The Parliamentary gazetteer of Ireland

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1. River Upper Erne through Belturbet to Lough Oughter

   Belturbet · town · Cavan

   The river Upper Erne issues from Lough Gawnagh and runs 20 miles nearly due north across County Cavan past Belturbet to the head of Upper Lough Erne. At about the middle of its course it expands into Lough Oughter.

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   north-western projection ; but tlie former toochet also the county of Leitrim, and both are, in a chief degree, lakes of Fermanagh. The Cloddagh rivulet runs across the neck or isthmus of the north-western projection ; it consists of two considerable headstreams, one of which forms a chain of lakes and loughlcts immediately south-west of Slieve-Russell ; and it unites these streams at Swanlinbar, and soon after parses into Fermanagh, on its way to the west side of Upper Lough Erne. The Woodford river, the draining stream of the south-eastern district of the county of Lei trim, forms the pleasant lakes of Woodford on the borders of Leitrim and Cavan, and traverses the latter county lOj miles north-eastward, past Ballyconncl, to the Erne, a little above Lough Erne. Lough Gawnagh, 3 miles in length, extends along the southern boundary, but sends an arm, which is little inferior to the main body, into the county of Longford. The river Upper Erne, issuing from this lake, runs 20 miles nearly due north, right acro^ts the county, past Belturbet, to the head of Upper Lough Erne. This river, at about the middle of its career in the county, expands into Lough Oughter; and, at various points of its progress, is flanked, at near distances, by pools and small lakes. Upper Lough Erne touches the county over only about 1^ mile immediately west of the embouchure of the Upper Erne. Lough Shillin, 4^ miles in length, and nearly 2 in breadth, extends along the southern boundary to within 5} miles of the nearest part of Lough Gawnagh ; but it receives the drainage of only a tiny portion of the county through two or three rills, and it sends off its own superfluent waters along Westmeath and Longford, by the river Inny to the Shannon. Two head-streams of the river Black water, each about 1 1 miles in length of run, rise within less than 3 miles of each other, and about the same distance from the north-eastern boundary of the county, in the vicinity of Shircock ; one of them, the Virginia Water, expands in its upper part into 3 or 4 small lakes; both run southward and south-south -eastward to Lough Raroor; and, after traversing that isleted lake of about 3 miles in length, they re-appear in the single stream of the Blackwater, which almost immediately passes into Meath, and eventually falls into the Boyne at Navan. A head-stream of the South Lagan rises in the vicinity of Bailieborough, and runs 6^ miles to the eastern boundary, there to commence for a while the division of Monaghan from Meath, and afterwards to traverse Louth, and fall into the Irish sea, on the south-west side of Dundalk bay. The Annalee and the Cootehill rivulets come in from Monaghan, at points respectively 3J and 7i miles north of Shircock ; they both, but especially the latter, form small yet prolonged lacustrine expansions ; they unite at a point 3|^ miles west of Cootehill ; and their united stream thence runs westward to the Erne, at a point 7 miles above the inosculation with Upper Lough Erne. Seven or eight lakes, which might be noticeable in minute topography, occur in addition to those we have named; but all additional streams are both mere affluents and inconsiderable rills.

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2. Road projected from Mallow to Castleisland, 1829

   Mallow · town · Cork · 1829

   In 1829, a road was projected in westerly continuation of the Boggeragh route to connect Mallow with Castleisland in Kerry, opening up a tract of 198,000 acres in the northwest of the county which previously had no practicable means of communication.

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   Commtintca^'ons.]— In 1842, the surveyor for the East Riding of Cork, who was appointed in May 1834, had under his charge 1,904 miles of road, 120 of which were made subsequent to the date of his appointment ; and the surveyor of the West Riding, who was appointed also in 1834, had under his charge 971 miles of road, 143 of which were made subsequent to the date of his appointment. The lines of greatest thoroughfare are those from the city of Cork toward respectively Waterford, Dublin, and Limerick ; and these, in spite of crossing the second and third traversing mountains, and encountering great inequalities of ground, are excellent roads. A new road, estimated to cost £5,000 to the county and j£5,000 from the consolidated fund, was commenced, in 1823, through the centre of the Boggni mountains : and this communication, as compared to the circuitous route which previously existed, saves an inhabitant of the upper valley of the Blackwater, a distance of at least 20 Irish miles in every journey to and from Cork. New roads have, since a recent period, been formed in the vicinity of Skibbereen, Cloghnakilty, Courtmacsherry, and Bandon. In 1829, a road was projected in westerly continuation of the Boggra, to connect Mallow with Castle-Ibland

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3. Roche's Point lighthouse and tower

   near Roche's Point · promontory · Cork

   On Roche's Point, immediately west of the seat of Trabolcan, stand Roche's Tower and a lighthouse. The light is a deep red colour towards the sea and bright towards the harbour, exhibited from sunset till sunrise.

