bernard de Gomme, it is doubtless the only proper piece of ground where a fort can be built so as to be relieved by sea, although for arms the sea air will be very prejudicial," — an objection, however, which did not prevent a fort being subsequently erected at the Pidgeon House, nearly a mile seaward of the site selected by the royal engineer. In considering the grounds for selecting this site, it must be borne in mind, that any landing by an enemy on the north bank of the river was nearly impossible, by reason of the shoals of slob or sand extending to a great distance, and preventing access to the shore ; but had an enemy even been able to disembark, they would have the river between them and the object of their attack, as the city then lay altogether on the south side of the river, except the district called Ostmantown (the ancient settlement of the Danes or Ostmen), adjoining St. Michan's Church and Smithfield, the latter being long familiarly known under the corrupted name of Oxmantown-green. Upon the south side of the river, Ringsend was the chief landing place at the period of Sir Bernard de Gomme's design. The river, not being yet quayed and deepened as it has since been, flowed at low water in streams, winding in devious courses through a labyrinth of sands, as may be seen on Sir Bernard's map. Above Ringsend the navigation became still more intricate and difficult. The long line of South Wall, nearly three miles and a quarter in length, from Ringsend to Poolbeg, carried over the South Bull, through the water towards the bar, and terminated by the Poolbeg Lighthouse, marking the entrance of the river, was then not thought of. The sea, not banked out from the south side of the city by Sir John Rogerson's-quay, spread itself over ground now laid out in streets ; so that Ringsend — true to its name, Rin or Reen, meaning a spit or point — presents itself in Sir Bernard de Gomme's map as a long and narrow tongue or spit of land running out into the sea, the water on its western side spreading over all the low ground between Irishtown and the slightly rising ground on which stand the barracks at Beggar's Bush, and under Sir Patrick Dun's Hospital, along the line of Denzille-street and Great Brunswick-street, to Townsend-street, called Lazey, otherwise Lazar's-hill, and flowing even to that front of the Parliament House called the Lords' Entrance, facing College-street, as may be seen on the z 338 APPENDIX III. ground plan of Chichester House (the site of which the Parliament House occupies), where ground under this face is described as " the Old Shore. ' At Lazar's-hill, in the year 1657, we find a frigate built and launched. Among the Treasury warrants issued by the Commissioners of England for the affairs of Ireland, is an order dated the 24th March, 1656-7, "That James Standish, Receiver-General, do issue forth and pay unto Mr. Timothy Avery the sum of £100, on account, the same being to be by him issued out towards the finishing and speedy fitting to sea the new ffrigatt, called the Lambay Catch, now rebuilt and lately launched att Lazey-hill, Dublin, according to such orders as he shall receive in writing under the hand of Captain Edward Tomlins, and Joseph Glover, who is to command the said shipp, for payment whereof this is a warrant," etc. Ringsend was then a place of arrival and departure for Lord Deputies with their attendant trains ; and here, it may be remembered, Oliver Cromwell, as Lord Lieutenant, landed in the month of August, 1649, with an army cf 13,000 men, to commence his memorable nine months' campaign in Ireland. From Ringsend the direct approach to Dublin lay across ground overflowed by the tide, but passable at low water for man or horse about the place where the Ringsend bridge now stands. At full tide the way lay more inland, through the fields of Bagotrath, the line of approach being through Irish- town, nearly along the course of Bath-avenue, and by the line of Mount-street and Merrion-square to the Castle. In the year 1674 — that following the visit of Sir Bernard de Gomme — Andrew Yarranton, the publisher of some plans for the improvement of harbours in England, came to Dublin, and was, as he states, " importuned by Lord Mayor Brewster to bestow some time on a survey of the port," the result of which was, that, considering it impossible to deepen the water on the bar, he offered suggestions for an artificial harbour, and fort for its defence, on the strand (then covered by the tide) between Ringsend and " the Town's End street " ; the want of some protection for the trade of Dublin being then a subject which engaged public attention, in consequence of a French privateer having entered the bay, and captured and carried off a Spanish ship from near the bar of the river. Yarranton's plan appeared in a treatise entitled " England's Improvement by Sea and Land, to outdo the Dutch without Fighting," published in 1677. The plan of a citadel, as projected by Sir Bernard de NOTES. 339 Gomme, though not executed, seems not to have been wholly- laid aside, for in a fine collection, in folio, of plans of all the forts existing in Ireland, in the year 1684, with their eleva- tions beautifully executed in water-colours, together with projects for additional defences, preserved in Kilkenny Castle, the same design reappears. This volume of plans is entitled " A Report drawn up by direction of His Majesty King Charles the Second, and General Right Hon. George Lord Dartmouth, Master- General of His Majesty's Ordnance in England, and performed by Thomas Phillips, Anno 1685"; and it contains several plans and details "for a Citadel to be built over Dublin," the site being apparently the same as that chosen by Sir Bernard de Gomme, and the form similar. The plans of Yarranton and de Gomme directed attention to the improvement of the port of Dublin, the trade of which was then carried on by vessels of from fifty to one hundred tons burden. As there was no corporate or other body in Dublin, entrusted with the conservancy of the river, and especially empowered to raise ballast, Henry Howard petitioned the Lord Lieutenant, in 1676, that a patent might be granted to him, pursuant to the King's letter, which he had obtained for establishing a ballast-office. This, however, was opposed by the Lord Mayor and citizens, on the ground that the charter of King John gave to them the strand of the river, where ballast should be raised ; and they therefore prayed that per- mission to establish a ballast- office might be granted to them, they applying the profits thereof to the maintenance of the intended "King's Hospital" (since better known as the Blue Coat School). The Lord Lieutenant neither granted the prayer of the one petition or the other, nor did Howard execute a lease which he had proposed to take from the city. The Corporation of Dublin, still anxious to improve the port, petitioned the House of Commons in 1698, stating that " the river had become so shallow, and the channel so uncer- tain, that neither barques nor lighters of any burden could get up except at spring tides, much merchandise being unloaded at Ringsend, and thence carted up to Dublin " ; and therefore prayed that they might be permitted to establish a ballast-office. On this petition the " heads of a bill " were prepared and transmitted to England, comformable with Poyning's law, but the bill " was stopped in England by some persons there 340 APPENDIX III. (as was alleged), who endeavoured to get a grant from the Admiralty for the benefit of the chest at Chatham." It is more likely, however, that the opposition originated in some jealousy respecting the Admiralty jurisdiction of the port, the Lord Mayor being "Admiral of Dublin," over which the Lord High Admiral of England claimed to be supreme. This obstacle was removed in 1708, when the Ballast Office was created by an Act of the Sixth of Queen Anne ; for, although there was no clause to that effect in- serted in the bill, the City had privately promised the Prince Consort, Prince George of Denmark, then Lord High Admiral of England, an annual tribute " of one hundred yards of the best Holland Duck Sail Cloth, which shall be made in the realm of Ireland '' ; and this tribute was for a time regularly sent to London, and on one occasion when it was omitted, it was formally demanded by the Admiralty, and then forwarded by the Corporation. To the establishment of this Ballast Office in 1708, and the remodelling of it in 1787, under the name of " The Cor- poration for preserving and improving the Port of Dublin," we owe the extraordinary improvement manifested by an inspection of the map. It will be observed, that the high- water mark was " the Townsend-street " on the one side, and what yet retains the name of " the North Strand " on the other ; and a curious illustration of the state of the harbour is found in the fact, that during a storm in 1670, the tide flowed up to the College, and at a later period, that a collier was wrecked where Sir Patrick Dun's Hospital now stands. The soil raised by dredging the river during 130 years has contributed to fill up the space now occupied by the Custom House, Commons-street, Mayor-street, etc., to the north, and Great Brunswick-street, etc., to the south ; and so late as 1728, when ' \ Brooking's Map of Dublin " was published, the whole of the ground known as the " North and South Lotts " was still covered by the tide, the name of " Lotts " originating in the resolution of the Lord Mayor and citizens to apportion them out, and " draw lots for them," with the stipulation that they should be enclosed from the river by a wall, and filled up. But the greatest improvement as regards the trade of the port has been the partial removal of the bar at the mouth of the river, For the removal of this bar the most eminent engineers had been consulted. In 1713 the Ballast Office NOTES. 341 procured the services of Captain John Perry, who had been employed at Dover harbour, and at the Daggenham breach in the Thames ; but although he suggested plans by which it was conceived that the depth of the water might be increased, the task was considered so hopeless, that to render the port fit for vessels drawing even twelve feet of water, it was proposed that an artificial harbour should be constructed near Ringsend, one engineer suggesting that this harbour should be accessible by a ship canal, along the Sutton shore ; and another, that the canal should be from Dalkey or Kings- town, so as altogether to avoid the bar. The works executed by the Ballast Office have, however, so far removed the bar, that at the spot where Nicholas Ball proposed, in 1582, " to build a tower, like the Maiden Tower at Drogheda," there is now twenty-five feet of water at spring tides ; and the river, which in 1713 could only be used by vessels of fifty to one hundred tons burden, is now used by vessels of 1,000 to 1,100 tons register, and drawing twenty- one feet of water. The effect of the improvement being, that the Ballast Office must construct new docks for the large vessels now frequenting the port, as the Custom-house docks planned by Sir John Rennie so late as 1821, are incapable of receiving steam or other large vessels, the sill of the lock gates being now four feet above the deepened bed of the river in front. Charles Haliday, M.R.I.A. Monkstown Park [Dublin], 15th March, 1861. For several particulars of Sir Bernard de Gomme, who 11 was perhaps the most eminent engineer in the service of the British Crown during the period of the Civil Wars," see Notes and Queries, 2nd S. IX. 221, 252 (24th and 31st March, 1860). Note (sss). St. Matthew's Churchyard. — This burial-ground, with the vault under the church, has been closed against interments by an order of the Lords Justices and Privy Council in Ireland, dated 13th July, 1872, subject to the rights of certain persons, as set forth in the Dublin Gazette of the 19th 342 APPENDIX III. inst. In the memorial which had been presented to the Lord Lieutenant in Council, in pursuance of the provisions of 1 9 & 20 Vict. c. 98> it was stated that the graveyard had existed for one hundred and sixty years; that during that period burials had taken place in it continuously (the number for the ten years ending with 1864, having been 549 ; and for the ten years ending with 1871, 585) ; and that for the pro- tection of the public health, the neighbourhood being popu- lous, burials should be , wholly discontinued. {Saunders's News-Letter, 3rd July.) $ The following inscriptions are given in continuation of those which have appeared in pp. 152- 157:— XXVI. " Here lieth the body of Mr. Joseph Watson, late Deputy Surveyor at Ringsend, who died the 17th day of August, 1746, aged 66 years." ["Buried, August y e 19, 1746, Mr. Jos. Wattson." — Parish Register J] a Mr. Richard Piper, of Whitehaven, Mariner, died May 24th, 1750, aged 37 years." " Here lieth the body of Mr. John Hall, who departed this life the seventh day of April, 1758, aged 48 years." " Here lyes interred the body of Mrs. Margaret Medlicott, wife of Joseph Medlicott, Gent., and daughter of James Moore, Esq r , formerly Surveyor of Ringsend, whose family burial- place this is. She was a most affectionate and tender wife, and a dutifull and beloved daughter. She departed this life the 15th day of January, 1759, in the 30th year of her age." " Here lyeth in hopes of a resurrection to glory, the body of Deborah Moore, daughter of James Moore, Esq r , late Col- lector of Newport, and formerly Surveyor of Ringsend, whose burial-ground this is. She departed this life y e 20th Novem r , 1766, aged 49." ["Buried, Nov r y e 23, 1766, Deby Moor." — Parish Register.'] NOTES. 343 " This buryal-place belongs to Alex r Stephens, of Temple Barr [Dublin]. Here lyeth bis grandson, Alex r Stephens, dyed y e 11th of Feb 7 , 1763, aged 10 months." " The body of Michael Fox, of Tully, in the county of Leitrim, but latterly of Ringsend, in the county of Dublin, is here deposited. He departed this life on the 7 th day of July, in the year 1768, aged 68 years. Here also lieth the body of Michael Fox, second son of the said Michael Fox, who departed this life on the 23rd day of May, in the year 1815, aged 74 years. Here also lieth the body of John Fox. third son of the said Michael Fox, the elder, who departed this life on the 21st day of August, in the year 1815, aged 67 years. Also the remains of Peter Fox, Barrister, son of the first-named Michael Fox, who departed this life September 26th, 1823, aged 69 years. Here also rest the mortal re- mains of the beloved Susanna Fox, wife of Michael Fox, grandson of the first above-named Michael, and daughter of Rob 1 Jones Lloyd, Esq r , of Elphin, County Roscommon. She died Sep r 6th, 1826, aged 32 years. Gifted with the gentlest manners, a clear understanding, an affectionate heart, an anxiety for immortal souls, and an abiding love for her Redeemer, she adorned His doctrine, and was a means of grace to many. ' Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.' — Rev. ii. 10." 14 Here lyeth the body of Mrs. Elizabeth Campbell, who departed this life the 28th of Jan y , 1770, aged 68." " Here lyeth the body of Christopher Dunn, of the city of Dublin, Mariner, who departed this life 21st May, 1778, aged 77 years. Here also lie the remains of Mr. Thomas Lee, late of the city of Dublin, Apothecary. He was husband to the granddaughter of the said Christ* Dunn, and departed this life the 13th day of July, 1797, in the 47th year of his age. Capt n Tho s Dunn, son to the above Christ 1 ", died the 13th of Dec r , 1804, in the 68th year of his age." xxxv. " This stone and burial-place belongeth to Lancelot Hall- 344 APPENDIX III. wood, of Bride-street, in the city of Dublin, and his posterity. Here lieth the body of Alexander Hallwood, son of the afore- said Lancelot, a youth of the sweetest disposition and gentle manners. Also lieth interr'd the remains of Rebecca Hall- wood, wife to the above-named Lancelot. She departed this life on the 6th day of May, 1782, in the 55th year of her age." XXXVI. " This stone and burial-place belongs to Mr. John Smith, of Dublin, Merchant. Here lieth the remains of Mrs. Mary Smith, his mother, who departed this life March 13th, 1783, aged 53 years." [Were they connected with the Vavasour family ? See p. 153.] XXXVII. " To the memory of Martha Chapman, daughter of Robert and Elizabeth Roe, this tomb is erected by William Chap- man, Engineer, to whom she was united by every tender and sacred tie on the 11th day of March, 1786, and separated by the remorseless hand of death on the 6th of Feb y , 1787, in the — year of her age. An awful lesson of the instability of human felicity ; for, with all the soft attractions, an enligh- tened understanding, and a feeling heart, in her was combined every virtue." XXXVIII. " Sacred to the memory of Mr Robert Roe, of [the Salt Works] Ringsend, no less remarkable for very superior mental endowments than for the most unwearied diligence and a truly philanthropic disposition. His well-spent scientific life was a continued series of exertions for the advancement of useful arts, or the alleviation of the miseries of his fellow- creatures. He departed this life on the 29th day of March, 1795, in the fifty-seventh year of his age." " Here lieth the remains of Robert Baillie, Jun r , who died Jan y , 1805, aged 17 years. Also the remains of Margaret, wife of the Rev d D. [Daniel] Mooney [F.T.C.D., who died in June, 1818] ; she died 5th May, 1815. Also the remains of Frances, wife of Robert Roe, Esq r , who died 24th Feburary, 1821, aged 61 years. Also of Frances, daughter of said Robert Roe, who died 4th Dec r , 1821, aged 21 years. Also of Eliza, daughter of said Rev d D. Mooney, who died 23rd March, 1829, in her 18th year. Also of said Robert Roe, who died NOTES. 345 28th March, 1833, aged 74 years." [Alderman George Roe, D.L., of Nutley, Donnybrook, was a member of this family ; and having died 20th July, 1863, was buried in Mount Jerome Cemetery, Dublin, where there is this brief inscription : — " In memory of George Roe, of Nutley, Co. Dublin, July 20th, 1863. ' death, where is thy sting? grave, where is thy victory ? But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.' "] "This monument was erected by Cap 1 George Jenkins to the memory of his beloved wife, Ursula Jenkins. In her were united the affectionate wife, the tender parent, and the humane benefactress of the distress'd. She departed this life on the 4th day of March, 1788, in the 58th year of her age. 1 Happy are they whose tender care Relieves the poor distress'd ; When troubles compass them around, The Lord shall give them rest.' " " This erected by John Atkinson, Merchant, Fleet St., Dublin, in memory of his mother, Sarah Atkinson, who died March the 17th, 1789 ; and of his three children, who died, viz. Sarah, 12th, Martha, 19th April, Alfred, — May, 1784." " This stone was erected by Mich 1 Plunkett, of Thomas Street, in the city of Dublin, Grocer, in memory of his beloved wife, Elizabeth Plunkett, who departed this life y e 29th day of November, 1790, in the twenty -fifth year of her age. Here lieth the beloved remains of Joseph Williams, Esq r , of Drumcondra, who died 28th March, 1840, aged 73 ; together with his mother, 6 of his sons, and 2 daughters." " Here lyeth the body of Francis Jenkins, son of Edward and Elizabeth Jenkins, who died 1st April, 1793. Also Emily Jenkins, their daughter, aged 16 years and two months, who died 12th August, 1808." u Here lieth the body of Captain John English, of the city of Dublin, Mariner, who departed this life August 15th, 1793, 346 APPENDIX III. aged 80 years. Here also lieth the body of Captain John English, nephew to the above, who departed this life June y 8 20th, 1795, aged 39 years. Here lieth the body of Esther Matthusson, formerly English, wife of the above Capt n John English, who departed this life the 9th of January, 1805." "Sacred to the memory of Henry Totty, late Commander of the Brigg Hawk of Chester, who was upwards of 40 years trading from that city and Liverpool to this port. For honesty and integrity he might be equall'd, but not exceeded. He departed this life the 3rd day of July, 1799, aged 60 vears. Reader, remember an honest man is the noblest work of God." XLVI. " Erected by William Campbell in memory of his father- in-law, James Bailie, Esquire, of Sandymount, who departed this life the 12th of July, 1800, aged 79 years." " This stone is erected to the memory of George Gray, Esq r , late of Portobello, in the county of Dublin, whose remains are here interred. 2 do Novem. natus est, 1737. Obiit 6 t0 Octobris, 1800, Mt- 63. ' Of simple manners, and of purest heart, A friend to truth, and enemy to art, Plain in his dealings, sacred in his trust, Thro' life most honest, and in death most just.' Here also are deposited the remains of Mrs. Martha Gray, wife of the above-named George. She departed this life the 11th day of December, 1802, aged 63 years.'* " This stone was erected by Mrs. Mary Robinson in memory of her beloved husband, Mr. James Robinson, of Nassau Street, in the city of Dublin, who departed this life the 2nd of No- vember, 1801, aged 37 years. Here also lyeth the remains of the said Mary Robinson, who after was married to the late Val. Lanagan, of Cork Hill, in said city. Dyed 21st Dec r , 1827, aged 60 years." XLIX. " To the memory of Mr. John Hammond, late of Sir John Rogerson's Quay, in the city of Dublin, Harpsichord Maker, NOTES. 347 who departed this life the 28th of April, 1802, aged 47 years. Also Elizabeth Hammond, otherwise Fisher, his wife, who died the 25th of Nov* - , 1810, aged 43 years. This stone is erected by their affectionate son, Joseph Hammond." "Thomas Hammond, who departed this life the 12th Sept r , 1802, aged 50 years. Also Tho s Hammond, grandson, who dep d this life the 9th Deer, 1832, aged 7 years. Also Eleanor Hammond, who dept d this life the 3rd Aug 1 , 1833, aged 83 years." LI. " Here lie the remains of Edward Edwards, Master of the Prince of Wales of Parkgate, who departed this life the 19th of November, 1802, aged 32. ' Life's voyage now ended, his dangers are past, Hi6 ship is safe moor'd, and he's landed at last ; His treasures are safe in the mansions on high, Which we hope through God's mercy he's gone to enjoy.' " LII. "A small but just tribute of gratitude and affection to the memory of a truly virtuous and honest man, George Burnet, late Bookseller in Abbey Street [Dublin], who departed this life April the 3rd, 1803, aged 73 years. Also Richard Burnet, his only son, who departed this life Septr 14, 1805." [The remainder of the inscription is under ground. J "Underneath are deposited the remains of Miss Catherine Fitzmaurice, of Peafield [BlackrockJ, who departed this life August 6th, 1804, aged 66 years. This stone was erected to her memory by her grateful and affectionate sister, Gertrude Fitzmaurice." " Sacred to the memory of Mrs. Marg* Anne Worthington, who departed this life February 16th, 1809, aged 32 years. This tombstone is erected to her memory by her affectionate husband, Joseph Worthington [of Ringsend]. Here also lie interr'd two of their children. Near this spot lies interr'd the remains of his father, Hump y Worthington, Timber Merchant, who died 16th February, 1790, aged 37 years. Here also are interred the remains of his sister, Miss Mary 348 APPENDIX III. Worthington, who departed this life the 5 th June, 1814, aged 29 years. Also Mrs. Jane Worthington, second wife of the above-named Joseph Worthington, who died May 11th, 1848, aged 54, sincerely and deservedly regretted by her family. Here also are interred the mortal remains of the above-named Joseph Worthington, who dep d this life the 22nd Jan y , 1847, in the 71st year of his age." LV. " The burial-place of John Beatty. Here is deposited the remains of his son, Robert David Beatty, born 1st March, 1798, and died 3rd October, 1811. Also Susanna Beatty, born 21st September, 1794, and died November, 1811." " Sacred to the memory of Eliza, wife of Lieu* D. Kinnear, of the Royal Artillery Drivers, who departed this life Jan y 23rd, 1813, aged 34 years. Also of her infant daughters, Anna and Eliza Jane." LVII. " Georgianna Hart, daughter of Colonel Hart, I.E.C., obiit 27th January, 1813, setat. 4 years. Also Augustus Alexander Hart, 3rd son of the above, obiit 7th March, 1813, setat. 6 months. Also Emily Hart, obiit 5th June, 1813, setat. 3 years and 4 months. Also Henry Moutray, 4th son of the above, obiit 25th July, 1815, setat. 11 months. Also the much lamented John Arch d , second son of Colonel Hart, who, after a series of long sufferings, resigned with pious resigna- tion his breath to his Creator on the 20th December, 1820, setat. 14. Also the remains of Lieu* Colonel John Hart, who departed this life the 18th of December, 1833, aged 63 years." "This stone was erected by H. M. Henderson to the memory of his beloved wife, Sophia Henderson, who departed this life the 14th of April, in the 26th year of her age, 1814." " Erected by Thomas Lockhart, of North Anne Street, Dublin, to the memory of his mother, Marion Lockhart, who died June, 1815, aged 50 years. Also his father, Thomas Lockhart, who died May, 1826, aged 65 years. And his son, Thomas Lockhart, who died June, 1827, aged 6 years." NOTES. 349 " This monument was erected by P. H. Fitzgerald, Esq r , as the last and sad tribute of his affection, to protect the remains, and preserve the memory, of his three beloved sons ; George, who died Nov r 28th, aged 14 months ; Henry Maurice, who died Dec r 7th, aged 7 years ; and John, who died Dec 1 " 11th, aged 11 years, in the year of our Lord 1815." ' They undivided sleep, as saints repose, Bewailed in sorrow, and embalmed in love, To wake and live, as Christ immortal rose, Thro' Him regen*rate heirs to bliss above.' " LXI. " Here lieth the body of Mr. Fennell Collins, who departed this life on the 10th of February, 1818, aged 78 years.'' " Here lieth the remains of Mr. Michael Richardson, Ringsend, who departed this life October the 11th, 1818, in the 74th year of his age. Also his dearly beloved wife, Alicia Richardson, departed this life December the 3rd, in the same year, in the 70th year of her age." " This burial-place belongeth to Joseph Mathers, Esq 1 ", of the city of Dublin. Here lieth the body of Eliza Mathers, his wife, who died the 11th of March, 1819, aged 43 years." " Sacred to the memory of Margaret Broadbent, wife of Robert Broadbent, of Ringsend, who departed this life 10th December, 1819, aged 26 years." " Sacred to the memory of Mr. John Hodges, of Ringsend, who departed this life 8th Jan y , 1821, aged 28 years. And of Elizabeth, his beloved wife, who departed 24th Feb 7 , 1855, aged 59 years. Also their sons, Sam 1 , who dep d 30th Oct', 1829, aged 11 y", and Rich d , who dep d 27th Aug*, 1838, aged 19 y rs . And of Elizabeth, the beloved wife of Mr. George Hodges, who dep d this life 26th March, 1846, aged 28 years." 350 APPENDIX III. "Here lieth the remains of Frances Dodd, wife of Robert Dodd, of Sandy mount, who departed this life the 27 th day of April, 1823, aged 66 years. She was a good wife, and tender mother, and is much regretted by all her friends. Here lieth the remains of Maryanne Esther Salmon, grand- daughter of the above-named Mrs. Dodd, of Sandymount, who departed this life the 3rd July, 1845, in her eleventh year. Also John Salmon, her brother, who departed this life on the 12th May, 1847, in his eighteenth year. And Mrs. Maryanne Salmon, wife of Mr. Francis Salmon, of Sandy- mount, and mother of the above children, who departed thi3 life on the 14th May, 1847, in her fifty-second year, much regretted by a large circle of friends. Here lieth Maryanne Askins, who departed this life on the 7th Nov?, 1827, in her 6th year. Also William Askins, son-in-law to the above-named Frances Dodd, who departed this life on the 8th Feb ry , 1848, in the 52nd year of his age. Robert Salmon, departed this life 25th June, 1848, aged 24 years. Robert Dodd, departed this life 8th January, 1854, aged 87 years, grandfather to to the above children, a very old resident of Sandymount. Here lie the remains of Francis Salmon, who departed this life on the 31st March, 1866, aged 68 years." LXVII. " Elizabeth Taylor, departed this life November 15th, 1823, aged 48." LXVIII. " Here are deposited the bodies of Andrew and William Malcolm Harley, sons of John Harley, James' Street [Dublin] : the former died on the 7th Dec r , 1825, aged 17 years, and the latter on the 23rd Nov r , 1830, aged 9 years. Also the body of Mrs. B. Bell, their grandmother, relict of Mr. W. Bell, Printer, Glasgow, who departed this life on the 18th July, 1831, aged 81 years, a friend to truth. John Harley, Esq r , her son-in-law, died April the 5th, 1857, aged 73 years. Andrew Harley, his son, Student Trinity College [Dublin], aged 18 years, and three of his children who died young. James Thomson, C.E., died June, 1854, aged 52 years. Also Elizabeth Harley, widow of the late John Harley, who died 21st December, 1864, aged 87 years." LXIX. "Erected by Edward Ramsay to the memory of his beloved parents and children. His daughter, Mary Riely, dep d 17th June, 1827, aged 36 years. Also his affectionate daughter, Teresa Ramsay, who depd 29th June, 1827, aged 21 years ; and also rive of his children who died young." " To the memory of Elizabeth, the beloved wife of John Askins, Sandymount, who departed this life the 17th of November, 1827, aged 38 years. Also George, youngest son of the above, who died February 25th, 1827, aged 4 years and 10 months." " This stone was erected to the memory of Mrs. Letitia Daly, of Henry Street [Dublin], who departed this life on the 30th April, 1829, aged 41 years. Also are interred here her twin daughters, Ellen and Margaret Daly, who died in the months of August and October, 1820. Here also are de- posited the remains of James Daly, of Henry Street, husband of the above-named Letitia. He departed this life on the 15th of February, 1848, aged 58 years. Here also lieth the remains of Capt n John Heard, who departed this life Octo- ber the 3rd, 1817, aged 74 years." [There is another stone with a similar inscription respecting Captain Heard.] " Thomas Newcomb, of Stroudwater, departed this life 18th June, 1831, aged 71." " Underneath are interred the mortal remains of Mr. Henry Murphy, who departed this life 13th Sep r , 1832, aged 57 years. In the various relations of life bis heart shewed itself most kind in all its feelings, and steady in its attachments, whilst his upright principles obtained for him the confidence and respect of all who knew him. As a tri- bute to the memory of him whose loss she now mourns, and to whose society in another world she trusts through the mercies of our Lord to be restored, this stone has been here placed by his sorrowing widow. Here rest the remains of his widow, Letitia Murphy, who died Oct r 24th, 1839, aged 63 years. Also the remains of James Bradshaw, nephew of the above-named Henry and Letitia Murphy, who died June 3rd, 1841, aged 7 years." 352 APPENDIX III. " Here lie interred the remains of Michael Murphy, Esq*, of Sandymount, who departed this life the 29th of April, 1833, aged 59 years." LXXV. " In the 9th month of 1833 were deposited here the mortal remains of Mary, the beloved wife of Edward Baldwin, whose sole consolation for one ' too early lost ' is derived from the apocalyptical record of the bliss of those who ' sleep in Jesus.' 1 I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord.' Here also are interred the remains of Edward and Mary, their infant issue." " Sacred to the memory of Betsey Stothard, daughter of John and Hannah Stothard, of London Bridge Koad [Irish- town], who departed this life on the 26 th day of November, 1833, aged 7 years and 5 months. Edward Henry, their son, who died on the 25th November, 1832, aged 26 days ; and also Louisa, their daughter, who died on the 11th August, 1830." lxxvii. " Sacred to the memory of Daniel Waters, who died A.D. 1835. Also his beloved wife Jane, who died 28 th Nov r , 1857 ; and to their infant children, John and William." " Sacred to the memory of James Pile, Mariner, native of Brixham, who departed this life the 29th of May, 1835, aged 46 years. The remains of his beloved wife, Mrs. Sarah Pile, are also here interred. She departed this life the 18th of March, 1838, aged 43 years." " Sacred to the memory of Rich d Archer, Esq r , of Serpen- tine Avenue, [Sandymount], who died 5th December, 1836. Also his son Robert, who died 18th May, 1832 ; and his daughter Elizabeth, who died 12th July, 1840. Their re- mains lie on the left of this stone ; and on the right repose those of Catharine, wife of the above-named Richard Archer, who departed this life on the 1st of April, 1858. ' Blessed are the pure in heart ; for they shall see God.' — Matt. v. 8." NOTES. 353 11 This monument was erected by Mrs. Throckmorton to the memory of Edw d Acton, Esq r , of the 53rd Regiment, who died at the Pigeon House Fort on the 25th March, 1838, aged 20 years, ' He was taken away lest wickedness should alter his understanding, or deceit beguile his soul.' — Wisdom, iv. 11." " Underneath this stone are deposited the remains of Joseph Skaise, of Sandy mount, who departed this life 8 th Oct r , 1842, aged 20 years. The sting of death was totally removed through faith in our Redeemer's precious blood ; and he fell asleep in Jesus, having a blessed hope of a glorious resurrection." " Sacred to the memory of Mr. John Howard, who de- parted this life on the 23rd of April, 1843, aged 42 years. c Tho' lost to sight, to memory dear, The heart will ever pay a tributary tear.' " ["The line ' Though lost to sight, to memory dear/ has baffled the researches of the literati of England and America." — Notes and Queries, 4th S. iv. 399.] " To the memory of Sarah Catherine Miles, who died April 6th, 1844, aged one year. Also of Maria Catherine Miles, who died May 20th, 1848, aged two years. The beloved children of Falconer Miles, Esq re , Lower Pembroke St., Dublin. ' Of such is the kingdom of heaven.' Also of his fifth son, Falconer, died July 5th, 1861, aged 10 years. Also of his eldest daughter, Fanny, died June 5th, 1864, aged 23 years. Also of his fourth son, Edmund, died 25th Kov r , 1868, aged 23 years. Also of his youngest son, Harry William, died 20th June, 1869, aged 16*years." " Erected by John Johnstone Macaulay to the memory of his children : Cadwallader, who died 12th Sep 1 ", 1847, aged 1 year ; also Thomas Hobkirk, whose remains are interred here. He was lost in the wreck of the S. S. Ceres on the coast of Wexford, on 10th Nov', 1866, aged 26 years." 2 A 354 APPENDIX III. LXXXV. " Erected to the memory of Caroline Clements, departed this life the 8th of April, 1851, aged 67. [Captain] Joseph Clements, departed this life the 16th of September, 1858, aged 79. And William Clements, departed this life the 4th of October, 1860, aged 59." " Sacred to the memory of William West, of Cloone, Co. Leitrim, late of Sandymount, Esqr, died 12th May, 1851, aged 55 years. Also his two little grandchildren, James West, who died 20th Novr, 1852, aged 10 weeks, and Her- cules Graves, who died Jan y 21st, I860, aged 2 years and 8 months, both children of James Russell, of Dublin, Esq r . Also Mrs. Eleanor Swanne, their grandaunt, who died 2nd Feb., 1857, aged 88 years." LXXXVII. " Sacred to the memory of Samuel James Forman, late Sergeant 2nd Battalion 60th or King's Royal Rifles, who departed this life on the 11th day of March, in the year of our Lord 1855, aged 35 years. This tribute of respect was erected by his late comrade Sergeants, who lost in him a true brother and a good soldier." LXXXVIII. " This burial-place belongs to Forrester Duke [of Rings- end]. In memory of Forrester Duke, who departed this life 23rd November, 1866, aged 78 years." " Sacred to the memory of Ellen Caulfield, who departed this life Jan y 21st, 1868, aged 27 years. Erected as a token of esteem by a sincere friend." " Sacred to the memory of Ann, the beloved wife of J. M'Murray, who died on 26th September, 1868, aged 77 years. Also her beloved grandchild, Hannah Maria Cole- man, who died on 6th August, 1866, aged 3 years." NOTES. 355 " Iii memory of Miss C. Montgomery, late of Sandymount. who died 16th Oct r , 1868, aged 79 years." " Sacred to the memory of Maria Margaret Pook, widow of Commander Henry Pook, R.N., who departed this life on the 22nd Deer, 1869, in the 87th year of her age." " In affectionate remembrance of John Hawkins Askins, Hollypark, Sandymount, who died Feb y 9th, 1870, aged 82 years. Susan, his wife, who died 5th May, 1858, aged 52 years. Two of their daughters ; Ellen, who died in infancy ; and Susan Sophia, who died July 23rd, 1865, aged 27 years. 'Them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.' — 1 Thess. iv. 14." [Mr. Askins served as Churchwarden of Donnybrook in 1841, and for several years was actively engaged in parochial affairs.] [It may be well to record that Lund} 7 Foote, Esq., men- tioned in the inscription No. IV., p. 153, was interred in the Rower Churchyard, Co. Kilkenny, in January, 1835 ; and that about two years after his remains were removed to St. Matthew's, when the Rower estate was sold by his son, the late Lundy E. Foot, Esq., of Dublin, to Mr. Tighe, of Woodstock. {Letter from L. E. Foot, Esq.) Mr. Foot died in 1863, and has been interred in Mount Jerome Ceme- tery, Dublin, where there is this inscription : — "The family- vault of L. E. Foot, Esq r , Upper Fitzwilliam Street, [Dub- lin]. Edward St. John, his son, died 28th September, 1844. Lelias, his beloved wife, died 25th August, 1852. Lelia Margaret, his daughter, died 16th June, 1862. Lundy Edward Foot, died 18th of August, 1863, aged 72 years." In another part of the same cemetery there is this inscrip- tion : — " In memory of Arthur William, second son of William and Meta Foot, died Oct* 10th, 1861, aged 21 years, removed from the family-vault at Irishtown [St. Mat- thew's], May, 1867. Isabella, their second daughter, died Feb y loth, 1867, aged 23 years." An addition has been made to the inscription Xo. XIII., p. 155 : — " Also of his father, James Clarke, of same place, who died 4th of March, 1823, aged 85 years. Also of John 356 APPENDIX III. Clarke, of Willfield, Sandymount, by whom this stone was erected, eldest son of the said James Clarke, who died 11th Feb y , 1831, aged 65 years. Also his wife, Maria Clarke, who died 20th of June, 1862, aged 78 years ; and their sons, John Stanhope, who died in infancy, 5th March, 1819 ; and James Robert, who died 2nd of May, 1822, aged 12 years."] Note (tttj. The Dodder This river, which flows through the parish of Donnybrook, from Clonskeagh* to Ringsend (and of which brief mention has been made in p. 36), has its sources in the recesses of that chain of hills bounding on the south the county of Dublin, separating it from Wicklow, and known as the Dublin mountains. A portion of its waters, however, is drawn from lands lying near the summits of mountains within the outskirts of Wicklow. The three brooks, which are the sources of the Dodder, take their rise near the summits of Glasavullaun, Barnachiel, and Kippure moun- tains, and are supplied by the drainage of the wide district of deep bog which lies upon their flanks. At the base of Kip- pure, which is 2,473 feet high, and head of the valley of Glenismoel, these streams unite ; and here properly commences the river Dodder, which, passing with a rapid fall through the whole extent of this valley, hemmed in on either side by lofty and precipitous hills covered with boulders, diluvial gravel, and clay nearly to their summits, and whose water- shed is peculiarly rapid and destructive, debouches upon the basin of Dublin ; and, after a course of about eighteen miles, joined by only two principal tributaries, the Tallaght and Rathfarnham brooks, finally discharges its waters at the mouth of the river Liffey upon its right or southern bank. From the head of the valley of Glenismoel to the sea, its fall is nearly 800 feet, of which about 350 feet occur during the first two miles, or about one-half of its course through the * " Clonskeagh ; Cluain-sceach, the meadow of the white thorns." — Joyce's "Irish Local Names Explained," p. 30. NOTES. 357 valley, where it is surrounded by mountains, which discharge the water falling upon them with impetuosity into its bed, whose banks here are formed of vast deposits of gravel and boulders, consisting of the detritus of granite, calcareous schistus, and trap-rocks, embedded in granite sand and argil- laceous clay. In one or two spots, these banks are cemented into a hard conglomerate, by the infiltration of water charged with carbonate of lime, which has formed arragonite in the interstices of the gravel ; but in general, wherever denuded of their vegetable surface, or exposed to the action of the current, they are in rapid process of erosion and degradation. From these causes, and from the effects of land-springs higher up the valley, land-slips of great magnitude have taken place, and every flood carries away thousands of tons of divided matter, of which the gravel is deposited on the bed, and on the strand of the river lower down ; while the finer material carried further down, becomes a source of constant annoyance, by silting up the mill-races and streams ; and the mud, still in suspension, is carried onwards, and deposited in huge banks of slob in the still water at the confluence of this river with the Liffey, at Ringsend. The foregoing particulars have been derived from Mr. Mallet's Report on the Dodder Reservoirs, which was made in pursuance of the directions of the Commissioners of Drain- age for Ireland (appointed under the Act 5 & 6 Vict., c. 89) ; and which, accompanied by a large-sized map of the whole course of the river, will be found to contain much useful information. The objects of the report, it may be well to add, were " to investigate the feasibility and conditions of constructing a reservoir upon some part of the river Dodder, for the combined purposes of providing an unfailing and increased supply of water-power to the mill-owners at present occupying the stream ; and, contingently, of controlling the floods which have heretofore, at frequently-recurring inter- vals, proved so destructive to property situated upon its banks ; and, as a further consequence, giving the power of reclaiming 358 APPENDIX III. those tracts of lands along the river banks, now of small or no value, from periodical inundations ; and, lastly, preventing the annihilation of land in progress by the degrading effects of these floods upon the clay banks of the river."