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   family. " Near Corkbej?,'* nays Dr. Smith, " are the ruins of an old castle, said to have belonged to one of thu Condons, for whom there is an old tomb in the docayed church of Corkbeg. * * On the east side of the harbour are the remains of a large regular fortificMtion, with platforms below, for gun batteries, level with the water. This work was erected toward the end of Queen Elizabeth's reign, but sutTered to go to ruin. Near this is a lesser fortification, which, in the reign of the late King James, was made use of to annoy the landing of the Earl of Marlborough : tiiis battery was soon taken by the seamen." On Roche's Point, immediately west of the seat of Trabolcan, are Roche's Tower and a lighthouse. The light in the latter is steady, of a deep red colour towards the sea, and bright towards the harbour ; it is exhibited from sunset till sunrise ; and it bears from Cork Head south-west by west about 4 miles. — This parish is a rectory in the dio. of Cloyne ; and, previous to the passing of the Church Temporalities Act, was united to Ahadda, but is now a separate luMiefice. Tithe composition, £309; glebe, £2\. Gross income, £390 ; nctt, £368 lOs. Patron, the Crown. A licensed house is used as the parochial place of worship. In 1834, the Protestants amounted to 143, and the Roman Catholics to 2,175; and 5 daily schools had on their books 9G boys and 83 girls. Two of the schools, respectively for females and for infants, were supported by Mrs. G. Fitzgerald ; and a third was salaried with £d from the National Board, and £10 from a bequest by the late John Roche.

   CORKER (The), a rivulet of the barony of Bannngh, CO. Donegal, Ulster. It is a mere mountaintorrent, has a southerly course, and falls into the bay of Bruckless, on the north side of Donegal bay.

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4. Rockfarm Limestone Quarries on Little Island

   near Little Island · townland · Cork

   Rockfarm limestone quarries on Little Island in Cork Harbour are noted as some of the most valuable quarries worked in the county. The county's limestone is noted to vary greatly in economical adaptation, furnishing both marl and marble.

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   of lime-burning for centuries to come. The veins which till many of the fissures of the day-slate rock abound in iron, copper, lead, and manganese ores. The various limestone of the county differs even more in economical adaptation than m geognostic structure, and furnishes both manuring material to the agriculturist, and a marble which vies with some of the Italian to the statuary and the ornamental architect. Marl, fuller's earth, potter's clay, and brick clay, occur in considerable abundance. The principal mines and valuable quarries worked are the Allihies copper mine near Berehaven, the Audle^ copper mine near Skibbereen, the Dromagh collieries near Kanturk, the Rock&rm limestone quarries on Little Island in Cork Harbour, and the Irish Dove Marble and Limestone quarries at Carrigacramp near Cloyne.

   Woods.] — In 1841, the continuous plantations within the county consisted of 3,491 acres of oak, 644 of ash, 171 of elm. 278 of beech, 3.246 of fir. 40,706 of mixed trees, and 3,644 of orchards, — in all. 5*2,180 acres; and of these there were planted, previous to 1791, 2.790 acres of oak. 239 of ash, 45 of elm. 102 of beech, 25 of fir, 10.247 of mixed trees, and 822 of orchards. The number of detached trees, in 1841, wat. 2,301.506.— equal to 14.384 acres; and thus the total of wood was 66.564 acres.

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5. Rock of Cashel: kings' tribute and monastic ruins

   Cashel · town · Tipperary

   The Rock of Cashel was where the petty kings of Munster paid tribute to their superior, with a guide pointing out marks made by coined gold. Ruins of an old monastery, the original abbey of 'St. Mary's of the Rock of Cashel,' allegedly connected to Hore Abbey below via a subterranean passage. A military wall surrounded the platform.

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   the petty kings of Munster formerly paid their tribute to their superior potentate. Our guide pointed out to us, with considerable ostentation, the marks made b^ the ' rattling ' of the coined gold, and added emphatically, ' Ah, there were no absentees to take it from u<«, m them days!'" — Detached from all the other buildings, and much more inconsiderable and uninteresting than any of them, are the ruins of an old monastery, the original abbey of * St. Mary's of the Rock of Cashel,' and alleged to communicate with the less ancient one, called Hore Abbey, in the vale below, by a subterranean passage bored from the summit or tableau of the Rock. A military wall, some bastions of which were in existence toward the end of the 1 8th century, surrounds the platform on which the various buildings stand, and completes the singular and very diversified group of ancient masonry which crowns the Rock of Cashel. The round tower, and a little Norman chapel nearly opposite to it, are constructed of a kind of sandstone, none of which is found in, situ within several miles of Cashel ; and all the other edifices on the Rock are constructed of limestone.

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6. Rock of the Friars with traces of circular cells

   near Carrickfergus · town · Antrim

   On the middle division of the Carrickfergus borough commons is the 'Rock of the Friars,' exhibiting slender traces of circular buildings supposed to have been cells. This site adds to the ecclesiastical and monastic vestiges found beyond the town.

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   English colonists of the name of Savage. At the dissolution, the monastery, along with its possessions, was granted to Sir Edwand Fitigerald ; soon afterwards, it was assigned by him to Sir Arthur Chichester ; and the latter gentleman, who was ancestor to the Marquis of Donegal, and several times Lord-deputy of Ireland, erected on its site the noble mansion or castle of Joyinount, so named in compliment to Charles, Lord Mountjoy. An hospital of St Bridget for lepers adjoined the eastern suburb, and is still commemorated in the name of Spital Parks, borne by the fields around its site, and in that of Bride Well, a corruption of Bridget's Well, still borne by a spring a little east of the mountainroad to Larne. — Additional to the ecclesiastical and monastic vestiges, noticed in our account of the parish as existing beyond the town, is the ' Rock of the Friars ' on the middle division of the borough commons, exhibiting some slender traces of circular buildings, which are supposed to have been cells.

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7. Roman Catholic bishop resides at Carrickmacross

   Carrickmacross · town · Monaghan

   The Roman Catholic diocese of Clogher is separate and without annexation, distributed into 37 parishes. Its bishop resides at Carrickmacross, and his parishes are Carrickmacross and Clogher.

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   The Roman Catholic DiWcM.]~Tbe Rcunan r^itholic diocese of Clogher is separate, and without annexation; it is distributed into 37 parishes; its bishop resides at Carrickraacross; its chapter consists of 7 individuals ; its diocesan college is at Monaghan ; its bishop's parishes a#e Carricknacrost and Clogher ; and the number of its parodiial and its coadjutor clergy is respectively 35 and 52. The designations of its parishes, together with the sites of their respective chapels are — 1. Garrickmacroes, — Carrickmucross. CordufT Mountain, and Corereagh ;

   2. Donainoine.— Donamoine, Lisdoonan, and Tania;

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8. Roman Catholic cathedral built in Shandon Street, 1808

   Cork · city · Cork · 1808

   The principal Roman Catholic chapel in Cork, regarded as the cathedral of the diocese, was built in 1808 on elevated ground near St. Anne Shandon. It is a cruciform structure measuring 109 feet in length with a highly ornamented interior displaying great magnificence.

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   The principal Roman Catholic chapel, .or tb* which is regarded as the cathedral of the Ronaa Catholic diocese, is situated oji elevated ground ia irhupeUstreet, near the parish-church of St. Anaa Shandon. It was built in 180S, is cracitbrm, and measures as follow: Length, 109 feet; breadth of the nave and side-aisles, 62 feet: length of the tiaasept, 90 feet ; height of the vaulting, 42 feet. TM

   CORK.

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9. Roman Catholic chapel at Bocan with large congregations

   near Bocan · sub-townland · Donegal

   A Roman Catholic chapel at Bocan had two officiating clergy and drew substantial congregations, with 700 attending one service and 1,400 at another, reflecting the large Catholic population of the parish.

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   separate benefice, in the dio. of Derry. Tithe composition, £556; glelie, Jt*l4H. Gross' income, £704; nett, £603 10s. Patron, the Marquis of Donegal. The incumbent holds also the adjoining benefice of Culdaflf. A curate has a stipend of X75. The church is situated in the village of Malin, and was built, in 18*29, by means of £250 raised by subscription, £t^S4 2s. I'Od. raised by parochial assessment, and £200 borrowed from the late Board of First Fruits. Sitting 300 ; attendance, from 70 to 9(). A Presbyterian meeting-house at Goorey has an attendance of from 100 to 2H0. A Roman Catholic chapel at Bocan has two officiates, and an attendance of 700 at one service and 1,400 at another. Two Roman Catholic chapels, at Aughacoy and Lagg, have jointly 3 officiates, and an attendance of 2,000. In 1834. the parishioners consi<>ted of 423 Churchmen, 810 Presbyterians, and 5,569 Roman Catholics ; 3 Siuiday schools had an average attendance of al»out 433 children, but one of them was Roman <*athoIic and had 300 of the whole; and 1 1 daily schools — one of which was supported chiefly by subscription, one was aided with about £11 a-year from the London Hil>ernian and the London ladies' Hibernian Societies, one was salaried with £10 lOs. from the Marquis of Donegal, and 3 were in connection with the National BoanU-had on their books 513 boys and 288 giris.

   CLONCHtTRCH. See CLoMEnoRKB.

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10. Roman Catholic chapel at Cove with elegant spire

    Cobh · municipal district · Cork · 1838

    The Roman Catholic chapel in Cove serves as the cathedral for the diocese of Cloyne and Ross. It is ornamented with an elegant spire that was built in 1838.

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    tecture or rather mifonry of the town it for tho most part poor, and occasionally mean and dinry ; and yet so powerfully picturesque is the site, and so well-composed the groups and terraces, that defects in the style of the individual houses almost wholly escape notice. The southern exposure of the town, and its relative position to hiU-ranges and natural funnels in the vicinity, occasion it to l^ comparatively dry and warm ; and the steepness of its site creates the double advantage, — that a shower of rain effects a more thorough cleansing than would be experienced from the Ubours of an active police, and that the streets and promenades, within an hour of rain ceasing to fall, become thoroughly dry, and fit for the uses of the niost fastidious and debcate. The quay, besides serving the purposes of commerce, forms a charming promenade, and conunands a pleasant variety of the gorgeous landscape which is full^ seen from the higher grounds. A place of worship belonging to the EsUblishment stands half-way up the hill. The Roman Catholic chapel serves as the cathedral of the Roman Catholic diocese of Cloyne and Ross, and is ornamented with an elegant spire, built in 1838. There are also a Methodist chapel and several schools [see Clommkl and Templebobin].

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11. Roman Catholic Chapel of Birr, founded by Lord Oxmantown

    Birr or Parsonstown · town · Offaly · 1817

    A large Roman Catholic chapel in Birr was founded by Lord Oxmantown, built in 1817 of hewn limestone in a style similar to the parish church, and ornamented with a spire 124 feet high. Its erection was liberally aided by Protestants as well as Roman Catholics.