* In proof of the high importance of the objects in view, Mr. Mallet has remarked, near the beginning of his report, that " a few years only have elapsed since one of the frequent floods of the river Dodder [mention of which has been made in these pages] occurred so suddenly, at night, of such magnitude, and attended with such appalling circumstances of destruction to property and danger to human life [in the month of August, 1836, see p. 95], as to have aroused the public concern for the damage resulting ; and which finally led to expen- sive litigation betwixt parties subjected thereto, and to the subsequent compulsory expenditure of large sums in the execution of works near the mouth of the river, only intended to ward off the destructive effects of future inundations, but not attempting to control them. Yet similar floods, though for- tunately not to such a formidable extent, occur upon this river many times every year." A " Report on the Capabilities of the river Dodder to af- ford a supply of water for the use of the City of Dublin and the Suburbs," by Parke Neville, Esq., C.E., City Engineer, (8vo. pp. 39, Dublin, 1854), deserves to be noticed, though the Vartry has for this purpose been preferred to the Dodder. " In compliance with your directions," as Mr. Neville has com- menced his privately- printed pamphlet, " that I should ex- amine into, and report to you on the practicability of getting such a supply of water from the river Dodder, for the use of the city of Dublin, as would render it unnecessary to take any from either the Grand or Royal Canals, I] have to re- * See a " Report on the Proposed Formation of Reservoirs [in the valley of Glenismoel and at Kimmage] on the river Dodder", etc., by Robert Mallet, Esq., Mem. Inst. C.E., M.R.I. A. (8vo. pp. 38, Dublin, 1844). This pamphlet has long since been out of print, and cannot easily be procured ; but the substance of it, with an engraved copy of the map, has been republished in Weale's ** Quarterly Papers on Engineering ", vol. VI. part 1. NOTES. 359 port, that I have had surveys and levels of that river, and also of the city watercourse taken, and herewith submit the maps and sections prepared, upon which I have delineated a plan, which, after the fullest consideration of the matter, I think the best for obtaining the desired supply from this source. The subject being one of great magnitude, and of the most vital importance to the citizens, required the most careful examination into all its bearings before coming to a conclusion, and for the satisfaction of the Council I shall give the data and calculations on which I have based my opinion, and describe the works proposed to be executed in carrying out the plan." Before doing so, Mr. Neville has given a brief history of the water supply to the city, showing its connection with the Dodder from a very early date, hav- ing gleaned his information from Whitelaw and Walsh's II History of Dublin," and from a pamphlet published in 1829, by Mr. A. Coffey, " an officer who was connected with the pipe-water works of the city for from fifty to sixty years." From the account of the Dublin water- works fur- nished by Mr. Neville, " it appears that, up to the year 1775, the city was entirely supplied from the Dodder with water, but that from that period to the present, the great proportion of the water has been derived from the canals. It has now become desirable to ascertain whether the river Dodder, abandoned, I may say, upwards of eighty years ago, will not afford the best, as it unquestionably will the purest, supply for the use of the entire city, by adopting an efficient system of storage and conservation, such as has been carried out so successfully at New York, Philadelphia, Glasgow, Edinburgh, and Manchester, and various other large cities and towns.'' An estimate of the probable cost of carrying out the works described in the report, has been given by Mr. Neville in pp. 32, 33 ; and with reference to it, he has further stated : — " The total cost of proposed works [£130,254 15s. 4d., with the sum to be paid to the millers for the loss of their water-power] may, at first sight, appear to the Com- 360 APPENDIX III. mittee large ; but it is to be considered that if these works were carried out, it would render the Corporation indepen- dent of the canals, and that, on the termination of the leases [for sixty years] with their companies in 1868, they would be relieved from the payment of £2,300 per annum, per centage ; also that the Corporation would be enabled to sup- ply a very extended district, and consequently largely in- crease their rental ; that they will procure a very much su- perior quality of water, and have the entire control over the source of supply. Under these circumstances, I do not con- sider the sum large, in comparison with the benefits to be con- ferred on the citizens, who I believe would then have as pure and as abundant a supply of water as any city in the United Kingdom, and at sufficient pressure for all useful purposes. I have made an estimate of the probable cost of laying down a system of pipes for the supply of Rathmines, Baggotrath, Sandymount, and Irishtown districts, from the Kimmage works ; and I find it would amount to about £30,000 ; this is, however, priceing iron at £8 per ton, and fixing size of pipes so as to meet the probable extension of buildings over these rapidly improving outlets." Many publications have appeared from time to time, in which the Dodder has been made more or less the subject of notice. For example, in 1787 a pamphlet was published in Dublin, entitled " Remarks and Observations on the inten- tion of turning the course of the river Dodder, in order to show the inexpedience of that measure " (8vo. pp. 56). This refers to the plan of diverting the river from its natural bed into a new channel, which was effected in 1796 (see p. 84) ; and in M A Modern Plan of the City and Environs of Dub- lin, ,, published in 1816, the "old course of river Dodder" and the new one, from Haig's Distillery (as it was then) to Ringsend, are both described. Another pamphlet to which reference may be made, is " Observations on the Defects of the Port of Dublin," etc., by J. M. (Joseph Miller, Esq.), 8vo. pp. 65, Dublin, 1804. In the " Historical and Muni- NOTES. 361 cipal Documents of Ireland, A.D. 1172-1320, from the Archives of the City of Dublin, etc.," edited by John T. Gilbert, Esq., F. S. A., etc., and published under the direction of the Master of the Rolls (London, 1870), the Dodder is mentioned in pp. 51, 57, 159, 340, 489, 490, and 492, as " Dother," " Dodor," " Doder," or " Dodir." For frequent mention of the river, see also " Chartse, Privilegia, et Immunitates," A. D. 1171-1395, an unfinished compilation relative to Ireland by (?) the late Mr. Erck, fol. pp. 92. Note (uuu). Shimon's- court This portion of the parish of Donny- brook (otherwise termed Symond's-court and Smot's-court) has been referred to in p. 35. The old castle, of which a small part remains, " is situated to the east of the river Dod- der, and about a quarter of a mile from Ball's Bridge. From the vestiges of its foundations, the building was of consider- able extent, and seems to have been one of those castellated houses so common in Ireland in turbulent ages. As Symond's Court is [was] the property of the Dean and Chapter of Christ Church, who have [had] large possessions about it, this castle was probably built to secure their granges, their cattle, and corn from the rapacity of the Wicklow mountaineers, who perpetually plundered the vici- nity of Dublin. The arch exhibited in the view and a few walls are all that remain of this edifice. There are wind- ing stairs leading to the top, from whence is a delightful view of the Bay, Donnybrook, the city, and much of its environs. This view was drawn by T. Cocking, Anno 1790." (Grose's " Antiquities of Ireland," vol. 1. p. 21.) Accurate copies (by Joseph Huband Smith, Esq., M.R.I.A.) of four water-colour drawings of the ruin are in the writer's possession; viz. 1, " Simmond's Court, G. Beranger del., Rev. Jos. Turner pinx.", (?) circa 1760; 2, "Symond's Court (N. E. view), H. Hulley pinxit, circ. 1780"; 3, 362 APPENDIX III. " Simmond's Court Castle (N. E. view), A. C. [Austin Cooper, Esq., F.S.A.] del. 5 March, 1780, pinx. 24 Mar. 1783"; and 4, "Simmon's Court Castle," without artist's name or date. As already mentioned in p. 210, the late Lord Herbert of Lea purchased in the Landed Estates Court, in April, 1860, almost the whole of the lands of Simmon's-court, which had been for some years the property of George Hayward Lindsay, Esq., D.L. (son of the late Bishop of Kildare, and Dean of Christ Church, Dublin), and was held under fee- farm grants from the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for Ireland, at an annual rent of £697 8s. 5d. Donnybrook Church is on the estate, but, of course, was "riot sold or conveyed to the purchaser." In "The Book of Obits and Martyrology of Christ Church, Dublin," printed for the Irish Archaeological Society in 1844, Thomas Smoth is more than once mentioned. See p. xxxvi. In p. 44 (4 Non. Oct.), " Ob. Thomas Smoch qui dedit fabrice capelle beate Marie x. marcas pro quo fiant ix. lecciones." In p. 18 (Kal. Apr. J "Ob. Johannes Drake qui quondam fuit maior Dublin et frater nostre congregacionis qui dedit nobis willam de Smothis- cowrte et Colcot et Lowsill anno domini M°. cccc°. xxxiij ." In p. 57, " In primis pro animabus Thome Smoth, Johannis Drake, vxorum et liberorum suorum, Johannis Gramcett, Johannis Morvyll, vxorum et liberorum suorum [prior et canonici ecclesie Cathedralis Sancte Trinitatis orare tenen- tur.] Die dominica que dicitur dominica in albis semper celebratur." See also Rot. Pat. 5 Hen. V., dorso 14, for mention of Smothiscourte. From one of the ancient docu- ments of St. John's parish, Dublin (No. 37), it appears that Thomas le Mareschal, son and heir of Henry le Mareschal, of Winetavern-street, made a lease of a tenement in Fish- amble-street to " Thome Smothe clerico et Alicie uxori ejus." NOTES. 363 Note (vvvj. Archbishop King and Archdeacon Dougatt In addition to what has been given respecting this archbishop of Dublin, and his nephew, Archdeacon Dougatt, in pp. 12, 41, 73, 164, and 166, some further particulars will prove acceptable. In Notes and Queries, 4th S. x. 228 (21st September, 1872J, a correspondent has written as follows : — " No me- morial of Archbishop King, who was buried in 1729, has as yet been discovered in the old churchyard of Donny- brook, near Dublin ; nor is one likely, I fear, to come to light. A memorial window in the present parish-church of Donnybrook would be an appropriate tribute of respect to this distinguished archbishop of the diocese. The philan- thropic Bartholomew Mosse, M.D. [see p. 38], founder of the Lying-in Hospital, Rutland-square, Dublin, was buried, I may observe, in the same churchyard in 1759 ; and yet, strange to say, no memorial of him is extant to mark his grave. But with regard to Archbishop Magee [see p. 42] I have something more pleasing to tell. ' His tomb,' as I wrote in February, 1856, ' stands exactly in the centre of the ancient church [of Rathfarnham] ; but as no inscrip- tion has been placed on it, the spot will ere long be for- gotten. This treatment appears somewhat strange in connection with two of the ablest and greatest of the arch- bishops of Dublin.' So far as Archbishop Magee is con- cerned, this defect has been remedied ; for, when lately visiting the old churchyard in question, I found the follow- ing inscription (of which I send you a literal copy) on the stone over his grave : — l In memory of William Magee, D.D., Archbishop of Dublin, who died 18th August, 1831, in the 67th year of his age. And of his wife Elizabeth, died 27th of September, 1825, in the 54th year of her age. And of his second son, Thomas Perceval, Archdeacon of Kilmacduagh [and Rector of St. Thomas', Dublin], died 364 APPENDIX III. 16th of December, 1854, in the 58th year of his age.' " May a suitable mark of respect soon be paid to the memory of Archbishop King ! The following genealogical details of the King and Dougatt families (with some exceptions) have been lately furnished by Charles S. King, Esq., of Eythan Lodge, Bowes, near Southgate, London: — The King family is of considerable antiquity in Aber- deenshire; it was seated at Barra, or Barracht, in the parish of Bourtie, from a remote period down to the reign of Charles I., when it gradually became scattered, some of its members * moving southwards, and others crossing over to Ire- land. Amongst the latter were James King, father of the archbishop, and James King, who purchased Corrard and Gola, in the county of Fermanagh, and was ancestor of the baronets of Corrard.f Family tradition asserts that the surname was originally Mac Entore, and that a Robert Mac Entore, having saved his sovereign's life in battle, in commemoration of his prowess assumed the surname and coat-armour since borne by his descendants. Be this as it may, Robertus dictus King, who lived early in the thirteenth century, is the first of the Barra family on record. He be- queathed by his last will certain lands in Aberdeenshire to the monastery of St. Andrew's. His daughter, Goda, had a dis- pute about these lands with the prior and convent, which was terminated by a convention between the parties, a.d. 1247. (" Collection of Ancient Charters by our Kings, etc., 15. 1. 18," in the Advocates' Library, Edinburgh.) The last proprietor of Barra of this name was Sir James King, of Barra, Birness, Dud wick, etc., who served with the highest reputation under Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden, and * From one of these, the present Lieut. -Colonel William Ross King, of Tertowie, Aberdeenshire, is descended. fSir Abraham Bradley King, Bart. (cr. 1821), died in 1838, and was buried in the family-vault at St. Michan's Church, Dublin. NOTES. 365 rose to the rank of lieutenant-general. He was subsequently lieutenant-general to King Charles L, and second in com- mand of the northern army under the Marquess of New- castle ; and was created a peer of Scotland as Baron Eythin, of Aberdeenshire, by patent dated at York, 28th March, 1642.* After the overthrow of the royal cause at Blarston Moor, 2nd July, 1644, he retired to Sweden, where Queen Christina conferred on him the title of Baron San- shult, of Doderhalts, in the district of Calmar. He died at Stockholm, 9th June, 1652, without surviving issue, and was buried on the 18th in the Riddarholm Church, being honoured with a public funeral, which was attended by Queen Christina. The first above-mentioned James King (whose father and grandfather also bore the same Christian name) removed into Ulster, in the reign of Charles I. (to avoid the excommunication to which his refusal to subscribe the Solemn League and Covenant exposed him), and settled in the county of Antrim. He died near the close of the seventeenth century, and had issue, I. William (? the eldest son), b. in Antrim, 1st May, 1650; entered Trinity College, Dublin, 1667; elected a Scholar, 1667; M.A., lG73f ; B.D., and D.D., 1688 ; successively Bishop of Derry (1690- 1702) and Archbishop of Dublin (1702-1729); d. unm. 8th May, 1729, and was buried at Donny- brook. See p. 164. II. (probably James), had a son William, cap- tain R.N., who d. unm. 1727. III. Marion (a widow in 1730), m. John Dougatt, or Duguid, a descendant of the Duguids, lairds of Auchinhove, Aberdeenshire. (The first of this name on record is Robert Duguid, who witnessed a deed dated at Dundee, 16th May, 1406 ; and circa 1445, , * See Douglas's " Peerage of Scotland ", edited by Wood (Edinburgh. 1813), vol. I. pp. 557, 55S. f The late Rev. Dr. Todd's M Catalogue of Graduates " (Dublin, 1869), his last publication, is most useful for reference. 366 APPENDIX III. Elizabeth, heiress of Auchinhove, m. a Duguid.) She had issue, 1. Robert Dougatt, b. at Castle Caulfield, in the county of Tyrone, 1683 ; entered Trinity Col- lege, Dublin, April, 1701; elected a Scholar, 1704; B.A., 1705; M.A., 1708; in holy orders ; Prebendary of Swords, in St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, 1709-1715; Archdeacon of Dublin, 1715-1719 ; Precentor of St. Pat- rick's, 1719-1730; d. unm. 11th August, 1730, and was buried at Donnybrook, '* by [the side of] his uncle." See p. 166. In Mr. Monck Mason's " History of St. Patrick's Cathedral," he is stated to have made great improvements in the Publick Library (Arch- bishop Marsh's), in October, 1720. 2. Elizabeth Dougatt, vn. John Spence (they were both living in 1730), and had, with other issue, Robert Spence, 6. in the county of Tyrone, 1704; B.A., 1727; M.A., 1730; in holy orders ; Rector of Donaghmore, in the dio- cese of Deny, 1730 (in succession to the Rev. Peter Ward, D.D.), which benefice he held until 1765.* * He probably died in this year, as Nicholas Spence (believed to have been his son) was instituted 6th May, 1765, as his successor in the benefice, which he held until his death, 26th March, 1814. The Rev. William Reynell, M.A., has very kindly supplied much original infor- mation regarding the Spence and Bryan families s and good use has been made of it in this pedigree. In a letter, dated 30th Decem- ber, 1872, he has written as follows : — " On looking over a copy of the "will of Bishop Nicholas Forster (of Raphoe), dated 4th September, 1742, I find * the Rev ud Robert Spence, Rector of the parish of Donnagh- more, in Dioc. Derry,' appointed to a trusteeship ; and further on, a bequest made to his nieces, ' Anne Berkeley [wife of Bishop Berkeley], Sarah Forster, Elizabeth Spence, Mary Forster, and Dorothy Forster,' all daughters of his brother, ' John Forster.' I conclude that Elizabeth Spence was wife of Robert Spence, Rector of Donaghmore, and mother of Nicholas (?so named after his grand-uncle, the bishop), who suc- ceeded his father in the rectory, and died in 1814. The words, « wife of Bishop Berkeley ', are not in this part of the will ; but as the fact appears from a previous passage, I have inserted them, by way of expla- nation". The Right Hon. John Forster, who died 2nd July, 1720, had been Speaker of the Irish House of Commons, Recorder of Dublin, and Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas. See Smyth's " Chronicle of the Law Officers of Ireland " (London, 1839), p. 121 ; and Eraser's NOTES. 867 3. Jane Dougatt, m. Robert Bryan (both living in 1730), and had, -with other issue, Robert Bryan, in holy orders ; Rector of Desertmartin and Kilcronaghan, both in the diocese of Deny, 1740, in succession to the Rev. George Strachan. He was ancestor of the Butler-Bryan family. He d. 16th March, 1776, aged 66 years, and was buried in the old churchyard of Desert- martin,* leaving a son, William Bryan, B.A., 1773 ; M.A., 1809 ; in holy orders ; Rector of Kilcro- naghan, 1790; d. 13th March, 1817, and was buried in the same grave with his father. „ 4. Martha Dougatt, m. (? the Rev. George) Strachan (both living in 1730). He was collated to Desertmartin and Kilcronaghan in December, 1729, by Bishop Downes, and d. 1740. IV. Margaret King, m. 8th March, 1698, Lieut.- Colonel Charles Irvine (third son of William Irvine, Esq., of Ballindullagh, in the county of Fermanagh, by Elizabeth, daughter of Albert Gledstanes, a colonel in the service of Gustavus Adolphus), who d. s. p. in 1745. She had died the year before- The Rev. William Reeves, D.D., of Armagh, writes as follows in a letter to Mr. King ; — " I have in my charge the commencement of an autobiography in Latin by Abp. King, - and in his handwriting, entitled * Qusedam mese " Life and Letters of George Berkeley, D.D., formerly Bishop of Cloyne," etc. (Oxford, 1871), p. 150. The advowson of Donaghmore was pur- chased by Bishop King from James Leslie, of Ballyfatton, near Strabane, 3rd December, 1701, having been sold to John Leslie, D.D., 20th June, 1682. The parish-registers date only from 1824, when the late Rev. Edward Marks, D.D., of Dublin, held the curacy. * There is a tombstone with the following inscription : — " Here lyeth the body of the Rev ncl Robert Bryan, who died March y e 16, 1776, aged 66 years. He was Rector of the united parishes of Desertmartin and Kilcronaghan '66 years. Also Elizabeth Bryan, otherwise Jeifreys, his wife, who died March y e 19, 1776, aged 68 years." Their son's name has not been added. 368 APPENDIX III. vitse insigniora ' ; which he thus begins : i Ipse natus calendis Maii 1650, patre Jacobo ejusdem nominis avo et proavo, familia antiqua de Burras in Scotia septentrionali.' " The volume which contains the foregoing, is lettered on the back " The Kings Royal Library of Dublin, MSS. Hiber- nica, vol. i.," and consists of 323 pages : it is preserved in the Armagh Public Library, having been presented in 1776 by the Rev. Thomas English. Besides the autobiography, the volume comprises an enlarged translation or paraphrase of it, which appears to have been written by a relative of the archbishop ; and copies of the archbishop's letters from 2nd July, 1715, to October, 1716. Many valuable details of Archbishop King and his MSS. may likewise be found in the " First Report of the Royal Commission on Histo- rical Manuscripts" (1870), p. xiii. ; " Second Report" (1871), pp. xxi., 231-262; and "Third Report" (1872), pp. xvii., 416. Sneyd Family — The following particulars* are inserted here, being in some measure connected with the preceding portion of this Note. They likewise refer, and more par- ticularly, to the late Nathaniel Sneyd, Esq., of Dublin, whose country-residence was Chesterfield, Cross-avenue, and of whom mention has been made in these pages. Wettenhall Sneyd, B.A., 1699 ; M.A., 1703 ; in holy orders; Archdeacon of Kilmore, 1740, having been Vicar of Killersherdiny, and Vicar- General of the diocese from 1710 ; second son of William Sneyd, Esq. (second son of William Sneyd, Esq., of Keele, Staffordshire, and thirteenth in descent from Henry de Sneyde, of Tunstall and Sneyde), by Sarah *(m. 3rd June, 1668), daughter and heiress of Edward Wettenhall, Esq., of the Waterhouse, Staffordshire (a near relative of Edward Wettenhall, D.D., successively Bishop of Cork and Ross, 1678-1699, and of Kilmore and * These have been supplied, for the most part, by Charles S. King Esq. NOTES. 369 Ardagb, 1699-1713). He m. Barbara, daughter and co- heiress of Charles Francis Marsh, an officer in the Guards (eldest son of Francis Marsh, D.D., Archbishop of Dublin, 1682-1693, by Mary, daughter and co-heiress of Jeremy Taylor, D.D., Bishop of Down and Connor, 1660-1667), and d. circa 1745, having had twenty-one children, of whom Edward Sneyd, Esq., of Dublin (believed to have been the eldest surviving son), was M.P. for Carrick, in the county of Leitrim, from 1777 until his death. He m. Hannah Honora, only daughter of James Kirjg, Esq., of Gola, in the county of Fermanagh (eldest son of John King, Esq., of the same place, a descendant of the old family of King, of Barra, Aber- deenshire, and ancestor of the baronets of Corrard), by Katherine, youngest daughter of William Gore, D.D., Dean of Down. He d. at Nice, loth February, 1781, leaving issue, I. William Sneyd, m. Maria, second daughter of Sir Ralph Fetherston, Bart., of Ardagh, in the county of Longford (by his second wife, Sarah, daughter of Godfrey Wills, Esq., of Wills Grove, in the county of Roscommon), and had five children. II. Nathaniel Sneyd, of Dublin, and of Ballyconnell, in the county of Cavan, high-sheriff of that county, 1795 ; M.P. for Carrick, 1795-1799 ; and for the county of Cavan, 1800-1826; m. first, 5th February, 1791, , daughter of George Montgomery, Esq., sometime M.P. for Cavan; and secondly, 11th August, 1806, Anne, daughter of Thomas Burgh, Esq., of Bert House, in the county of Kildare, and sister of the second Lord Downes. See p. 123. He d. s. p. 31st July, 1833, and was buried in the Downes family-vault at St. Mary's Church, Dublin, on the 3rd of the following month. For mention of his melancholy death, etc., see pp. 202, 203.» * Particulars of this family are given in Burke's " Landed Gentry," under the head of l< Sneyd of Ashcombe ". In the latest edition of that valuable work, in the article referred to, " Barbara Marsham " appears instead of "Barbara Marsh ", as above ; and Sir Bernard Burke is cer- tainly in error when he states that Mr. Sneyd was assassinated in Sack- ville- street. 2 B 370 APPENDIX III. III. Catherine Hannah, m. 14th October, 1794, the Eev. John Saville Ogle, D.D., of Kirkley Hall, Northumberland, Canon of Durham, who d. 1st April, 1853, leaving issue. See Burke's " Landed Gentry." Anne, wife of Nathaniel Sneyd, Esq., was granted a pen- sion of £400 per annum for life, 28th August, 1807. His sister likewise enjoyed a pension of £300 per annum. Note (www). The Archdeacons op Dublin In pp. 99, 100, mention has been made of the Archdeacons of Dublin (the Rectors of Donny brook) from the year 1580. The following particulars of those who held the dignity before that date, have been compiled chiefly from Mr. Monck Mason's " History of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin," pp. lxxiii., lxxiv., and Arch- deacon Cotton's " Fasti Ecclesise Hibernicse," vol. ii. pp. 127-129; v. pp. 113, 114:— Before the year 1180 Torquil was Archdeacon of Dublin, in the time of Archbishop Laurence O'Toole (1162-1180-1). 1185. Macrobius. (Cod. Clarend. 46.) It is thought that he was the same who was Bishop of Glendaloch. — Harris' " Ware," vol. i. p. 375. 1190. In the charter of St. Patrick's Cathedral given this year by Archbishop Comyn (1181-1212), one of the witnesses is " William, Archdeacon of Dublin." He appears again in 1200.— Cod. Clar. 46. 1216. Geofry de Turville appears (perhaps earlier, viz. in 1206) ; again in 1223, 1228, 1234, and 1240. In 1232 he was Vice- Chancellor, and in 1237 Lord Chancellor of Ireland ; and in 1244 he became Bishop of Ossory. He was witness to a grant, by Raymond de Karrue, or Carew, of the church of Stacklorgan (now Stillorgan)* to Christ Church Cathe- dral, Dublin, about 1216. He died in London in 1250, and was buried in the Inner Temple Church. (Harris' " Ware,'' *" Stillorgan in Dublin, Tigh-Lorcain [Teelorcan], Lorcan's or Laurence's house or church." — Joyce's "Irish Local Names Explained," p. 84. NOTES. 371 vol. i. p. 405.) A drawing of his archidiaconal seal is in the archives of Christ Church. 1251. Hugh de Mapilton, or, as some call him, de Glen- daloch, Archdeacon, was in May of this year consecrated Bishop of Ossory, and soon after made Treasurer of Ireland. He died in 1256, and was buried in his own church of St. Canice, near St. Mary's Chapel, " where his monument may be seen adorned with his statue in exquisite workmanship." (Harris* "Ware," vol. i. p. 405.) But, as stated in Graves and Prim's " History of the Cathedral Church of St. Canice, Kilkenny" (Dublin, 1857), pp. 131, 132, a peculiarity u characterizing the only existing effigy of a bishop " of this century, proves it not to belong to Mapilton. 1251. William de Northfield, or Northend, succeeded, and was Archdeacon at the time of the dispute relative to the parish of Rathfarnham, which was concluded by Arch- bishop Luke (1228-1255). See p. 227. He died in 1274, as appears from the instrument nominating his successor. 1274-5. William de Salinis was presented by King Edward I., 6th January, the see being vacant. He died in 1278 Prynne's " Records," vol. iii. p. 173. 1278. Geoffry de Aspil was presented by the King, 28th September. — lb., vol. iii. p. 219. 1301. Nicholas le Clerc, or Cleere, Archdeacon, had a contest this year relative to installing priors throughout the diocese. 1303. John de Havering appears, having been witness to the deed which established new prebends in the time of Archbishop Ferings (1299-1306). He died in France about 1310. (Cod. Clar. 46.) Probably a little later; if, at least, he was the nephew (or grand-nephew) of Richard de Havering (who had been appointed Archbishop of Dublin in 1307, but resigned in 1311), who is said to have related the dream which caused that resignation. See the Annals of Ireland in Camden's " Britannia." 1313. Richard St. Leger, or " de Sto. Leodegario," appears; and again in 1344. In the former year he had a contest with the Prior and Convent of the Holy Trinity. He appears again as Archdeacon in 1365, and was an agent in the transaction relative to Coolmine, which had been granted by the Archbishop to the chapter of St Patrick's. He was the first Doctor of the Canon Law appointed by Archbishop 372 APPENDIX III. Bicknor (1317-1349) in his newly-founded University of Dublin. Subsequently he was made Chancellor of the University T. Dowling's " Annals," p. 21. 1381. William de Chambre appears ; and again in 1391. In 1385 he was Treasurer of Ireland. He was, for his various services, granted the lands of Corbally and others, to hold for sixty years, paying 6s. 8d. yearly. (Rot. Pat. 9 Rich. II.) In 1388 he and Thomas Wafre, a canon, were appointed guardians of the spiritualities during the vacancy of the see. In 1392 he exchanged preferment with his successor. — Rot. Pat. 16 Rich. II. 1392. Landulph, Cardinal of St. Nicholas, having been appointed to the deanery of St. Patrick's by the Pope, who was endeavouring to obtain the disposal of that dignity, exchanged with Chambre. He is styled " Marromaurus Cardinalis," in MSS., T.C.D., F. 1. 18. 1402 to 1412. Richard Curran, or Caran. He had been appointed by the Pope ; and received the King's pardon for having accepted such appointment, 12th January. (Rot. Pat. 3 Hen. IV.). In 1406 he appears as witness to a deed among the records of Christ Church. 1415. Nicholas Hill, LL.B., who had been Vicar of Balrothery in 1409, as appears from a licence of absence for three years (Rot. Pat. 11 Hen. IV.), was appointed by the Pope ; and was pardoned and confirmed by the King, 24th September. (Rot. Pat. 2 Hen. V.) In the year following he was granted leave of absence by letters patent. He appears as witness to a deed of pacification between the Lord Deputy and Dermot O'Tothil, signed at Dublin, 8th August, 1425. (Rot. Pat.) In 1439 he was elected Dean of St. Patrick's ; and appears as such in 1449 — Arch. Ch. Ch. 1431 to 1444. Robert Dyche, or Dyke, appears. He was an eminent lawyer, and became successively Master of the Rolls, Lord Treasurer, and Deputy Chancellor of Ireland. He was appointed Master of the Rolls for life, in consideration of services performed to the King, his father, and grand- father, both in France and Ireland, from his earliest age. (Rot. Claus. 9 Hen. VI.) According to Harris, he was Keeper of the Seals in 1436 ; and, in 1446, Deputy Chan- cellor to John Talbot, son of the Earl of Shrewsbury, who, by an act of Parliament, 25 Hen. VI., was empowered to appoint a deputy to do all things appertaining to that office, and to continue in office, notwithstanding the presence of the Chan- cellor, until he should be discharged by a writing under his hand Stat. Roll, 25 Hen. VI. 1449 and 1457. Roger Crosse appears. (Rot. Pat. 28 Hen. VI.) He was granted leave of absence by letters patent, 34 Hen. VI. ; and he is called " Croke " in a Memo- randa Roll of the following year. 1479. John appears.— Rot. Pat. 19 Edw. IV. 14. 1480 to 1486. Hugh Blackton appears. (Arch. Ch. Ch.) He was brother and heir of Nicholas Blackton, of Swords ; and at his death, in 1486, he bequeathed all his lands and houses in Swords, his patrimony, to the use of St. Mary's Chapel in that town. (Stearne's MSS., T.C.D., 191.) It is probable that he was Prebendary of Swords. 1488. John Waryng appears. He styles himself "late Rector of Malahidert."— Arch. Ch. Ch. 1 498. Robert Sutton. He was nominated executor to the will of Dean Alley ne, who died in 1505. Many ecclesiastical persons are mentioned in the dockets of leases, and in inden- tures entered in " The Rental Book of Gerald Fitzgerald, ninth Earl of Kildare, begun in the year 1518," as given in the " Kilkenny Archaeological Society's Transactions,'' 2nd Series, vol. IV. p. 116 ; and amongst them appears " Sir Robert Sutton, Archdeacon of Dublin, 22nd May, 6 Hen. VIII." In 1527 he was elected Dean of St. Patrick's ; and dying on the 1st (or, according to the " Book of Obits of Christ Church," on the 5th) of April in the following year, he was buried in his o n cathedral, near to the altar on the north side of the choir, where a brass plate marks his grave. It is fixed in a frame of black marble; and represents the figure of an ecclesiastic in a praying posture, with a scroll and inscription. Mr. Monck Mason has given an engrav- ing and description of it in his " History of St. Patrick's Cathedral," p. 145. 1509. Magister Fylbert is named as "Archdeacon" in the Proctor's account of this year. 1514. Nicholas Bennett appears (Dignitas Decani.) [Quaere this.] 1529. Walter Cusack, who had been Prebendary of Rathmichael, was present as Archdeacon at the election of Geoffry Fyche to the deanery of St. Patrick's, which took 374 APPENDIX III. place in this year. In 1533 he was Treasurer of the Cathe- dral ; and he died in the early part of 1535. 1537. William Power appears ; and on the 4th July in this year he was installed the Prior of Christ Church. (Arch. Ch. Ch.) He held the archdeaconry at the disso- lution of St. Patrick's in 1546; and in 1547 received a pension of £40 from the King as " Prebendary of Tannee and Rathfernane." (Rot. Pat. 1 Edw. VI.) See p. 64. 1555. William Weslie, or Welleslie, was nominated by Queen Mary upon the restoration of St. Patrick's. He was in that year Official of the Metropolitan Court of Dublin, the see being vacant. The name of Robert Wellesley fre- quently occurs in the visitation of 1569 ; that of Robert Wesley upon the patent-roll, 19 Eliz., he then acting in the capacity of Ecclesiastical Commissioner. 1572. Fr. Nuylys («ic).— -Arch. Ch. Ch. 1580. Henry Ussher, D.D., a native of Dublin, father of Provost Ussher (subsequently Bishop of Kildare), and uncle of Primate James Ussher, " the glory of the Irish Church and University." In 1573 he became Treasurer of Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, and in 1580 Archdeacon; and in the charter of Queen Elizabeth, in 1592, he was nominated the first Fellow* of Trinity College, in the foundation of which he had taken a most anxious and active concern. He is also to be gratefully remembered for having opposed with success the design for the suppression of St. Patrick's Cathedral. In 1595 he was advanced to the primacy, but retained the archdeaconry until his death, 2nd April, 1613. He was buried at St. Peter's, Drogheda. [A list of the Archdeacons of Dublin (commencing with Henry Ussher, D.D., 1580, and ending with John West, D.D., 1851), with a few particulars, has been given in pp. 99, 100 ; and to it the reader is referred. Further particu- lars of these dignitaries may be ascertained by consulting Mr. Monck Mason's " History of St. Patrick's," pp. lxxiv., lxxv. ; Archdeacon Cotton's " Fasti," vol. ii. pp. 129-132 ; v. 114, 115 ; and other works.] 1864. William Lee, D.D., ex-Fellow of Trinity College, * Seven archbishops and forty-two bishops of the Church of Ireland have been chosen from amongst the Fellows of Trinity College, Dublin. Eight Fellows have become members of Parliament, and six have been raised to the Judicial Bench. — " Dublin University Calendar," 1873, p. 378. NOTES. OYO Dublin, Archbishop King's Lecturer in Divinity, and Rector of Ardboe, in the diocese of Armagh. Archdeacon West having been unanimously elected to the deanery of St. Patrick's and Christ Church, 5th February, in the room of the Hon. and Very Rev. Henry Pakenham, D.D., deceased, and having been installed on the 17th of March (St. Patrick's Day), Dr. Lee was installed Archdeacon of Dublin, in St. Patrick's Cathedral, 24th May. (Saunders's News- Letter, 6th, 8th, and 18th March, and 25th May.) Dean West is the author of " Reserve in the Teaching of Religion," an Ordination Sermon, with an Appendix (Dublin, 1843), and " Membership in Christ and its Social Obligations," a Sermon for the Additional Curates' Fund Society (Dublin, 1854) ; and has edited the " Remains of Charles Dickinson, D.D., Lord Bishop of Meath, with a Biographical Sketch" (8vo. London, 1845). Archdeacon Lee is the author of a profound volume, entitled " The Inspiration of Holy Scripture; its Nature and Proof " (of which four editions have appeared), and of several other very able publications. In 1864, during the vacancy consequent on Dean West's resignation, the rectory of Donnybrook was separated from the archdeaconry, with which for so long a period it had been connected. Note (xxx). Donnybrook Fair. — Mention of this far-famed fair has been made in pp. 44-48, 139-146 ; and yet it may be well to supply some further details, taken chiefly from " Historic and Municipal Documents of Ireland, A.D. 1172-1320," etc., edited by J. T. Gilbert, F.S.A., London, 1870. King John's letter (Close Roil of England, 6 John, memb. 18), for the erection of a castle and fortifications at Dublin, and the establishment of fairs at Donnybrook, Waterford, and Limerick, A.D. 1204 (which appeared in another shape in these pages, with an English version), has been given as follows by Mr. Gilbert, pp. 61, 62 : — " Rex, etc., dilecto et fideli suo Meillerio, filio Henrici, justiciario Hibernie, salutem. " Mandastis nobis quod non habuistis locum ubi thesaurus 376 APPENDIX III. noster reponi possit apud vos. Et quia tarn ad hoc, quam ad alia multa, necessaria essent nobis fortilecia apud Dublin, vobis mandamus, quod ibidem castellum fieri faciatis in loco competenti, ubi melius esse videritis ad urbem justiciandam et, si opus fuerit, defendendam, quam fortissimum poteritis, cum bonis fossatis et fortibus muris ; turrim autem primum faciatis ubi postea competencius castellum et baluum et alia percunctoria fieri possint ; et vobis hoc mandavimus ; ad hoc autem capiatis pacacia nostra, sic nobis mandastis, et ad presens ad hoc capiatis ccc. marcas de Galfrido filio Roberti, quas nobis debet. " Mandavimus et civibus nostris Dubline, per literas pa- tentes, quod civitatem suam firment, et vos illos, siqui noluerint, ad hoc compellatis.* " Volumus etiam quod una feria sit apud Donibrun, singulis annis, per octo dies duratura, in invencione Sancte Crucis ; alia apud Pontem Beati Johannis Baptiste, similiter per octo dies, talia eis stallagia et thelonea statuentes, quam alia apud Waterford ad vincula Sancti Petri, per octo dies ; alia apud Limeric in festo Sancti Martini, per octo dies. Et vobis mandamus quod ita fieri et denunciari faciatis merca- tores illuc venire debeant libenter. Teste, etc." King John's letter of 1214 (Close Roll of England, 16 John), regarding a fair at Dublin (of which an English version has appeared in these pages), is to the following effect (Gilbert, p. 62) :— " Rex Domino Henrico [de Loundres], Dubline archie- piscopo, etc. " Sciatis quod concessimus civibus nostris Dublin quod habeant infra metas libertatis sue, ubi pocius viderint expe- dire, unam feriam, singulis annis, per octo dies duraturam, incipientem die invencionis Sancte Crucis. Et ideo vobis mandamus quod feriam illam, cum omnibus libertatibus et liberis consuetudinibus ad hujusmodi feriam pertinentibus, eos habere permittatis. " Teste me ipso, apud Sanctum Maxentium, xxiii. die Augusti [anno regni xvi."] *"Alie littere patentes dirriguntur civibus Dublin, per quas [rex] eis gratias refert de bono servicio suo, et eis mandat quod intendant ad civitatem suam firmandam, unusquisque ex parte sua, et quod nisi fecerint mandavit justiciario ut ipse ad hoc faciendum compellat." Rotuli Litterarum patentium in Turri Londinensi asservati, accurante T. D. Hardy, 1835, 45. NOTES. 377 Another letter from the same king (Charter Roll of Eng- land, 17 John, memb. 9), in which he grants to his citizens of Dublin his city of Dublin, etc., and authorizes them to hold a fair for fifteen days yearly, etc., is given by Mr. Gil- bert, pp. 63, 64. Notwithstanding what has appeared in p. 141, the following extracts are appended : — "Johannes, Dei gratia, rex, etc. Sciatis nos concessisse et hac carta nostra confirmasse civibus nostris Dublin, quod ipsi et heredes eorum habeant et teneant de nobis et heredibus nostris inperpetuum civitatem nostram Dublin, cum preposi- tura et omnibus aliis pertinentiis suis, ad feodifirmam, cum parte ilia aque de Avenlith que eis contingit, simul cum parte nostra ejusdem aque que nos contingit, exceptis piscacionibus batellorum, quas prius dedimus in liberam elemosinam, et aliis piscacionibus batellorum quas alii habent ex antiqua tenura, et salvis nobis sedibus molendinorum in eadem aqua quas ad opus nostrum retinuimus Preterea concessimus eis et confirmavimus quod habeant unam feriam singulis annis apud Dublin infra metas suas, incipientem in vigilia Invencionis Sancte Crucis, et duraturam per quindecim dies. Salvo domino archiepiscopo predicta feria per duos dies, videlicet in vigilia Invencionis predicte, et ipsa die In- vencionis. Quare volumus et firmiter precipimus quod pre- dicti cives Dublin et eorum heredes inperpetuum habeant et teneant de nobis et heredibus nostris bene et in pace, libere et quiete, integre et honorifice, civitatem nostram Dublin, cum prepositura, et aliis pertinentiis suis, ad feodifirmam ducen- tarum marcarum, tarn cum parte nostra quam cum parte sua aque de Avenlith ; et quod faciant unum pontem ultra aquam illam, et quod habeant omnes libertates et liberas consuetu- dines prius eis per cartam Henrici, regis, patris nostri, et per' cartam nostram, concessas. Et quod habeant omnes terras pertinentes ad civitatem Dublin infra metas suas contentas in carta nostra quam de nobis habent. Salva convencione facta inter ipsos et monachos Sancte Marie extra Dublin. Et quod habeant unam feriam singulis annis infra metas suas per quindecim dies duraturam, cum omnibus libertatibus et liberis consuetudinibus ad hujusmodi feriam pertinentibus, sicut predictum est. 41 Testibus : Domino Henrico, Dublinensi archiepiscopo ; H[enrico] Imelacensi episcopo ; Wpllielmo] Marescallo, comite Penbrocie ; W[illielmo] comite Sarresburie; Huberto 378 APPENDIX III. de Burgo, justiciario nostro Anglie ; Willielmo Briwerr ; Gal- frido de Marisco ; Philippo de Wygornia ; Rogero Pipard ; Radulfo Parvo ; Waltero de Ridele[s]ford. " Data per raanura magistri Ricardi de Mariscis, cancel- larii nostri, apud Merleberge, tercia die Julii, anno regni nostri decimo septirno." The charter of King Henry III., A.D. 1252 (Charter Roll of England, 36 Hen. III., memb. 2), in which he grants to the citizens of Dublin permission to hold a fair, within their limits, annually, at Dublin, for fifteen days, with all liberties thereto pertaining as granted by King John, and saving the right of the archbishop of Dublin to the fair during two days, has likewise been printed by Mr. Gilbert, pp. 126, 127. One extract will suffice : — " Quare volumus et firmiter precipimus pro nobis et heredi- bus nostris quod predicti cives Dubline et heredes eorum in perpetuum habeant unam feriam apud Dublinam infra metas suas singulis annis, duraturam per quindecim dies, videlicet in vigilia et in die et in crastino Translationis Sancti Thome, martyris, et per duodecim dies sequentes, cum omnibus liber- tatibus et liberis consuetudinibus ad hujusmodi feriam perti- nentibus quam prius habuerunt ibidem ex concessione domini Johannis, regis, patris nostri, incipientem in vigilia Inven- cionis Sancte Crucis, et duraturam per quindecim dies ; salva venerabili patri, Luce, Dublinensi archiepiscopo, et successo- ribus suis, predicta feria per duos dies, videlicit in vigilia Translationis predicte et ipsa die Translationis, sicut predic- tum est." King Edward I. (Charter Roll of England, 8 Edw. I., memb. 7 — " Hibernia : Pro civibus Dubline ") confirmed his father's grant of an annual fair, as mentioned in p. 141, in these terms (Gilbert, p. 188) : — " Rex archiepiscopis, etc., salutem. " Sciatis quod cum Celebris memorie dominus Henricus, rex, pater noster, per cartam suam concessisset civibus suis Dubline quod ipsi et eorum successores, cives Dubline, in per- petuum haberent unam feriam singulis annis infra metas NOTES. 