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    General Description.'] — Birr is both ihe ancient and the popular name of the town ; and Parsonstown is its name of etiquette, imposed in honour of its proprietors, the Parsons, Earls of Rosse. Till it became the Parsons' property, it was a small, mean village; but, under their fostering care, it has become a well-built, populous, commercial, prosperous town, the residence of many respectable families, the seat of a considerable inland trade, and the site of several interesting public buildings. The modern parts are regularly disposed in good, urban-looking streets and squares. In the central and chief open area, called Duke-square, is a Doric pillar, 50 teet high, surmounted by a full-length pedestrian statue, cast in lead, stone-coloured, and invested with Roman costume, of William, Duke of Cumberland, son of George II. This monument is rather curious than ornamental; it was erected in 1747 to commemorate the suppression of the Scottish rebellion, by the vie tory of Culloden, and is, we believe, the only public architectural monument of that event in the three kingdoms. The parish-church is built of stone, in a highly enriched modification of the pointed stvle ; and sends aloft a tower to the height of 100 feet. The Roman Catholic chapel, founded by Lord Oxroantown, built in 1817, and liberally aided in its erection by Protestants as well as Roman Catholics, is a large and imposing edifice of hewn limestone, in similar style to the parish-church, and ornamented with a spire 124 feet high. The dissenting or semi- Protestant Roman Catholic chapel strongly fixes attention as, in a moral or religious respect, an unique Irish novelty ; and originated in the simple change introduced by the Roman Catholic clergymen, the Messrs. Crotty, of conducting public service in English instead of Latin. Had these gentlemen adopted, farther west or south-west, in Mayo, Clare, or Kerry, the expedient of substituting Erse for Latin, they could scarcely have been supported with more enthusiasm than what hailed their innovation at Birr. Several bridges, within the town or adjacent to it, span the Birr and the Little Brosna streams. A suite of barracks, about three-fourths of a mile distant, has accommodation for three regiments of infantry; and attached to it is an esplanade of 60 acres, for drilling and reviews. A bridewell, the only prison in the county except the county-gaol at Tullamore, was originally proposed to be used as a place for short confinements, but is scarcely fit for the reception of even the most temporary prisoners. It has only 2 day-rooms, 6 cells, 3 solitary cells, and 2 yards ; and is very far from being well maintained or in good order. A sessions-house is the seat both, of the general court of quarter-sessions, and of a monthly court-baron of the manor, — the latter held on the first Monday of every month. A public

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12. Roman Catholic chapel on Franciscan abbey site

    Cashel · town · Tipperary

    The new Roman Catholic chapel in Cashel is a very spacious edifice occupying most of the site of the former Franciscan abbey.

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    The modem cathedral and parish-church of Cashel it situated in an open area, surrounded by streets, TOO yards south of the summit of the Rock. It was erected, about the middle of last century, by Arch« bishop Agar ; and is an elegant structure, surmounted by a plain but lofty spire. — The archiepiseopal palace is a spacious and plain yet respectable man* sioR, surrounded with very fine gardens which extend to the Rock's base. '* All that can delight the senses,'* says Mr. Inglis, **is here. Parterres of lovely flowers and rare shrubs; velvet lawns; secluded walks, rich in odours ; and, above the fine screen of holly and laburnum, and lilac, and copperbeech, and laurel, tower the Rock and the magnificent ruin that covers it. There is a private way through his lordship's grounds ; in order that, unol^- served by his numerous flock, he may retire to this solemn spot, and meditate on the insufficiency of earthly enjoyments." But under the new hierarchical arrangement, which destroys the archiepiscopate of Cashel, and unites all the four sees ot Cashel, Emlv, Waterford, and Lismore, Cashel palace will be abandoned, and the palace of Waterford will be the residence of the diocesan. A public library, attached to the palace, contains some valuable manuscripts.— The new Roman Catholic chapel is a very spacious edifice, and occupies most of the site of the Franciscan abbey. — A small barrack for infantry contains accommodation for two companies — The court-houses are a good feature in the town's architecture.— The market-house is a pleasing structure, but has been almost wholly alienated from its proper use ; and its lower story is held by a tenant-at-wilL The bridewell or district prison was, two or three years ago, characterixed by neglect, bad arrangement, and the want of due classification; but an alteration vras proposed which would ** convert it into a very compact, good bridewell, with effective yards, day-rooms, and cells, and good separation for men and women ;** and the Report for 1841, sue dnctly represents it as "in good order, and well reguJated.** — The infirmary, the fever hospital, and the workhouse, will be noticed in next section.

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13. Roman Catholic chapel on Green Street in Callan

    Callan · town · Kilkenny

    The parochial Roman Catholic chapel in Callan occupies an elevated site near the south end of Green Street. It serves as a conspicuous landmark visible for miles around.

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    The present parish-church is the choir of a church which was attached to an abbey for Augustinian Eremites, built in the 15th century by Sir James Butler of Poolestown. The nave of the old church, with its fine lateral aisles, is still also in tolerable preservation ; the cemetery of the founder's family, overgrown with nwss and ivy, adjoins the choir; and some remains of the abbey itself on the banks of the river, present features interesting to the artist. The abbey and its possessions were given, at the dissolution, to Thomas, Earl of Ormond. Near the ruins are a modiTn Augustinian friary and chapel, a large ajul substantial stone structure, plain yet respectable in architecture. The parochial Roman Catholic chapel occupies an elevated site near the south end of Green-street, and forms a conspicuous feature in a landscape of many miles in diameter. The markethou-^e is so small and abject as to indicate the absence of nearly all profitable traffic. A few persons are employed in making Haimel ; a considerable number are makers of brogues or coarse shoes; and the great majority are either small traders or agricultural labourers. Fairs are held on May 4, June IJ and 29. Aug. 10, Nov. 4, and Dec. 14. The nearest avaiilable point of any projected railway, is the terininu> of the Kilkenny line at Kilkenny. In iKiS, the ehiet public conveyances were the mailcoach ill transit between Dublin and Cork, a coach between Dublin and Clonmel, and a car between Kilkenny and (Monniel.

    The Callan Poor-law union ranks as the 24th, and was constituted on May 4, IK'JO. It lies partly in CO. Tipperary, but chiefly in co. Kilkenny, and comprehends an area of 10(^633 acres, with a pop., in

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14. Roman Catholic chapels at Clones and Aghadrumsee

    Clones · town · Monaghan · 1834

    Two Roman Catholic chapels located at Clones and Aghadrumsee were attended by 2,280 and 862 people respectively. Two additional chapels at Roaska and Magherarny had attendances of 1,800 and 500.

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    waste or pastoral upland. The chief seats. eitKer within the limits or in their iumedUte riciiiltjr, are Curra- House and Farmhill, respectively 2 aiid 3 miles south-south-west of the town, on the way to Belturbet; Summerhill, Johnstown, and Scotsborough, west of the town, on the wav to Newtown- Butler ; Lisnapoe, a little to the north of the town; and Lough Oonagb, 4 miles to the east, on the way to Monaghan. Other objects of interest will m noticed in connection with the town and the villages. This parish is a rectory, and a separate benefice* in the dio. of Clogher. Tithe composition, £950; glebe, £1,050 6s. 8d. Gross income, £2,000 6*. 8d. ; nett, £1,686 15s. 9d. Patron, Sir Thomas Barrett Lennard, Bart. The incumbent holds also the benefice of AghnamuUen in the dio. of Cloffher, and the sinecure deanery of Clonaiacnoise in the dio. of Mei^h. Three curates are employed ; one for the parish church at a stipend of £ 100 ; and one for eaeh of two chapels-of-ease, at a salary each of £75 and the surplice fees. The church was built in 1824, by means of a loan of £2,953 16s. lid. from the late Board of First FruiU. Sittings 700; attendance 000. A chapel-of-ease at Clough, 3^ miles from the town of Clones, was built, in 1828, b^ means of a parodiial assessment to the amount of'^£286 7s. 9|d., and a loan of £1.100 from the Ute Board of First Fruits. Sittings 550; attendance 350. Another chapel-oCease, about 3^ miles distant from both the former and the parish- church, was built at Aghadrumsee in 1819, by means of a gift of £830 15s. 4id. from the late Board of First FruiU. Sittings 250; attendanee 220. Two meeting-houses belonged to the General Assembly, the one formerly of the Synod of Ulster, and the other Secessional, hare an attemlanee of respectively 200 and 125. Two Wesleyan meeting-houses at Clones and Smithsborough are attended* the former by 180, and the latter by 40. Two Roman Catholic chapels at Clones and Aghadrumswords are attended by 2,280 and 862 ; two at Roaska and Magherarny are attended by 1,800 and 500; and, in the Roman Catholic parochial arrangement, nch two are mutually united. In 1884, the jpariahioners consisted of 7.027 Churchmen, 1,054 Presbyterians, and 13,789 Roman Catholics; a Roman CathoUe Sunday school at Clones was averagely attended by 400 children, — a Sunday school at Clough, by 90, — and 10 schools of the General Sunday school Sodety. at Clones, Aghadrumsee, Gortuawinney, Magfaeravilly, Drumavaddy, Spring-grove, Tattenbar, wcQmount, Talloo, and Tanity, by 674 ; and 34 dsily schools had on their books 1,391 boys and 770 girls. Of the daily schools, one at Clough reeeired aid from the Association for DiscounteiumciiKViee ; one, at Magheravilly, was salaried with £B Ukfrom subscription ; 3, at Smithsborough, Gurastreet, and another locality, were in conneefeioa with the London Hibernian Society; 8, at Rossbrick, Largs, Granshaw, Magherarny, Aughnashalvey, Bruskena, Greaghawarren, and Deer- Park, were salaried by the National Board; and 10, at donkeen, Clononaken, Aghadrumsee, Clones, 8pri«ggrove, Magheravilly, Granshaw, Gortnawing, and Tattenbar, were ou the plan of the KUdare-Plaee Society.

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15. Roman Catholic chapels of Castletown and Kilmeedy united

    Kilmeedy · townland · Limerick · 1834–1841

    Two Roman Catholic chapels in Castletown and Kilmeedy, within the parish of Corcomohide, each had an attendance of 1,100 to 1,200 in the 1830s. In the Roman Catholic parochial arrangement, these two chapels were mutually united.

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    It lies 9 miles south of Ratbkemle; and it* Limmck section contains the village of Balltaqrak: wbick see. Area of the Cork section, 440 Bcres; of tke Limerick section, 9,573 acres. The Census of 1831 takes no notice of the Cork section, and includes the Limerick section within the parish of Castutown: which see. Pop., in 1841, of the Cork section, 139; of the Limerick section, 5.804; of the rural districts of the Limerick section, 5,671. Houses in these respectively, 22,956, and 986. The surface is hilly and tumulated, and Ues comparativelj hi^ yet consists of fertile and even rich land, with anutermizture of valuable bog. The drainage is maiolj effected by head-streams of the Deel and the Blajg. —The ecclesiastical parish of Corcomohide comprises the three districts of Kilxebdt, Castletowv, aad Drumcolloheb [see these articles] ; and is a vicarage, and a separate benefice, in the dio. of Limerick. Length, 9 miles ; breadth, 6 ; area, 23,276 acres. Pop., in 1881, 10,742. Vicarial tithe compositioD and gross income, £330; nett, £275 6s. Patroa, the vicars choral of Limerick cathedral. The rectorial tithes are compounded for £570, and are impropriate in the representatives of the late Countess of Ormonde. The church is a yery old bnilding, and in a state of disrepair and even dilapidation. Sittincrs 40; attendance, about 10. Two Roman Catholic chapels in Castletown and Kihneedy, hare each an attendance of from 1,100 to 1,200 ; and, is the Roman Catholic parochial arrangement, are mutually united. The Roman Catholic chapel in DmmcoUoher has an attendance of 1,200 ; and, in the Roman Catholic parochial arrangement, u united to the chapel of Killaliathan. In 1834, the Protestants amounted to 91, and the Roman CaUiolics to 11,102; and 14 daily schools had on their books 5S2 bon and 289 girls. One of the schools was salaried with £10 from Mr. Stevelty, and gratuitously educated 14 children ; and another was salaried with £10 lOi. from Colonel White, and gratuitously educated 10 children.