379 suas Dubline, incipientem in vigilia Invencionis Sancte Cruris, et duraturam per quindecini dies. " Nos ad instanciam ipsorum civium, et ad majus eorum commodum, sicut asserunt, concedimus eis quod ipsi et eorum successores, cives Dubline, imperpetuum habeant feriam illam infra predictas metas Dubline, singulis annis per quin- decini dies duraturam : videlicet in vigilia et in die et in crastino Translacionis Sancti Benedicti, abbatis, in Julio, et per duodecim dies sequentes ; nisi feria ilia sit ad nocumentum vicinarum feriarum. " Quare volumus et firmiter precipimus, pro nobis et heredibus nostris, quod predicti cives et eorum successores, cives Dubline, imperpetuum habeant feriam illam infra pre- dictas metas Dubline, singulis annis per quindecim dies duraturam, videlicet in vigilia et in die et in crastino Trans- lationis Sancti Benedicti, abbatis, in Julio, et per duodecim dies sequentes, cum omnibus libertatibus et liberis consuetu- dinibus ad hujusmodi feriam pertinentibus ; nisi feria ilia sit ad nocumentum vicinarum feriarum, sicut predictum est.'' As already mentioned in p. 46, " by a subsequent charter the time of holding the fair was changed to a still later period ; and from time immemorial the same has been held [until its happy abolition in 1855] in the Green of Donny- brook, on the 26th of August, continuing during periods varying from a week to fifteen days." In Cantwell's " Treatise on Tolls and Customs," edited by W. C. M'Dermott, Esq., Barrister-at-law (Dublin, 1829), there are several particulars of the tolls charged on goods, tents, etc., going out to, and returning from Donnybrook Fair. The following Greek lines, headed "Nundinis Donny- brycseis nomen vernaculum ' Erin ' luculenter Exponitur," have been published in " Postulates and Data," vol. i., p. 347 (London, 1852), and are worthy of being transferred to these pages : — 380 APPENDIX III. Ad VENA. to ttottol, rj Oelov robe, teal kolWmttov iSecrflai, cine, iA\ dire, tottos tis, noOev o^Aos 68e; HlBERNICUS. aol §e tv\7] fieydXr], £eVe (fxiprare, vvv yap eiravka yrjs to. KpaTLaQ' Ikov, A(xivv[3p6xov re KAeog. €cttl Se cru/ATToa-aj OaXepri, Kal (AvcrTuca vAAa, crKYjiTTpcxfiopei 5' 6 veos, crKrjTrTpotyopel t' 6 yepew. fj.y]rpoiv 5' aaTraa-fxol, OvyaTpoiv 5' a<£ap eicnv epcores, navToOiv elcr i/p-vot, navroOdv ecrrt x°PO s# Advena. eis Se fxecrov 0pcopT ai/Ti7raAo?, 7ru£ ayaQ-q re <£aAay£. Kpavia 5' dfx CO CO CO CO o GO ^r- ~ " o_ rH P O fcco CO = ! © CO CO OJ iO CO 3 "o c o | gl* »-' cs e? CM t^ cs ^ w tp M ■^ CM 1 ■ CO O o CO OS I.S 1 CN CO CO 1 CO I l «1" „ o s — 1 — CM CO CO 1 22 o 1 3 2 j n'S CM 1 ■* 1 m _ CO CM o -I I ■ ^, I $ O n O O cq 2 o 3 d »t>. _^» S * >> o ■ |l as <8 2 s ° 03 O i o 03 "o ° 03 o T3 ei i2 3 3 "o "1 398 APPENDIX III. %nmk ai % ^ arises. [Continued from p. 2 1 1 . — Third Series.'] 1322. la this year the lands of Donnybrook, which belonged to the manor of Bagotrath, were conveyed by Robert Bagot to Fromund le Bruyn, who reconveyed them to Thomas, son of the said Robert. 1327. King Edward III. granted to James le Botiller the prisage of wines in the bay of Dublin, as in the other great harbours of Ireland. — Rot. in Cane. Hib. 1349. The King, on payment of a fine, granted a license to Richard Fitzwilliam to accept a conveyance from Richard, son of Richard Fitzwilliam, and Patricia, his wife, of a messuage and one carucate in Donaghbrok, which was held of the Prior in capite ; to hold to him, the said Richard, for the term of his life, subject to the customs and services thereout.— Rot. Pat. in Cane. Hib., 22 Edw. III. 1356. By writ, reciting that many of those dwelling in that part of the county of Dublin which lay between Nov' Cast* de Lyons (Newcastle-Lyons) and Donabrok, were refusing to contribute towards the expense of wards there, it was directed that Walter Russell, Constable of the castle of Tallagh, and Nicholas Beg, a guardian of the peace of the county of Dublin, should attend to the levy of such ex- penses as were reasonable therefor. — Rot. Claus. in Cane. Hib., 29 & 30 Edw. III. 1406. James Fitzwilliam sued out a license from the Crown for acquiring and entering upon lands in Balybothyr (Booterstown), Thornecastell, Donaghbrok, etc Rot. Pat. in Cane. Hib., 7 Hen. IV. 1408. William Fitwilliam had in this year a similar license ANNALS. 399 in respect of lands in Donaghbrok, etc. — Rot. Pat. in Cane. Hib., 9 Hen. IV. 1409. The King granted to William de Marny, chevaler, and to John Marny, his son, a chief- rent of 108s. 8d., issuing out of the lands and tenements of Thornecastell, to hold same for the term of their lives. — Rot. Pat. in Cane. Hib., 10 Hen. IV. 1422. King Henry V., at the close of his reign, granted to James Cornewalshe, Chief Baron of the Exchequer, on account of his services, the custody of two parcels of land, which had been the estate of James Fitzwilliam, deceased, in Mirryong (Merrion), Thornecastle, and elsewhere, then being in the King's hands, to hold same during the minority of Philip, said James' heir, together with the benefit accruing from his marriage, etc Rot. Pat. in Cane Hib., 9 Hen. Y. 1442. James Cornewalshe, Chief Baron, came from his residence at Dunboyne, 28 th September, for the purpose of taking his seat in the Court of Exchequer, or, as the record informs us, " causa sedendi in scaccario domini Regis, ibidemque Deo favente justiciam faciendum in crastino sancti Michaelis tunc proximo sequente;" and that he came to his manor of Bagotrath, situate within the liberty of the city of Dublin, where, as the same record states, " more solito sub quiete et pacis domini Regis supradicti tranquillitatem una cum suis tantum domesticis dicto vicessimo octavo die residebat." While he was there, however, William Fitzwilliam, of Dundrum, " cum magna nmltitudine hominum armatorum modo guerrino," entered the hall of the manor in Bagotrath, " cum gladiis, arcubus, lanceis, et fustibus," and there, 11 proditorie et felonice,'' and against the King's peace, u ut vulgariter et notorie dicitur," most wickedly slew him. — Memoranda Roll of the Exchequer, 21 Hen. VI. 1529. By an inquisition taken at Dublin Castle, 20 Hen. VIII., it was found that Ellinor Dowdall, widow of Thomas Fitzwilliam, of Bagotrath, was seized of one-third of his estates. It also finds that his son and heir, Richard Fitz- william, made his will, which bears date 12th July, 15 Hen. VIII., whereby he directs " his body to be burit at the Whit frirs of Dublin," to whom he bequeaths " a gown of sattyng, and a dowblett of [ ] , to 400 APPENDIX III. make them westments." He leaves "to the church of Myrryon a gown of chamlett and a doublett of sattine to make westments/' He leaves " his ffynest blak hose to Morish, my ghostly father." He adds, u Item, I will that my wiff shall sitt and dwell in the place of Bagotrath as long as hit shall pleas her [ ] as my heyr be able to entyr in hit." The inquisition further finds that Richard died 30th August, 20 Henry VIII., leaving Thomas Fitzwilliam, his son and heir, aged seven years, and unmarried, and that Bagotrath was held by the Mayor and Bailiffs of Dublin, by the service of 20 marks yearly rent. — Exchequer Inquisition. 1579. On the 27th of June, by the intercession of Adam Loftus, Archbishop of Dublin, the advowson of the arch- deaconry, upon the next vacancy, was granted to George Cowlie, gent. — Chapt. Acts, Ch. Ch. 1602. The form of perambulating the franchises of the city of Dublin, as the same was done in this year (see p. 65), in the mayoralty of Sir John Tyrrell, is given at full length (but with many strange blunders) in Whitelaw and Walsh's " History of Dublin," vol. i. pp. 98-103. The original is in the Charter Book of the Corporation of Dublin, fol. 138-141, and is entitled— " The Ryding of the fraunches and liberties of the Citty of Dublin according to the auncient custome, and lately perambulated in the yeare of Sir John Terrell's maioralty." As mentioned by a correspondent in Notes and Queries, 3rd S. iv. 313, " a literary friend [Aquilla Smith, Esq., M.D., of Dublin] has kindly furnished me with a carefully corrected copy of this curious document. Messrs. Whitelaw and Walsh (good and useful as their publication is in other respects) were undoubtedly very careless in transcribing, and con- sequently (as I have said) made many strange blunders. One specimen must suffice for the present. In p. 102, 1. 9 from bottom, the mayor is represented as causing the sword-bearer ' to sit on the king's sword ' ; but his lord- ship did no such thing. Instead of * the mayor caused the sword-bearer to sit on the king's sword,' read, ' through a window [which words are omitted] the mayor caused the sword-bearer to sett in the king's sword ' — - which gives a very different meaning." 1624. A writer in the Freeman's Journal (21st February, 1860), in a review of Part. i. of these " Brief Sketches," ANNALS. 401 found fault with the author for taking " no notice of the great fire by which Donny brook was destroyed in the year 1624." The writer gave no authority for his statement; and whether any such calamity really occurred, has not as yet been ascertained. 1629. The patent for the viscountcyof Fitzwilliam of Meryon, and barony of Fitzwilliam of Thorncastle, to which Sir Thomas Fitzwilliam was this year promoted, is given at length in the "Journals of the House of Lords (Ireland)," vol. i. p. 87. 1639. Eccl. de Donnabrooke.— Nathaniel Hoyle, Curatus, 1639, 1640, 1641; Thomas Tallis and Hugh Jennings, Churchwardens ; Samuel Wadelworth, Parish Clerk. (Rev. Dr. Brady's MSS., Dio. Dublin.) Nathaniel Hoyle, elected a Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin, in 1631, was Vice- Provost during Washington's desertion of his post, 1641, 1642, 1643 ; resigned in 1646; admitted Fellow of Brazen-nose College, Oxford, 1648 ; B.D. ad eund., 1649 ; restored Senior Fellow and Vice-Provost, by King's letter, 1660 ; he was also in the College during the Usurpation in 1652 ; and was Vice-Provost in 1659, 1660.--" Dublin University Calendar," 1873, p. 383. 1640. Died 30th January, Thomas Madden, of Bagotrath, one of whose great-grandsons was " that most worthy patriot and especial benefactor to the kingdom of Ireland, the Rev d Doctor Samuel Madden." See Archdall's M Lodge's Peerage of Ireland," vol. ii. p. 392. 1640. James Browne and John Gore served as Church- wardens of Donnybrook. — Brady's MSS. 1641. Thomas Fox and William Mackenally, Churchwardens of Donnybrook. (Brady's MSS.) This is the earliest mention of one of the MacNally family in connexion with the parish. See pp. 125, 280. 1643. Thomas, Viscount Fitzwilliam, petitioned the Irish House of Lords " against Captain Russell, Lieutenant of the Ordnance, for certain wastes and destructions committed on the lands of Bagotrath, being his lordship's inheritance, notwithstanding several former orders of the Lords Justices, of the Lieutenant-General of the Army, and the Governor of the city." Upon reading this petition, 20th April, it was " ordered that the said petitioner's request be recom- 2d 402 APPENDIX III. mended to the Lord Marquis of Ormond, Lieutenant- General of the Army, who may be pleased to take such course therein as his lordship shall think fit." Several petitions from Lord Fitzwilliam against persons for arrears of rent were on the same day read and dismissed "Lords' Journals," vol. i. p. 196. 1649. For reference to pamphlets containing sundry particu- lars of Bagotrath Castle at this date, see p. 314. 1652. In p. 25 of Dr. Gerard Boate's l{ Natural History of Ireland," which was published this year in London (" a work," according to Bishop Nicolson, " excellent in its kind, as not only full of truth and certainty, but written with much judgment, order, and exactness "), there is this notice of the harbour of Dublin : — " Dublin haven hath a bar in the mouth, upon which at high flood and spring-tide there is fifteen and eighteen feet of water, but at the ebbe and nepe-tide but six. With an ordinary tide you cannot go to the key of Dublin with a ship that draws five feet of water, but with a spring-tide you may go up with ships that draw seven and eight feet. Those that go deeper cannot go nearer Dublin than the Rings-end, a place three miles distant from the bar, and one from Dublin. This haven almost all over falleth dry with the ebbe, as well below Rings-end as above it, so as you may go dry-foot round about the ships which lye at an anchor there, except in two places, one at the north side, half- way betwixt Dublin and the bar, and the other at the south side not far from it. In these two little creeks (whereof the one is called the pool of Clantarf, and the other Poolebeg) it never falleth dry, but the ship3 which ride at an anchor remain ever afloat ; because at low water you have nine or ten feet of water there. This haven, besides its shallowness, hath yet another great incom- modity, that the ships have hardly any shelter there for any winds, not only such as come out of the sea, but also those which come off from the land, especially out of the south-west ; so as with a great south-west storm the ships run great hazard to be carried away from their anchors, and driven into the sea ; which more than once hath come to pass, and particularly in the beginning of November, Anno 1637, when in one night ten or twelve barks had that misfortune befaln them, of the most part whereof never no news hath been heard since." In p. 65 of " The ANNALS. 403 Parlour Window " (London, 1841), by the Rev. Edward Mangin, there is an M absurd " note (already mentioned) on the foregoing paragraph : — " Ringsend is an absurd corruption of Wring Sand, the proper name of the suburb." Boate's " Natural History " is included in Mr. Alexander Thorn's privately-printed "Tracts and Treatises (Ireland), 1613-17 69," vol. i. pp. 1-148 (2 vols. 8vo., Dublin, 1860-61), 1657. By letter of privy seal, dated 20th April, Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector, granted to "Oliver, Viscount Fitzwilliams of Merrion, in Ireland, authority to receive such moneys as should arise from two-thirds of the estate of Mary Plunkett, his mother-in-law [?], under special circumstances herein set forth." (" Parliamentary Papers," 1844, vol. xli. p. 604.) See Notes and Queries, 3rd S. ii. 349, 437. 1660. Captain John Bartlett petitioned for a grant, with survivorship to himself and Capt. Phil. Carpenter, of the charge of the post-barks between Holyhead and [Ringsend] Dublin (a like grant, made in 1643, proving of no avail to him) ; and his petition was granted. (" Calendar of State Papers, Domestic Series, 1660-61," p. 94.) In the same year he presented another petition to King Charles II. " Served as a captain to the King's friends, Lord Spottiswood, Lord Digby, now Earl of Bristol, etc. ; has a grant of the post- service from Holyhead [to Dublin] , but the two post- barks have long been in the hands of a fanatic, and the farmers of the post-office, being of the same party, refuse to give their letters to any other. Requests two of the King's ketches to carry on the service, and an order to the post-farmers to pay him £340 a year, as they do to the fanatic, also an addition of £160 from His Majesty, the expense of the two barks and 16 seamen being over £500 a year. With reference thereon to the Marquis of Ormond, and his report, July 28, in favour of the petition." —76. p. 126. 1665. " Dublin, May 6. We have had here upon the Strand several races ; but the most remarkable was by the Rings- end Coaches (which is an odde kinde of Carre, and generally used in this countrey.) There were a matter of 25 of them, and his Excellency the Lord Deputy [Thomas, Earl of Ossory] bestowed a piece of plate upon him that won the race, and the second, third, and fourth 404 APPENDIX III. were rewarded with money. It is a new institution, and likely to become an annual custom ; for the humour of it gave much satisfaction, there being at least 5,000 spec- tators." (The Intelligencer, 15th May.) For some par- ticulars of these Ringsend Cars, see p. 57. 1673. The Survey of the Harbour of Dublin by Sir Bernard de Gomme, Engineer- General, was made this year. See pp. 335-341. 1674. For curious details of the funeral expenses of William, third Viscount Fitzwilliam of Merrion, who died this year, and was buried at Donnybrook, see pp. 314-316. 1674. Particulars of Yarranton's Survey of Ringsend, which was made this j'ear, may be found in pp. 148-152. The best biographical sketch of this remarkable man, whose volume (consisting of two parts, and already quoted) is full of sagacious insight regarding the future commercial and manufacturing greatness of England, is in Smiles's " Industrial Biography " (8vo. London, 1863), pp. 60-76. 1675. For a reference to Sir Bernard de Gomme's "design of building a fort-royal on the strand near Ringsend," of which full mention has been made, see the report of Mr. Jonas Moore, drawn up this year, and printed in " Letters written by Arthur Capel, Earl of Essex, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, in 1675 " (4to. London, 1770), p. 167. 1679. A copy of " A true and perfect Relation of the mon- strous and prodigious whale lately cast on shore at Ring's* End, near Dublin, in Ireland, with the manner of its taking," etc. (4to. London, 1679), is in the possession of Evelyn Philip Shirley, Esq., as mentioned in his privately- printed "Catalogue of the Irish Library at Lough Fea'' (London, 1872), p. 355. 1690. In " A List of the Principal Officers employed in the Revenue, 24 Jun. 1690," given in Archbishop King's " State of the Protestants of Ireland " (4to. London, 1691), p. 328, William Briscoe and Phelim Dempsy appear as " Surveyors of Ringsend." 1693. There is (or was) in the possession of Dr. R. R. Madden, of Booterstown, a parchment " Map of Symon's Court, in the Parish of Donabrooke, half-Baronie of Rathdown, and County of Dublin, belonging to the Dean of Christ Church, ANNALS. 405 traced from a Map coppyed in Jan y , 1717-18, by John Green from a Survey taken by Abraham Carter, in Sep- tember, 1693, by Thos. Cave." 1695. By indenture made 11th May, between William Moreton, D.D., Bishop of Kildare, and Dean of Christ Church, and Elizabeth Mossom, of Dublin, widow of Robert Mossom, LL.D., Master in Chancery (by whom they had been held), " all y e towne and lands of Smothescourt, alias Symonscourt, with y e old ruinous castle, gate-house, and all other y e tenements, messuages, gardens, back- sides," etc., were conveyed to Elizabeth Mossom for twenty- one years, at a yearly rent of £55. Dr. Mossom's will had been proved in the Prerogative Court, Dublin, in February, 1679, as mentioned in Notes and Queries, 3rd S. VI. 187. 1699. William Porter and Richard Croshaw were Church- wardens of Donny brook. See p. 160. 1703. For the portion of the Act 2 Anne, c. xi., relative to the building of the Royal Chapel of St. Matthew, Rings- end, see p. 146. 1706. "City Records:— £50 voted for the church at Ringsend." — Dublin Saturday Magazine (1866), vol. ii. p. 108. 1711. A family named Stoyte resided at this date near Donnybrook ; and Dean Swift makes frequent mention of them in his " Journal to Stella." For example : — " Well, Madam Dingley, and so Mrs. Stoyte invites you, and so you stay at Donnybrook, and so you could not write " (24th January, 1710-11) ; " Go to bed and sleep, sirrahs, that you may rise to-morrow, and walk to Donnybrook, and lose your money with Stoyte and the Dean ; do so, dear little rogues, and drink Presto's health" (14th March) ; " Go, go, go to the Dean's, and let him carry you to Donnybrook, and cut asparagus " (8th May) ; " I tell you what, if I was with you when we went to Stoyte at Donnybrook, we would only take a coach to the hither end of Stephen's Green, and from thence go every step on foot, yes faith every step ; it would do : D.D. goes as well as Presto" (loth May); "Tell Goody Stoyte she owes me a world of dinners, and I will shortly come over [from England], and demand them" (12th September). Sir Francis Stoyte was Lord Mayor of Dublin in 1704-5, and 406 APPENDIX ITT. died 14th February, 1707. In the Donnybrook parish- register of baptisms there is this entry : — " 1722, April 14, Thomas, son to John and Ann Stoyt." 1712. ¥ City Records : — Steeple of Ringsend church ordered to be built at the charge of the city." — Dublin Saturday Magazine, vol. ii. p. 143. 1714. As appears from a letter dated August 14th, Mount Merrion was the temporary country-residence of Arch- bishop King, by the kindness of Lord Fitzwilliam, its pro- prietor. — Bp. Mant's " History of the Church of Ireland," vol. ii. p. 272. 1723. For a copy of the King's letter (10 Geo. I.) "for establishing a Minister or Curate at Ringsend," see p. 147. 1725. " With this [his money] I set forward [1st May, 1725], and in live days arrived from the western extremity of Ireland at a village called Rings-end, that lies on the bay of Dublin. Three days I rested there, and at the Con- niving-House [see p. 74], and then got my horses on board a ship that was ready to sail, and bound for the land I was born in, I mean Old England." (" The Life of John Buncle, Esq." [Thomas Amory], vol. i. p. 87, London, 1766.) In a note to the same page he gives the following description : — " The Conniving-House (as the gentlemen of Trinity called it in my time, and long after) was a little public-house, kept by Jack Macklean, about a quarter of a mile beyond Rings- end, on the top of the beach, within a few yards of the sea. Here we used to have the finest fish, at all times ; and in the season, green peas, and all the most excellent vegetables. The ale here was always extraordinary, and everything the best ; which, with its delightful situation, rendered it a delightful place of a summer's evening. Many a delightful evening have I passed in this pretty thatched house with the famous Larrey Grogan, who played on the bag-pipes extreme well ; dear Jack Lattin, matchless on the fiddle, and the most agreeable of companions ; that ever charming young fellow, Jack Wall, the most worthy, the most ingenious, the most engaging of them, the son of Coun- cilor Maurice Wall ; and many other delightful fellows ; who went in the days of their youth to the shades of eternity. When I think of them and their evening songs — We will go to Johnny Macklearts, to try if his ale be good or not, etc., and that years and infirmities begin to oppress ANNALS. 407 me, what is life !" He gives also in this " amusing and singular work, which is a sort of sketch of his own life," a curious account of what happened at sea, pp. 88-92. 1725. An anecdote of the humours of Donnybrook Fair about this date is given in Burdy's u Life of the Rev. Philip Skelton " (Dublin, 1792), pp. 12, 13, as follows: — " While he [Skelton] was in the College, he went once to Donnybrook Fair, and heard it proclaimed there that a hat was set up as a prize for the best cudgel-player. The two cudgels, with basket-hilts, lying for public in- spection, Skelton, like a recent Dares, stept forward, took up one of them, made a bow to the girls, and chal- lenged an antagonist to oppose him. On this a confident young fellow came up and accepted the challenge. Imme- diately a ring was formed, and the two heroes began. They fought for a while on equal terms, warding off the blows in the science of defence. But at last his anta- gonist was off his guard, and Skelton taking the advan- tage, hit him some smart strokes about the head, and made him throw down the cudgel, and own he was con- quered. He thus gained the victory, and won the hat. He then took the hat in his hand, showed it to the gaping crowd, made a bow to the girls, and told them, 4 he fought just to please them, but would not keep the hat, that they might have more amusement ;' and then bowed again and retired. A hero in romance could not have been more complaisant to the fair sex." He died in Dublin, 4th May, 1787, having been " liberally endowed by Providence with intellectual perfections "; and was buried at St. Peter's, where there is a stone with a minute and elaborate inscription, which is said to have been com- posed by the late Dean Burrowes, then a Fellow of Trinity College. For a copy of it, see the above-named " Life "; or Cotton's " Fasti Ecclesise Hibernicae," vol. iii. pp. 100, 101. Mr. Skelton's works were published, for the benefit of the Magdalen Asylum, Dublin, in 6 vols. 8vo., Dublin, 1770, et seq. ; to which, in 1792, was added Burdy's "Life." The same, with the " Life," and edited by the Rev. Robert Lvnam, reappeared in 6 vols. 8vo., London, 1824. 1727. Dr Threlkeld, in his u Synopsis Stirpium Hiberni- carum ".(Dublin, 1727), when mentioning the Ranunculus Bulbosus (Bulbous Crowfoot), says: — "It grows in some 408 APPENDIX III. wet closes between Dannebrook and Rings-end, where I could pull up the knobby root without breaking the stalk, the ground was so soft and spongy." 1729. In the "List of the Absentees of Ireland," published this year in Dublin (8vo. pp. 94), Lord Viscount Fitzwil- liam appears amongst those " who live generally abroad, and visit Ireland now and then for a month or two ;" his estate being valued at £5,000 per annum. 1733. For particulars of Sir Edward Lovet Pearce, who died this year, see p. 278. 1734. " On Saturday evening last [the 24th] died after a long illness, at Simon's Court, near this city, the Rt. Hon. [Arthur Forbes] the [second] Earl of Granard." — Pue's Occurrences, 27th August. 1737. Mention of an explosion at the Powder Mill, Beggars- bush, appears in the same Dublin newspaper, 7th May. 1737. " On Saturday night last, by a violent storm, the mast and lights belonging to the new Light-house at Polebegg were blown down." — Pile's Occurrences, 13th September. 1738. For particulars of Lieutenant-General Pearce, who died this year, see p. 279. 1738. The Hon. John Forbes, second son of George, third Earl of Granard, was appointed, 24th October, Commander of the Portmahon, of twenty guns [the name of which vessel frequently appears in the parish-register of Donny- brook], then stationed on the coast of Ireland ; whence he was removed, 10th August, 1739, to the Severn, of fifty guns. (ArchdalPs " Lodge's Peerage of Ireland," vol. ii. p. 150.) Having at an early age entered the navy, he attained, in 1743, to the rank of Admiral of the Fleet, and is honourably remembered for the manner in which he, as a Lord of the Admiralty, protested against the cruel exe- cution of Admiral Byng. He died 10th March, 1796. He was the author of " Memoirs of the Earls of Granard," which, having been edited by George Arthur Hastings, seventh Earl of Granard, K.P., appeared in London, in 1868. See Notes and Queries, 4th S. ii. 215. 1739. " For a considerable time past we have had here exceeding wet and cold weather incessantly, such as has ANNALS. 409 scarce ever been known at this season of the year ; but on Monday and Tuesday last we had such a great, heavy, and continued rain," etc. . . . " It [the flood] made great havock and destruction at Ball's-Bridge, carrying down all the banks, trees, ditches, and hedges, and the Mill; and so great was the impetuosity and force of it, that it carried away the famous stone-bridge of Donny- brook, so that there is not a stone of it to be seen." — Dublin Gazette, loth September. 1741. " Saturday last, Mr. Baron Wainwright came to town from the Munster Circuit, very ill of a fever, and this morning he died at his house, Mount Merrion, within four miles of this city. He was a gentleman greatly esteemed for his most excellent virtues, and his death is universally lamented." (Pwe's Occurrences, 14th April.) See a pamphlet, " printed at the Foreign Office, May, 1847," and entitled, " Famine in Ireland, 1740-41," for particulars of the famine and pestilence which prevailed at this time throughout the country. 1741. " On Monday night died of a fever at his house in Rings-End, the Rev. Mr. Michael Hartlib [ see p. 167], Castle Chaplain, and Minister of Ring's-End Church." {Dublin Gazette, 29th August.) " The Rev. Mr. Hart- liffe " is mentioned in Pwe's Occurrences, 10th April, 1731. An advertisement respecting his daughter appeared in the Dublin newspapers the year after his death : — " Whereas Loetitia Hartlib, daughter of the late Rev. Michael Hart- lib, of the city of Dublin, was about the beginning of January last spirited away from her friends and relations by one Mr. James Lombard, and by him detained ever since,'' etc. {Pue's Occurrences, 27th February, and Dublin News- Letter, 2nd March, 1741-2.) The banns of marriage were forbidden " by reason that the said Loetitia was so void of common human understanding as not to be capable of consenting properly to any contract of marriage.'* W. Lingen was executor of the last will and testament of Mr. Hartlib. 1741. ' l The premium of Ten Pounds was given by the [now Royal] Dublin Society [16th September], in the presence of the Lord Mayor [Alderman Sir Samuel Cooke], to the person who produced the best barrel of wheat at the Market-house in Thomas-street, Dublin. Fifteen several persons put in for the premium ; their 410 APPENDIX III. sacks were marked, and samples taken from each of them, which were placed separately on a table in a private room, with correspondent marks conceal'd under each parcel ; then three bakers were sent for by the Lord Mayor, who were sworn to fix upon five of the best parcels, according to the best of their judgments, which five parcels being examined over again, two of them were judged to be steely, and so laid aside ; the remaining three parcels being equally good as to their colour, a gallon was taken from each sack and weighed, and it was found upon trial that the wheat of Isaiah Yeates of Butterstown, in the county of Dublin [who had been Churchwarden of Donnybrook, including Booterstown, in 1728], outweighed the other two parcels by five ounces in a gallon. Accord- ingly the Ten Pounds were paid down on the nail to the said Yeates, who has 400 barrels of the same sort of wheat, which sold at the same market for 20s. a barrel, when other wheat sold from 14s. to 18s." {Gentleman's Magazine, 1741, p. 498.) " In the north of Ireland wheat sold for 6d. a stone, and beef at Id. a pound ; and other provisions in proportion." [lb. p. 499.) In the following year Mr. Yeates was likewise a successful competitor : — " Last Wednesday [17th November] several Members of the Society met at the Market-house in Thomas-street to determine the premium of ten pounds promised for the best barrel of wheat of the growth of the current year. There were six candidates, and all their corn appearing very good, it was agreed to decide the competition by weight ; accordingly a striked gallon of wheat was taken from every sack, and exactly weighed. The respective weights, with the names of the candidates and their places of abode, were as follows : — lb. oz. dr. Mr. Yeates of Butterstown's Wheat, weigh'd per gallon, 7 11 2 Mr. Smally's of Shanganagh, ,, „ 7 11 2 Mr. Seagraves of Londestown, ,, ,, 7 10 4 Mr. Cartyes of Leporstown, „ „ 7 10 2 Mr. Slator cf Brownstown, „ „ 7 9 2 Mrs. Prowde of the Grange, „ ,, 7 9 2 all of the county of Dublin. Mr. Yeates and Mr. Smally's wheat being heavier than the rest, and both of them being exactly 7 Pound eleven Ounces and a Quarter, or 2 Drams, the premium was on account of the equality equally divided between them, and paid down on the nail ; they having first made oath that they had not kiln-dried ANNALS. 411 or made use of fire to dry their corn. Mr. Seagrave's wheat was judg'd by the bakers who were present, to be as good, if not better than any other, till it was weighed. Afterwards a striked barrel of the said best wheat was weighed (being gently pour'd into the barrel), and it contained but 18 Stone four Pounds and a half." [Dublin News-Letter, 20th November, 1742.) For the origin of the phrase here used, " Paid down upon the nail," see Notes and Queries, 1st S. ix. 196, 384. 1741. On Sunday, loth November, "the Right Rev. Doc* Rob* Clayton, Bishop of Cork [afterwards of Clogher], ordained at Donneybrooke Church several Priests and Deacons." {Dublin Gazette, 17th November.) See p. 128. 1742. Died 5th May, " Henry Lord Power of Ireland, of an antient and noble family," etc. See p. 280. In "The Rise of Great Families," etc. (London, 1873), pp. 338, 339, Sir Bernard Burke, quoting from Dr. William King's "Anecdotes of his own Times," makes mention of "the Lord Power, a Peer of the Realm of Ireland [who died at Paris, 20th August, 1725], aged about 80 years," having lived upon a small pension granted by Queen Anne. 1743. His Excellency the Lord Chancellor (Jocelyn) resided at this date at Mount Merrion. (Pue's Occurrences, 15th January.) See p. 75. 1743. On Sunday, 8th May, " a sailor was brought from Rings End to Irish Town Churchyard to be buried ; but when they laid him on the ground, the coffin was observed to stir, on which he was taken up ; and by giving him some nourishment, he came to himself, and is likely to do well." (Dublin News-Letter, 10th May.) For mention of this strange circumstance, see p. 168. 1743. "Last week died the Rev. Mr Walter Thomas, of Thurles, in the county of Tipperary. He was a gentleman of exceeding good character, and his death is much lamented." (Pue's Occurrences, 28th June.) See p. 71. He was elected a Scholar of Trinity College, Dublin, in 1697, and graduated M.A. in 1701. 1743. " Last night died at his house in Aungier-street [Dublin], the Rev. Dr Charles Whittingham [see p. 72], Archdeacon of Dublin," etc. (Pue's Occurrences, 16th July.) He was elected a Scholar of Trinity College, 412 APPENDIX III. Dublin, in 1683 ; graduated M.A., 1688 ; B.D. and D.D., 1704 ; and published a sermon preached in Christ Church, on the arrival of King William III. (4to. Dublin, 1733). 1743. " The Salt Works at Ringsend and Clontarf, being both at work, country dealers and others may be supplied with right good salt, at the same price the English salt sells, may have grass or hay for their horses, if they stay all night, and their salt passed toll-free." — Dublin News- Letter, 10 th September. 1744. From a MS. volume, entitled " An Establishment of the Revenue Officers [in Ireland] for Mich s Quarter, 1744," we have what follows relative to those stationed at Ringsend : — Thomas Griesdall, Prin. Surv r , £20 ; Roger Tutthill and George Hannel, Surv rs , £17 10s. and £15 ; thirty-six Tidewaiters, £7 10s. each ; sixteen Supr y Tide- waiters, £1 5s. each ; two Cocksons, £5 15s. each ; and eight Boatmen, £5 each. Total amount of payments, £394. 1748. " Poollbeg Oyster Fishery being taken this year by Messrs. Burnet and Simpson of Ringsend, they may be had fresh and in their purity at Mrs. L'Sware's, at the Sign of the Good Woman in Rings-End aforesaid." — Dublin Weehly Journal, 15th October. 1749. John Fitzgibbon, first Earl of Clare (see pp. 79, 170), was born this year at Donnybrook, as mentioned in Taylor's " History of the University of Dublin" (London, 1845), p. 426. No record of his baptism appears in the parish-register; but Mr. W. B. S. Taylor was a native of Donnybrook, and lived there for many years, and had good grounds for his assertion. For a biographical sketch of Lord Clare, see pp. 317, 318. 1750. Died, 27th November, "at Ringsend, Mr. James Lundow [Lundy], aged 106 years." (Exshaw's Magazine, 1750, p. 596.) See p. 281. 1751. "February 26. Happn'd one of the greatest hurri- canes ever remembred in Ireland, which has occasioned very considerable damages over the whole kingdom." (Exshaw's Magazine, 1751, p. 112.) " The same hurri- cane did considerable mischief to the shipping in Dublin, and other ports of Ireland." — lb. p. 156. 1751. "The same day [Saturday, 17th August] the Right ANNALS. 413 Hon. the Lord Mayor [Alderman Thomas Taylor], at- tended by the Sheriffs [Messrs. George Reynolds and Thomas White] and Constables, went to Donnybrook Fair, and ordered all the tents to be pulled down ; and on Sunday went to the said place, attended by the picquet- guard, where the Ormond and Liberty rioters had assem- bled, in order to disperse those inconsiderate wretches, who by their vile proceedings are a pest of society, and a scandal to the human species." (Dublin Weekly Journal, 24th August.) For particulars of the " Liberty Boys and Ormond Boys," see [Walsh's] " Sketches of Ireland Sixty Years Ago" (Dublin, 1847), p. 3 — an interesting book by the late Master of the Rolls. 1751. In the list of " Premiums given by the Dublin Society, between 10 Nov. 1750, and 14 Nov. 1751," this entry appears : — *• Richard Matthewson, who produced sugar- loaf blue paper he made at Ballsbridge, the first in this kingdom, 2 guineas." Mention is likewise made of " the Paper-makers at Ballsbridge " in " Watson's Almanack,'' 1752, p. 72. 1753. The Rev. John Drury, M.A. (elected a Scholar of Trinity College, Dublin, in 1735), was at this date, and for some time after, Curate of Donnybrook. — Parish Register. 1754. "June 18. Last Thursday and the two following days, the rains did great damages, and Rathfarnham-bridge [across the Dodder] was thrown down, which was one arch of 100 feet wide. Many people and cattle were drown'd, and boats drove to sea.'' — Gentlemarts Magazine, 1754, p. 290. 1754. In an unpublished letter from John Hayman, Esq., of Clonmel, to Thomas Lindsay, Esq., " at Bath,'' dated 2nd November, 1754, there is this paragraph : — •' I am greatly concern'd to give an account that Sir Charles Moore is now no more. It's now upwards of a month, and that of a Saturday night, he sat up all night writing, went to bed about five in the morn, but cou'd get no rest : upon which he soon got up, and order'd his man to get his horse ready, rid out towards the Black Rock, near Dublin, gave his horse to the man, bid him walk about, and would be back soon. The servant thought he was going to dip as usual in the salt water ; but not returning in some hours, or 414 APPENDIX III. hearing of him, went to see for him, but cou'd get no account of him ; upon which he went back to town, and told his sister that lived with him ; upon which she call'd all his servants, and sent them to see for him ; and in the latter end of the day they happened to see him lying on his face between two rocks ; they turn'd him on his back, and found his mouth all dirty and bloody, occasion'd by a shot of a pocket-pistol, which was loaded with shot, that he had discharged in his mouth. He had another in his pocket loaded with ball. There was a jury from town sat on his body, and was two days before they agreed to bring in their verdict, that he was lunatick. As yet I don't hear what reason he had for this rash and terrible action. He was look'd upon to be a man of good reason, a man of honour, and lived on the earth like a little god, not in debt, but full of cash, He made a will, and left all to his two sisters. His place in the power of the Government was since given to one Mr. Maxwell." Sir Charles Moore, Bart, (only son of Sir Emanuel Moore, Bart., M.P. for Downpatrick), held the office of Keeper of the Records in Birmingham Tower, with Mr. John Lodge as his Deputy; and was succeeded by Robert Maxwell, Esq., Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant. The title and estates reverted to his uncle, Colonel Robert Moore. 1754. Thomas Cooley, Esq., had at this date his country- residence "near Butterstown " (Puds Occurrences, 25th November), and was a person of some consideration. Died "in York-street [Dublin], Thomas Cooley, Esq., Coun- sellor-at-law, and Representative in Parliament for the borough of Duleek, in the county of Meath. As he was a gentleman of an extraordinary good character, his death is universally lamented by all who had the pleasure of his acquaintance." (76.16th December, 1756.) In "The First Sheet of an Actual Survey of the Environs of the City of Dublin,'' by Rocque, " Counc r Cooley's House " is marked ; and also, inter alia, " Lord Merrion's Brick Fields," now Sandymount ; " the Mass House," on the site of the present Roman Catholic Chapel in " Merrion Lane," now Booterstown-avenue ; " Black Rock Avenue," now the Cross- avenue ; " the Black Rock," from which the town derives its name, and which was removed (at least in part) during the construction of the Dublin and Kings- town Railway, having stood not far from where the Blackrock Railway- station is ; " the Pacquet Moorings ;'' ANNALS. 415 " Quarantine Sloop;" "Light Ship;" and "Bounds of the Lord Mayor's Jurisdiction.'' See p. 74. 1755. " Dublin, August 12. The liberties and franchises of this city were rode and perambulated by the Rt. Hon. the Lord Mayor [Alderman Hans Bailie], attended by the High Sheriffs [Messrs. Philip Crampton and Timothy Allen] and the several corporations in their order. The grandeur of the procession is beyond all conception. The estimate of the expenses of the different corporations, laid before the City Treasurer for disbursement, amounted in the whole to £38,000. These franchises are rode once in three years." — Gentleman's Magazine, 1755, p. 377. 