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16. Roman Catholic diocesan college at Monaghan

    Monaghan · town · Monaghan

    The Roman Catholic diocese of Clogher has its diocesan college situated at Monaghan. The diocese comprises 37 parishes with 35 parochial and 52 coadjutor clergy.

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    The Roman Catholic DiWcM.]~Tbe Rcunan r^itholic diocese of Clogher is separate, and without annexation; it is distributed into 37 parishes; its bishop resides at Carrickraacross; its chapter consists of 7 individuals ; its diocesan college is at Monaghan ; its bishop's parishes a#e Carricknacrost and Clogher ; and the number of its parodiial and its coadjutor clergy is respectively 35 and 52. The designations of its parishes, together with the sites of their respective chapels are — 1. Garrickmacroes, — Carrickmucross. CordufT Mountain, and Corereagh ;

    2. Donainoine.— Donamoine, Lisdoonan, and Tania;

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17. Rose Countess of Antrim entombed beneath choir

    near Carrickfergus · town · Antrim · 1682

    Beneath the choir of Carrickfergus parish church lie the remains of Rose, Countess of Antrim, who died in 1682, along with several other illustrious persons. Fragments of escutcheons that formerly decorated the walls and belonged to noble families related to the Countess are thrown aside.

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    referable to any particular style of architecture ; it measures 132 feet in length, but is of very unequal breadth; and it appears to have been cruciform, ver^ narrow, and most inconveniently low. Its interior indicates great neglect ; and its choir — ^hear, ye lovers of the fine arts ! — is whitewashed. The chancel window and two small windows in the west are of stained glass ; they belonged to the private chapel of Dangan, formerly the seat of the Marquis of Welleslcy, in the county of Meath, and were presented to the parish by George Burleigh, Esq. of Burleigh-hill ; and the first contains a tolerably well-executed representation of Christ's baptism in the Jordan. The vestry-room was erected by Dean Dobbs, and contains a monument to his memory. Beneath the choir. Rose, Countess of Antrim, who died in 1682, and several other illustrious persons, lie entombed. Several fragments exist, but are thrown aside, of escutcheons which formerly decorated the walls, and belonged to various noble families related to the Countess. The north transept is the pro* perty of the Marquis of Donegal, and contains the once splendid monument of the Chichester familv; but is in a state of disrepair, and is walled off from the other parts of the church. The monument formerly possessed superbness and beauty to nearly as high a degree as these properties comport with the idea of a sepulchral erection ; was constructed of marble and alabaster ; and consists of several chambers and niches, occupied with large and small effigies in the costume of life. The principal figures are Sir Arthur Chichester, first Baron of Belfast, and his lady, in a kneeling posture, fronting each other, and represented with long robes and ruffs ; between them, their infant son ; and, in a compartment below, a sculpture in armour and in a praying posture, of Sir John Chichester, who was captured in a sally firom the town against James MacSorley MacDonnell, E^rl of Antrim, and beheaded on a stone at Glynn. On black tablets, in front of the pedestal, are inscriptions in praise of the courage and virtues of the knights who lie buried beneath; and over the inside entrance of the transept is a white marble tablet, surmounted by a coronet, and bearing a long Latin in^^cription to the memory of Arthur, third Earl of Donegal, who was killed in Spain in 1706. An octagonal spire was, in 1778, erected upon the tower of the church, at an expens^e of about £500, chiefly raised by subscription. — The Presbyterian roeeting-housc, originally in connection with the Synod of Ulster, and associated during a series of years in the present century with the name of Dr. Reid, the historian of Presbyterianism in Ireland, is a neat modern structure, situated 120 yards north of the parish-church. The Covenanters* meeting-house, so long associated with the name of Dr. Paul, is a plain structure, in the Irish Quarter. The small Independent chapel adjoins the West Quay, in the vicinity of the castle. The Methodists* chapel draws attention principally in connection with the fact, that Methodism was introduced to the town, in 1752, by some soldiers of the 42d Royal Highlanders. The Roman Catholic chapel, a plain building, adjoins a burying-ground in the western environs of the Irish Quarter. — The Franciscan monastery, to which the present parish-church belonged as a chapel, is variously stated to have been founded, in 1232, 1243, and 1253, by Hugh de Lacy, or by O'Neil. General Fitzmaurice, Richard de Burgh, and one of the Earls of Ulster, were interred within the pile. In 1408, Hugh Mac Adam MacGilmore, who is said to have destroyed forty ecclesiastical edifices, and who previously tore from the windows of this monastery their iron bars, fled to it for refuge, and was soon after assassinated within it by gome

    Internet Archive parliamentaryga00unkngoog, Chapter 193

18. Rospenna House swallowed by sand near Carrigart

    Carrickart · townland · Donegal · 1784–1846

    Near Carrigart in Donegal, vast accumulations of sand have covered parts of the narrow peninsula. Rospenna House, the seat of the late Lord Boyne, stood about a mile north of the village as late as 1784, but by 1846 no vestige remained—all covered with sand.

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    CARRIGART, or Carrickart, a village in the parish of Mevagh, barony of Kilmacrenan, co. Donegal, Ulster. It is the site of the parish-church, and stands about 3 miles north of Glen, on the isthmus between Sheephaven and Mulroy bay, and at the entrance of the wild and desolate peninsula of Rosaguil. Roads extend from it to the wretched fishing hamlets on the coasts of the peninsula. Mr. Eraser, speaking of the district around the village, says, " The shoals render the navigation of the estuaries, which run far inland, dangerous ; and the drifting sands have covered several parts of the narrow peninsula lying between them. Close to Carrigart, there are vast accumulations of sand. About a mile north of that village, so late as 1784, stood Ro«- penna-house, the seat of the late Lord Boyne ; now, not a vestige is to be seen — all is covered with sand." Area of the village, 13 acfes. Pop., in 1841, 317. Houses 64.

    CARRIGDOWNANE, or Carrigdownio, » parish in the barony of Fermoy, 5 miles south-west of Mitchellstown, co. Cork, Munster. Length, 1 mile ; breadth, half-a-mile ; area, 797 acres. Pop., in 1831, 219 ; in 1841, 245. Houses 36. The sur* face lies along the right bank of the Puncheon, and wholly consists of excellent land. — This parish ia a rectory, and a separate benefice, in the dio. of Cloyne. Tithe composition, £90; glebe, £13. Gross income, £102; nett, £90 10s. Patron, the diocesan. The church of the neighbouring parish of Nathlash, 1 mile distant, serves for the Protestant parishioners. In 1834, the Protestants amounted to 4, and the Roman Catholics to 227.

    Internet Archive parliamentaryga00unkngoog, Chapter 196

19. Rostrevor described as the prettiest village in Ireland

    near Rostrevor · town · Down

    The village of Rostrevor, across Carlingford Bay from the town, is described as the prettiest village in Ireland. Its brilliant sunshine is contrasted with the gloom over Carlingford, symbolising the relative prosperity of the two settlements.

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    the stair.like form, or with the succession of natural rocky terraces which suggested to the Grernoans the general name of the trappean formations, and flings so hroad a shadow over the town that the inhabitants, during a great part of summer, lose sight of the sun several hours before he sets in the horizon. This gloom upon Carlingford, contrasted with the brilliant play of the sun upon the beauteous bay and upon the opposite village of Rosstrevor, the prettiest village in Ireland, is a type of both its social and physical condition as compared to the eomfort and prosperity of many a seat of population within a semicircle of 50 miles around it. Some trifling quantities of com and other provisions are exported to London ; and a small retail trade exists for the supply of a district hardly exceeding the limits of the parish. The chief employment is the oyster fishery in the bay. A quay was erected by a merchant of the town at his own expense ; and is kept in repair by means of a wharfage of 2d. per ton exacted from coasting vessels. Sailing-boats lie off shore, in a sandy bay, opposite the village; small vessels anchor, half-a-mile to the northward, on a bottom of mud ; and large vessels lie still farther away in what is treated as the chief anchorage. In 1830, the craft of Carlingford employed in the fisheries — though these are manifestly to be understood of the whole bay, and perhaps of even a considerable portion of coast beyond — were 22 decked vessels with 161 men, 22 half-decked vessels with 154 men, 10 open sail boats with 50 men, and 440 row boats with 2,206 men. A fair is held on Oct. 10; a right exists by charter to hold several other fairs, and also a Tuesday and a Saturday weekly market. A dispensary in the town is within the Dundalk Poor-law union ; and, in 1839, it expended £95 3s., and administered to 750 patients. A Loan Fund, in 1841, had a capital of £62G, circulated £2,921 in 956 loans, realized £78 17s. 7d. of nett profit, and expended £85 on charitable purposes. In 1833, there were not 30 houses in the town of £10 yearlv value.

    Internet Archive parliamentaryga00unkngoog, Chapter 185

20. Round tower and Norman chapel of sandstone

    Cashel · town · Tipperary

    The round tower and a little Norman chapel on the Rock of Cashel are constructed of sandstone not found within several miles, while all other edifices on the Rock are of limestone.

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    the petty kings of Munster formerly paid their tribute to their superior potentate. Our guide pointed out to us, with considerable ostentation, the marks made b^ the ' rattling ' of the coined gold, and added emphatically, ' Ah, there were no absentees to take it from u<«, m them days!'" — Detached from all the other buildings, and much more inconsiderable and uninteresting than any of them, are the ruins of an old monastery, the original abbey of * St. Mary's of the Rock of Cashel,' and alleged to communicate with the less ancient one, called Hore Abbey, in the vale below, by a subterranean passage bored from the summit or tableau of the Rock. A military wall, some bastions of which were in existence toward the end of the 1 8th century, surrounds the platform on which the various buildings stand, and completes the singular and very diversified group of ancient masonry which crowns the Rock of Cashel. The round tower, and a little Norman chapel nearly opposite to it, are constructed of a kind of sandstone, none of which is found in, situ within several miles of Cashel ; and all the other edifices on the Rock are constructed of limestone.

    Internet Archive parliamentaryga00unkngoog, Chapter 200

21. Royal Charter School at Clontarf, 1749

    Clontarf · parish · Dublin · 1749

    A substantial building near Clontarf, ornamented with a fine portico, pillars, tower and cupola, was opened in 1749 as a royal charter school for 100 boys. It has since been converted into private dwellings.