1758. " We hear that the Right Hon. [Richard, sixth] Lord [Viscount] Fitzwilliams has given orders for 1,000 yards of cloth to be bought in this city, and distributed among the poor of both sexes, on his lordship's estate. A noble example ! and worthy of imitation by the great and opulent." — Dublin Gazette, 7 th February. 1758. " Sunday, Aug. 27. This and the preceding day the Rt. Hon. the Lord Mayor [Alderman Thomas Meade] and High Sheriffs [Messrs. Michael Sweny and William Forbes], attended by the high and petty constables and a party of the army, went to Donneybrook Fair, and staid there till night each day, by which means his lordship preserved the peace, and prevented the many riots and disorders which frequently happen at said Fair, to the great terror of the inhabitants and other persons who resort thereto." — Pue's Occurrences, 29th August. 1759. Donny brook Castle (see p. 169) was demolished this year, its site being occupied by another building, which was known for many years by the same name, and is now a nunnery. See p. 92, where (as mentioned in p. 320, ».) one building has been mistaken for the other. 1760. Died 3rd May, " in Stephen-street [Dublin], the Rev d John Owen, M.A., Curate of Donny brook Church, and one of the Minor Canons of St Patrick's Cathedral [appointed 24th December, 1754] : a young gentleman, whose many virtues render his death deservedly regretted by all his acquaintance." (Skater's Public Gazetteer, 6th May, and Dublin Gazette, 10th of same month.) Pro- bably the same as " John Owens," who was elected a 416 APPENDIX III. Scholar of Trinity College, Dublin, in 1750, and graduated M.A. in 1755. 1761. "At night [Sunday] two men in a chaise and their driver were drowned in attempting to pass Donnybrook river. The carriage was found near Eingsend.'' — Sleater's Public Gazetteer, 17th October. 1763. In the violent storm on Saturday, 12th March, which did so much damage in the Bay, several vessels were wrecked on the Piles. " In the evening a party of the army went to the Piles to save the wrecks from being plundered by the country people, who inhumanly avail themselves in such melancholy scenes of distress, by seizing whatever they can come at — a crime that cer- tainly deserves the most exemplary punishment." — lb. 15th March. 1763. Died 6th April, " at Donnybrook, aged 106, Mr. Chris- topher Wise, farmer." — Exshaw's Magazine, 1763, p. 240 ; and Sleaters Public Gazetteer, 9th April. 1763. " Thursday morning [22nd September] about eight o'clock, the Dorset yacht, convoyed by one of His Majesty's ships of war, arrived in the Bay, having on board the [munificent] Earl [soon after the first Duke] of North- umberland, Lord Lieutenant of this kingdom, his Coun- tess, Lord Wark worth [afterwards second Duke], and the Hon. Algernon Percy, Esq. [afterwards Earl of Beverley]. They landed amidst the acclamations of the people, at Rings-end, and spent some time at the Surveyor's house ; whence his Excellency, with his sons, proceeded in the Lord Primate's coach, and the Countess in the Speaker's coach, with the usual solemnity, escorted by a squadron of horse, and accompanied by several of the nobility and gentry, to the Castle, where his Excellency was sworn into the government of this kingdom." (Sleater's Public Gazetteer, 24th September.) " His Excellency the Lord Lieutenant has been graciously pleased to order the sum of ten pounds to be distributed among the poor of Eings- end." (lb. 8th October.) In this year shillings to the amount of £100 were struck for the purpose of being dis- tributed amongst the populace, when the Earl of Northum- berland made his first public appearance in Dublin, as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, from which circumstance they still go by the name of Northumberland shillings. They ANNALS. 417 have the King's bust in profile to the right, hair long, laureate ; in armour, with a slight drapery fastened on the shoulder by a brooch ; Georgivs III. Dki Gratia. Re- verse in type and legend, exactly like the shillings of his grandfather. These pieces are dated 1763, and are rare. See Pinkerton's " Medals," vol. ii. p. 72, 2nd edit. ; Leake's " Account of English Money," p. 4 ; Ruding's 11 Coinage," vol. ii. p. 84 ; and Hawkins's " Silver Coins," p. 244 Notes and Queries, 4th S. ii. 300. 1764. " Next Monday the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor [Alderman William Forbes], attended by the city officers, will throw the dart at the Black-rock, according to triennial custom." (Sleater's Public Gazetteer, 4th August.) A correspondent in Notes and Queries, 3rd S. iv. 244, has fallen into a mistake regarding the place where the Lord Mayor of Dublin used in former days to " throw the dart." Bullock was not the place, being far beyond his bounds ; but Blackrock (which lies between Dublin and Kingstown), as appears, for example, from the foregoing advertisement in an old Dublin nawspaper. 1764. "Saturday morning [the 4th], was unfortunately drowned as he was bathing near Ringsend, John Bury, Esq., who succeeded to a considerable estate on the death of his uncle, the Earl of Charleville." (Sleaters Public Gazetteer, 7th August.) This was John Bury, Esq., eldest son of VVilliam Bury, Esq., of Shannon, by Jane, daughter of John Moore, first Baron Tullamore. He was born 1st November, 1725; married Catharine, second daughter and co-heiress of Francis Sadlier, E*q., of Sopwell Hall, in the county of Tipperary ; succeeded, as above stated, his uncle, Charles Moore, Earl of Charleville, 17th February, 1764, when the earldom and barony became extinct ; and left an only son, Charles William, born 30th June, 1764, who was created Baron Tmlamore, Viscount Charleville, and Earl of Charleville, 1797-1806. Mention of his birth, and of the consequent rejoicings, may be found in the Gazetteer, 7th July, 1764. 1765. Particulars of the landing of his Excellency the Earl of Hertford, Lord Lieutenant, at Ringsend, are given in Skater's Public Gazetteer, 19th October. 1765. " One of our favourite summer walks about 1765, was to Ringsend, to eat cockles at a very good tavern, the sign 2e 418 APPENDIX III. of the Highlander, and to play billiards at a Mrs. Sherlock's, the price two pence a game to the table. The owner of the billiard table always remained in the room, as she was herself the marker, and giver of judgment when appealed to. She was sister to the Sherlock [also of Ringsend], who many years before had been victor in every broad- sword contest of consequence, at a time when the skilful management of that weapon was considered of importance in London. A highly distinguished military commander, and patron of the art, or, as it was then called, the science of defence, not much liking the idea of Sherlock being winner of all the stage-fought laurels, imported into Lon- don from the Continent a grand broad-sword player, of the name of Figg, and the word now was ' a Figg for the Liffey boy.' Emulation arose to animosity, and on the day of trial the place of action was thronged by both civil and military. Expectation and bets ran high, but mostly in favour of the foreign champion. The two combatants on the stage, their swords drawn : Sherlock shook hands with his opponent, and said, ' Mynheer Figg, guard it as well as you can, I'll cut off the third button of your coat.' To it they went, the foreigner parried, yet Sherlock, with the admirable sleight of his art, had the third button on the point of his sword. 'Now,' said he, *I have been told, and I believe it, that, under this show of a mere contest for skill at our weapon, you intend to put a finish to me at once. I have proved to you that I could take your third button, and now, if you choose, I'll take your upper button ; so guard your head.' While his antagonist was endeavouring to guard his head, Sherlock's sword took a little slice off the calf of his leg, and thus, by the terms of the encounter, Sherlock, having drawn the first blood, was declared conqueror. Thousands of guineas were sported upon this broad-sword match." — " Recollections of John O'Keeffe" (London, 1826), vol. i. pp. 135-137. 1766. Died "at Ringsend, Jane Bainham, aged 106."— Shelter's Public Gazetteer, 1st February. 1766. " Monday, March 3rd, Peter M'Kinley, Andres Zeck- erman, George Gidley, and Richard St, Quintin, four pirates, who inhumanly murdered Captains Cochran and Glass, on board the Sandwich, were executed near St. Stephen's Green, Dublin ; they were convicted on Saturday, ANNALS. 419 the 1st of March, in the King's Bench, before the Worship- ful Robert Fitzgerald, Esq., Judge of the Admiralty Court, and other judges in Commission ; their bodies were after- wards hung in chains, two on the Piles below the Block-house in Poolbeg, and the other two on the new Wall below Maccarell's Wharf : the latter are to be removed to a prominence on Dalkey Island, being too near the city, and in a passage much frequented by the citizens." (Fitzgerald's "Cork Remembrancer," p. 109, Cork, 1783.) " Monday, April 7, Peter M'Kinley and George Gidley, pirates, were brought in a boat from the South Wall to the Rocks called the Muglins, near Dalkey Island, where they were put up. It is said the gibbet and irons are the compleatest ever made in this kingdom." (Pue's Occur- rences, 12th April.) In the Irish Times, 7th August, 1868, Mr. James J. Gaskin, of Dublin, published a long letter on this subject, headed " Supposed Execution of Pirates on Dalkey Island and the Mugglin Rocks " ; and in the same newspaper, four days later, a letter from "T. H." appeared, giving a singular account of the life and sudden death of another of this gang of pirates. The murdered Captain Glass was son of the founder of the sect of the Glas.sites. See also Gaskin's " Varieties of Irish History" (Dublin, 1869), pp. 376-381. With reference to Fitzgerald and his " Cork Remembrancer," the late Mr. Crofton Croker has observed : — " I have been told that the author of this singular chronicle made a point of being present at the death of every criminal whose exit he has recorded, and he generally marched in the procession from the gaol to the gallows ; on one occasion it is reported of Mr. Fitzgerald, that, being confined to his bed by a severe illness, he actually petitioned the judge to postpone an execution, until he was sufficiently recovered to become a spectator."-—" Researches in the South of Ireland " (London, 1824), p. 184. 1766. Died " Sunday last, at his house at the Black Rock, of an apoplectic fit, after eating a hearty dinner, Lieuten- ant-General John Adlercron, Colonel of the 39th regiment of foot." (Pue's Occurrences, 29th July.) A few bio- graphical particulars of him are given in Notes and Queries, 3rd S. iv. 383. 1767. "Jan. 14. The brig Henry, Captain Rathburn, from London, was forced on the south side of the Piles in 420 APPENDIX III. Poolbeg. Of her crew, which consisted of thirteen, only three were brought off alive, as the others were carried away by the violence of the sea, or perished through the inclemency of the weather." {Exshaw's Magazine, 1767, p. 126.) This is one of the many recorded wrecks in the same quarter. 1767. " Mon. 13 [June]. Was laid the last coping-stone of the new Light-house, erected at the extreme point of the South piles in Poolbeg ; this is a work of the highest utility, tending to the prosperity and increase of commerce, and to the preservation of her hardy sons, who lead her through every clime ; less we should not do for them, who in ease enjoy the sweets of their adventurous undertakings. This pile of building is a lasting testimony of the ability, no less in design than execution, of the undertaker, Mr. John Smith." (Exshaw's Magazine, 1767, p. 450.) "This work, the commencement of which we have already men- tioned, was lighted up the 29th of September, 1767. Its use is evident to those who are acquainted with the danger of the harbour of Dublin : the undertaker and projector is the ingenious Mr. Smith, whose ability in design, and integrity in execution, does him great honour ; and could we be equally successful in the other public works in the kingdom, particularly our navigations, we should not be so sarcastically dealt with as we are by strangers that come amongst us, but with how much equity let these works declare." — lb. p. 650. 1767. In this year was published "A Brief Account of the Hibernian Nursery [at Ringsend] for the Support and Education of the Orphans and Children of Mariners only ; with the Present State of that Charitable Institution, which the Governors think their Duty to lay before the Public." For full particulars, see pp. 330-332. 1769. In the " List of the Absentees of Ireland " (published this year in Dublin), Richard, sixth Viscount Fitzwilliam appears amongst those " who live generally abroad, and visit Ireland occasionally, for a very short time j " his estate being valued at £4,000 per annum. 1769. Bush, in p. 25 of his " Hibernia Curiosa" (published this year in London), gives a very rude representation of what he describes as " the drollest and most diverting kind of conveyance for your genteel and ungenteel parties ANNALS. 421 of pleasure . . . the Chaise-marine, which is nothing less or more than any common carr with one horse. A simple kind of carriage, constructed with a pair of wheels, or thin round blocks, of about 20 inches in diameter, an axle, and two shafts, which, over the axle, are spread out a little wider than by the sides of the horse, and framed together with cross pieces, in such manner as to be nearly in a level position for three or four feet across the axle. . . A sketch of the figure and construction of one of these carrs I have here given ; and, when used for the parties of pleasure, on the level part is laid a mat, for the common- alty, and for the genteeler sort of people a bed is put on this; and half-a-dozen gets on, two behind and two on each side, and away they drive, with their feet not above six inches from the ground as they sit, on little pleasure- jaunts of three or four or half-a-dozen miles out of town ; and are the most sociable carriages in use, for ten or a dozen will take one of these chaise-marines, and ride it by turns, the rate being seldom, in such cases, more than foot- pace. I assure you they are the drollest, merriest curricles you ever saw. We were infinitely diverted at meeting many of these feather-bed chaise-marine parties, on the Sunday that we landed, coming out of town [by the Black- rock-road] as we went to it from Dunlary [now Kings- town]." 1770. Died " in Nassau-street [Dublin], the Rev. Theophilus Brocas, D.D., Dean of Killala [see pp. 77, 170], one of the Vice-Presidents of the Dublin Society, whose death is an important loss to the kingdom, as his life was devoted to the service of the publick in promoting the true interest of this country." (Pue's Occurrences, 21st April.) The fol- lowing inscription is on his tombstone in St. Anne's church- yard, Dublin : — " Here lyeth the body of the Rev d Theophilus Brocas, D.D., Dean of Killala, who departed this life on the 17th day of April, 1770, and in the 64th year of his age." 1770. " Friday, June 8. The Right Hon. the Lord Mayor [Alderman Sir Thomas Blackhall], who is most inde- fatigable in his office, visited the bakers and sellers of bread in Donnybrook, BallVBridge, Booterstown, the Black Rock, Irishtown, and Ringsend, and seized a large quantity of bread, defective in quality and weight, which his lordship distributed among the poor." (Pile's Occur- 422 APPENDIX III. rences, 12th June.) The old mode of punishing dishonest bakers in Dublin, as recorded in Pembridge's " Annals of Ireland" (published by Camden), was good, and at the same time more humane than that of the ancient Egyptians, who were wont to bake such persons in their own ovens : — " MCCCX. The bakers of Dublin were punish'd after a new way for false weights ; for, on S. Sampson the Bishop's day, they were drawn upon hurdles, at the horses' tails, along the streets of the city." From " Munimenta Gildhallae Londoniensis," vol. ii. part i. (edited by Henry Thomas Riley* Esq., London, 1859-1862), we learn in what year fraudulent bakers were first drawn on the hurdle: — " Isto anno [10 Edw. I.] pistores Londoniarum primo fuerunt tractati super claias, per Henricum le Waleis." Facing the title-page of vol. iii. of the same work there is a facsimile of a rough sketch of " a Baker drawn on the Hurdle, with the faulty loaf attached to his neck, temp. Edw. I.," as taken from the Assisa Panis, 21 Edw. I 16 Hen. VI., preserved at Guildhall ; and there are likewise rough sketches of a Baker at the Oven, temp. Edw. I. ; of the Pillory, 1 Edw, III. ; and of the Pillory, 6 Rich. II. 1770. "Yesterday, the Right Hon. Sir Thomas Blackhall, Lord Mayor, and Kilner Swettenham and Anthony [soon after Sir Anthony] King, Esqrs., Sheriffs, attended by the Masters, Wardens, and Brethren of 16 of the Corporations, perambulated the liberties and franchises of this city according to triennial custom. Though the number which rode was less than usual, that deficiency was amply com- pensated by the general uniformity, and richness of the clothing of each Corporation, which, with the number of carriages (whereon were exhibited several of the arts and manufactures), rich furniture, and equipage, made a most elegant and splendid appearance." (Freeman's Journal, 16th August.) The above-named Sir Anthony King died 1st September, 1787, and was buried at St. Audoen's, Dublin, where there is an inscription over his grave. In Gilbert's " History of the City of Dublin," vol. i. p. 315, it i3 stated that " among the many respectable and wealthy traders who resided in Cook-street before the termination of the eighteenth century, when it became the Libilina of Dublin, was Sir Anthony King, an eccen- tric brazier, Lord Mayor of the city in 1778, having been ANNALS, 423 previously knighted while Sheriff for the courage which he displayed in capturing a fugitive felon, whom he pur- sued through the subterranean and noisome recesses of the Poddle water-course." 1771. " The Right Hon. the Lord Mayor [Alderman George Reynolds] and Sheriffs [Messrs. Blen. Grove and Anthony Perrier] went to Ringsend, and took down several tents, and likewise put a stop to the horse-racing intended to be there during this w r eek." — Puds Occurrences, 7th Septem- ber. 1772. " I am informed that on the estate of Lord Fitzwilliam, under Lady Arabella Denny's garden [at Blackrock], a vein of lead ore hath lately been observed, of some inches thick, by Patrick Hyland, miner." — Rutty's "Natural History of the County of Dublin '' (Dublin, 1772), vol. ii. p. 140. 1775. In the Visitation- returns from Donnybrook, for the years 1775-1799 (for which period no parish-register is forthcoming), 125 baptisms, 42 marriages, and 1310 burials are recorded. See pp. 138, 269, 284-288. 1777. Died September 12th, "at the Blackrock, County Dublin, universally lamented, Edward Murphy, Esq. He was allowed to be one of the best classical scholars in Europe ; and the hospitality, humanity, and public spirit which he constantly exercised, would not disgrace the most illustrious of his ancestors, who were formerly kings of Leinster." — Exshavfs Magazine, 1777, p. 632. 1778. " Wednesday at noon the Fame privateer was launched from Mr. King's yard at Ringsend, in sight of many thousands of spectators, whom the curiosity of seeing so beautiful a vessel had drawn thither. It is thought by many experienced mariners, who have viewed her, that she will be the fleetest sailer ever built at this place, so celebrated for some years for constructing swift-going vessels. She is carvel-built from her bearing upwards, and is to have at her head a large and noble figure of Fame, resting her trumpet on the top of the prow or cut- water, which, as well as the figure, is to be enriched to the water's edge with elegant carvings." — Cork Evening post, 14th September ; and Exshaw's Magazine, 1778, p. 536. 424 APPENDIX III. 1780. In this year a " View of the [Poolbeg] Lighthouse in the Harbour of Dublin " was published in London, with a dedication " to the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, Sheriffs, Commons, and Citizens, of the city of Dublin, by their fellow-citizen and humble servant, J. Fisher." 1782. " In this village [Donnybrook], which is within the jurisdiction of the city, and about a mile from town, is an handsome church [not now standing], generally called St. Mary's, Donnybrook This [Blackrock] is a noble village, situated about three miles from the north-east corner of Stephen's Green, on a rising ground south of the bay of Dublin ; it consists of a con- siderable number of elegant country-houses, and in summer is much resorted to by the citizens for the purpose of bathing. In fine evenings it is as much crowded with carriages as the most populous streets in the city ; and as there is a number of genteel families residing here at this season of the year, they have drums and assemblies as in town, whereby it is very sprightly and agreeable to such as have nothing to do." (Walkers Hibernian Magazine, 1783, p. 239.) Donnybrook Church, it is right to ob- serve, was not a " handsome " structure ; and it is a ques- tion whether Blackrock was at this date " a noble village." 1783. In the " List of |the Absentees of Ireland," published this year in Dublin (pp. 124), Eichard, seventh Viscount Fitzwilliam appears amongst those "who, having estates in Ireland, spend the same abroad ;" his estate being valued at £5,000 per annum. 1785. Thomas Charlton, Esq., gave in this year £1,000, in 1786 £2,000, and in 1787 a portion of £1,622 15s. (the names of the other donors not appearing), to the Hospital for Incurables, Donnybrook. (" Report of Com- missioners on Charitable Institutions, Dublin, 1842," p. 126.) See p. 385. 1787. A duel took place at Donnybrook, 28th April, be- tween Counsellor Hutchinson, third son of the Provost of Trinity College, Dublin, and Lord Mountmorres, when the latter was wounded. (Gentleman's Magazine, 1789, part i. p. 446.) See p. 183. " To preserve the picture of these times for the benefit of the historian, fortune placed Sir Jonah Barrington in a good social, legal, and ANNALS. 425 parliamentary position. Nature had kindly made him without reticence or shame. Nothing in his 'Sketches' is more incredible than some things which are certainly true, such as the catalogue of duels fought [generally not far from Donnybrook] by eminent legal and official per- sonages, in which figure the Lord Chancellor, three Chief Justices, several Judges, and the Provost of the University of Dublin." — Goldwin Smith's " Irish History and Irish Character" (Oxford, 1861), p. 164. 1787. " The effect apprehended from erecting a new Custom- bouse out of town (that of altering the site of the city) begins to appear. It is reported with confidence that all the ground on the south side of the river Liffey, from the Marine School [on Sir John Rogerson's-quay] to the Point [of Ringsend], has been taken for the purpose of imme- diately building on. By this means a junction will be nearly effected with the town of Ringsend, and the inevi- table consequence must be that the west end of the town will be depopulated. The fluctuation of property caused by this must be very great." — Dublin Chronicle, 19th May. 1787. In Lewis's " Dublin Guide," published this year, there is the following notice of Donnybrook, p. 123 : — " A large and pleasant village, two miles from the castle of Dublin, and much frequented by the citizens of Dublin, on account of the good accommodations to be had here, parti- cularly at the two principal Tea-houses, one at the sign of the Rose [see p. 72], at the entrance of the place, and the other a little further on, kept by Mrs. Darby. There is also here a public-house kept by Mr. Madden, noted for its good accommodations in general, and its Wicklow ale in particular ; of which last we give this encomium ex -tempore — 4 If you are well, drink much of Wicklow ale ; If you are ill, drink much, and you'll be hale ; For Wicklow ale these strong effects can boast, Sound health it strengthens, and restores health lost.' " The same writer refers at some length, in p. 229, to the destruction of Ringsend-bridge, which had occurred in 1782 [see p. 81], and adds: — '.* Rings-End, Lord Chester- field observed on his first arrival in the bay of Dublin [in 1745], is a Bull, near the North Bull. His lordship knew not the derivation of the word. The Bull, or blunder, is 426 APPENDIX III. not in the name, but in the perversion of it. The true name in Irish is Rin-Aun, which signifies the point of the tide ; a name very descriptive of the situation of the place [see pp. 53, 54]. In process of time, however, when the language was almost forgot, the name was still preserved, but corrupted and Anglicised ; and Rin-Aun, by an easy change, was made Ringsend. For this remark I am obliged to Dr. O'Halloran, of Limerick, whose letter to me, on my publications relative to Ireland, is now before me. [For another derivation of " Ringsend," see p. 330, n.] Ringsend was greatly frequented some years ago, but is now in a melancholy situation. It appears like a town that has experienced the calamities of war, that has been sacked by an enemy, and felt the depredations of all- conquering Time. There are, however, some good places of entertainment for the accommodation of the citizens of Dublin and strangers who visit it ; among which the tavern on the right hand of the place where the bridge stood, kept by Harrison, ranks the foremost." 1787. " Mount Merrion — the seat of Lord Viscount Fitz- william, and inhabited by the Right Hon. John Fitzgibbon, Attorney- General." (Lewis' "Dublin Guide," 1787, p. 186.) Mount Merrion House is not within the bounds of the parish of Booterstown, but on the verge of it, and in the parish of Taney ; and therefore a mistake has been made in p. 182. 1788. The Rev. Peter Richard Clinch (see pp. 154, 189) appointed Roman Catholic clergyman of Irishtown and Donnybrook. " Fr. Peter Clinch, the immediate prede- cessor of the learned and Rev. Dr. Finn, P.P. of Irishtown, outside the city, at the south side, who was ordained for, and at once appointed [Roman Catholic] pastor of that parish in 1770 [1788.] He was brother to Counsellor Clinch, and died very young, highly respected, in 1793 [1792], by the accidental blow of an oar, which broke his jaw. A fine portrait of this esteemed ecclesiastic is kept in the family." (Battersby's M Brief Biographic Sketches of the Jesuits in Dublin," etc., p. 83, n. t Dublin, 1854.) As stated by one who has supplied particulars of the Roman Catholic institutions of Donnybrook, u there is not any record of the succession of Parish Priests. We cannot, on authority, fill the gap between the Rev. P. ANNALS. 427 Gillmore [see p. 160] and the Rev. P. R. Clinch. I have reason, however, to suppose that a Mr. Nicholson was Mr. Clinch's predecessor." It appears from the Visitation- return for the year, that " Father Field" was buried at Donnybrook or Ringsend, 20th March, 1784 [see p. 286], In the Roman Catholic arrangement, this parish is known as that of Irishtown and Donnybrook, and com- prises also portions of the parishes of St. Peter and Taney. 1788. "The bar of this [Dublin] harbour is very incom- modious, but the entrance into the harbour, being at least eight miles from Dublin city, is extremely beautiful and picturesque, diversified with hills and promontories on either hand, exhibiting a very spacious amphitheatre, bounded by a high shore, and said to be exceeded in grandeur by none, except the bay of Naples, to whose su- periority of view Mount Vesuvius does not a little con- tribute. The country all round is sprinkled with white villas. From the entrance the Light-house or Pigeon- house on the south side of the harbour appears to great advantage ; at a little distance from it is Irish Town (two miles distant from Dublin), to which place the dyke from that city reaches ; and which, when carried on to the extent proposed, will considerably increase the quantity of marsh ground already retrieved from the bay, at the bottom of which the river Liffey discharges itself." ("The Complete Irish Traveller," vol. i, p. 31, London, 1788.) " A View of the Light House in Dublin Harbour," and one of " Ringsend and Irishtown, from Belmont, near Mil- town," are given in the volume. 1788. "The engineers of the Grand Canal Company have been these some days seeking a level at the south side of this city, for the purpose of effecting a communication between Sandymount and the Grand Canal." — Dublin Chronicle, 21st June. 1789. " The new or stonebridge at Ringsend being now just completed, the wooden bridge will be disposed of, in order to reimburse the overseers who built it, for money they have advanced. It is about 120 feet long. . . . Application to be made to Messrs. Reid and Roe, in Rings- end."— lb. 23rd May. 1790. "A fine road is now undertaking from the Low 428 APPENDIX III. Ground, Ringsend, along the strand, directly to the Black- rock." — lb. 2nd October. 1792. For a biographical sketch of Lady Arabella Denny, who died " at her house at the Blackrock," 18th March, see pp. 231-237. 1792. For particulars of the City Procession to Blackrock, "i:o congratulate his Excellency the Marquis Townshend [? the Earl of Westmorland], who had arrived at Mr. Lees' at the Blackrock on Saturday evening last," the 4th, see the Dublin Chronicle, 9th August. This mansion had been taken for the Lord Lieutenant, as stated in the same newpaper, loth May, 1788 : — " We hear that Mr. Lees' beautiful seat at the Blackrock [now occupied by Thomas Vance, Esq., J. P., Chairman of the Blackrock Township Commissioners] is taken, for the summer season, for the residence of the Most Noble Marquis of Buckingham and family." And in the same, 23rd of October of same year, we are informed that " on Tuesday the Marquis and Marchioness of Buckingham came to town from the Lodge at the Rock, and after dining at the Castle, went in the evening, attended by their suite, to the Royal Hospital at Kilmainham, where they are to reside for the winter season." The secret departure of the Marquis in 1789 was from this quarter, as mentioned in the " Life and Times of the Right Hon. Henry Grattan " (London, 1839), vol. iii. p. 416. 1793. The Rev. Charles Joseph Finn, D.D. (see p. 205), appointed Roman Catholic clergyman of Irishtown and Donnybrook, 6th April, on the death of Mr. Clinch, who had been appointed in 1788 ; and dying 29th June, 1849, was buried in Golden Bridge Cemetery, near Dublin. Dr. Finn was an accomplished scholar, and much given to study. He had highly distinguished himself in the Uni- versity of Louvaine, and was urged to accept the profes- sorship of Hebrew there, but declined. During his time, and by his means, St. Mary's Roman Catholic Chapel, Haddington- road, Dublin (within the limits of his parish), was erected. 1793. " Judge Hellen [see p. 190] departed this life at Don- nybrook, July 23rd, 1793, deservedly lamented by a nu- merous acquaintance. His virtues, public and social, were of the most distinguished kind : few men possessed a more ANNALS. 429 cultivated taste : his library was one of the best in the kingdom ; and his collection of paintings and antiques was equally beautiful and interesting. In his judicial ca- pacity he united the urbanity of the gentleman with pro- found legal knowledge. Whenever he presided in a criminal court, his patient investigation of truth, and the natural clemency of his disposition, equally tilled all who heard him with respect and admiration. May his successors on the bench imitate him in dispensing justice with a steady, firm, yet gentle hand ; and receive, as he did, the united applause of all!" (Seymour's " Memoirs of Miss Brooke," p. 124.) To him, with others, Miss Brooke, in the preface to her " Rehques of Irish Poetry," acknowledges herself indebted for valuable assistance in the compilation and translation of that work. 1793. In the Sentimental and Masonic Magazine (August, 1793), vol. iii. p. 104, there is a short description of Vauxhall, near Blackrock (of which mention has been made in p. 190). "with an elegant View of the Here of the House and Gardens, from the Sea." The description is as follows : — "This place, which is opened with every advantage of situation, commands a beautiful view of the sea, harbour, and shipping, from the rere. It is built upon a steep declivity over the sea, about three miles from Dublin ; the ground is planted with taste, and divided into dark walks, with seats and alcoves for the entertainment of the company. A good band performs in the gardens every Tuesday and Thursday, which, with the very re- gular attentions of the proprietor, Mr. Mayne, has rendered it a place of much fashionable resort. The house, which belonged to Mr. Trevor [ ? Travers], is extremely well furnished, much beyond the customary style of our publie places. Indeed, it would be much for the advantage of the owner, if he instituted a genteel Sunday ordinary, at a reasonable rate, as there is not one at present in the Rock, or on the road to it, and there is no such thing as getting a chance dinner, but at a very exorbitant rate, and not often of the best provisions. VVe flatter ourselves this hint will not be thrown away." The hou>e (for many years past styled ElmclirT) is now "TheMe«th Protestant Industrial School for Boys," established in 1871. 1793. For a copy of one hundred and eiuht lines relative to Donnybrook Fair, entitled " Connor and Phelim ; or, The 430 APPENDIX III. Triumph of Shillella," and "illustrated with an elegant engraving," see the Sentimental and Masonic Magazine (September, 1793), vol. iii. pp. 259-261. 1794. In this year Walter Wade, M.D., published an 8vo. volume, entitled " Catalogus Systematicus Plantarum In- digenarum in Comitatu Dubliniensi Inventarum," in which frequent mention is made of places within these parishes. For mention of Dr. Wade, see p. 284. 1794. The "Rev. Mr. Nicholson," Roman Catholic clergy- man of Booterstown, Blackrock, and Dundrum, was buried at Donnybrook or Ringsend, 26th October (Visitation- return) ; but in what year he had been appointed, or by whom preceded, has not been ascertained. The Rev. Thomas Connolly, a Franciscan friar, and " a preacher of great celebrity," succeeded him ; and dying in October, 1811, was buried on the 22nd (Donnybrook Parish Re- gister). There is an oil-painting of him in the vestry of Booterstown Chapel. He has been honourably mentioned in Dr. Madden's " United Irishmen ; their Lives and Times," Second Series (Dublin, 1858), pp. 268, 386. No record of the succession of Roman Catholic clergymen before Mr. Nicholson can be found ; nor is there any proof of the union of Booterstown and Donnybrook, though it might be inferred from what has been stated of Mr. Gill- more in p. 160. In the Roman Catholic arrangement the parish is known as that of Booterstown, Blackrock, and Dundrum, and comprises the parish of Booterstown, with portions of the parishes of Donnybrook, Taney, Monks- town, and Stillorgan. 1795. Particulars of the departure of his Excellency Earl Fitzwilliam from the Pigeon-house (see p. 83) may be found in the Sentimental and Masonic Magazine, vol. vi. p. 286. 1796. For art account of the opening of the Grand Canal Docks, Ringsend, 23rd April, see pp. 332, 333. 1796. The Rev. Richard Daniel bequeathed £500 to the Hospital for Incurables, Donnybrook. («* Report of Com- missioners on Charitable Institutions, Dublin, 1842," p. 126.) In 1808, Archbishop Agar promoted a bill for securing the estates and funds devised by Mr. Daniel, in trust to apply the profits for the relief of the poor of St. ANNALS. 431 Luke's parish, Dublin, the support of the Hospital for Incurables, and other charitable institutions, etc. (D'Al- ton's " Memoirs of the Archbishops of Dublin,'' p. 351.) Seep. 394. 1798. In Dr. Madden's M United Irishmen ; their Lives aud Times," First Series (Dublin, 1857), p. 526, there is the following list of " Donnybrook Hurlers," taken from the original memorandum in Major Sirr's handwriting, which is deposited, with his other papers, in Trinity College Library : — John Madden, Peter Madden, Win. Dowdall, James Alley burn, Thomas Hyland, David Fitzgerald, Richard Scallan, Pat Burke, — White, — M'Cabe, John Allen, John Kearney, Stafford Donnellan, Eugene M'Mahon, John Bawes, Henry Fairfield, John Fairfield, Batty Donnellan, — Holland, sen., Philip Long, James Germain, Michael Meighan, George Ward, — M'Namara, Nolan, Richardson, Sir Thomas Lighton, Bart., and seven- teen others. Of the above-named, Messrs. John and Peter Madden (sons of Mr. Joseph Madden, of Don- nybrook, to whose wife a silver cup, of which further mention is here made, and which has been photographed, was presented), Dowdall, Alleyburn, Fitzgerald (whose son now sits on the judicial bench), M'Cabe (informer), Allen (afterwards a colonel in the French service), M'Mahon, and Long, " were United Irishmen, and in 1803 associates, and something more, of Robert Emmet." For some time after the formation of their club, which took place towards the close of the last century, the Donny- brook Hurlers were non-political, of different grades and religions ; but in " 1798 the club was certainly looked on as composed of persons not in the odour of loyalty, at least with Major Sirr ; and, no doubt, some of them, who were ' vehemently suspected of divers treasons,' were not wronged by the suspicion. " In Dr. Madden's possession is the cup referred to, eight inches high, and weighing thirty-six ounces, with this inscription : — " Pre- sented to Mrs. E. Madden by the Donnybrook Hurlers, a mark of their respect and gratitude." The inscription surrounds the device of a man in the act of hurling ; and on the reverse of the cup is the coat of arms of the Madden family, with the motto, " Fide et Fortitudine." 1793. Died at Williamstown, 1st May, Lieutenant- General 432 APPENDIX III. James Stewart Gentleman's Magazine, 1798, part i. p. 446. 1801. Messrs. Sotheby, Wilkinson, and Hodge, of London, sold the following Lot, 21st February, 1865 :— " 328. Dublin and Neighbourhood. A Collection of 44 Original Sketches of Celebrated Residences, among which are several in Phoenix Park, the Salmon Leap, Donnybrook, Milltown Bridge, others on the road to Lucan, &c, all by J. C. Nattes in 1801, with autograph." 1801. Hall Lamb, Esq. (see p. 125), of the city of Dublin, by will dated 20th February, 1798, amongst other lega- cies for charitable purposes, bequeathed £20 to " the Minister and Churchwardens of the Parish of Donnybrook, to be by them distributed to the poor objects resident within that parish, ;" and £100 to the Hibernian Marine Nursery, near Ringsend. — Dublin Gazette, 3rd October. 1803. William Sparrow and John Quin, Esquires, served as Churchwardens of the parish of Donnybrook. William Roberts, Esq., had served during the preceding two years. — Saunders's News- Letter , 9th May. 1803. In this year a corps of yeomanry was embodied, styled the Dodder Rangers, and under the command of Captain Ashworth, of Donnybrook. 1803. Died in September of this year, at Swanbrook, her residence on the Donnybrook- road, Mrs. Emmet, widow of Dr. Robert Emmet, of Dublin. She survived him about nine months, and evidently was hurried to the grave by what had befallen her youngest son, Robert Emmet. See Dr. Madden's "United Irishmen; their Lives and Times," Third Series, pp. 343, 463. Swanbrook was subsequently occupied for several years by Alderman Darley, an influential public character. 1803. Robert Jephson (otherwise " J. B. Couteau''), a dramatic writer of considerable ability, died this year at his residence near Blackrock. He was a captain in the army, and Master of the Horse to the Lord Lieutenant during twelve administrations ; having been warmly be- friended by Wm. Gerard Hamilton, who obtained for him £600 a year on the Irish Establishment. His tragedy of " Braganza " was admired by Horace Walpole ; and he ANNALS. 433 gained much credit by his " Roman Portraits." His " Count de Narbonne " was eminently successful. (Wat- kins' " Biographical Dictionary," and Wills' "Lives of Illustrious and Distinguished Irishmen.") See also the Gentleman's Magazine, 1803, part i. p. 600. 1805. " At page 194 of your second Part your mention of Mrs. Flaherty's tavern at Booterstown struck me particu- larly, as I, but an eight-year-old at the time, was brought over by an uncle to a ball that was then held there, and my reminiscence of fashionable life on that occasion is one of the many, which I propose shall figure in my autobio- graphy. I was at that time living with my mother and said uncle in a house nearly opposite the tavern, which has been since divided into two. But in vindication of Mrs. Flaherty's fair fame and importance, I must say that in the days I allude to, she was styled Mrs. O'Fla- herty." — Letter from the late John D' Alton, Esq., 1st March, 1861. 1807. In connexion with the calamity mentioned in pp. 19, 52, 196, a pamphlet was published the year after in Dublin, entitled " The Ensanguined Strand of Mer- rion; or, a Stuffing for the Pillow of those who could have prevented the recent calamity in the Bay of Dub- lin" (8vo. pp. GQ). The writer styles himself " Phelim O'Flanagan, of the city of Dublin, Esq."; and has prefixed these remarks : — " Sunrise in Dublin Bay, on the 20th of November, 1807, exhibited a shore, whose boundary was marked by a terrific line of parted limbs and shattered bodies. The storm of the preceding day and night was dreadful. A trader and two crowded transports were driven by the tempest into the bay ; fourteen men were saved ; four hundred men, women, and children were lost. The general view appalled the most callous heart ; but the rigging and hold of the Rochdale were scenes of elaborate horror. . . . Casks and men were intermingled in the hold ; but the mutilations must not be detailed. This reference to that night of death is my only preface." 1807. The Right Hon. Patrick Duigenan, LL.D., has been mentioned in pp. 87, 196. " His father for some time kept a small school at Donnybrook, and was chiefly indebted to the assistance of a Mr. Daniels [? the Rev. Richard Daniel, whose name appears in p. 430], for the means of supporting 2f 434 APPENDIX III. himself there. The name he went by, at this period, was Dignum ; but whether the unsuccessful attempt to render it more euphonious was made by the father or the son, is un- known. The father of Lord Clare, Counsellor Fitzgibbon, was then living at Donnybrook, and the old schoolmaster became acquainted with him." (Dr, Madden's M United Irishmen," First Serie3, vol. ii. p. 366, London, 1842.) Dr. Duigenan's first wife was a Miss Cusack, who died in 1799. He married secondly, as mentioned in p. 87, the widow of George Hepenstal, Esq. 1808. Died in January, " at his house at Coldblow [near Donnybrook], the Rev. Thomas Lyster, D.D., aged 6Q years : he was a curate in the city of Dublin 44 years, in the parishes of St. Werburgh and St. Peter, and acted as Secretary to the Dublin Society for 35 years with the strictest integrity and assiduity." — Walker's Hibernian Magazine, 1808, p. 63. 1808. Died 22nd March, the "Rev. Dr. Hayes, of Baggot- street [Dublin]. Having dined in company with a friend at Black Rock, near Dublin, on his way home he unluckily took the Strand as the course by which to return. Being dark at the time and the tide coming in, he mistook the usual route, and passed over, swimming his horse great part of the way, to the battery at the Pigeon-house, where he and his horse became victims to his much-regretted imprudence.'' — Gentleman's Magazine, 1808, part i. p. 274. 1808. The eminent musical composer, Michael William Balfe, was born, it is believed, in Donnybrook, 15th May. " He is the first English subject of modern times whose talent as a composer has been acknowledged, and whose works have been performed, throughout the Continent of Europe ; and it will be through him, and such as he is, whose merit is so justly appreciated abroad, that our countrymen will, sooner or later, be compelled to relin- quish the prevalent prejudice against English musical capability." (Imperial Dictionary of Universal Bio- graphy.') Mr. Balfe died at Rowney Abbey, Hereford- shire, 20th October, 1870, in his sixty-third year. 1808. In a biographical sketch of Leonard MacNally, in the Cyclopadian Magazine, and Dublin Monthly Register (October, 1808), vol. ii. p. 537, there is this paragraph: — " The family of this gentleman [who was buried at Donnybrook, as mentioned in p. 125] on the paternal side were of Irish origin, and proprietors of the castle and lands of Raheboth, in the county of Dublin, as appears by a tombstone over the family-grave within the railing of the communion-table of Donnybrook Church." The stone has not escaped the effects of time, and now lies on the north-west side of the site of the building. For mention of William Mackenally, who was Churchwarden of Don- nybrook in 1641, see p. 401. 1809. The Rev, Denis Ferrall, Master of Bushfield School, Donnybrook, published an 8 vo volume, entitled "A New System of Book-Keeping, by Double Entry," etc. (Dub- lin, 1809). 1810. In " An Englishman's Descriptive Account of Dublin," etc., by Nathl. Jefferys, published this year in London, there are these particulars relative to the arrival of passen- gers from England at Ringsend (pp. 37-40), with a description of the bay of Dublin anil the Light-house : — " The Pigeon-house, which is situated on this [the South] wall, is about three miles from Dublin, and one from the Light-house, [and] is the customary landing-place of the passengers from the packets, which never go higher up the river, but remain in the large bason provided for their reception, as well as that of other vessels of a similar description. This bason is of an oblong form, nine hundred feet in length, and four hundred and fifty in breadth. The breadth of the pier at this place is two hundred and fifty feet, on which are erected a magazine, arsenal, and custom- house. It is a place of great strength, being surrounded with heavy cannon, which command the bay in various directions, and a guard is regularly mounted there. . . . . . Upon the arrival of the packets at the Pigeon- house, the passengers are conducted to the custom-house ; and it would be great injustice not to acknowledge, that the manner in which the examination of luggage is done (by giving as little trouble as possible to persons fre- quently fatigued by a tedious passage and sea-sickness), is very gratifying to strangers. As soon, however, as this ceremony is over, one of a less accommodating description takes place, which is the mode of conveying the passengers to Dublin in the Long Coach. This carriage is upon the plan of those elegant vehicles, upon low wheels, which are 436 APPENDIX III. used on the road between Hyde Park-corner and Hammer- smith, in the neighbourhood of London; and from the state of its repair and external appearance, it bears every mark of having retired on the superannuated list, from that active duty, previous to its being employed upon its present service. This coach is generally very crowded, from the anxiety of the passengers to proceed to Dublin ; and from the manner in which some of the company may easily be supposed to have been passing their time on board the packet, — from the effect of sea- sickness, the effluvia arising from twelve or fourteen persons so circumstanced, crammed together in a very small space, like the inmates of Noah's ark, the clean and the unclean, is not of that description, which can at all entitle the long coach to be considered as a bed of roses. Three shillings for each passenger is the price of conveyance, and this is exacted beforehand — a mode of settling accounts, which is fre- quently the cause of great dissatisfaction, and which most certainly does not so much tend to confirm, in the mind of a stranger, the wide-spread reports of the hospitable character of the country he is just entering, as it does to realize the truth of an old saying — * Though Brag is a good dog, Holdfast is a better. 1 The inconveniencies of this ride are, however, but of short duration, for in about half an hour the passengers are released from this earthly purgatory by their arrival in Dublin." 1811. The Rev. Michael Ryan appointed Roman Catholic clergyman of Booterstown, Blackrock, and Dundrum, 23rd October, on the death of Mr. Connolly, who had been ap- pointed in 1794. Mr. Ryan resigned in 1832, on a pension of £80 per annum. 1811. Bloomfield Retreat — a private lunatic asylum — near Donnybrook, established this year by the Society of Friends, on the principles of the well-known Retreat near York. For particulars of the system, see " Croly's Irish Medical Directory," 1843, p. 142. 1811. In p. 72 of a 12mo volume of " Poems, by the late Edward Lysaght, Esq.,'' hastily collected after his death, and published this year in Dublin, there are the follow- ing lines, r entitled " The Maid of Merrion " : — " There dwells, near Dublin city, Where Merrion bounds the sea, A nymph divinely pretty, Deck'd by the graces three : ANNALS. 437 Her flowing locks are jetty, Her eyes so bright they be, You'd swear that mind is witty, Which thro' her eyes you see. *' No maid of Dublin city, Whate'er her high degree, By nature's formed like Kitty, Her fav'rite child is she. I sought in simple ditty To wake soft sympathy ; Alas ! she knows no pity, At least knows none for me. M From gay companions flying, I'm lost to lively glee ; I vent my soul in sighing, I almost wish 'twere free. When pale and breathless lying Beneath some willow tree, Mayhap, my fate espying, She'll drop one tear for mel" The allusion in the foregoing lines by " pleasant Ned Lysaght" is to Miss Locke, of Merrion, who became Mrs. Charles Connor, and was well known in theatrical society. 1812. The Rathdown Dispensary established for "the relief of the sick poor in the [half] barony of Rath- down," in March of this year, the villages of Booterstown, Williamstown, and Blackrock being within the sphere of its operations. The Ninth Annual Report, for the year ended 31st May, 1821, concludes with these words: — " Oftentimes after the doctor's visit a consultation of old women and impostors is held, each of whom has innu- merable nostrums to propose, all equally infallible ; and although they may dispute the superiority of their own individual plans, they invariably and unanimously agree in overruling his injunctions. Notwithstanding these obstacles and discouragements to the efficient practice of a Dispensary physician in this country, the proportion of deaths this year has not materially increased from that of former years ; and, notwithstanding the existing preju- dices among the lower classes before stated, the growing confidence of the poor in your Dispensary is fully evinced by the progressively increased number of patients relieved during each succeeding year, so as to be in the last nearly double that of 1815." Thomas Arthure, M.D., was the physician. Number of patients in the year 1820-21, 438 APPENDIX III. 1,282 ; Income, £266 2s. 5d. ; Expenditure, £228 14s. lOJd. Total number of patients from 24th March, 1812, to 31st May, 1821, 7,425; Income, £2,626 2s. 6Jd. ; Expendi- ture, £2,475 7s. 4^d. 1812. Notices of the " Booterstown Races " appear in Dr. Brenan's Milesian Magazine, June and July of this year. 1812. The first stone of the Roman Catholic Chapel, Booters- town, laid 6th August of this year, and not in 1811, as stated in p. 88. The building contains a monument to the memory of the widow of Richard Verschoyle, Esq., of Mount Merrion (see p. 30). 1813. For particulars of the population of the parish of Donnybrook (including Booterstown), at this date, see p. 268. 1814. The Rev. Matthew West, M.A., who died this year (see p. 196), had been appointed to the rectory and vicarage of Carnallaway, in the diocese of Kildare, in 1777. (Exshaw's Magazine, 1777, p. 632.) From the Dublin University Magazine, vol. xlvi. p. 141, already referred to, we learn that he " printed two tragedies in 1769 .and 1799— ' Ethelinda' and « Pizarro,' neither of which was ever acted. In 1803 he published a third, called ' Female Heroism,' founded on the revolutionary events which occurred in France, in the summer and autumn of 1793. This play was acted in Crow-street Theatre, Dublin, 19th May, 1804. It had been preceded by another on the same subject by Eyre, under the title of the ' Maid of Normandy.' West's has the most merit of the two. . . . West has succeeded well in the deli- neation of the leading characters of the time, and the language in which he has embodied his ideas is bold and energetic, and occasionally soars into respectable poetry. Copies, with a frontispiece, representing the execution of the heroine, may be picked up in a pilgrimage through the book- stalls of the Irish metropolis." Mr. West was appointed to the curacy of Donnybrook in 1772. (Visita- tion-booh, Dio. Dublin.) For the inscription on his tomb- stone at Donnybrook, see pp. 296, 297. 1816. "A Modern Plan of the City and Environs of AXXALS. 439 Dublin" was published 1st January (London and Dublin: W. Corbet), in which the " old course of river Dodder," from Haig's Distillery to Ringsend-bridge, is marked, and also the present channel. 1816. The Horticultural Society (see p. 89) formed at the Rose Tavern, Donnybrook, 30th September. (Connel- lan's "Annals of Dublin.") The first show of flowers was held in Erasmus Smith's Schoolhouse, Donnybrook, on the following Easter Monday. 1816. In this year Mr. John Taylor, of Upper Baggot- street, Dublin, published a large " Map [in which these parishes appear] of the Environs of Dublin, extending 10 to 14 miles from the Castle, by Actual Survey, on a scale of 2 Inches to one Mile;" of which the fifth edition, with corrections, appeared in 1834. Mr. Taylor, whose original name was M'Kinlay, (having descended from David M-Kinlay, who led King William across the Boyne,) was for many years a respectable parishioner of Donnybrook, and could at one time have made ample provision for his family ; but having met with some serious reverses, he " found a source of livelihood in the art of line-engraving, which in his better, or, we should rather say, his more prosperous days, he had cultivated for his amusement ; and the map of Dublin and its environs, undertaken and completed by him from actual survey, constitutes a creditable specimen both of the abilities and the energy of this excellent old man, when the claims of a growing family called upon him to exert himself for their subsistence." (" Remains of the Rev. Samuel O'Sullivan, D.D.," vol. ii. p. 293.) His sons, "William S. B. Taylor and John Sydney Taylor, have been mentioned in these pages. 1820. In Cromwell's "Excursions through Ireland " (3 vols. 8vo.), published this year in London, sundry re- ferences are made to places within these parishes. 1823. A biographical sketch of the Hon. Judge Fletcher (see p. 91), who died this year at his residence, Montrose, Donnybrook, is given in the Dublin Saturday Magazine, vol. ii. pp. 98-100. Judge Fletcher, according to the late Mr. Sheil, in his " Legal and Political Sketches " 440 APPENDIX III. (London, 1855), vol. i. pp. 106, 107, " was a man of an uncommonly vigorous and brawny mind, with a rude but powerful grasp of thought, and with considerable acquire- ment, both in literature and in his profession. He was destitute of all elegance, either mental or external, but made up for the deficiency by the massive and robust character of his understanding. He had been a devoted Whig at the bar, and hated Lord Norbury for his politics, while he held his intellect in contempt. Dissimulation was not among his attributes, and, as his indifferent health produced a great infirmity of temper, (for he was the converse of what a Frenchman defines as a happy man, and had a bad stomach and a good heart,) he was at no pains in concealing his disrelish for his brother on the bench." He was succeeded by the late Judge Torrens, whose brother was Archdeacon of Dublin, 1818-1851. 1824. William Ashford, the distinguished landscape-painter, whose talent did honour to the country, which if not his by birth, was by early settlement and long residence, died at his house in Sandy mount, 17th April, at the advanced age of seventy-eight years, to the last the warm devotee of Nature and her handmaid Art. Having sold his house in College-green, Dublin, he " retired to Sandymount, a residence more suitable to the habits and taste of a land- scape-painter. His noble friend [Richard], Viscount Fitzwilliam, the lord of the soil, not only gave him a lease of ground on very moderate terms, but strongly urged him to erect a villa upon it for himself, which he did in a very appropriate style, and with considerable taste, for which his friend Mr. Gandon gave him a suit- able design. In this residence, Sandymount Park, he pursued his profession with indefatigable industry, paint- ing, both in oil and water-colour, the c counterfeit pre- sentment ' of much of the finest scenery of England, Wales, and Ireland. He was one of the three artists [Thomas Sotell Roberts and William Cuming being the other two] to whom their brethren paid the distinguished compliment of confiding the selection of eleven others with themselves to constitute the Royal Hibernian Academy, when incorporated [in 1823] by charter of George IV. He was, further, the first President of that body, for whose interests and welfare he ever exhibited the liveliest zeal." (" The Life of James Gandon, Esq.," p. 142, Dublin, ANNALS. 441 1846.) For the inscription on his tombstone at Donny- brook, see p. 304. 1824. For particulars of Booterstown Church, which was opened for Divine service this year, and has been since enlarged and improved, see pp. 221-223. 1824. Frequent mention of Sir James Foulis, Bart, Lieut.- Colonel of the Mid-Lothian Fencible Cavalry, who was buried this year at St. Matthew's, Ringsend, is made in Cloney's " Personal Narrative of the Wexford Rebel- lion, 1798" (Dublin, 1832). "Although the funeral of the venerable hero was intended to be private, I had the melancholy gratification," writes Mr. Cloney (p. 186), 11 of showing to his remains this only mark of respect and gratitude which it had ever been in my power to manifest for his humanity. Attended by my friends [Sir Thomas Esmonde, Bart., Mr. Archibald Hamilton Rowan, and others], we saw the good man placed in his last abode, at Irishtown, near Dublin, and I have never since went \_sic~] to that neighbourhood without paying a visit to his ne- glected resting-place, and offering up a fervent prayer to heaven for his eternal repose ; and if God grants me a little time to live, I will, with the aid of other Irishmen, who have either experienced Sir James Foulis's humanity, or been well acquainted with his character, place over his grave a lasting monument of our respect and grati- tude, to prove that his venerated remains do not rest in the country of the stranger, but in one ever ready to appreciate the virtues of the brave, the generous, and the humane." The inscription over his grave has been given in p. 155 ; but with a wrong date, as on the stone. The fol- lowing brief entry appears in the register of burials : — " 1824, June 7. Sir James Fowles, P[arishioner].'' 1824. The following certificate of Composition of Tithes for the parish of Donny brook bears date 27th October, 1824 : — M We, Joseph Wright, of Beechhili, in the county of Dublin, and Thomas Abbott, of Johnville, in said county, Esquires, Commissioners duly appointed and sworn, under and by virtue of an Act made in the fourth year of the reign of King George the Fourth, entitled ■ An Act to provide for the establishing of Compositions for Tithe in Ireland, for a limited time/ to ascertain and fix a true and just composition for all tithes arising, growing, yielded, or 442 APPENDIX III. payable within the parish of St. Mary's, Donny brook, in the archdiocese* of Dublin, do hereby certify, that the true and just amount of composition for all tithes whatever within the said parish (save and except the minister's money payable and chargeable upon houses, under and by virtue of an Act of Parliament made and passed in the 17th and 18th years of the reign of King Charles the Second, intituled ' An Act for the provision of Ministers in Cities and Corporate Towns, and making the Church of St. Andrew, in the suburbs of the city of Dublin, presenta- tive for ever ') is one hundred and eighty pounds, sterling, by the year, which sum of one hundred and eighty pounds is due and payable to the Venerable John Torrens, Arch- deacon of Dublin, as a composition for the tithe claimable by him as ecclesiastical Incumbent of the said parish of St. Mary's, Donnybrook ; said sum of one hundred and eighty pounds, sterling, having been agreed to by the said In- cumbent, with the assent in writing of His Grace the Archbishop of Dublin, as bishop of the diocese, and patron of the benefice, and assented to, and accepted at a special vestry duly assembled, under the provisions of said Act, in the said parish on Monday, the 18th day of October, 1824 ; and to be invariable for the term of twenty- one years from the 1st day of November, 1824. And we do further certify that the average price of oats, being the corn principally grown in said county, for the period of seven years ending on the first day of November, 1821, is fifteen shillings and two pence farthing, per barrel." The expenses of this Commission amounted to £55 15s. 5d., as certified by the above-named Commissioners, 30th May, 1825 ; including a sum of £45 10s., paid to " Mr. Arthur Neville, Surveyor, for Survey, Valuation, and Map of said Parish, per agreement." * " Many persons, even of those who ought to know better, allow themselves to talk of the ' arch-diocese'' of Dublin ; which is a mani- fest solecism, under the modern acceptation of the word ■ diocese.' The Lord Lieutenant, or any other nobleman, keeping a large estab- lishment of servants, might give to one of his cooks an authority over the others in that department ; and any body who pleased might style that functionary an 'arch-cook;' but, I think, they scarcely would call the scene of his labours an arch-kitchen. Milton has introduced us to an « arch-fiend;' but he does not call his resi- dence ' archidffimonium. ' I say nothing about apxayyeA.os, dpXiepevs, apxi-cruvayuiyos, apxtTpiKAivos, &c, for even the youngest Freshman in Trinity College could wade knee-deep in such examples. Sed jam satis." — Archdeacon Cotton. ANNALS. 443 1825. For particulars of an " outrage at Irishtown Church" (St. Matthew's, Ringsend), see the Dublin Warder, 22nd January. Donnybrook Church was robbed, as reported in the same newspaper, 14th May. 1825. In a privately-printed volume, entitled " A Narrative of an Excursion to Ireland, by the Deputy-Governor, two Members of the Court, and the Assistant Secretary, of the Honorable Irish Society of London, 1825," by the Deputy- Governor (London, 4to. pp. 103), there are the following remarks, pp. 18, 19, 29 :— " [Thursday, 16th June.] We had ordered the carriage at six, and drove to the Black Rock, a village about three miles distant [from Dublin], on the south side of the Bay ; here are a few bathing machines, and it is a place of great resort on Sun- days, for the good citizens of Dublin. There are some very neat cottages on the road ; the thatching of which is the very best work of the kind I have ever seen, and although I had heard much of the neatness of these build- ings, they far exceeded my most sanguine expectations. I looked out in various directions for the Black Rock, ex- pecting to see some stupendous mass, 1 Huge as the tower which builders vain, Presumptuous piled on Shinar's plain,' but could find nothing more than a dark-colored limestone crag, just peeping above the surface, near the water's edge. . . . Friday, 17th June. Rose at six, and walked into Merrion Square, the next largest to [St.] Stephen's Green, and built with good lofty brick houses. [The bricks, it may be noted, were brought from " Lord Merrion's Brick Fields," now Sandymount.] Returned to the Hotel [Morrison's, Dawson-street], and called Mr. Schults, who accompanied me to the Warm Sea Baths [Cranfield's] at Irish Town. The rooms were very dirty. When I came out of the bath, the attendant brought a piping hot towel, as big as a sheet, and having completely wrapped me in it, stared me in the face, and hoped I felt comfortable. Paid two shillings and ninepence, Irish, for the bath, in the shape of an English half-crown, and re- turned in our outside car to breakfast. . . . Hired a car for half-a-crown, and drove down the pier to the Pigeon House, so called, where there is an Ordnance depot. Some recruits were practising the great gun exercise. We could 444 APPENDIX III. not take our car any farther, so we walked down the pier, towards the Light House at the end of it, but the sun was so scorching that we were compelled to return. The whole length of the pier is three miles, and it is a mile and a-half from the Pigeon House to the Light House. . . . [Sunday, 19th June.] At tea we were visited by our host [Alderman Morrison], who wished us to dine with him the next day, at his country-house at Donny- brook, where we should meet half-a-dozen aldermen, and a few of his friends ; he said that we should there see more of the Irish character in a few hours, than we could do in a week dining by ourselves. He was certainly right, and conviction stared us in the face ; but the thing was impossible, for reasons I have before stated. We did not visit Ireland to pursue 'the proper study of mankind '; so we expressed our thanks for his politeness, but declined the invitation. We afterwards found from Mr. Beresford, that Mr. Morrison was foreman of the Grand Jury, and that it was customary to give a grand dinner upon that occasion." Mention of Alderman Morrison has been made in pp. 95, 96. 1825. A paper, entitled "The Black Rock," by "The Hermit in Ireland," appeared in the Dublin and London Magazine, 1825, pp. 308-311; and another by the same writer, entitled " Donnybrook in 1826," in the same periodical for that year, pp. 477-480. 1826. " Yesterday morning [21st April], between two and three o'clock, a murder, under most extraordinary and mysterious circumstances, was committed on the body of the Rev. George Wogan [see p. 92], Curate of Donny- brook, in his house, in the place called by himself Spafield- place, situate off Sandymount-avenue, on the Blackrock- road. . . . These [four] houses, which can be fully seen from the Rock-road, the Rev. gentleman, who was a minister of the Established Church, purchased some time ago from the late Mr. Hodges, of Sack ville- street; and in one at the western extremity of the row, he resided. The report of this murder having created a very great sensation in town, as soon as it was known, the Lord Mayor [Alderman Thos. Abbott] and Sheriff Alley, with Sir Gar- ret Neville, Police Magistrate of that division, accompanied by the Coroner (Alderman Montgomery) and several very respectable citizens, went out before two o'clock to inves- ANNALS. 445 tigate on the spot this horrible transaction. What makes this horrible murder the more extraordinary is the fact, that there was some valuable property in the house, but nothing was taken. The Rev. gentleman had himself, at the time of his death, a ring on the little finger of each hand ; in the one on his left a beautiful cameo was set, which we understand he often said he would not give for «£50 ; the other was a plain gold ring. . . . The Rev. gentleman bore an excellent character in his neigh- bourhood, and was, we understand, much beloved by the poor ; he was between 60 and 70 years of age, about 5 feet 8 inches in height, of a very athletic form, and not, for his time of life, at all infirm ; he was a native of Cashel, in the county of Tipperary, but had lived between 30 and 40 years in the diocese of Dublin." (Dublin Morning Post, 22nd April.) Details of the inquest are given in the same newspaper ; the jury having brought in a verdict of " wilful murder against some person or persons un- known." The high-way robbery, of which Mr. Wogan's murderers were soon after convicted, and for which they suffered the penalty of death, was committed on the Black- rock-road, near Merrion, on a Mr. Bell, of Baggot-street, Dublin. " Buried, Rev. George Wogan [M.A.], of Sandy- mount-avenue, aged 70, 23rd April, 1826.'' (Parish Register.) There is in the possession of the writer a curious document relative to Mr. Wogan and his ministrations in Donnybrook Church in 1818 or 1819. He had been appointed to the curacy in 1800 Visitation-book, Dio. Dublin. 1826. In this year, as stated in p. 92, Booterstown School- house, Cross-avenue, was erected, the expense having been partly defrayed by a grant from the Treasury. This is most likely to have been the case, as credit is given for the money ; and yet the following information, kindly sup- plied by William Xeilson Hancock, Esq., LL.D., in a letter dated 8th October, 1862, would lead to the opposite conclu- sion : — " From examining the tables of Schools and En- dowments, as published by the Endowed Schools Commis- sion, I can state that the result of the papers and inquiries before them was to show that there was no public grant for Booterstown Parochial School. Probably an application was made for a grant from the Lord Lieu- tenant's School Building Fund about the year 1825 ; and 446 APPENDIX III. the application not having been granted, no endowment took place. . . . From the way in which the tables were prepared, if any endowment had been discovered, whether in operation or not, or any accurate allegation of an endowment, the School would certainly have been noticed." 1828. The Kev. John Evans Johnson, D.D. (see pp. 92, 101), who was appointed this year to the chaplaincy of St. Matthew's, Ringsend, is son of the late Judge Johnson, and author of ' ' The Case of the Church, in reference to her Synodical Powers" (8vo. London, 1851). He gra- duated B.A. in 1821, and M.A., B.D., and D.D. in 1843. He was collated to the prebend of Kilrush, in the diocese of Ferns, 19th January, 1843 ; and to the arch- deaconry of Ferns (which he resigned in 1871), 4th February, 1848. — Cotton's " Fasti Ecclesise Hibernicse," vol. ii. pp. 362, 374. 1831. The Rev. Richard H. Wall, D.D.,who was appointed this year to the chaplaincy of St. Matthew's (see p. 93), having previously been assistant-chaplain, published " Selections of Psalms and Hymns for the use of the Con- gregation of the Royal Chapel of St. Matthew, Ringsend ; to which are added several Forms of Family Prayer " (Dublin, 1836, 12mo. pp. 168), of which the "fourth thousand '' appeared in 1862 ; " Suggestions for a Reform of the Royal Schools of Ireland" (Dublin, 1851, 8vo. pp. 50) ; " Catechismus Novus, designed as an Antidote for the young against the growing Antinomianism or Nicolaitanism of the Times" (Dublin, 1863, 12mo. pp. 36) ; and several sermons, for one of which he was presented with the freedom of the city of Dublin. He was also the principal of a large and ably-conducted school in Hume-street, Dublin, which he resigned some years before his death. He died at his residence, Erris- lannan Lodge, in the county of Galway, 15th September, 1869, and was buried there; having a few years before granted a site for a new church, which was completed in his lifetime and endowed, and towards which he had been a liberal contributor. (Saunders's News-Letter, 20th Sep- tember, 1869.) A mural tablet has been erected in the south gallery of St. Matthew's, with the following inscrip- tion : — " Erected by the members of the congregation to the memory of the Rev. Richard Henry Wall, D.D., ANNALS. 447 Chaplain for more than half a century [?] of the Royal Chapel of St. Matthew, Ringsend, who died September 15th, 1869, aged 74 [75] years. Gifted by his Creator with many and rare endowments, he devoted them all to His service and the setting forth of His glory. ' O God, thou hast taught me from my youth ; and hitherto have I declared thy wondrous works.' — Psalm lxxi. 17." 1831. The " Convent of the Nativity of our Blessed Lady," Sandymount-avenue, founded by Mrs. Verschoyle (see p. 30), 16th June. Annexed to this convent of the Sisters of Charity there is a chapel, and abo a school for poor children. 1831. In this year an organ, built by Messrs. Small, Bruce, and Co., of Edinburgh, was erected in Booterstown Church, and " opened on Sunday, 11th September, the music for the occasion being composed by Henry Bussell, Esq., Organist." Mr. Sillery concludes a lengthened statement thus : — " I had immense trouble and anxiety in the busi- ness of the organ, both in the care requisite in selecting a suitable instrument for our Church, and also to have such music from it as would disarm every prejudiced person of objection on the score of loudness or harshness ; and par- ticularly I had immense trouble and anxiety in collecting the money to pay the expense. But thanks be to God, I have succeeded in all these matters, {Parish Memoranda.) As was observed in p. 29, " Mr. Sillery, in his care of parochial documents, has set a good example to many of his brethren in the ministry." 1831. The Sandymount, Ringsend, and Irishtown Benevo- lent Institution, established 15th December, " for promo- ting cleanliness, and providing for the comfort of the poor of this district." 1832. The Rev. Patrick J. Doyle appointed Roman Catholic clergyman of Booterstown, Blackrock, and Dundrum, 5th August, on the resignation of Mr. Ryan, who had been appointed in 1811. He was transferred to St. Michan's, Halston-streer, Dublin, 28th May, 1838, and died 12th December, 1852, bequeathing his house in Eccles-street to Archbishop (now Cardinal) Cullen. 1833. The Booterstown and Blackrock Bible Association established. 448 APPENDIX III. 1833. In the Dublin Penny Journal (16th November), vol. ii. p* 153, there is an account of Donnybrook Fair, with an engraving. 1833. For sundry references to plants found in these parishes, see " The Irish Flora," by Miss Baily (now Lady Kane), published anonymously this year in Dublin. 1833. Dr. D. Joaquin Lorenzo Villanueva published a 12 mo volume, entitled " Poesias Escogidas" (Dublin, 1833), in which (pp. 164-166) there are seventy-eight lines relative to Blackrock. See p. 258, where they have been re- printed. 1834. John Gage Davis, Esq., of Booterstown-avenue, where he had resided for many years, died 6th June, and was buried in the churchyard of the neighbouring parish of Stillorgan, where there is this inscription: — " Departed this life the 17th May, 1822, Jane, wife of John Gage Davis, of Booterstown. John Gage Davis died 6th June, 1834. Mrs. Elizabeth Sarah Lyons, his sister, died on the 15th of November, 1846." He was well known in con- nexion with the Fine Arts. 1834. In this year was published U A Glance at the Question of a Ship Canal connecting the Asylum Harbour at Kings- town with the river Anna Liffey at Dublin," etc., by Henry E. Flynn (Dublin, 8vo. pp. 83, with two maps). It contains many particulars relative to Ringsend and other parts of these parishes. 1835. The Rev. Joshua Lacy Bernard, M.A., appointed to the curacy of Donnybrook. He was promoted therefrom to the rectory of Castlemacadam, in the diocese of Dublin,* in 1845, and in the year following to the rectory and prebend of Stagonil, or Powerscourt, in the same diocese ; and died in 1867. He was author of " The Synagogue and the Church ; being an attempt to show, that the Government, Ministers, and Services of the Church were derived from those of the Synagogue " ; con- densed from the original Latin work of Vitringa (London, 1842, 8vo. pp. xx. 262) ; and " The Imputation of * Castlemacadam and Powerscourt are in the diocese of Glenda- lough, according to present arrangements. ANNALS. 449 Righteousness" ; a sermon preached in St. Mary's, Donny- brook (Dublin, 1845, 8vo. pp. 16). He was buried in the new graveyard of Powerscourt Church, Enniskerry, where there is a stone (erected in 1873 by Viscount Powerscourt) with this inscription : — " Sacred to the memory of the Rev. Joshua Lacy Bernard, for twenty-one years Rector of Powerscourt Parish, who died 17th May, 1867, aged 59 years." 1835. For many particulars of the parish of Donnybrook about this time, see a pamphlet by the Rev. Anthony LefroyCourtenay,M.A.(B.D. and D.D., 1853), "late Curate of St. Mary's, Donnybrook," entitled " Plain Facts rela- tive to the State of the Irish Church and Ecclesiastical Justice, in a Letter to the Most Rev. Doctor Whately, Arch- bishop of Dublin" (Dublin, 1835, 8vo. pp. 114, xl.). For some years before his death, which took place in 1870, Dr. Courtenay was Vicar of St. James', Pentonville-hill, London, and Domestic Chaplain to the Earl of Hardwicke. 1835. The Rev. Anthony Sillery, M.A. (of whom mention has been made in pp. 31, 32), published a volume, entitled "The Christian Choir" (Dublin, 1835, 12mo. pp. lix. 277), and devoted the profits of the sale chiefly to the Booterstown Infant School. The following dedication is prefixed : — " To the Minister and Congregation of the Parish of Booterstown this system of Christian Psalmody, * The Christian Choir,' is inscribed by the Editor, who long [1825-1832] had the privilege of ministering in that parish," etc. 1835. In the Dublin Penny Journal, vol. iii. p. 281, pub- lished this year, there are engravings of the Pigeon- house and the Light-house, Southwall, with a brief description. 1836. In the Appendix to the Report on the City of Dublin, by the Municipal Corporations (Ireland) Commission, which was published this year in London, part ii. p. 109, there are several particulars of Donnybrook Fair. The same book contains much information about the old boundaries of the city (which, as mentioned in p. 257, reached to the Cross in Blackrock), the "throwing the dart " by the Lord Mayor, etc. 1837. The General Magdalen Asylum, Donnybrook (which had been founded in 1798, and placed under the care of 2g 450 APPENDIX III. the Sisters of Charity, 25th January, 1833), removed to Donny brook from Townsend-street, Dublin, 1st October. The convent, to which additions have been made (includ- ing a chapel), was formerly known as Donnybrook Castle (see p 415); and attached to it is a cemetery, in which are interred the remains of the Sisters of Charity who may die within the Dublin province of the order. The foun- dress, Mrs. Aikenhead, was one of them. 1837. The Booterstown and Blackrock Missionary Associa- tion established. Annual Reports, etc., have been pub- lished. 1837. The Rev. William Hare, B.A. (1826), " Minister of Carysfort Chapel, Blackrock," translated and published " Meditations on the History of Hezekiah " from the French of Rochat (Dublin, 1837, 12mo. pp. xii. 366). 1837. For a report of a vestry of the parishioners of St. Peter's, Dublin, held " for the purpose of considering the propriety of presenting an address to the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor [Alderman William Hodges] for his upright and praiseworthy exertions to suppress that public nui- sance, Donny brook Fair," see the Pilot, 18th September. 1838. The Rev. John Ennis, D.D., appointed Roman Catho- lic clergyman of Booterstown, Blackrock, and Dundrum, 28th May, on the transfer of Mr. Doyle, who had been appointed in 1832 ; and dying after a protracted illness, 13th October, 1862, was buried in the vaults of St. Andrew's, Westland-row, Dublin, of which he had been curate. (Freeman's Journal, 14th October.) Dr. Ennis's death had been prematurely announced, with a brief eulogium, in the same newspaper, 12th May, 1860. 1839. For a biographical sketch of Robert Perceval, Esq., M.D., who died this year at his residence, Annefield, Donny brook, see pp. 323-330. 1840. The Rev. Robert Fetherston Jessop, M.A. (1832), ap- pointed to the chaplaincy of Christ Church, Carysfort, Blackrock, which he held until 1843, when he resigned. 1840. The Booterstown Dorcas Association established. Annual Reports, etc., have been published. 1841. The Rev. Benjamin Williams Mathias, M.A., for thirty-one years Chaplain of the Bethesda, Dublin, died in ANNALS. 451 Peafield-terrace, Blackrock, where he had resided for some time, 30th May, aged 68 years. See "Brief Memorials of the Rev. B. W. Mathias " (Dublin, 1842). 1841. The Rev. Reginald Courtenay, who had been ordained this year, 30th May, by Archbishop Whately, for the assistant-curacy of Donnybrook, was consecrated Bishop of Kingston, Jamaica, in 1856. 1841. The Blackrock and Booterstown Fellowship Society established this year; its object being, as stated in the printed M Rules and Regulations," 1st, to extend practical religion amongst its members ; 2ndly, to raise funds for their relief in time of sickness or accident, whereby they may be rendered incapable of following their usual occu- pation ; and 3rdly, to provide for certain allowances in case of the death of any of its members, or wives of mem- bers, and to assist in defraying the funeral expenses of the deceased. The " New Rules of the Blackrock and Booters- town Protestant Fellowship Society," made and revised in February, 1871, and duly certified, were printed in July of that year. 1843. The Rev. Wm. Edwin Ormsby, B.A. (1830), appointed to the chaplaincy of Christ Church, Carysfort, Blackrock, on the resignation of the Rev. Robert F. Jessop; which he held until his promotion, in June of the following year, to the precentorship of Waterford. This dignity he resigned in November, 1848, on his appointment to the vicarage of St. Peter's, Drogheda, in the diocese of Armagh. He died 27th November, 1858. 1843. One of the " Monster Meetings " held on Donnybrook- green, 3rd July, when 150,000 persons were said to have been present. 1843. Alderman George Roe, D.L., of Nutley, Donnybrook, served this year as Lord Mayor of Dublin. In 1847 he was appointed High Sheriff of the city. He died at Torquay, 20th July, 1863, and was buried in Mount Jerome Cemetery, Dublin, where there is a monument with this inscription : — M In memory of George Roe, of Nutley, Co. Dublin, July 20th, 1863. ■ O death, where is thy sting ? O grave, where is thy victory ? But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.' " A full account of the funeral is given in Saunders ] s News- Letter, 27th July, 1863 ; and in the 452 APPENDIX III. Dublin Saturday Magazine, 1st August, may be found some lines " to the memory of George Roe, Esq." He was a native of Booterstown (son of Peter Roe, Esq., who was Churchwarden of Donnybrook in 1788), and was justly esteemed. 1845. The Booterstown Penny Club established, with the view " to improve the condition of the poor of this neigh- bourhood, by promoting among them habits of industry, temperance, and frugality, and by giving them an oppor- tunity of providing themselves with the necessary articles of clothing, bedding, etc., in the cheapest manner." The Rules have been printed. 1845. In this year was published " An Appeal in behalf of the Hospital for Incurables [Donnybrook], being a Dis- course delivered in St. Anne's Church, Dublin, 19th March, 1845, by the Archbishop of Dublin" (Dublin, 1845, 8vo. pp. iv. 16). Several particulars of this most valuable Institution are prefixed, with a wood-cut of the building as it was at the time. For an account of the Hospital, see pp. 380-395. 1845. The Rev. Beaver H. Blacker, B.A. (M.A., 1846), appointed to the curacy of Donnybrook (which he held until 1st May, 1856), in succession to the Rev. Joshua L. Bernard, who had been appointed in 1835. In January, 1857, he became Incumbent of Booterstown. 1846. The Booterstown Widows' Fund established. Annual Reports, etc., have been published. 1846. Mr. George Hal pin printed this year in Dublin a " Report relative to Dublin Harbour," 8vo. pp. 32. The "proposed alteration of course of the river Dodder" is fully considered, etc. 1846. Two articles, entitled " Recollections of Donnybrook," appeared in The Philanthropist (a Dublin periodical edited by the late Dr. Hayden), December, 1846, and February, 1847, pp. 28, 52. 1847. In the Booterstown Vestry-book, in a resolution dated 26th June, 1847, mention is made of " the village called the Camp, in Merrion-avenue." This thickly- inhabited village was soon after removed ; and in 1854 ANNALS. 453 " the Hon. Sidney Herbert added of his own accord to the Church-grounds about half-an-acre, and made at his own expense a new approach from Merrion-avenue, facing same." See p. 97. 1849. The Rev. Andrew O'Connell, D.D. (see p. 205), ap- pointed Roman Catholic clergyman of Irishtown and Donnybrook, 12th July, on the death of Dr. Finn, who had been appointed in 1792. On the death of Dean Meyler, 5th January, 1864, Dr. O'Connell was appointed likewise Roman Catholic Dean of Dublin. 1849. Frequent mention of William Massey, Esq., of the Pigeon-house Fort, who died this year (see p. 157), is made in Watters' " Natural History of the Birds of Ire- land " (Dublin, 1853) ; and still more so in Thompson's 11 Natural History of Ireland,'' vol. iii. (London, 1851). 1850. The Donnybrook Christian Fellowship and Mutual Benefit Society established : its object being, " to extend practical religion among the Protestants of Donnybrook Parish, and to provide temporal relief in case of sickness or death." The " Rules and Regulations " (Dublin, 1850, 12mo. pp. 21), and several statements of the pro- ceedings of the Society, have been published, 1851. For a letter respecting the archdeaconry of Dublin at this date, see the Dublin Evening Mail, 30th June. 1851. By Act 14 and 15 Vict. c. 68, passed this year, u to provide for the better distribution, support, and management, of Medical Charities in Ireland," and known as the " Medical Charities Act," the Dispensaries of Blackrock (including Booterstown) and Donnybrook were constituted as they are at present. The provisions of the Act, by which Boards of Poor Law Guardians were em- powered to form the Poor Law Unions into Dispensary Districts, subject to the approval of the Poor Law Com- missioners, and to provide Dispensaries for the same, took effect on the 12th of November. Each Dispensary Dis- trict is placed under a Committee of Management, con- sisting of the Guardians in the district, and of ratepayers elected by the Board of Guardians of the Union (the number of each Committee being fixed by the Commis- sioners), and the regulation of the Dispensaries under the management of such Committees is provided for by 454 APPENDIX ITT. general rules issued by the Commissioners for that pur- pose. Eugene Le Clerc, M.D., and Edward J. Quinan, M.D., who had been respectively connected for some years, under previous arrangements, with the Booterstown and Donnybrook Dispensaries, were appointed the Medical Officers of the Blackrock (Rathdown Union) and Donny- brook (South Dublin Union) Dispensary Districts. 1852. In Sir Francis B. Head's " Fortnight in Ireland " (London, 1852), pp. 20-23, may be found some observa- tions on the " car-loads of happy people going to, and returning from, Donnybrook Fair," as seen by him in August of this year in St. Stephen's-green, Dublin. 1852. For some clever Greek lines relative to Donnybrook Fair, entitled " Nundinis Donnybrycaeis nomen verna- culum ' Erin ' luculenter Exponitur," quoted from " Pos- tulates and Data," vol. i. p. 347 (London, 1852), see p. 380. 1853. The Roman Catholic Chapel of " St. Mary, Star of the Sea," between Irishtown and Sandymount (see p. 97), of which James J. McCarthy, Esq., of Dublin, was the architect, dedicated 15th August, having been erected at an expense of about £6,000. 1854. An accurate drawing of St. Mary's Church, Donny- brook, from the opposite side of the Dodder, near Balls- bridge, taken this year by the late Mr. Francis Engle- heart, a Dublin artist. 1854. Several particulars of the Rev. George Webster, M.A. (B.D. and D.D., 1866), who was this year appointed junior, and in 1856 senior, Curate of Donnybrook, and who is now Chancellor of Cork, etc., may be found in Brady's "Clerical and Parochial Records of Cork, Cloyne, and Ross " (Dublin, 1863), vol. i. pp. 301-304. 1855. In Carysfort Church (more correctly styled, as in the trust-deed, Christ Church, Carysfort), Blackrock, there is a register of baptisms, from 22nd May, 1855, as mentioned in p. 224. The appointment to the chaplaincy is vested in Trustees, who, in 1865, were : — The Bishop of Meath ; the Bishop of Cashel ; the Bishop of Kilmore ; the Hon. and Rev. William Wingfield ; the Rev. Ronald MacDonnell, D.D., Incumbent of the parish of Monks- town ; the Right Hon. Joseph Napier; and Benjamin Lee Guinness, Esq. ANNALS. 455 1855. John Gold, Esq., of Cullenswood Lodge, Ranelagh, in the pari>h of Donnybrook, died this year, and left by will £10,000 for the building and endowment of a church, which, under the name of Zion Church, Rathgar, was opened, for public worship on Friday, 1st November, 1861. See "Christian Preaching and Christian Worship;" a sermon by the Rev. Maurice F. Day, It A. (Dublin, 1861). " Mr. Gold," as stated by Mr. (now Bishop) Day, p. 6, "had no near relatives of any kind, and therefore he, felt at liberty to leave his money for charitable uses. I understand that, for a time, he had it in view to establish some institution for temporal relief; but he finally deter- mined on the building and endowment of a church, as the best object for which his money could be left. I am sure that he was right in coming to that conclusion." In the Irish Ecclesiastical Gazette, vol. iii. p. 331 (No- vember, 1861), and vol. xiv. p. 174 (August, 1872), full particulars (with an engraving) of the Church, of which the Rev. James Hewitt, M.A, (1862), is the first Incumbent, may be found. For the inscription on Mr. Gold's tombstone in Mount Jerome Cemetery, see p. 299. 1855. Mrs. Warren, widow of Alderman Warren, and the owner of considerable property in the neighbourhood (now held by Edward Wright, Esq., LL.D.), contributed £1,000 to the fund for the abolition of Donnybrook Fair. In Mount Jerome Cemetery, Dublin, there is a monument with this inscription : — u In the vault beneath are deposi- ted, in the hope of a joyful resurrection, the remains of Samuel Warren, Esq., Chief Magistrate of this city, 1838. He died November xxvi., mdcccl., aged lxxxiv. years. This memento of her enduring affection is raised to his memory by his widow. In the same vault are placed the remains of his beloved widow, Catherine Warren, who departed this life 31st October, 1859." 1856. The " Convent of the Immaculate Conception," Lakelands, Park-avenue, Sandymount (to which an orphanage is attached), is of the order of Discalced Car- melites, and was removed to its present situation from North William-street, Dublin, 14th January, 1856. 1856. A paper on the history of the Castle and Manor of Ba- gotrath, by Joseph Huband Smith, Esq., M.R.I.A., which 456 APPENDIX III. was read 25th February of this year, has been printed in the " Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy," vol. vi. pp. 304-311. For a notice of Bagotrath Castle, see pp. 312-314. 1856. The Dublin and Kingstown Railway, which runs through these parishes, came under the management of the Dublin, Wicklow, and Wexford Railway Company, to whom it is leased, 1st July. 1857. The Rev. Robert Herbert Nixon, M.A. (see p. 30), who died in January of this year, was son of the Rev. Brinsley Nixon, M.A.., for about thirty years Chaplain of Dr. Steevens' Hospital, Dublin ; and succeeded his father in that appointment, which he held until 1832, when he effected an exchange with the Rev. Anthony Sillery, M.A., Incumbent of Booterstown, retaining, however, the chaplaincy of Kilmainham. Very applicable to him is this description of character, taken from the Gentleman's Magazine, 1793, part ii. p. 869: — "Mildness and con- descension, humility and gentleness, beamed from his countenance, and influenced all his demeanour, rendering him very amiable in common life, and much regarded by all who knew him. Of the sick he was a diligent and conscientious visitor ; to the poor and needy a liberal benefactor. * Much impress'd Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he fed Might feel it too. Affectionate in look, And tender in address, as well became A messenger of grace to guilty men.' " 1858. The Presbyterian Church, between Irish town and Sandymount (see p. 98), opened by the Rev. Dr. Edgar, of Belfast, on Sunday, 23rd May, having cost about £l,60i>. The Messrs. Hay, of Liverpool, were the archi- tects, and Mr. S. H. Bolton, of Dublin, builder. The Rev. Thomas Lyttle, who had been ordained to the charge of the Presbyterian congregation of the district, 4th Feb- ruary, 1857, is the first Minister. 1859. "Sketches of Suburban Churches" (Nos. I- IV.), descriptive of the four churches in these parishes, and in- cluded in these " Brief Sketches," appeared in the Chris- tian Examiner (May — August, 1859), and have frequently been reprinted. ANNALS. 457 1859. St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Chapel, Ringsend, dedicated 14th July, as reported in the Freeman's Journal, and the Morning News, of the following day. It is the chapel for the Roman Catholic soldiers stationed in Beggarsbush Barracks and the Pigeon-house Fort. 1860. The first election of Commissioners for the Blackrock Township (see p. 211) held 20th November, when the following fifteen gentlemen were unanimously chosen : — ''Thomas Dixon, Esq., J.P. ; John Rafferty, Esq.; Ed- mund Meares Kelly, barrister-at-law ; Edward Love Alma, solicitor ; Arthur Ormsby, proctor ; Henry Loftus Tottenham, barrister-at-law ; George Stormont, Esq. ; Baptist Kernaghan, solicitor ; Charles Kernan, solicitor ; Joseph Craig Scully, gentleman ; James Wilkinson, surgeon ; William John Wailnutt, chandler ; James M'Nally, draper; John Richardson, grocer; Thomas Ma- grath, draper." — Irish Times, 21st November. 1861. The Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, M.P., created in the early part of this year Baron Herbert of Lea. He died 2nd August following, and was succeeded in his title and estates by his eldest son, George Robert Charles (born 6th July, 1850), second Baron Herbert of Lea, and now thirteenth Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery. For a biographical sketch of Lord Herbert of Lea, see pp. 243-247. 1861. "The Rev. Thaddeus O'Mahony, M.A. [Assistant Chaplain of St. Matthew's, Ringsend], was yesterday unanimously elected Professor of Irish in Trinity College." (Daily Express, 6th April.) Mr. O'Mahony was pre- sented by the Crown to the rectory and vicarage of Feigh- cullen, in the diocese of Kildare, in 1865. (Irish Times, 19th December, 1865.) He graduated B.D. and D.D., 1871, and resigned his benefice in the following year. 1861. For particulars of the population of these parishes at this date, see pp. 224, 225, 268, 269. 1861. The Ballsbridge estate of John Duffy, Esq., deceased, sold in the Landed Estates Court, 25th April. For par- ticulars, see the Daily Express of the following day. 1861. "The [Bloomfield] Retreat at Donnybrook, belong- ing to the Society of Friends, is another mixed private asylum, some of the inmates being admitted free, others 458 APPENDIX III. paying from £80 to £160 a-year. We have every reason to speak in unqualified terms of satisfaction of this es- tablishment." (" Tenth Report relative to the Asylums in Ireland for Lunatics," 16th July, 1861.) " The im- provements and enlargement in this Institution by the addition of Swanbrook [which place has been mentioned in p. 432] being complete, there is accommodation for a few first-class patients." — Saunders's News-Letter, 22nd October, 18G4. 1861. An article, entitled " A Stroll over Donnybrook Fair- Green " (the writer of which refers his readers to Parts I. and II. of this work c< for nearly every piece of infor- mation concerning the annals and statistics of Donnybrook that could be procured, or references to the books in which they are preserved"), appeared in the Dublin University Magazine (October, 1861), vol. lviii. pp. 492-503; and an article, entitled " Half an Hour at Ringsend," in Duffy's Illustrated Dublin Journal (26th October, 1861), vol. i. pp. 116, 117. 1861. Professor John Smith, Mus. Doc, T.C.D., died at his residence, 25, Waltham- terrace, Blackrock, 12th Novem- ber. Dr. Smith was for many years a leading musical practitioner and composer in Dublin, and, a's is well known, did much to enrich the music of his adopted country. — Saunders's News-Letter, 13th November. 1861. In pp. 133, 134, of " Christopheros and other Poems," by the late Ven. Walter B. Mant, M. A.., Archdeacon of Down (London, 1861), there are twenty lines entitled the u Fog- Bells." The scene is Sandymount Strand, where the author resided when the poem was composed. 1862. The Booterstown Young Men's Christian Association founded in January of this year : its object being, " to unite its members in the bonds of Christian sympathy, and enlist their energies in works of Christian usefulness at home and abroad ; and to promote the spiritual, intellectual, and social improvement of the Young Men of the neighbourhood." Field- Marshal Hugh, Viscount Gough, K.P., etc., was the first Patron; and the Rev. Beaver H. Blacker, M.A., Incumbent of the parish, President. Annual Reports, quarterly programmes, etc., have been published. 1862. The Convalescent Home, George's-place, Blackrock, ANNALS. 459 opened for patients, 21st February. As appears from the First Annual Report, the number of patients admitted during the year was 57 ; and the amount of subscrip- tions and donations, £298 lis. The institution has been removed to the adjoining parish of Stillorgan, and is on a much larger scale. 1862. Died "on the 25th inst. at Dawson Grove, Balls- bridge, in the 86th year of his age, Doctor Mack ay, for many years Curator of the College Botanic Garden." (Saunders's News- Letter, 27th February.) Doctor Mackay, whose name was so long associated with the College Botanic Garden, in the parish of Donnybrook, published a well-known 8vo volume, entitled "Flora Hibernica " (Dublin, 1836), and received from the University of Dublin, in 1849, the honorary degree of LL.D. He was buried in Mount Jerome Cemetery, Dublin, where there is this inscription : — " James Townsend Mackay, LL.D., Curator for many years of the Botanic Gardens of Trinity College, Dublin. Died at Dawson Grove, Ballsbridge, 25th Feb 7 , 1862, aged 86 years." An obituary notice has been given in the "Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy," vol. viii. p. 90. 1862. Peter Thomas Legh, Esq., of 2, Lower Prince Edward- terrace, Blackrock, by will dated 19th December, 1859, left (with many other charitable bequests to be paid after his sister's death) £500 to the Hospital for Incurables, and £100 for the Roman Catholic poor of the parish of Booterstown. — Daily Express, 24th April. 1862. On the 29th and 30th of April, a bazaar was held at the Rotundo. Dublin, under the patronage of His Excel- lency the Earl of Carlisle, in aid of the funds of the Hos- pital for Incurables. After deducting <£56 12s. 4d. for ex- penses, there remained no less a sum than £614 2s. 3d., which enabled the Governors to clear off a long-standing debt, and (besides admitting five patients in addition to their ordinary number) to endow a bed in perpetuity, which is always to be called "The bed founded by the bazaar of 1862 " — a tablet commemorative of the circum- stances being placed near it. {Saunders's News-Letter, 1st September.) At a meeting of the Governors, held 21st May, it was resolved, that " the warmest thanks of the Governors of the Hospital for Incurables are eminently 460 APPENDIX III. due, and hereby sincerely tendered, to the ladies under whose auspices the late successful bazaar was held, and to the generous friends who have, through their instrumen- tality, taken such a lively interest in this Institution, and so liberally contributed to its funds. 7 ' [Report of the Bazaar.) See p. 393. 1862. George Robert Charles, second Baron Herbert of Lea, succeeded to the titles and estates of his uncle, Robert Henry, twelfth Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery, who died iu Paris, 25th April, aged 71 years. 1862. Henry Smith, Esq., of 43, Eccles-street, Dublin, by will dated 4th June, 1862, left (with five other legacies of equal amount) £466 13s. 4d. to the Hospital for In- curables ; the legacies to be placed at interest, and the interest to be applied to the relief of the poor by the ma- nagers of the respective establishments. And, subject to other bequests and conditions mentioned in said will, the testator directed, in a certain contingency, the residue of his property to be sold, and the produce placed at interest, and the interest to be divided among the six charities. — Saunders's News-Letter, 7th June. 1862. Died " on the 15th inst., at his residence, Ruby Lodge, Williamstown [Blackrock], Thomas Bradley, Esq." (Saunders's News- Letter, 16th June.) " Mr. Bradley was owner of more house-property than any other proprietor in the kingdom ; and they who kept their engagements with him found in him one of the best and most improving land- lords. He was the artificer of his own fortune, and inci- dents are related of his early rise and progress near akin to the fabulous, if not to the legendary in their tone of romance. His office in Golden-lane is a celebrated spot in relation to the vicissitudes in life of many persons, and his name was for half a century literally as familiar as ' a household word ' in Dublin." 1862. Particulars of a destructive fire at the Messrs. Pirn's Mills, Ringsend, may be found in Saunders's News-Letter, and the Irish Times, 29th July. 1862. Died "on the 30th July, at Ballsbridge, Patrick Crowly, aged 101 years, an inhabitant of the above neighbourhood." — Saunders's News-Letter, 31st July. 1862. In Saunders's News-Letter, 25th August, there is a long article on Donnybrook Fair and the " The Brook." ANNALS. 461 1862. Joseph Ormsby Radcliff, Esq., LL.D., Judge of the Consistorial Court of Dublin, and Vicar-General of Ar- magh and Dublin, died 18th October, and was buried at St. Peter's, Dublin {Warder, 25th inst.), and not at Donnybrook, as stated in the Dublin Evening Mail of the 22nd, although his father, the Right Hon. Judge Radcliff, and others of the family, had been buried in the latter graveyard (see pp. 38, 135). Archdeacon (now Dean) West succeeded him in the office of Vicar- General of Dublin. 1862. The Rev. Laurence Forde, D.D., of St. Andrew's, Westland-row, Dublin, appointed Roman Catholic clergy- man of Booterstown, Blackrock, and Dundrum, on the death of Dr. Ennis, who had been appointed in 1838. He died 12th January, 1873. 1863. For " A Lament for Donnybrook [Fair] ; a Lay of the last Minstrel of the Liberty," see the Dublin Uni- versity Magazine (March, 1863), vol. lxi. pp. 331-334. The reader, as is stated in the note prefixed to the article, " will gather that, in the fragmentary monologue which ensues, the last of the race of civic troubadours delivers an extemporary elegy on the last days of the National In- stitution." 1863. The foundation-stone of the Roman Catholic " Church of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus," Donnybrook, laid 12th June, the architects being Messrs. Pugiu and Ashlin, and the builder, Mr. M. Meade, of Dublin. For particulars, see the Freeman 1 s Journal, and the Morning News, 13th June. Estimated cost of the building, as it now is, £6,000. 1863. For mention of General Lord Downes, who died 26th July, see pp. 121, 320. 1863. The Rev. Richard Henry Smyth, M.A. (1848),who had been ordained for the assistant-chaplaincy of St. Matthew's, Ringsend, in 1848, died after a brief illness, 9th Decem- ber. He was Chaplain to the Bishop of Cashel, etc. (Robert Daly, D.D.), and held the precentorship of Wa- terford, and (for a very short time before his death) the parish of Carrick, in the diocese of Lismore, to which he had been promoted from Ballynakill, in the diocese of Wa- terford. — Saunders's News-Letter, and Irish Times, 28th December. 1863. The Blackrock Township Act, "for the improvement £62 APPENDIX III. of Blackrock, Monkstown, and Booterstown, in the ba- ronies of Dublin and Rathdown, and county of Dublin ;" and the Pembroke Township Act, " for the improvement of Pembroke Township, comprising Baggotrath, Donny- brook, Sandymount, Ringsend, and Irishtown, in the barony of Dublin, and county of Dublin," were passed this year. For full particulars, see pp. 253-256, 309- 311. 1864. For mention of Jonathan Osborne, Esq., M.D., who died at his residence, Clermont, Blackrock, 22nd January, see p. 329, n. 1864. Archdeacon West promoted to the deanery of St. Patrick's and Christ Church, Dublin, and Dr. Lee, to the archdeaconry of Dublin. See p. 375. 1864. Major-General Joseph Ellison Portlock, R.E., F.R.S., etc., died at his residence, Lota, Cross-avenue, Blackrock, 14th February, and was buried in Mount Jerome Ce- metery, Dublin, where there is this inscription : — ( * Sacred to the memory of M. General Portlock, Royal Engineers, LL.D., F.R.S., &c, who departed this life on the xiv th of Feb y , mdccclxiv., aged lxix years. Eccl. xii. 6, 7 — * The memory of the just is blessed.' " He was well known in the scientific world, having published (besides other smaller works) an elaborate " Report of the Geology of the County of Londonderry, and of parts of Tyrone and Fermanagh " (8vo. Dublin, 1843). His " Memoir of the Life of Major-General Colby, R.E.," etc., has lately ap- peared in one volume (London, 1869). The geological portion of his library was presented by his widow to the Geological Survey of Ireland, as mentioned in the follow- ing letter, in Saunders's News- Letter, dated 7th March, 1864: — " I venture to trespass on your space, with a request that you would make public an act of liberality, which should, I think, be generally known. Most persons will recollect that the late General Portlock, who died a few weeks ago at Lota, Blackrock, executed a geological survey of Londonderry and parts of the adjacent counties, in connection with the Ordnance Survey, publishing his general report in the year 1843. Mrs. Portlock has now presented to the existing Geological Survey of Ireland all the geological parts of the late General's library, con- sisting of many valuable works in English, French, and German, maps, drawings, parts of periodicals, etc., amount- ANNALS. 463 ing altogether to upwards of a thousand. This donation was made on condition of the books being kept separate, as the 4 Portlock Library,' and preserved as belonging to the 'Geological Survey of Ireland,' which, as the letter of presentation expresses it, ■ is a national work in which the General had always felt a deep interest.' It was made through Mr. G. V. Du Noyer* (senior geologist to this survey), who formerly served as draughtsman under General Portlock in the North of Ireland. I need hardly add that the Portlock Library has been gratefully accepted, and its safe custody guaranteed, and Mrs. Port- lock's generosity suitably acknowledged by the Director- General of the Geological Survey of the United King- dom, Sir R. J. Murchison, and by your obedient servant, " J. Beete Jukes, " Local Director for Ireland." 1864. The following case of longevity in the Hospital for Incurables is even more remarkable than the one men- tioned in p. 206. Eliza Stafford, suffering from ovarian tumour, was admitted 26th February, 1812, and died loth April, 1864, aged 80 years, having enjoyed the benefit and comforts of the Institution for more than 52 years. Another female patient, it may be observed, was admitted in 1810, and survived until October, 1857. — Hospital Register. 1864. The parish of Donnybrook separated from the corps of the archdeaconry of Dublin, by an order of the Privy Council, and the Rev. Frederick Fitzgerald, M.A. (1858), who had been appointed to the perpetual curacy in 1858, promoted to the rectory. Net annual value, £320. See the Irish Ecclesiastical Gazette, 20th May. Mr. Fitzgerald (now Vicar of Gillingham, Kent, in the diocese of Rochester) held the rectory until 1867, when he effected an exchange with the Rev. Dr. Ryder, Rector of Narragh- more, in the same diocese. 1864. In Dickens's All the Year Round (4th June. 1864), vol. xi. pp. 395, 396, in an article on "The Fenian Brothers," a description of the Pigeon-house Fort, with its armoury, which is " said to be next in importance to * An able article on M the Geology of Booterstown and Donny- brook," by the late George Victor Du Noyer, Esq., M.R.I. A., F.R.G.S.I., etc., has been given in pp. 259-268. 464 APPENDIX III. Woolwich," appeared. In the Dublin Evening Mail, 20th November, 1865. mention is made of the precautions taken by the Government in putting the Pigeon-house Fort into a proper state of defence. 1864. The Archbishop of Dublin (Richard Chenevix Trench, D,D.) held the first of his Confirmations for the diocese in St. Mary's Church, Don ny brook, on Monday, 13th June, when a large number of candidates presented themselves from the parishes of Donnybrook, Booterstown, etc. " The order and decorum of the arrangements was very striking." See the Irish Ecclesiastical Gazette (18th June), vol. vi. p. 146. 1864. Charles Hopes, Esq., of Rockville, Mount Merrion- avenue, Blackrock, died 24th June, aged 94 years, and was buried at St. Michan's, Dublin, leaving the following be- quests for charitable purposes : — London .'Missionary Society, £3,000 ; United Presbyterian Church (Foreign Missions), £2,000; Free Church of Scotland, £2,000; Church Education Society for Ireland, £500 ; Hibernian Bible Society, £500 ; Turkish Missions' Aid Society, £500 ; Protestant Orphan Society, £100; Protestant Orphan Refuge, £100; Church Missionary Society, £100; Clare- mont Association for Deaf and Dumb, £100 ; Ragged School, Lurgan-street, Dublin, £100; Spanish Evan- gelization Society, £100; Moravian Missions, £100; and Montago Bay Academy (Jamaica), £50. Total, £9,250. 1864. "Booterstown Avenue. — The aged and rather dilapi- dated appearance of this neighbourhood, which heretofore deterred strangers from abiding there, has altogether given place to most commodious and gay-looking ranges of dwelling-houses, so that we hope soon to see Booters- town as gay a watering-place as it was thirty years ago." — Irish Times, 1st July. 1864. The Rev. William de Burgh, D.D. (1857),whohad been appointed to the chaplaincy of St. John the Evangelist's, Sandy mount, in 1850, promoted to the rectory of Ardboe,* in the diocese of Armagh (vacant by the promotion of Dr. Lee to the archdeaconry of Dublin), the patronage for * See an interesting lecture by the Rev. Thos. Twigg, M.A., Preben- dary and Vicar of Swords, entitled ** The Parish of Arboe and its Church History " (Cookstown, 1872). ANNALS. 465 this turn having been given by the Board of Trinity Col- lege to the Archbishop of Dublin. [Dublin Evening Mail, 16th July.) Dr. de Burgh died at Ardboe Rectory, Stewartstown, 15th October, 1866, and was buried in Mount Jerome Cemetery, Dublin, where there is this in- scription : — u In memory of William de Burgh, D.D., Rector of Ardboe, Dio. Armagh. Entered into rest 15th Oct., 1866, aged 65." He was "a very learned, able, and earnest minister of the Gospel ;" and was the author of " The Englishman's Hebrew and Greek Concordances " (3 vols.) ; " The Early Prophecies of a Redeemer ;" " The Early Messianic Prophecies of Isaiah ;" " A Commentary on the Book of Psalms " (2 vols.) ; " Twenty-one Dis- courses on the Life of Christ ;" " Lectures on the Second Advent of our Lord ; " An Exposition of the Book of 1 The Revelation' ;'' and many other publications. He was Donnellan Lecturer in the University of Dublin (on the foundation of Mrs. Anne Donnellan), 1853 and 1862. 1864. " Donnybrook Fair. — Yesterday was what used to be called ' Walking Sunday ' at Donnybrook ; but although the locality of the fair-green was rather thronged, there were not the numbers that used to assemble when the fair was in its hey-day. The people who went out to the place returned, contrary to the old style, early to town, and no disturbanceof any kind took place." — Daily Express, 22nd August. 1864. The Commissioners of Deep Sea Fisheries held an in- quiry at Ringsend into the state of the sea fisheries along the district of coast adjoining, as reported in Saunders's News- Letter, 22nd August. 1864. Richard Smyth, Esq., J.P., died at his residence, 27, Harcourt-street, Dublin, 26th September. While Lord Mayor of Dublin in 1824, he made great improvements in the public markets, and, as mentioned in p. 145, " struck the first blow at the far-famed Fair of Donnybrook by stopping its continuance on Sunday." — lb. 28th September. 1864. An engraving of St. Mary's, Donnybrook, is given in the Church of England Magazine (1st October, 1864), vol. lvii. p. 217, with a description of the building and its vicinity, taken, for the most part, from these " Brief Sketches." 1864. An illustration of the interior of St. John's, Sandy- 2 H 466 APPENDIX III. mount, is given in the Dublin Builder, 1st October ; in which periodical it is staled that the building was designed by Benjamin Ferrey, Esq., of London, and the work carried out by Mr. George Farrell, under the superinten- dence of Frederick Darley, Esq., of Dublin. An engraving of the exterior is given in the Church of England Maga- zine (2nd September, 1865), vol. lix. p. 145, with a description of the building and its vicinity, taken, for the most part, from these " Brief Sketches." 1864. Two brothers, aged respectively twenty and twelve years, sons of Edward S. Clarke, Esq., M.D., were drowned on the 29th September, while attempting to cross from the " Shelly Bank " to Merrion. See the Irish Times, 5th October, and Saunders's News-Letter, 19th of same month. 1864. The Rev. Bennett C. Davidson, M.A.(1864), appointed to the chaplaincy of St. John's, Sandymount, vacant by the promotion of the Rev. William de Burgh, D.D., to the rectory of Ardboe. The trustees by whom the appoint- ment was made in November, subject to the approval of the Archbishop of the diocese, were : — Viscount de Vesci ; the Rev. James H. Todd, D.D., S.F.T.C.D. ; the Rev. Samuel Butcher, D.D., Regius Professor of Divinity, T.C.D. ; George Alexander Hamilton, Esq. ; John E. Vernon, Esq. ; Captain Frederick J. Isacke ; and the Rev. Frederick Fitzgerald, Rector of the parish of Donny- brook. Several particulars of Mr. Davidson may be found in Brady's " Clerical and Parochial Records of Cork, Cloyne, and Ross" (Dublin, 1864), vol. iii. p. 175. 1864. The Wesleyan Chapel, Sandymount (of which the foundation-stone had been laid in June), opened 9th De- cember. The building was erected by the Messrs. Beardwood, from designs by Alfred G. Jones, Esq., of Dublin, at a cost of about £1,000 ; and accommodates 250 persons. — Irish Times, 10th December. 1864. Vestry-cess having been abolished in Ireland by Act 27 Vict. c. 17, the officers in these parishes who were thereby deprived of their salaries and emoluments, became entitled to compensation respectively from the Commis- sioners of the Blackrock and Pembroke Townships. The vestry-cess levied in Booterstown for the ten years preced- ing its abolition amounted only to the sum of <£528 13s. ANNALS. 467 lOd. ; viz., 1854, £38 15s.; 1855, £39 15s.; 1856, £37 8s.; 1857, £57 17s. 2d. ; 1858, £48 Is. 6d. ; 1859, £43 18s. 5d. ; 1860, £77 17s. 8d. ; 1861, £59 0s. lid. ; 1862, £62 10s. 2d. ; and 1863, £63 10s. 1864. " The parishioners [of Donnybrook] will rejoice that at length the enlargement of the Parish Church is com- pletely paid for. The total sum expended thereon has been about £3,000, of which nearly one-third was raised in the parish, the remaining two-thirds being contributed by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners. There remains some further improvement to be made in the interior, in order that the church may be more worthy of its sacred pur- pose." {Report of Parochial Institutions, 1864.) Seep. 119. It is an edifice very different from its predecessor, the old parish-church of Donnybrook (see p. 11); of which there is the following record in the Dublin Visita- tion-book, 1726 : — "Haec ecclesia [de Donnabrooke] re- sediricata et restaurata per Rssimum Dnum Gulielmum [King], Dublin. Archiepum. Carolus Whittingham, cler., S.T.D., Archinus Dublin. Cura inservitur per Archinum." This restoration of the church may account for the burial of Archbishop King at Donnybrook, as mentioned in p. 164 and elsewhere. 1865. The Dean's Grange Cemetery, Monkstown (for the Kathdown Poor Law Union, including the parish of Booterstown), opened. First interment, 27th January. Number of interments to 26th August, 1873, 2,475. — Register of Burials. 1865. John Barrington, Esq., of Glenvar, Mount Merrion- avenue, Blackrock, served this year as Lord Mayor of Dublin. He (now Sir John Barrington) is a grandson of Mrs. Leadbeater, the early friend and correspondent of Edmund Burke ; and is a member of the Society of Friends, being the first of that body who has held the position of Lord Mayor. For particulars of his nomination to the office, see Saunders's News-Letter, 5th July, 1864. There is a portrait of him, with a brief account, in the Illustrated London News, 4th February, 1865. 1865. " To-day the foundation-stone of the Town-hall of Blackrock will be laid with all due ceremony. The Town- hall will be a very handsome structure, and a great orna- ment to the township. The rooms are intended to be 468 APPENDIX III. spacious, well ventilated, and well lighted. It speaks highly for the public spirit of this young township to have devoted a considerable sum for the construction of an edifice which will be a credit to all concerned in its erec- tion." {Irish Times, 15th February.) The building has been erected, and is most useful as well as ornamental. 1865. Two letters respecting the income of the parish of Booterstown appeared in Saunders's News-Letter, 2nd and 6th March. 1865. For details of St. Bartholomew's Church, the founda- tion-stone of which was laid this year, see pp. 311, 312. 1865. Mr. William Austin, C.E., submitted to the Cor- poration of Dublin drawings of a plan for the improvement — or, perhaps, it should rather be said, development to its fullest proportions — of the harbour. " His plan," as described in Saunders's News-Letter, 8th August, " contemplates the extension of the quays on both sides of the river Liffey, from their present limits at the North- wall Light and Ringsend respectively, a distance of two and a half miles, to Poolbeg Lighthouse, where the walls would turn off, on one side to Sutton, and on the other side to the southern shore of the bay, so as to sever from the sea a great part of the North and South Bulls. The spaces so cut off from the sea would be reclaimed, and on the north side part of the space would be occupied by an immense dock some two miles long and a half mile in width. An immense extent of quays would be afforded for warehouses, etc., around this dock and along the new North-wall down to the Poolbeg Light. The strand of Sandymount, as well as the North Bull, would be oblite- rated, and would in due time be replaced by green fields, and pleasant villas, and smiling gardens. An important feature in the project is the provision for carrying off the sewage of the city, which would consist of two great triangular reservoirs, one in the northern and the other in the southern reclaimed space, from which the sewage would be pumped out to fertilise the surrounding country. Upon the feasibility of the project, which looks very well on paper, we do not offer any opinion ; at the same time there seems to be little doubt that it actually foreshadows a state of our river and its quays which will at some future time be realised. The progress made within the la3t twenty years has been so great that there is reasonable ANNALS. 469 ground for expecting that warehouses, and all their accompanying signs of busy industry, will be carried much farther down the north side of the river than they are at present. Mr. Austin's plan, however, is a gigantic one, which would require for its accomplishment a gigantic union of capital and enterprise, if attempted as a whole." In contrast with the state of the harbour of Dublin as it is, and as it may become, the following account of what it was, written (according to Bishop Percy, as noted by him on the MS.) by a member of the Egerton family, and taken from " Travels in Ireland in 1635," is curious : — " Wee came to the cittie of Dublin, July 9th, about 10 houre This cittie of Dublin is seated upon the river Liffie, which is not navigable above the bridge. The river is noe good channell, butt full of shelves and sands ; and here is a very vile barred haven, over which few shipps can pass that carrye 400 tuns, or thereaboutes. The harebour here is very naked, playne, and the least shelter and protection from storms that I have found in any haven. The most shipps ride by the Kings-end, which is a point which runnes into the sea, butt itt is soe low as itt is verye poore and bare shelter, and little defence against the violence of the stormes, soe as the king's shippe which lyes here to scowre the coastes, is constrained to remoove for harbour, sometimes under the head of Howaed [Howth], sometimes under the opposite shoare." — Christian Examiner, vol. ii. pp. 215, 216 (March, 1826). 1865. Monday evening, 31st July, five young men, Messrs. Ryan, Brown, Turner, Mulcahy, and Fitzgerald, were lost near Poolbeg Light-house, on their way in a small boat from Ringsend to Kingstown Dublin Evening Post, 9th August. 1865. Henry John Temple, third Viscount Palmerston (born 20th October, 1784), K.G., G.C.B., P.C., M.P. for Tiverton, First Lord of the Treasury, Constable of Dover Castle, and Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, died 18th October. As he left no issue, the title is extinct He was the owner of property in the parish of Donnybrook ; and he bequeathed his estates to Lady Palmerston (who died in September, 1869), with remainder to her second son, the present Right Hon. William F. Cowper- Temple, M.P. for South Hampshire. 470 APPENDIX III. 1865. Merrion Castle, which had been the residence of Wm. Sobieski Kildahl, Esq., became this year "St. Mary's Asylum for Female Blind " (transferred from Portobello, Dublin), under the management of the Sisters of Charity. See the Freemaris Journal, 15th September, 1866. Additions on an extensive scale have since been made to the building. 1865. The Martello towers at Williamstown and Sandy- mount (see p. 194) were this year dismantled. " When the jingle- driver on the Blackroek-road informed the traveller that the use of the Martello towers, erected along the bay of Dublin, was ' to puzzle posterity/ he little knew that what he contemplated respecting those modern edifices was in such actual fulfilment with regard to the Round Towers of an earlier age, which have indeed * puzzled posterity ' with a vengeance, and are likely to do so for many a day to come." — Colonel Blacker's "Ard- magh, a Chronicle ; The Fire Towers,'' etc. (Armagh, 1848), p. 20, n. 1865. " The History of the Hospital for Incurables " (12mo. Dublin, pp. 36), by Cheyne Brady, Esq., M.R.I.A., appeared this year. For a long Note on the Hospital, see pp. 380-395. 1866. Merrion Graveyard closed against all burials from the 1st of May, by an order of the Privy Council. (Dublin Gazette, 13th April.) Besides the tombstone placed here in 1807 or following year, by direction of the Earl of Harrington (see p. 52), and many others, there is one with this inscription : — " Sacred to the memory of John Kelly, Esq., Revenue Officer, late of Westport, in the Co. Mayo, who departed this life May 15th, 1824, aged 42 years. his stone was erected by his beloved wife in testimony of her regard for him." Three letters, descrip- tive of the wretched state of this old burial-place (which has since been properly fenced and otherwise improved), appeared in Saunders's News-Letter, 19th, 25th, and 31st May, 1865. 1866. Particulars of the singular discovery of a large quantity of old silver coins (chiefly of the time of the Common- wealth) in Southhill-avenue, Blackrock, may^ be found in the Irish Times, and Saunders's News-Letter, 9th July. 1866. An excellent map of Booterstown Parish, on the scale ANNALS. 471 of 25-344 inches to the statute mile (from a survey in 1865 by Captain Martin, R.E.), was zincographed under the direction of Captain Wilkinson, R.E., at the Ordnance Survey Office, Phoenix Park, Dublin, and published this year in two sheets. An alteration has been therein made in the boundary of the parish (where it adjoins the parish of Stillorgan in Avoca-avenue, Blackrock), under the provisions of the Boundary Survey Acts, 17 Vict. c. 17, 20 and 21 Vict. c. 45, and 22 and 23 Vict. c. 8 ; but this alteration affects the lands in question simply for purposes of public assessments, viz. Poor-rate, County- cess, and Income-tax ; and does not in any way interfere with ecclesiastical, private, or other rights. — Official Information. 1867. The Rev. Arthur Gore Ryder, D.D. (1859), Rector of Narraghmore, in the diocese of Dublin,* became Rector of Donnybrook, 1st May, by exchange with the Rev. Frederick Fitzgerald, M.A., who had been promoted to the rectory in 1864. Dr. Ryder presided for some years over the Tipperary Grammar School ; and is the author of " The Scriptural Doctrine of Acceptance with God, considered in reference to the Neologian Hermeneutics," six Lectures preached before the University of Dublin in 1863, on the foundation of Mrs. Anne Donnellan (8vo. pp. xxiv. 341, Dublin, 1865). 1867. "Yesterday morning [the Vartry] water from the Stillorgan reservoir was turned on for the supply of the Pembroke Township. . . . The advantage to the poorer districts of Ringsend and Irishtown, as well as to the entire township at the present season, is very great, and will probably raise the value of property considerably." (Saunders s News- Letter, 20th June.) The Blackrock Township was supplied about the same time with water from the same source. Mrs. Henry Tighe, the authoress of " Psyche, with other Poems" (5th ed., London, 1816), * Narraghmore, according to present arrangements, is classed tinder the diocese of Glendalough ; as, for example, in M Charles's Irish Church Directory," 1870, for the first time. For several par- ticulars of this diocese, the reader is referred to a privately-printed tract by the Rev. William Reeves, D.D., of Armagh, entitled " Analysis of the United Dioceses of Dublin and Glendalough," Dublin, 1869. 472 APPENDIX III. has made this " pure " and very useful stream the subject of her muse, in lines (pp. 244-247) commencing thus — " Sweet are thy banks, Vartree 1 when at morn Their velvet verdure glistens with the dew ; When fragrant gales, by softest zephyrs borne, Unfold the flowers, and ope their petals new. ** How bright the lustre of thy silver tide, Which winds, reluctant to forsake the vale ! How play the quivering branches on thy side, And lucid catch the sun-beam in the gale I" 1867. St. Bartholomew's Church (see pp. 311, 312) con- secrated 23rd December. There is a register of baptisms from 7th January, 1868; and of marriages from 23rd June in same year. The Rev. Richard Travers Smith, B.D., is the present Incumbent, having succeeded, in 1871, the Rev. Arthur A. Dawson, M.A., Rector of Necton, in the diocese of Norwich. 1868. By Act 31 and 32 Vict. c. 117, passed 31st July, *' to secure uniformity of designation amongst Incumbents in certain cases," the Incumbent of Booterstown, for example, became the Vicar of the parish. 1868. In the " Report of Her Majesty's Commissioners on the Revenues and Condition of the Established Church (Ireland)," published this year, sundry particulars of Booterstown may be found in p. 328; Donnybrook, p. 334 ; St. John's, Sandy mount, p. 340 ; and St. Matthew's, Ringsend, p 346. 1868. "The Story of Mairwara ; or, Our Rule in India" [by Henry W. Mulvany, Esq.], appeared in a small 8vo volume (London, 1868). Prefixed is a portrait of General Hall, C.B., of Merville, "the founder, and main promoter, of the reforms in Mairwara" ; and who now, $t at the age of eighty, is one of the most effective magistrates of the neighbourhood, and the chief man of business of many institutions, committees, and public societies." Merville, as mentioned in p. 92, is close to Booterstown, and was for several years the residence of the first Lord Downes. 1868. Extensive additions to Booterstown Church, including a transept, chancel, robing-room, and porch, commenced in the early part of this year, and satisfactorily completed, as stated in pp. 222, 223. ANNALS. 473 1869. Field Marshal Hugh, Viscount Gough, G.C.B., etc., died at his residence, St. Helen's, Booterstown, 2nd March, in his ninetieth year. For a biographical sketch of this distinguished veteran, see pp. 247-252. 1869. In a letter from William Gernon, Esq., one of the Secretaries of the Board of Charitable Donations and Bequests, dated 15th July, 1869, and published in the Irish Times of the 17th, there are these particulars of Hugh O'Neill's Charity, which has proved highty beneficial to many parishioners of Donnybrook: — "Mr. O'Neill is described as Hugh O'Neill, in the county of Dublin, Esq. His will bears date the 1st of May, 1786. The executor was the Right Hon. Patrick Duigenan, LL.D. [see p. 87], who, I believe, was Judge of the Prerogative Court ; and the will provides that the personal representatives of Dr. Duigenan shall at all times be the administrators of the charity. It is at present administered by Miss Hepenstal [since deceased], of Sandymount House [in the parish of Donnybrook], who claims to be the surviving representative of the executor. The bequest is partly for pensions to aged persons, and partly for an apprenticing fund. By an order of the Board I am engaged in an inquiry into the administration of this fund. I have seen a large box full of documents, which prove that great care and pains are bestowed in the carrying out of the details. The annual amount available is £91, and there are at present on the fund eleven aged persons, each receiving £4 annually. Several young persons are also each year apprenticed to trades, a fee of £6 or thereabouts being paid with each." 1869. Miss Elizabeth Mageougb, for many years of Glen- ville, Donnybrook, died this year, having left by will, dated 8th July, 1862, with many large bequests to other charitable institutions, £500 to the Hospital for Incurables. The "said will also contains a devise and bequest of all the rest, residue, and remainder of the property, estates, and effects of the said testatrix, whether in possession, reversion, or expectancy, and of whatsoever nature or description, and wheresoever situate, unto the following trustees, namely: — The trustees and executors already named [Francis Low, Samuel Bewley, jun., and John "Wight Hobart Seymour, Esqrs.], the Rev. Charles Fleury, Rev. Edward Metcalf, and Rev. Maurice Neligan, upon trust, to found and permanently establish an Institution 474 APPENDIX III. for the habitation, support, and clothing of aged females professing the Protestant faith, and of good character and sobriety, to be called the ' Home for Aged Females,' such Institution to be subject to such rules and regulations for the admission of inmates, and for the general conduct and management of the Institution, as said trustees, or other the trustees for the time being to be appointed in their stead, or the majority of them, shall from time to time direct." — Daily Express, 12th November. 1869. The Rev. Arthur Gore Ryder, D.D., Rector of Donny- brook, appointed by the Crown to the chaplaincy of St. Matthew's, Ringsend, as an ad interim benefice, on the death of Dr. Wall (see p. 446), who had been appointed in 1831. Dr. Ryder had held the assistant-chaplaincy for some time before Dr. Wall's death, which occurred after the passing of the Irish Church Act, but before it came into full operation. 1870. The Right Hon. Edward Litton, Master in Chancery, and for many years resident at Castledawson, Williams- town, died in Dublin 22nd January, aged 82 years, and was buried in Mount Jerome Cemetery. Master Litton was for a long time a worthy parishioner of Booterstown. 1870. The House of Rest, and St. John's Home for Incur- able Women (instituted " in grateful and affectionate memory of the late author of the ' Christian Year ' "), both in Longford-terrace, Merrion, opened under the patronage of the Archbishop of the diocese. 1870. At a General Meeting of the Vestrymen of Booters- town, held 4th July, under the provisions of the Irish Church Act, 1869, John Bolton Massy, John James Hamilton, and James Apjohn, M.D., Esqrs., elected Parochial Nominators ; William Williamson, Henry Dwyer, William J. Welland, and William B. Brett, Esqrs., Diocesan Synodsmen ; and (to act in conjunction with the Clergy and Churchwardens) John H. Longford, Henry Bussell, Joseph Kelsall, William J. Welland, William Carter, David Armstrong, Charles Rankin, J. Cochran Davys, Robert A. Millner, John Stone, Joseph Corny ns, and Henry Page, Esqrs., Select Vestrymen. — Minute Book. 1870. Captain Frederick J. Isacke, Moliere Tabuteau, and William H. Hopper, Esqrs., elected Parochial Nominators ANNALS. 475 for Donnybrook ; and (to act with the Clergy and Church- wardens) Moliere Tabuteau, William George Du Bedat, Frederick Manders, and John B. Johnston, Esqrs., Select Vestrymen. — Parochial Report, 1870. The sum of £200 contributed by John James Hamil- ton, Esq., of Herbert Lodge, Sydney-avenue, Blackrock, in September of this year, towards the cost of " building a pro- per substantial glebe-house for the exclusive use of the Pro- testant (Church of Ireland) Rector of the parish of Booters- town." Mr. Hamilton died at Lisdoonvarna, in the county of Clare, 23rd July, 1872, leaving by will, dated the 5th of same month, (with other charitable bequests) -£100 to "the Irish Church Schools in Cross-avenue, Booterstown," and £50 to the Meath Protestant Industrial School for Boys, Elm- cliff, Blackrock. See Daily Express, 9th De- cember, 1872. 1870. Charles Philips Croker, Esq., M.D. (see p. 206), who for many years gave a large share of his time and attention gratuitously to the Hospital for Incurables, died at his residence in Merrion- square, Dublin, 11th Ja- nuary, aged 74 years, and was buried in Mount Jerome Cemetery. 1871. " John Bolton Massy, Esq — In our obituary of this day will be seen recorded the death of this estimable gen- tleman, which took place at his seat, Clareville [Cross- avenue, Blackrock], near this city, last Saturday [the 4th]. Mr. Bolton Massy in early life was called to the Bar, and became the intimate friend and associate of William Saurin, the eminent lawyer and Attorney-General for Ireland. His talents would no doubt have secured him a prominent position in his profession, had he not retired upon an ample fortune, inherited from a relative. The whole of his after- life has been devoted to those social duties the exercise of which endeared him to his family and numerous friends. His acts of unostentatious benevolence and charity will be remembered by many a recipient of his bounty." (Irish Times, 8th February.) Mr. Bolton Massy, like- wise of Ballywire, in the county of Tipperary, reached the advanced age of 84 years, and wa3 buried in Mount Jerome Cemetery, Dublin. 1871. For particulars of the population of these parishes in April of this year, see pp. 396, 397. 476 APPENDIX III. 1871. David Ogden, James H. Owen, and Robert Green, Esqrs., elected Diocesan Synodsmen for St. John's, Sandymount; and (to act with the Clergy and Church- wardens, Thomas R. Brunskill and John Marr, Esqrs.) F. C. Harrington, David Ogden, Robert Green, James H. Owen, Henry Barton, Arthur H. Robinson, Ernest S. Marr, Edward J. Armstrong, John Battersby, A. Knox Galwey, and William D. Sharpe, Esqrs., Select Vestry- men. — Parochial Report. 1871. By an act of the Diocesan Council the parish of St. Matthew, Irishtown, comprising an extensive area and a large population, was formed out of the parish of Donny- brook ; and the Rev. Robert Baker Stoney, M.A. (1870), who had been for some time one of the curates of Donnybrook, appointed to the new incumbency. 1871. William H. Adams, sen., Richard Brassington, and Richard Clegg, Esqrs., elected Parochial Nominators for St. Matthew's, Irishtown ; and (to act with the Clergy and Churchwardens, William H. Adams, sen., and Henry Gregory, Esqrs.) Richard Brassington, Richard Clegg, Benjamin Flood, James K. Atkin, Robert Jones, John Mathers, Joseph Taylor, Robert Cooper, Robert Stevenson, and William H. Greene, Esqrs., Select Vestrymen. — Parochial Report. 1871. The "Meath" Protestant Industrial School opened for the reception of boys from any part of Ireland, 9th May; Elmcliff, Blackrock, having been taken by the Committee for the purpose, at an annual rent of £80 for five years. The Report for 1872 has been published. At the close of that year 42 boys were receiving the bene- fits of the School. Not having been open when the census was taken in April, 1871, it is not included therein. 1871. Miss Arminella H. Batt, late of 21, Waltham-terrace, Blackrock, who died in October of this year, by will, dated 14th July, 1864, bequeathed £50 to the Schools of Booters- town Church, £50 to the Schools of Carysfort Church, Blackrock, £50 to the Hospital for Incurables, Donny- brook, and £600 to other charitable institutions in Dublin and Belfast. 1871. The Rev. Alured H. Alcock, M.A., for some time Curate of Booterstown, having been awarded £100 per annum under the provisions of the Irish Church Act, 1869, ANNALS. 477 compounded his annuity ; and having generously handed over an amount equal to what had been retained by the Re- presentative Church Body, the two sums, making £1,101 10s. 9d., and yielding £44 per annum, have been allo- cated towards the payment of a curate or assistant- minister. 1871. The following contributions (with others of less amount) received for the Donnybrook Parochial Endowment Fund : — William Jameson, Esq., £500 ; James Jameson, Esq., £500; Frederick Manders, Esq., £200; Mrs. Tabuteau, £200 ; Mrs. George Roe, £105 ; Alfred Hudson, Esq., M.D., £100 ; Captain Isacke, £100 ; Lieut.-General O'Neill, £100 ; Rev. Arthur Gore Ryder, D.D., £100; Colonel Bramston Smith, £100 ; and Edward Wright, Esq., LL.D., £100. — Parochial Reports. 1871. The cost of the Railway Station and Station-house, Lansdowne-road, Ballsbridge, defrayed by the Earl of Pembroke, per John E. Vernon, Esq., D.L. 1871. The Rev. Edmund F. Rambaut, B.A. (1850), Rector of Kilfithmone, in the diocese of Cashel, appointed to the chaplaincy of Christ Church, Carysfort, Blackrock, having exchanged with the Rev. Francis H. Thomas, who had been appointed in 1844. 1872. From a Statement of Taxes for 1872 (within the bo- rough of Dublin and eight townships), " compiled for the use of the Blackrock Commissioners by G. R. Hitchcock, Secretary," the assessments in the (I.) Blackrock and (II.) Pembroke Townships were as follows : — I. s. d. II. e. d. Improvement Rate, at 2 Improvement Rate, at 1 10 Water do. ,, 4 Water do. „ 4 Sinking Fund do. ,, 6 Sinking Fund do. „ 4 Poor do. , 11 Poor do. „ 1 2 Police Tax 8 Police Tax „ 8 Bridge do. »> 2 Bridge do. ,, 2 Total 4 7 Total 4 6 The area of the former, as given by Mr. Hitchcock, is 1,070 acres; the valuation, £42,719 ; and the population, 7,998: the area of the latter, 1,489 acres ; the valuation, £72,261 ; and the population, 21,102. 1872. Thomas Clifford, Esq., of Greenwood, Avoca-avenue, Blackrock, who died this year, left by will, dated 1st April, 478 APPENDIX III. 1871, his house, furniture, etc., to the Governors of the Hospital for Incurables, and made them residuary legatees, for the benefit of the institution. Probate granted 3rd June, 1872. 1872. The Railway Station-house, Sydney- parade, Merrion, erected. 1872. St. Matthew's Churchyard, Irishtown, closed against interments, 13th July. See pp. 341, 342. 1872. Anne, Countess of Clonmell, who had succeeded her father, Ulysses, Lord Downes (see pp. 123, 320), in the possession of his property in Donnybrook, died at the family-mansion, Bishop's Court, Co. Kildare, 18th No- vember, aged 53 years. See Saunders's News- Letter of the 26th for particulars of the funeral. 1872. The ground-rents in College- street and Fleet-street, Dublin, forming the chief part of the endowment of the parish of Booterstown (see pp. 28, 207J, declared by the Commissioners of Church Temporalities in Ireland to be forfeited under the provisions of the Irish Church Act, 1869 ; but an equivalent secured to the parish from the .£500,000 granted in lieu of Private Endowments. For particulars of the case, see the Booterstown Vestry Minute- book, pp. 95-97. 1873. The Rev. John Farrell, of St. Catherine's, Meath- street, Dublin, appointed Roman Catholic clergyman of Booterstown, Blackrock, and Dundrum, in place of the Rev. Dr. Forde, who, having been appointed in 1862, died 12th January, 1873. 1873. Henry Dwyer, William Williamson, and John Edward Vernon, D.L., Esqrs., elected, at the Easter Vestry, Paro- chial Nominators for Booterstown ; and Frederick J. Isacke, William Jameson, and William H. Hopper, Esqrs., for Donnybrook. 1873. St. John's Church, Sandymount, licensed in July for the solemnization of marriages. For a copy of the " Me- morandum of Agreement between Rev. A. G. Ryder, D.D., of S. Mary's, Donnybrook, and Rev. B. C. Davidson, M.A., of S. John's, Sandymount," see the Sandymount Parochial Report, 1872-1873, p. 7. 1873. "The People's Park, Blackrock.— The Township ANNALS. 479 Commissioners have decided upon borrowing the sum of £3,000, at 4J per cent., for the purpose of carrying out this very useful project." — Irish Builder, 1st August. 1873. " The Royal Chapel of St. Matthew, Ringsend, better and more appropriately known as Irishtown Church, for it stands almost on the boundary-line between Irishtown and Sandymount, has, in the second century of its exis- tence, undergone some alterations in its appearance, which are decided improvements. A few years ago the coating of slap-dashed mortar, with which the bad taste of a for- mer generation had caused the entire stonework of the steeple to be covered, was removed ; but a great part of the church still remained half hidden from view by a high dead-wall in front, and the wooden entrance-gate was of the rudest character. With the assistance of the parishioners, the Rev. Robert B. Stoney, the Incumbent, has had the wall lowered to half its former altitude, and covered by a coping of castellated limestone blocks resting upon a row of ornamental brickwork, and has substituted for the old entrance-gate a handsome and spacious iron one, with granite supports. The old church porch, and the ivy creeping up at either side, are now visible from the high road ; and while the antique character of the building has not been interfered with, the general result of the recent alterations has been to adapt its outward appearance to that of the surrounding locality, which has become altered very much for the better since the early part of the last century, when the church was built." (Daily Express, 5th August.) Improvements have also been effected in the interior, by the erection of a new organ, etc. The fol- lowing is an extract from the Dublin Visitation-book, 1726 : — " Capella Sancti Mathei de Ringsend. Hsec ec- clesia aedificata et consecrata per Rssimum Dnum Guliel- mum [King], Archiepum Dublin. Johannes Borow, M.A., Capellanus Licentiatus. Habet salarium centum librarum ster. a Rege," etc. In the Visitation-book of 1706 the church is referred to for the first time, but no particulars recorded ; and in 1712 " Capella de Ringsend " is described as "noviter erecta." See pp, 20, 70, 72, 146. 480 APPENDIX III. fwtors at §0ttjt2lrr00&. 1864. Frederick Fitzgerald, M.A. (see p. 463). 1867. Arthur Gore Ryder, D.D., the present Rector. an at M. $0jfn's, Saitipunmt, [ Continued from /?. 101.] 1864. Bennett Clear Davidson, M.A., the present Chaplain. detain jrf 3t ftattjpto's, pngsmir, [ Continued from p. 101.] 1869. Arthur Gore Ryder, D.D. (see p. 474). $nnrattant of &L Hattys, $ris]|i0tott. 1871. Robert Baker Stoney, M.A., the present Incumbent. CjpiMJrtowlrm of §fffltmtfffott, \_Continued from p. 103.] 1860. Isaac Matthew D'Olier and Frederick Archer Barlow. 1861. Henry Lofcus Tottenham and John Rutherfoord D'Olier. 1862. Frederick Archer Barlow and John Fitzgerald. 1863. Emanuel Henry Bayly and Edmund Meares Kelly. ANNALS. 481 1864. John Henry Longford and Richard Salter. 1865. John Henry Longford and George Andrews, 1866. John Henry Longford and Harry Hodges. 1867. John Henry Longford and William Carter. 1868 ) 1ST 9* v ^ onn Henry Longford and William Baillie Brett. 1870. Henry Dwyer and William "Williamson. 1871. William John Welland and David Armstrong. 1872. David Armstrong and William Baillie Brett. 1873. Daniel Sullivan and George Battersby. The following names have been taken chiefly from the parish-register (1712-1768), the annual visitation-returns from the parish, and the visitation-books of the diocese of Dublin ; in some cases information having been derived from newspapers. The list is incomplete ; but it cannot be made less so, at least for the present, the names of many who have held the office, not appearing in any available sources of in- formation : — 1639. Thomas Tallis and Hugh Jennings. 1640. James Browne and John Gore. 1641. Thomas Fox and William Mackenally. 1645. Thomas Fox and Richard Winstanley.* * The foregoing churchwardens (six of them having been already mentioned in p. 401, on the authority of Dr. "Brady's MSS., Dio. Dublin,") appear in the earliest visitation-book (1639-1648), under the title of "Guardiani." At that period the i; Deeanatus Christianitatis " corresponded to what has long since been divided into the deaneries of North Dublin and South Dublin, and comprised the following churches, as enume- rated in the first list in the book : (1) St. Michael's, (2) St. John's, (3) St. Michan's, (4) St. Audoen's, (5) St. Werburgh's, (6) St. Ni- cholas' extra muros, (7) St. Nicholas' intra muros, (8) St. Catherine's and St. James', (9; St. Michael's of the Pool, (10) St. Kevin's, (11) St. Peter's de Monte, (12) St. Bridget's, (13) St. Stephen's, and (14) Donnabrooke. The deaneries of the diocese at the same date were, (1) Deeanatus Christianitatis, (2) Swordes, (3) Garristowne, (4) 2 i 482 APPENDIX III. 1699. William Porter and Richard Croshaw (see p. 160). 1702. Thomas Rousson and Philip Brockett. 1703. James Lundy (p. 281) and Robert Chadwieke. Luske, (5) Novum Castrura juxta Lyons, (6) Tany, (7) Finglasse, (8) Ballyraore, (9) Bray, (10) Wickloe, (11) Arckloe, (12) O'Mur- thie, and (13) Leixlipp, al. Saltus Salmonis. Nathaniel Hoyle, M.A. (1635), who has been mentioned in p. 401, was " curatus " of Donnybrook, 1639-1613, as recorded in this visita- tion-book. In " Travels in Ireland in 1635," published in the Christian Examiner, vol. ii. (Dublin, 1826), there is the following notice of him, p. 219 : — " At 10 houre this Lord's day I heard Doc- tor Hoile preach att St. War burrs, and att 3 in the afternoon in the same church. Hee is a most holly man, full of zeale and grace, a generall scholler, but nott sufficiently furnished with wordes to ex- press that fullness of matter which abounds in him, who is a mere cynick to the world, butt doubtless a gratious man in the sight of God." According to Archdeacon Cotton (" Fasti," vol. v. p. Ill), Ambrose Aungier, M.A., Chancellor of St. Patricks, and Rector of St. Werburgh's, Dublin, " had for his curate here [at St. Werburgh's] , in 1639, the well-known preacher, Dr. Hoyle." In the same visitation -book the names of the following " curates " of Donnybrook likewise appear : — Johannes "Watson, M.A., 1644 (probably the John Watson, who had been elected a Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin, in 1631, and had graduated M.A. in the same year) ; Georgius Hudson, M. A., 1645-1646 ; Johannes Butler, 1647 ; and William Selby, M.A., 1648. The second visitation-book commences with the year 1703; and from that date to the present the annual series is almost complete. It may have been the case that in some years there was not any visi- tation. Isaac Mann, D.D., Archdeacon of Dublin, held a visitation of the clergy of the deanery of Dublin '* in the Cathedral Church of Saint Patrick, at the usual place of judicature there, on Thursday, the 1 3th day of November, in the year of our Lord 1760, between the hours of eleven in the forenoon and one in the afternoon of the same day." The deanery comprised the following churches: — (1) St. Audoen's, (2) St. Michael's, (3) St. Michan's, (4) St. Mary's, (5) St. Thomas', (6) Chapel of St. George, (7) St. Paul's, (8) St. John's, (9) St. Nicholas' within the Walls, (10) St. Werburgh's, (11) St. Andrew's, (12) St. Mark's, (13) St. Nicholas' without the Walls, (14) St. Luke's, (15) St. Peter's, (16) St. Kevin's, (17) St. Bridget's, (18) St. Mi- chael's of the Marsh, (19) St. Ann's, (20) St. Catherine's, (21) St. James', (22) Donnabroke, (23) Chapel of St. Matthew of Ringsend, (24) Manor of Grangegorman, and (25) French Church of St. Patrick. In Notes and Queries, 3rd S. iv. 267, the following communica- tion appeared : — " Is there any later instance on record of an archi- diaconal visitation in Ireland than that which was held by Arch- deacon Pococke (the learned and accomplished traveller, and subse- quently Bishop of Meath), in St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, in the year 1746 ?" An answer to the query is supplied in this para- graph. Several particulars of the rural deaneries of the diocese of Dublin are given in the Rev. William Dansey's " Horse Decanicae Rurales," etc. (2nd ed., London, 1844;, vol. ii„ pp. 516-520. AXXALS. 483 1704. Robert Causer (p. 125) and Samuel Thomas. 1705. John Bromley and Thomas Hall (p. 125). 1709. Edward Monser and Richard Conquest (?). 1710. Humphrey Denny (p. 272) and Richard Blackham. 1711. John Moulds (p. 129) and Patrick Bryan. 1712. Patrick Kelley (p. 277) and Thomas Freeman (p. 71). 1713. Henry Lee and Humphrey Denny. 1714. John Hopkins and Abraham Mallet.* 1715. Edward Johnson and John Lee. 1716. Thomas Twigg (p. 162) and William Thomson. 1717. William Browne and Simon Johnson. 1718. George Shonon (?) and Samuel Adams. 1719. Thomas Thomas (p. 293) and Thomas Wilkinson(p. 71). 1722. Robert Roberts (p. 131) and Thomas Smith. 1723. William Moore and John Mansergh. 1724. Samuel Harding and William KennelL 1725. James Lawles and Jos. Gothard. 1726. Richard Causzar and Edward Hall. 1727. George Wilkinson. 1728. Isaiah Teates (p. 410) and John Day (p. 163). 1729. Thomas Griesdall (p.231) and Richard Goodwin(p.l65). 1730. James Twigg (p. 273) and Thomas Taylor. 1731. James Twigg and James Guy. 1734. Edward King and George Anderson (p. 290). 1735. Peter West and Charles Day. 1737. Allen M'Lean and John Mottley (p. 289). 1738. George Berford and William Langford. 1753. George Simpson (p. 128) and Henry Brown. 1757. Thomas Ashworth and Bryan Newman. '? ' } Samuel Thomas and Hugh Castles. 1759. S 1764. John Johnston and Raymond Portavine (p. 134). 1766. Jonathan Calbeck and Henry King (p. 423). * " July ye 13th, 1714, John Hopkins and Abraham Mallet were swore Churchwardens \ Owen Guineas and Laurence Castles, Sides- men." — Parish Register. 484 APPENDIX III. 1767. George Gold and William Robinson. 1773. Benjamin Lee (p. 274) and William Paine (p. 298). 1774. Thomas Ashworth and Richard Cranfield (p. 186). 1 _ ' > John La Touche and John Morgan. 1777. Thomas Whitestone and Benjamin Luffingham. 1778 ) 1 _ * > George Simpson and Jeremiah D'Olier (p. 135). 1782. Benjamin Luffingham and Arthur Buckton. 1783. Samuel Watson and Humphrey Worthington (p. 347). 1784. George Grace and John Spencer. 1785. Sir William Fortick and Christopher Booker. 1787. Samuel Robinson (p. 276) and Robert Roe (p. 344). 1788. Peter Roe and Richard Thwaites. 1789. Luke White* and Thomas Ashford. 1790. William M'Cowan and Thomas Truelock. 1791. George Cowan and George Sail. 1792. James Ormsby (p. 285) and John Crosthwaite (p. 302). 1793. John Crosthwaite and Edward Jenkins. 1794. William Digges La Touche and Edward Jenkins. 1797. William Langford and Robert Hague (? Haig). 1798. William Langford and John Quin. 1799. George Heppenstall (pp. 87, 473) and John Quin. 1800. John Boyce and William Roberts (p. 131). 1801. John Boyd and William Roberts. 1802. William Roberts and William Sparrow (p. 156). 1803. William Sparrow and John Quin (p. 432). 1805. John Quin and John Kearns. 1806. John Quin and Michael Edward Stafford. 1807. James Quin and John Kearns. 1808. Michael Edward Stafford and John Quin. 1809. Michael Edward Stafford and James Wright. 1810. Michael Edward Stafford and Alexander Craig, 1811. Alexander Craig and William Bower. * The father of several sons (the fourth of whom was created Baron Annaly in 1 863 ), and the founder of his family. ANNALS. 485 1812. William Bower and John Duffy (pp. 193, 457). 1813. William Bower and Major John Allen. 1814. Major Hans Hamilton and William Thomas. 1815. William Thomas and William Collier. 1817* I william Tn omas and William Blood. 1818 1 1819 4 William Bower and Thomas Daly. 1820. Thomas Daly and Thomas Dawson. 1821. Thomas Dawson and William M'Caskey. 1822. William M'Caskey and Francis Jackson. 1823. William M'Caskey and Francis Thomas Russell. 1824. Thomas Dawson and Abraham Mason (p. 136). [For the names of the churchwardens from 1825 to 1859, inclusive, see pp. 103, 104.] 1860. William Forde and Alexander Sanson. 1861. William Jameson and Frederick John Eagar. 1862. Capt. Arthur P. Graves and Joseph Owen Wright. 1863. Capt. Frederick Jas. Isacke and George H. Askins. 1864. John Andrews and Capt. Frederick J. Isacke. 1865. John H. Chapman, M.D., and Chas. Leslie Perrott. 1866. Frederick Wm. Trevor (p. 306) and Chas. G. Stanuell. 1867. Charles G. Stanuell and William V. R. Ruckley. 1868. Capt. Frederick J. Isacke and Charles L. Perrott. 1869. Capt. Frederick J. Isacke and John Brereton. 1870. Capt. Frederick J. Isacke and Charles L. Perrott. 1871. Capt. Frederick J. Isacke and John Casey. 1872. John Casey and John Brereton. 1873. John Casey and Charles L. Perrott. 486 APPENDIX III. POSTSCRIPT. Fourteen years have elapsed since the publication of the first Part of these "Brief Sketches"! The writer has at length, with no small amount of research, brought his work to a close ; and before committing the last sheet to the press, he gladly takes the opportunity afforded him, of thanking his many kind friends for much valuable assistance. Several of them appear by name in the foregoing pages, their contri- butions, according to the rule he has observed throughout, having been duly acknowledged. Their names need not be repeated ; but some, for one good reason or another, have not been mentioned. Accordingly, if it be not invidious to make a distinction, he would specify the Rev. Samuel Hayman, of Cork, whose writings relative to Youghal are highly esteemed, and the Rev. Christopher McC ready, of Dublin, who medi- tates the publication of what will doubtless prove a most interesting parochial history. To John H. Samuels, Esq., Diocesan Registrar, thanks are due for having kindly per- mitted frequent searches amongst the documents committed to his charge. And a few words in memory of John Gough Nichols, Esq., F.S.A., should not be omitted. He felt and expressed a warm interest in the preparation of these pages ; with his accustomed kindness, he made some very useful suggestions; and the following short extract from one of his letters, written during the present year, will not be deemed out of place: — "Your work on Booterstown and Donny- brook [of which three Parts had appeared] I find wonder- fully stored with a vast amount of interesting biographical and genealogical information, within a small compass." Mr. POSTSCRIPT. 487 Nichols' recent death will prove a severe loss to antiquarian literature, as the Editor of Notes and Queries (4th S. xii. 401) has truly recorded. The four Parts of this work have appeared at considerable intervals of time. This, the writer trusts, will account for the manifest want of proper arrangement in some respects ; it is likewise mentioned as an excuse for the non-appearance of an index, notwithstanding the advice of the late Mr. Nichols and other friends. At a future time the matter con- tained in these pages may be recast ; it is in contemplation to do so without much delay ; and if this can be carried into effect, a carefully prepared index — " so desirable an aid to the reader '' — will not be forgotten. Meanwhile the table of contents, which is now supplied, may in some degree make up for the deficiency. It i3 satisfactory to be able to state that Richard Caulfield, Esq., LL.D., of Cork, and the Rev. William H. Bradshaw, of Enniskillen (now Rector of Kilskeery), have issued publica- tions of a somewhat similar character, based on the plan of these " Brief Sketches." To stimulate others in topogra- phical studies, was one of the objects the writer had in view. " I am sensible," wrote the Rev. White Kennett (subse- quently Bishop of Peterborough), in 1695, in his " Parochial Antiquities" (edited by the Rev. Dr. Bandinel, Oxford, 1818, 2 vols 4to.), " there be some who slight and despise this sort of learning, and represent it to be a dry, barren, monkish study. I leave such to their dear enjoyments of ignorance and ease. ... I wish the excellent parts of many other writers were not spent upon more frivolous arguments, where by subtleties, and cavils, and controverting quibbles, they serve only to weaken Christianity, and (what other- wise were pardonable) to expose one another." And the same learned writer, in dedicating his work to Sir William Glynne, Bart, has remarked : " As to the performance, I am under no concern to vindicate it from the slights and 488 APPENDIX III. ridicules that may be cast upon it by idle witty people, who think all history to be scraps, and all antiquity to be rust and rubbish. I say this only, next to the immediate dis- charge of my holy office, I know not how in any course of studies I could have better served my patron, my people, and my successors, than by preserving the memories of this parish and the adjacent parts, which before lay remote from common notice, and in few years had been buried in un- searchable oblivion. If the present age be too much immersed in cares or pleasures, to take any relish, or to make any use of these discoveries, I then appeal to posterity ; for I believe the times will come, when persons of better inclina- tion will arise, who will be glad to find any collection of this nature ; and will be ready to supply the defects, and carry on the continuation of it. . . . And I have the vanity to hope, that some of those who shall succeed in the benefice I now enjoy, will be glad to recollect, that they had a certain predecessor, who seemed to have some zeal for the good estate of his church and parish — who was at some charge and pains to search into histories and records, upon no other motive but the love of his parochial charge, and the benefit of posterity." With the shelter thus afforded by Bishop Kennett, whom he has endeavoured in an humble way to imitate, the writer of the present work feels perfectly secure. Rokeby, Blackrock, Dublin, December, 1873. xnxoxtB d % ^xm * BRIEF SKETCHES OF THE PARISHES OF BOOTERSTOWN & DONNYBROOK,"* ETC. [The following extracts from a large number of literary no- tices, which have appeared from time to time in different parts of the kingdom, faithfully represent the sentiments of the re- spective writers. Extracts are indeed open to objection; but to give the notices in extenso would fill a good-sized volume. Other notices appeared (e.g. in the Carlow Post, 31st August, 1861), which, not having been received, cannot be inserted. More than enough, however, will be found to prove the interest felt in a work of the kind by many intelli- gent readers, and the strongly expressed desire to have similar publications for other localities.] PAET I. " A carefully compiled volume, relating briefly the annals of the Fair-renowned Donnybrook." — Notes and Queries, 28th January, 1860. " Mr. Blacker, who is well known to our reader?, as he has often been good enough to contribute to our pages, has collected in this lit- tle volume a great deal of interesting topographical and antiquarian information." — Church of England Magazine, 29th February, 1860. " We opened the book now before us without having the remotest Idea that it coiild possess any matter of even trifling interest ; but in this we were mistaken, for we find that Booterstown and Donnybrook * Dublin; George Herbert, 117, Grafton- street. London: Bell and Daldy, 186, Fleet-street. Parts I. and II. together, in neat cloth bind- ing, 3s. 6d. OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. are really places possessing a considerable amount of historical and local interest." — Literary Gazette, 3rd March, 1860. " This little volume is very creditable to its author. . . . The information is given in a concise, unpretending form, without any verbiage or make-weight. The addition of the annals, or chronological table of events, known in connexion with these parishes, greatly in- creases the value of the volume, and is an excellent example for other parochial historians. Such a table enables the student of history at once to pick out any facts of importance to him." — Gentleman's Maga- zine, April, 1 860. " The histories of the principal churches in the localities, and bio- graphies of the clergymen who have been, from time to time, connected with them, will be read with interest by the members of their respec- tive congregations. The volume displays much research, and abounds with novel and very curious facts. The notes will please the antiqua- rian, and delight that epicure of intelligence, ' the oldest inhabitant,' by the quaintness of some of the paragraphs, and the curious memo- rabilia to be found in the appendix." — Saunders's News- Letter, J 8th January, 18 SO. " They display considerable research, and a clear and entertaining style, and prove that the writer is capable of more important efforts." — Warder, 21st January, 1860. " Contains a great amount of information of a local nature within a small compass, and to those especially who reside in the districts de- scribed, will be most acceptable. The frontispiece is a well-executed representation of Booterstown Church." — Christian Examiner, Fe- bruary, 1860. "The work displays considerable research; and in the numerous notes will be found some curious and interesting matter, chronological, historical, and biographical." — Daily Express, 2nd February, I860. " The sketches are very descriptive, and compress a large amount of historic matter into a small compass. The notes are instructive, and introduce many of the great lights of our Church. The annals are carefully compiled, and lead us over a long space of time. In short, the volume is one of the most instructive we have seen for a long time ; and we recommend it con amore." — Armagh Guardian, 7th February, I860. '* This neat duodecimo will be found acceptable to the ecclesiologist and antiquarian, and indeed to all who may be connected by residence or otherwise with the parishes mentioned in the title. Many a note- worthy fact has been lost to the world for want of the recording pen of the chronicler or historian, — car ent quia vate s aero ; but Mr. Blacker has rescued the memorabilia of these parishes from oblivion, as far as in him lies, and with praiseworthy diligence has compiled an interesting volume. It were much to be desired that he would extend his re- searches to the more ancient and remarkable city churches, not, how- ever, suppressing his authorities and sources of information, .... but verifying, as in the present volume, every statement by distinct re- ferences. The venerable churches of St. Audoen's and St. Michan's, Dublin, would themselves supply materials for a volume, which would be acceptable in a patriotic as well as in an ecclesiastical point of view. Mason's History of St. Patrick's Cathedral shews what an earnest scholar can do in this line of writing. Let us, then, look forward to " BRIEF SKETCHES." Hi having sketches of some of the more ancient city churches from Mr. Blocker's pen." — Irish Ecclesiastical G a zette, February, 1860. " In the Ordnance Survey Memoir of the parish of Templemore, county Derry, the natural history of the district is illustrated as fully as the topography and archaeology. If we may judge from that speci- men of the projected memoir which was to accompany the Ordnance Survey, and for which ample materials were collected under the ablest guidance, our literature has sustained an irreparable loss by the aban- donment of that great national undertaking. ' Brief Sketches,' 6uch as those by Mr. Blacker, are a very inadequate substitute for the complete parochial histories which would have been supplied in the Ordnance Memoir, yet we should be glad to have them for every parish in the island, if they were but to serve as incentives to the researches of those who may hereafter engage in the compilation of Irish local histories. This elegantly printed little volume is at least evidence that its author has been better employed than many. ... He has not indulged in vivid descriptions of the fun and frolic of Donnybrook Fair, but, with other rightly disposed persons, regards it as having been rather a scene of riotous drunkenness and dissipation. . . . Should his work reach another edition, we trust that Mr. Blacker will take the opportunity of rendering it more complete. . . . His industry and extensive ac- quaintance with authentic sources of information qualify him to pro- duce a work that would be a really valuable addition to our topographi- cal literature." — Freeman's Journal, and Evening Freeman, 21st February, 1860. " It presents the reader with short sketches of the four churches in the parishes of Booterstown and Donnybrook, in the immediate neigh- bourhood of Dublin. The architecture of the several churches is de- scribed, and a number of interesting historical, antiquarian, and other memoranda are supplied respecting the two parishes, which are enlarged in the appendix. Records of a similar kind, of the different parishes in Ireland, would constitute a valuable and important national work, and materials for such might be collected without much trouble by the respective incumbents." — Londonderry Guardian, 28th February, 1861. " We are grateful to the writer for having given us glimpses of the past which are both suggestive and curious. Thousands who walk through the now dilapidated village of Ringsend. for instance, know not from whence its oddly sounding name originates ; and still fewer are aware that it was here Oliver Cromwell landed. ... A great number of ' celebrities ' have lived and died within the area which the author covers, and a vast deal of interest attaches to their lives and doings, about which we should like to learn something more in detail than the scope of Mr. Blacker's present work permitted him to give. No doubt, to effect all this would entail a onsiderable amount of trouble, but we think that the profit would be coiamensurate ; and from the performance before us, we are satisfied that the task could not be committed to an}' one more competent to do it justice. In the meantime we have great reason to be thankful for what we have got, and we heartily thank the author for giving ua so many interesting particulars in so short a space, and in so elegant a form." — Dublin Evening Mail, 12th March, I860. " Is well calculated to repay a perusal to those fond of ecclesiastical lore. . . . "We heartily wish that others would follow the author OPINIONS OF THE PEESS. in giving to their parishioners the annals of their parish." — Leinster Express, 17th March, 1860. ** Would that the incumbents of all the suburban parishes were actuated by the same truly laudable zeal in research after the beauti- ful in art, and the venerable in antiquity, as is the author of the work before us. Were it so, much that is now veiled to the public eye would be brought to light ; our ancient relics would have a hand, however feeble, raised to save them from destruction j the historic memories of our suburbs — and which of them has not some of peculiar interest ? — would become popularly familiarized, not as they are at present, clouded in obscurity alone penetrable by the savans ; and localities now disregarded, because forsooth they are not embraced in the circle of the fashionable lounge , would have their claims for appre- ciation fully and fairly set forth. The chronological tables of the events known in connection with the parishes treated of iraterially enhance the value of this book, and afford an excellent example for parochial historians. The animus of the author demands respect, and he has ably fulfilled his mission." — Dublin Builder, May, 1860. " These sketches are not only brief but interesting, and will be read as valuable contributions to local history by every one connected with the locality they describe. The substance of them had appeared in the Christian Examiner ; but the writer did well to put them into a complete and more enduring form The plan of the work might, with great advantage, be adopted by the incumbents of other parishes." — Belfast News- Letter, 13th June, 1860. 4 * It must be borne in mind that Mr. Blacker's book is not devoted to the history of an obscure locality ; but that it describes fully and eruditely two of the pleasantest, longest known, and most favourite points of resort in the vicinity of Dublin. He concludes his very in- teresting narrative — sprinkled with many rare transcriptions from unpublished sources — with some valuable annals of the parishes of Booterstown and Donnybrook, arranged in chronological order, to the latest date, from a.m. 2820, when the great Judaine plague carried off in one week nine thousand persons on the plain of Moynealta, includ- ing the Blackrock-strand." — Weekly Agricultural Review^ 6th July, 1860. " This is a much more interesting volume than any would be led to suspect from its unpretending title. The idea of the work is a happy one, and the plan original, and has that true test of originality— viz,, it is so obvious, that when made known, one only wonders it had not occurred to his own mind. It is simply a record of the principal events and characters connected with Mr. Blacker's own locality. This, at first, might be thought rather a barren and unpromising sub- ject to write a book upon ; but the execution evinces the powerful interest which always attaches to a detail of the facts and incidents of real life, and how a statement of actual occurrences may exceed in in- terest the most lively work of fiction or romance. No one would ima- gine that a comparatively obscure locality could have such historical recollections associated with it. The interest felt in the perusal of the work is not restricted to Ireland. The book possesses much to interest the English mind ; and we should be delighted to see it in the hands of, and read by, our English neighbours. Ireland is too often, alas I connected in their minds with scenes of turbulence and misrule. We should like to bring our English friends acquainted with scenes and events of a widely different character — with scenes of domestic peace and happiness — with proofs of Ireland's worth — with specimens of her fine characters, and of her noble and generous deeds — with what, in short, will win for her the admiration and regard of England. What- ever tends to cement a good and friendly feeling between the two coun- tries, should be hailed as one of the greatest blessings which the true patriot could desire. "We admire this work of Mr. Blacker for this reason, amongst others, because we think its tendency is decidedly to produce and foster a good and friendly feeling between England and Ireland." — Christian Examiner [second notice], August, I860, PART II " In noticing the first part of the work, we remarked that we opened it without an idea that it would interest us, and that we came to a different conclusion before we had done. Of course, we entered upon a perusal of the second part with a different expectation, and were not disappointed. The author has added greatly to his store of information, and has introduced it in so popular a form, that we do not hesitate to recommend his cheap and modest volume to Irish tourists, in the com- ing summer, as a useful topographical guide. They will find in it many things embalmed in a succinct form, which even the oldest in- habitant would make a bungle of, and many traits, habits, and inci- dents preserved, which will form a strong and strange contrast to thosa which they meet with in the present day On the whole, Mr. Blacker deserves great praise, both for the value of his materials and the clearness of his style. His book is an evidence of the truth of Wharton's dictum, that if clergymen would take the trouble to collect the topographical history of the parishes they are connected with, a great assistance would be given to antiquaries, and a vast deal of im- portant material would be always ready to the hand of the general his- torian, the want of which he must deeply feel." — Literary Gazette, 2nd March, 1861. " We noticed the first part of this little work when it appeared some time ago. In both parts there is a great deal of very curious informa- tion. Our readers will recollect that we have often been indebted to Mr. Blacker for his valuable contributions to these pages." — Church of England Magazine, SQth April, 1S61. " A painstaking collection of facts, historical and biographical, re- specting the writer's parish [and that of Donnybrook] : a stone in the edifice of the larger county history, a few grains of wheat to be sifted, and transformed into bread, by the future historian. It is a kind of work which, at his leisure, the parish clergyman, and commonly he only, can well do." — Guardian, 22nd May, 1861. 44 The work contains some curious and interesting matter, and does great credit to the diligence and research of its author." — Spectator, 15th June, 18 44 Thi3 work was highly spoken of by the Chairman and other VI OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. Members present at the Meeting." — Transactions of the Kilkenny Archcpologicat Society, 3rd April, 1861. " The reader [of * A Stroll over Donnybrook Fair-Green *] is re- ferred to 'Brief Sketches of Booterstown and Donnybrook,' by the Rev. B. H. Blacker, for nearly every piece of information concerning the annals and statistics of Donnybrook, that could be procured, or references to the books in which they are preserved. His very valu- able little work is full of curious and out of- the- way bits of informa- tion connected with the old families of Dublin and its suburbs since the days of Meyler Fitzhenry, John's locum- tenens."— DwWi'ra University Magazine, October, 1861. " Not many months since we brought under the notice of our readers Mr. Blacker's ' Brief Sketches of the Parishes of Booterstown and Donnybrook ;' and we then expressed our warm approval of his volume, being of opinion that it contained within a small compass a large amount of useful and interesting information. We are very glad indeed to find that the author, whose book has been • much more favourably received than he had reason to expect,' has not rested satis- fied, as others perhaps would have done, with making merely a single effort to rescue the memorabilia of Booterstown and Donnybrook from oblivion. He has followed up his researches with diligence and expe- dition ; and we now have the pleasure of introducing another equally, if not more interesting portion of what is of far too rare occurrence — an Irish parochial history In the Notes (which, as in the preceding part, furnish no small amount of historical, topographical, and biographical matter) we find, in the first instance, a tolerably long sketch of the noble family of Fitzwilliam of Merrion, which was for centuries so very closely connected with the two parishes described, and which is now worthily represented by the Right Hon. Lord Herbert of Lea, the proprietor of 'the Fitzwilliam Estate.' Four or five pages are filled with particulars (so far as relates to these parishes) of the ' Survey of the Half- Barony of Rathdown, in the County of Dublin, [made] by order of Charles Fleetwood, Lord Deputy, October 4th, 1654,' which will amply repay the reader for his trouble. There is an interesting article on the derivation of ' Donnybrook.' by the Rev. Dr. Todd, S.F.T.C.D., and President of the Royal Irish Academy. Amongst the many additional particulars given relative to Donnybrook Fair — the Bartholomew of Ireland — there is an exact reprint of King John's Letter of the year 1204, which is preserved in the Tower of London ; Andrew Yarranton's Survey of Ringsend in 1G74 is fully noticed ; the building of the Royal Chapel of St. Matthew, Ringsend, and * the estab- lishing a minister ' there, have met with due attention ; and (not to anticipate all the items of intelligence which the reader will discover for himself when he consults the volume) we may observe, that, with much more to engage our notice, we have carefully-taken copies of in- scriptions on the tomb-stones of many persons who were more or less distinguished in their day, and who were buried in the churchyard of either Donnybrook or Ringsend. The great value of inscriptions on tomb-stones, which, as daily experience testifies, are in various ways so liable to destruction, can indeed be properly estimated only by those who have had occasion, for legil or other necessary purposes, to consult them. An important point often turns on an inscription ; and hence, if for no other reason, the propriety of preserving such things in print, notwithstanding the absurdity of the phraseology in which they are too frequently conveyed. In fact, though the general purport of innume- rable inscriptions, in churchyards and elsewhere, may well warrant the BRIEF SKETCHES. Vll old adage, * false as monumental brass/ yet the knowledge of a name or a date, not otherwise attainable, is in very many cases by no means to be despised. .... With the Annals, which comprise in chrono- logical order a large stock of « disjecta membra variorum,' we are well pleased. .... If space permitted, we might with no little advan- tage make many further extracts, ecclesiastical and civil ; but we have given enough, we think, to prove our estimate of Mr. Blacker's latest publication, which is, moreover, a very creditable specimen of Dublin typography. Those who are willing to search it for themselves (and we recommend our readers to do so\ will find much to instruct and amuse them ; and while we thank the author for what he has written, we hope he will steadily pursue what has been so well begun, and glean many more particulars from tbe generally neglected records of the past. The object of the book is well defined in four quaint lines by Thomas Churchyard, which he has adopted as his motto ; — * All only for to publish plaine, Tyme past, tyme present both $ That tyme to come, may well retaine, Of each good tyme the troth :' and right well has he so far fulfilled his undertaking. There is one other point which we cannot omit to notice; and we think it better to make use of the author's words than to give our own ; — ' The Editor of Notes and Queries, 2nd S. ix. 316, has well observed of Sir James Emer- son Tennent's work on Ceylon, that the author is scrupulously careful in giving his authorities. This is a most important feature in a book, not always attended to ; and the writer of these pages has endeavoured, in an humble way, to merit the same commendation. 1 " — Christian Examiner, March, 1861. 44 When the first part reached us, we were just ; fied and pleased in according to it a favourable notice. The sequel now before us is equally entitled to commendation, and the 4 painstaking compiler,' as the author modestly terms himself, will doubtless reap both the honourable and the substantial benefit so justly due to his devotion to ecclesiological and archaeological research. A lithographed copy of Yarranton's Survey of Ringsend in 1674 is appended, and is charac- teristic of the eminence (?) at' ained in engineering draughtsmanship at that early period."— Dublin Builder, 1st March, 1861. 44 An Irish aspirant to literary notice, little known in his own day, and entirely unknown in ours, perpetrated a work, gave it for title 4 Fictions of our Forefathers,' and ventured to send a presentation-copy to a gentleman who had wrought earnestly and efficiently in the mine of national literature. He thanked the humble donor, but said he re- garded the notion of our having forefathers at all as «. pure fiction. 4 Had there ever been any,' said he, ' we, their grandsons, would take more interest in their sayings and doings.' Assuming this opinion to come pretty near the truth, we give our author a larger portion of our esteem and gratitude for having devoted so much of his time to pre- serve the memory of the passed-away personages and transactions of the localities with which he is connected. Books on local subjects are seldom valued as they deserve till long after the pen has dropped from the author's hand ; and at any time they are appreciated only by a comparatively small section of readers. Let, then, this select body suppose themselves sitting on the Dodder bank, a.d. 2000, in the full possession of human faculties, and with a tall copy of the present volume in their hands. Let them only realise this position, and we give them V1U OPINIONS OF THE PEESS. full permission to think of the book and its compiler even as they will. . . . . We conclude by exhorting both clergymen and other's, with means and opportunity, to imitate the Incumbent of Booterstown in his labours, and in the tone of his production, in which there is not a single sentence to offend a reader, no matter what may be his predilec- tions."— Warder, 9th March, 1861. " If it be true that no man is a prophet in his own country, equally true is it that those who are resident on a particular spot of earth are very often those most ignorant of the topographical details connected with it — at least, until they chance to meet with one, who, like the author before us, undertakes to enlighten them, with infinite pains and labour to himself. .... On reading his work, we regretted that so painstaking and trustworthy a student had not extended his researches, and travelled on through Blackrock, Dunleary (now Kings- town), Bullock, Dalkey, and so on, to Bray. What a world of anti- quarian gossip would be found by the traveller over that untrodden ground! .... Our want of information on these and many other points makes us regret that Mr. Blacker has not taken them in hand, as from what he has done for Booterstown and Donnybrook, it is certain that topography would have an additional right to be grateful to him, if he had. In truth, he has exhausted, or nearly so, these parishes of topographical material; and this being the case, we would suggest to him that there is an inviting field in his immediate neigh- bourhood for extending his research." — Weekly Agricultural Review, 9th March, 1861. "The work which Mr. Blacker has so well performed for these parishes, we ardently desire to see done by every well-read minister throughout the country The present brochure forms the second part of the author's work ,* it is composed, principally, of notes explanatory. These contain a great deal of highly interesting infor- mation concerning the state of society and history of Dublin and its neighbourhood Our readers will observe that the work is one of interest." — Irishman, 9th March, 1861. 4t When the first part of these sketches appeared, we took the oppor- tunity of commending it to our readers, as a very successful attempt to rescue from oblivion the memorabilia of the parishes above-named. We are now enabled to state that this second part, or appendix, strengthens our favourable impression of the work itself ; not merely as an account of interesting particulars respecting these parishes as such, but as embodying in the notes and annals a fund of ' folk-lore,' anec- dotes, epitaphs, newspaper-cuttings, &c, which marvellously illustrate contemporaneous history, and witness to the ability and research of the author. Many a musty as well as costly volume, many a parch- ment register, many a public document, have been consulted in pro- ducing the valuable results before us ; while every statement is verified by citing the authorities. Mr. Blacker has shewn what may be done by a clergyman in his short intervals of leisure ; and how much may be accomplished by one faithful hand, in supplying trustworthy mate- rials for the biographer and historian. We perfectly agree with the writer in the Gentleman's Magazine (quoted by Mr. Blacker), who observes that, » topography would afford great assistance to our anti- quaries, if every clergyman was to adopt Mr. Wharton's advice, and write the history of his parish.' " — Irish Ecclesiastical Gazette, March, 1861. " Contains much antiquarian and historical information, which ought BRIEF SKETCHES. IX to be highly prized in the neighbourhood of Dublin. The i notes ' re- fer to various matters of local and family history. The * annals ' are brought down to 18G0, from an early period." — Londonderry Sentinel^ 15th March, 1861. 44 We warmly commended Mr. Blacker's previous attempt to enlighten the public regarding the history and antiquities of the district with which he is professionally connected^ and we suggested that other parochial clergymen might imitate his example with advantage to the community, and thus preserve many a valuable relic of family or local history from being lost to posterity. In the little volume before us Mr* Blacker has added greatly to the amount of information previously published re- specting the parishes of Booterstown and Donnybrook, prosecuting his researches among the tombs, and, like another 4 Old Mortality,' restoring what the corroding tooth of time would speedily efface. He has like- wise carried on his investigations among parish registers, ancient sur- veys, and other documents not generally accessible, and educed therefrom a variety of genealogical and antiquarian intelligence of a useful and instructive kind." — Londonderry Guardian, 19th March, 1801. *'The biographical notes are very interesting, and give us in a concise form records of several distinguished families, compiled from authentic sources, and bearing the impress of careful and extensive research. The annals contain a large amount of valuable information, showing the progress of the district to which they refer. We wish that every clergy- man would imitate Mr. Blacker's example, as the parochial statistics of Ireland are calculated to throw much light on the general history of our country. The book is neatly printed." — Armagh Guardian, 22nd March, 1861. " Mr. Blacker has set a noble example to other parochial clergymen, in having rescued from oblivion so many interesting and valuable de- tails connected with the past history of the district." — Western Star % 30th March, 1861. " The second part of this work has just appeared, and if possible, is more interesting than the first. It will well repay a perusal, not only to those connected with the locality, but to all who are fond of anti- quarian lore." — Leinster Express, 30th March, 1861. " We agree with Lord Hailes and others, that topography would afford great assistance both to historians and antiquaries, if every clergyman adopted Mr. Wharton's advice, and wrote the history of his parish. It is not always, however, that clergymen can make time, or have the in- clination, to undertake the series of toilsome investigations, which are not the less troublesome and difficult because they are ' a labour of love ; * and just in proportion to the rarity of such efforts are we inclined to notice and commend Mr. Blacker's painstaking and clever attempt, in the hope that others may follow his praiseworthy example. Having succeeded in popularising his subject, he has published a second part, and has embodied in it a large mass of additional facts, which greatly add to the interest as well as the utility of his book." — Irish Times^ 1st April, 1861. " The author of this small but valuable volume has enjoyed great ad- vantages as a topographical inquirer, and has employed them well. Formerly he was connected professionally with one of the parishes of which he treats, and he now is Incumbent of the other. . . . The principal matters of interest are in the notes at the end of the volume ; these are very valuable, inasmuch as the writer deals not only with OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. subjects of general and historical importance, but condescends to minute details which have a special interest for those conversant with the lo- cality, or who desire to become so. . . . Mr. Blacker's account of the customs and habits of the citizens of Dublin and its neighbourhood are racy and characteristic. . . . The volume, from wbat we have said, may be regarded as one full of research and singular details, and capable, in the perusal, of combining pleasure with profit. We may add that it has been brought out in very good style." — Saunders's News- Letter, 2nd April, 1861. 14 Shows what may be done by steadily pursuing a subject. We have no doubt that Mr. Blacker expected, at first, that the whole result of his labours would have been contained within the limits of a small pamph- let ; they have already produced more than two hundred pages, which could have been readily expanded into six hundred, had the author any wish to swell the volume. These consist of a mass of information in the shape of extracts from annals, deeds, family papers, and records, among which there is much to interest all readers, and yet more which will prove of value to the antiquarian and the student of history. The neighbourhood of Dublin must always have been of importance, and no little assistance is afforded to the historian by investigations such as these. We should like to see as much done for everv parish around the metropolis." — Kilkenny Moderator, 3rd April, 1861. 44 The interest of this work is of course chiefly local, but the narrative refers to many historic names of Ireland, and contains many particulars of a history which, if not illustrious, has had its own share of notoriety, we mean that of Donny brook. The book appears to be characterised by a vast amount of patient research, and much of archaeological learn- ing. 1 '— Cork Examiner, 5th April, 1861. " An interesting volume, containing a number of curious details, and a large amount of information relative to the localities of which it treats. . . . It traces the history of those places from an early date in an interesting manner, giving a brief account of the different families whose residences have been in those neighbourhoods. The number of old records which it contains, and the account given of the state of the Donnybrook and Stillorgan localities, some eighty years ago, are highly interesting. This book belongs to a class of publications whose number we would gladly see increased. Local, as an aid to general history, it is in- valuable ; and it is only when we possess a sketch such as the one before us, of every district in Ireland, that we may expect to be presented with a complete and perfect history of this country." — Nation, 6th April, and Evening News, 8th April, 1861. « 4 In this good work he has set a bright example to all his brother in- cumbents, who, generally living on the spot, could, with more ease than falls to the lot of any other engaged in archaeological pursuits, compile the existing fragments relating to their immediate districts, and whose learning and abilities fit them so well for the task; and we trust that many others may be induced from the perusal of these ' Brief Sketches * to engage in similar researches and compilations, which, if carried out in each district or parish, would soon present us with the most perfect and interesting history of the past times of Ireland. It must be confessed that the work would be a stupendous one, too much so for any single individual to engage in ; but when divided amongst the parochial clergy of Ireland, the labour would be comparatively light, and the results most gratifying." — Farmers' Gazette, 13th April, 1861. 44 Very interesting to those possessing property or residing in either of the above-named parishes." — Northern Standard, 13th April, 1861. " BRIEF SKETCHES." XI M We hope the result of his researches will be valued as it ought. . . . We coincide with the author in one of his quotatious in the preface, that great advantages would be gained if every minister was to write the history of his parish." — Roscommon Gazette, 13th April, 1861. M This is a rather interesting work. . . . The notes are short, but accurate, and form an excellent compendium of many interesting events which have occurred in the neighbourhood of Don ny brook. By those who are fond of antiquarian discoveries, this book will be read with avidity." — Clare Journal, 15th April, 1861. " Although a large portion of the contents of this second part of Mr. Blacker's 'Sketches ' will be chiefly — if not indeed solely — interesting to those residing or connected with the localities of Boot^rstown and Donnybrook, we notice scattered through its pages scraps of information which will be acceptable to the reading public in general, and which may, at some future period, form the groundwork of a far more pre- tentious and bulky volume than that in which they now stand before us. . . . We hope Mr. Blacker's labours may induce some of his brethren in the ministry to turn their attention occasionally into the same channel, and thus rescue from oblivi >n records and reminiscences connected with their localities, which at present are a sealed book to almost the entire community." — Westmeath Guardian, 18th April, 1861. "If other clergymen would take as much trouble in collecting the records of their parishes, many extraordinary facts, useful to the historian and the moralist, would be brought to light. Mr. Blacker, at all events, has done hs part well." — Be'fast News- Letter, 23rd April, 1861. " A very interesting, and we will add, a learned work on the history of the * Fair-renowned,' the ' immortal Donnybrook,' which in times gone bye was considered emblematic of the fun, frolic, and fighting of the Irishman in as great a degree as the shamrock is now of his nation- ality We recommend a perusal of the various interesting sketches the book contains." — Limerik Chronicle, 24th April, 1861. ■ Mr. Blacker has brought zeal and perseverance to the task of illus- trating the annals of the parishes, and has produced from the materials collected with so much care, two exceedingly interesting little works, which contain a large amount of information, condensed into a small space. Much of it is very curious, and must delight the antiquary."— Water ford Mail, 24th April, 1861. 11 Those who have had the good fortune to meet with the first part of this very interesting and unpretending work, will gladly welcome the additions that are now before us. Mr. Blacker has certainly hit upon the plan of making his history useful by appeuding the notes and annals, which contain a vast amount of curious and valuable research. . . . . It has often occurred to us that clergymen possess peculiar facilities for the office of parochial historians. The success which has attended Mr. Blacker's efforts in this line will, we trust, encourage them to similar efforts ; and we feel that in commending this little work as an admirable modtl of what such histories ought to be, we are only doing justice to its painstaking and accurate author." — Galway Ex- press, 27th April, 1861. " We should like to see every parish clergymau in Ireland devoting some of his leisure moments to a similar task in his own district. The result would be a valuable contribution to our stock of antiquarian XU OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. lore We can testify that Mr. Blacker has gathered to- gether a book which will interest far beyond the area with which it professedly deals ; and we trust he will not pause until he has ex- hausted his materials." — Downpatrick Recorder ■, 27th April, 1861. " While the book now before us must be highly prized by those inti- mately acquainted with the locality, and whose legendary lore the 4 Sketches ' will rectify and prune, people at a distance will read with pleasure the Very interesting biographical and chronological facts which the author has arranged with so much tact and judgment. One result of Mr. Blacker's diligent research will assuredly be this — astonishment, on the part of the reader, that so much of real historical matter could be gleaned in such a fun-and- frolic-famous quarter of the world, as the celebrated, Fair-renowned Donny brook." — Coleraine Chronicle, 27th April, 1861. 11 The continuation of a work of singular local and general interest, although the area of its direct application is limited to the two parishes named in the title-page. . . . Much curious information is scat- tered throughout both parts. 1 ' — King's County Chronicle, 1st May, 1861. ** A large amount of information relative to these localities. . . . We are of opinion that descriptions of this kind should be written, and when published, read by the public. The two localities now delineated, from their connection with the metropolis, are well known, and daily become more known. Therefore faithful sketches are the more impor- tant." — Tyrawly Herald, 2nd May, 1861. " We are glad to see Mr. Blacker's book — first, because it is a step in the right direction, which we hope will be speedily followed by the in- cumbents of other important parishes ; secondly, because a topographical and historical companion of this character is indispensable to every person who feels the slightest interest in the popular and populous districts of Donnybrook, Merrion, Booterstown, and Blackrock. . . An indif* ference to local, archaeological, and antiquarian researches is certainly not a creditable feature in the national character ; but, for the honour of the country, we rather cling to the hope that the author of the work before us overrates the extent of that unworthy apathy which, we fear it must be confessed, in some degree exists. But the indifference of which he speaks is more exceptional than general. ... To the success of the first part, the second, now before us, is directly attri- butable. We are rejoiced to perceive that Mr. Blacker, whose book has been ' much more favourably received than he had reason to expect,' has not folded his arms in repose, as many others would have done, and hesitated to continue his efforts for the rescue of the memorabilia of Booterstown and Donnybrook from oblivion. He has followed up his researches with singular vigour, efficiency, and success, and the conse- quence is that what may not inapplicably be regarded as the supple- ment, greatly exceeds in dimensions the original work. ... It abounds with the most out of-the-way and quaint morceaux: facts which seemed the undisturbed property of the past have been reverently and dexterously rescued from oblivion. More curious and interesting matter, chronological, historical, biographical, and moral, we have not read." — Daily Express, 3rd May, 1861. *' This second part of Mr. Blacker's ' Brief Sketches ' exhibits advan- tageously its author's fondness for antiquarian studies. With indefati-. gable diligence he has gleaned every scattered particle of information relating to Booterstown and Donnybrook that could be found in ancient ' BRIEF SKETCHES. Xlll records, parochial registers, and forgotten pamphlets. The result is a very acceptable addition to the topography of the county Dublin. The former portion of the book was published early in last year, and was noticed in the Freeman's Journal of 21st February, 1860. The second part includes a large body of curious particulars relating to local and personal history, and besides being a necessary sequel to the former, has the advantage of being more comprehensive in its plan. The variety of its contents may be inferred when we mention that there is a long note on the Fitzwilliam family, numerous sepulchral inscriptions, copious annals, and many additions to the history of the famous Fair, which is now a thing of the past, but not to be regretted, having long survived the period in which it was a scene of either business or inno- cent recreation. Still it was to be desired that some record should be preserved of that which had come to be considered as characteristically national, and this we have in the present work. . . . Altogether this second part is much superior to the first, and in its typography is equally creditable to the Irish press. 1 ' — Freeman's Journal, and Even' ing Freeman, 7th May, 1861. 11 We have received the second part of this interesting work ; and as the contents are so much to our taste, we the more regret not having the pleasure of a perusal of the first. . . . All our contemporaries, who have noticed the first part, speak of it with uniform praise and com- mendation. We cannot entertain a doubt that they have done so in any spirit but that of honesty and candour ; and we entirely concur iu the observations of the Dublin Builder.' 1 '' — Wexford Independent, 8th May, 1861. " Exhibits many quaint and interesting phases of the changes through which society has passed from a remote period to the present time. Mr. Blacker deserves credit for the pains he has taken to rescue from ob- livion, and preserve, much that it is really noteworthy. Although an unpretending volume, it will be found rich in antiquarian, historical, ecclesiological, and biographical research ; and we should like to see the author's example followed in many of the other parishes of this * Emerald Isle.' "—Fermanagh Mail, 9th May, 1861. " No works are more interesting than those which, in an easy, chatty style, and interwoven with the peculiar phraseulogy of our ancestors, tell us of the doings of the past. This is one of these (a Second Part, too), and it indicates without any ostentation an immense amount of antiquarian research on the part of its author. Some of the notices embodied in it will be found very interesting, and many of them not a little suggestive. Mr. Blacker has done good service by a publication, which throughout very sufficiently indicates his scholarly attainments and gentlemanly feeling." — Newry Herald, and Dundalk and Newry Express, 11th May, 1861. 44 A detailed and most interesting history of the principal persons and events connected with these parishes. . . . We hope Mr. Blacker's praiseworthy example will find many imitators amongst the Irish clergy. There is not a parish in Ireland that would not afford mate- rials for a ' Brief Sketch,' if they were sought out as at Booterstown and Donnybrook." — Portadown News, 11th May, 1861. " This is a brochure of over 200 pages; p-nd taking into considera- tion the views of a Protestant clergyman, and the subjects that would most naturally interest him, it has evidently been compiled with care, and contains a considerable amount of curious information." — Wexford People^ 18th May, 1861. XIV OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. " This second part of the * Brief Sketches ' exhibits the same un- wearied and successful research as the first. . . . The entire volume, in short, is replete with everything that could interest the antiquary, the archasologist, and the lover of the chronicles and records of the past, and of the memorials of those who have departed to that bourne whence no traveller returns." — Catholic Telegraph, 18th May, 1851. ** To the future historian of Dublin, as well as to every person who takes an interest in the parishes of Booterstown and Donnybrook, these sketches will be found invaluable as a source of information It is indeed an interesting work." — Drogheda Argus, 18th May, 1861. " As a topographical and historical account of these parishes, a most valuable work. . . . We trust that Mr. Blacker will not relinquish his labours, chronological, antiquarian, and biographical, until we have sketches of Blackrock and Kingstown from his pen, as class-books to the present volume." — Newry Examiner, 29th May, 1861. "The title of this little work gives some idea of its contents; but it is only after careful perusal that its full value can be known or appreciated When executed in the kindly, loving spirit which characterizes this interesting work, such admirable sketches must prove a valuable addition to the literature and history of our country." — Kilkenny Journal, 29th May, 1861. '* Some very interesting particulars which would have remained buried in oblivion, have been faithfully brought to light. In fact, it contains a vast amount of information in a small compass ; it will be a great boon to those who live in the locality, and we highly recom- mend it to the public." — Sligo Journal, 31st May, 1861. t4 The book of course to a certain extent is of a local nature ; but who that has strolled through the suburbs of Dublin, has not found his way to the delightful avenues that intersect the parish of Boo- terstown ? Who has not heard and read of Donnybrook? 'Brief Sketches' will repay perusal." — Galway Vindicator, 1st June, 1861. " Contains a vast amount of information, which will be perused with pleasure by the historian and the antiquarian Those Mho are anxious to glance at the lives of eminent families during the past century, will peruse this work with pleasure, every page of which contains something new and interesting in the history of Dublin."— Carlow Sentinel, 1st June, 1861. " One of the best publications of its kind that has been issued from the press for years. It is not merely a history of the parishes of Booterstown and Donnybrook ; it is also a genealogical record of fami- lies connected with those localities. The humours of Donnybrook Fair have been said and sung in every hamlet in Ireland ; but we may safely say that few except the antiquarian and student of ancient his- tory—and not all of them — are aware of the derivation of the term 4 Donnybrook,' or the origin of the celebrated Fair, now happily a matter of history The foregoing extracts are sufficient to prove the character of the work, and no one who loves the lore of olden days should be without it. Taking it as a whole, with its inscriptions from old tombstones, its anecdotes, and its annals, it will be found an agreeable companion for a leisure hour."— Cavan Observer, 8th June, 1861. *' Hypercritics have objected to this and similar publications, that BRIEF SKETCHES.' they are of merely local interest and importance; but, assuredly (as a •writer of the present day has well observed), the same remark would as justly apply to Milner's learned 'History of Winchester,' Gilbert's * History oi Dublin,' or that charming little volume of the Rev. Gilbert White— the ' Natural History of Selborne.' Hardiman's ' History of Galway,' Stuart's ' History of Armagh,' M'Skimin's 'History of Car- rickfergus,' and such like books, are open to the same frivolous objec- tion. Topographical sketches of particular localities are, in truth, of immense utility to the general historian, whose researches occupy a wider field ; while they possess, besides, an interest peculiar to them- selves. And when written, as Mr. Blacker's volume has been, by a resident antiquarian who leaves no stoue unturned to ascertain a fact or a date, their value is very greatly enhanced. It should also be borne in mind, that the volume before us is not devoted, as many may ima- gine, to the history of an obscure and unimportant locality ; but that it describes, accurately and minutely, the past and present state of some of the most agreeable places of resort in the vicinity of the Irish me- tropolis." — Neicry Commercial Teltgruph, 11th June, 1861. u Exceedingly well brought out, and beyond a doubt will soon become a text-book for the curious in such matters." — Rcscommon Weekly Messenger, loth June, 1861. ** In the preface the author says, that in a work of this kind he can- not lay claim to any great amount of originality, his aim being to gain the credit rather of being a painstaking compiler ; and we can fairly congratulate h m upon his success, and upon having completely gamed his point. He also informs us that he is scrupulously careful to give his authorities, which we perceive is the case." — Clonmel Chronicle, 19th June, 1861. " This is an interesting little volume, in which are detailed the most remarkable ancient and modern events that have occurred relative to the above parishes, and many interesting particulars of persons who have been residents therein It is much to be desired that his good example should be followed by other parochial historians, for the inhabitants of many districts throughout the country stand much in need of similar information."— Meath Herald, 22nd June, 1861. " Judging from the portion which now lies before us, we should pro- nounce the volume to be an admirable one of its kind If each clergyman in Ireland were to write the history of his own parish, we are persuaded that many interesting facts now unknown, would be brought to light ; many controverted points would be indubitably set- tled ; and the stock of our information relating to the past of our country would be largely increased." — Leilrim Gazette, 11th July, 41 In a small space the work presents a mass of most interesting notes, historic, archaeologic, anecdotal, and statistical, on these famous suburbs of the Irish metropolis." — Bray Gazette, 27th July, 1861. " Gives the fullest evidence of care and research The family records are carefully compiled, and the annals abound with matters of the greatest importance." We do not find anything in the work, which comes from the publishing-house of Mr. Herbert of Graf- ton-street, to which we would take exception." — Meath People, 3rd August, 1861. u Deserves the highest commendation, on account of the extraordi- nary research displayed by the author, and the very great diligence XVI OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. with which he has collected a vast amount of information concerning Booterstown and D©nnybrook. .... The appendix is full of the most valuable notes, many of them culled, at great expense of time and trouble, from various scarce works.'' — Downshire Protestant, Sth August, 1861. " Bears evidence of industry and ability on the part of its author, who has gathered into a small space a large amount of very enter- taining matter." — Nenagh Guardian, 14th August, 1861. " Very suggestive of what might, and ought to be done for other parishes in Ireland, besides Booterstown and Donny brook, for tbe pre- servation of much information and many facts, that become lost to the succeeding generation, and rapidly fade from popular recollection, unless fixed in print by some literary labourer such as the author of this book He sticks closely to his text, and collects the annals of his parish, and furnishes a record of those events and names which make local history The collection of such details involves a considerable amount of labour and research. Not only has he sought in musty records to collect his faots, but he has reverently swept the mould from the time-worn tombs in the parish churchyard "We attach the more value to the labours of the Rev. Mr. Blacker from the general neglect — in fact, the destruc- tiveness which is exercised towards the materials for history, which (shall we say it?) is an Irish characteristic. Vandalism, as regards our ancient monuments, would appear to be the rule. But for the labours of Hardiman, which of us would be able to tell anything of the history of Galway ? And such is our gratitude to the historian, that the next generation may not be able to tell, who or what Mr. Hardiman was A curious illustration of the value of 6uch brief sketches of Galway, had we them, as this work supplies of Donny- brook, is this moment afforded us, by the difficulty with which the Town Board can come at any facts to establish what was the usage as to droits."— Galway Press, 19th October, 1861. NOV 24 1909 - " ' j ..U5fift?X„?f„^NGRES$ &m Tffi&W^j 021 369 134 A urn J ^W IfcV .„ ■ IMP- :vvwg« ^yvw rjfraijvv s^ys igpw