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    the town stands a building, substantial, capacious, and of some architectural pretension, which was occupied till of late as a royal charter school, but is now converted into private dwellings. It was opened in 1749 for 100 boys ; and was ornamented with a fine portico and pillars, and with a tower and a

    cupola Near the castle stands the parish-church, a

    Internet Archive parliamentaryga00unkngoog, Chapter 219

22. Royal Cork Yacht Club and Little Monkstown Club

    Monkstown · townland · Cork · 1828

    The Royal Cork Yacht Club, originally the Cork Harbour Water Club, was remodelled in 1828 by members of the Little Monkstown Club. It played a significant and influential role in the maritime written affairs of the city.

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    Cork Society for Promoting the Fine Arts, was established about the year 1815 ; and seeks to elicit and improve native talent by keeping an assemblage of models, casts, and other materials of study, and by an annual exhibition of pictures from the old masters, from living painters of merit, and from neophyte aspirants for artistic celebrity Other literary institutions are the Cuvierian Society, the Horticultural Society, the Mechanics' Institute, and the numerous schools, public, classical, and miscellaneous, noticed in our article on the County of the City. —The Royal Cork Yacht Club is the quondam Cork Harbour Water Club, remodelled, in 1828, by some members of the Little Monkstown Club ; and it

    figures largely and infliienUally in the maritime walU ten of the city, yet belongs less to Cork than t« CoYK : pee that article.— The dtiient of Cork an noted for their attachment to bistriouic and mmeil exhibitions; and have, we belitfire, no fewer thm three public theatres, and a corresponding number oft musical societies. — In 1844, the Cork prem mmtained, in addition to some minor periodieab, the three newspapers — the Cork Conatitutiim, the Cork Examiner, and the Cork Southern Reporter, each published thrice a-week.

    Internet Archive parliamentaryga00unkngoog, Chapter 234

23. Ruin of Tieroghan (Queen Mary's Castle) in Clonard parish

    Clonard · town · Meath

    In the southern part of Clonard parish stands the ruin of Tieroghan, also called Queen Mary's Castle. The parish surface is described as a dreary flat expanse of bogs, marshes, and meadows, largely overflown at times by the Boyne and connected with the outskirts of the Bog of Allen.

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    CLONARD, a parish in the barony of Upper Moyfenragh, co. Meath, Leinster. Length, westward, 6| miles ; breadth, from 3 furlongs to 4k miles; area, 13,324 acres, 34 perches, ~ of which 31 acres, I rood, 4 perches are in the river Boyne, and 10 acres, 2 roods, 2 perches arc in Lough Crobog. Pop., in 1831, 4,370; in 1841, 4.503. Houses 783. It con. tains the villages of Clonard* Lonowood, and Hardwood : see these articles. The riTer Boyne, here totally without character, and presenting the appearance of a large bog ditch, traces the boundary with the county of Kildare, and then runs across the small eastern wing of the parish around Longwood. The parochial surface is prevailingly a dreary flat expanse of bogs, marshes, meadows, and prosaie tields— largely overflown at times by the Boyne — and not a little intimately connected with the outskirts of the Bog of Allen. The land, after dedocU ing the bogs, is all of inferior quality, yet may be divided into nearly equal parts of good bad, better bad, and best bad. The interior is bisected westward by the Royal Canal, and by the great rood from Dublin to Connaught, and north-north-east* ward by the road from Philipstown to Trinu In the south stands the ruin of Tieroghan, or Queen Biary's Castle. Other objects and associations ot interett will be noticed in connection with the village. — This parish is a vicarage in the dio. of Meath. Vicarial tithe composition, £161 10s. Od. ; glebe, £60. The ree^ torial tithes are compounded for £323 Is. O^d., and are impropriate in Captain Ashe of Drogheda. The vicarages of Clonard and Killton [see that article] constitute the benefice of Clonard. Length, 6 miles ; breadth, 5. Pop., in 1831, 5,171. Gross iocome, £207 13s. lOd. ; nett, £230 4s. 6d. Pktnm, the diocesan. The church was built in 1810, partly by means of a loan of £369 4s. 7id. from the late Board of First Fruits. ** The church,** says a notiee published in Dec. 1834, *'is dangerously damp; the steeple, when I saw it, was used as a turf-honse; nay, one of the pews in the aisle, was, at the time I visited Clonard, filled up to the top with turf; and the ricketty and filthy-looking commumon-4afate would be a disgrace to the meanest kitchen la the country." Sitting^s 250; attendance, from 150 to 200. Alternate Wednesday lectures are delirered al Longwood and Tycroghan. The Roman Catholic cha> pels in Clonard village, in Longwood, and in RiUyoOa have an attendance respectively of from 700 to 80QL 700, and from 500 to 600 ; and, in the Rom ' lie parochial arrangement, the leeond and the

    Internet Archive parliamentaryga00unkngoog, Chapter 210

24. Ruins and Eagle's Nest on Lough Carragh, Co. Kerry

    near Glencar · population centre · Kerry

    A boat trip on the lower Lough Carragh reveals an island known as the Castle, with views of MacGillycuddy's Reeks and the Glencar mountains. Mackanagh Island bears ruins of an ancient chapel, and the channel to the upper lake features a bold crag called the Eagle's Nest, more precipitous than its Killarney namesake.

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    an excellent and interesting^ road. '* Taking boat Ht any of the cottages on the lower lake," says the author of * The Guide to Killarney/ ** the visiter hhould row for an island known as the Castle, from which he will have the gratitication of beholding MacGilliciuldy's Reeks and the Glencar mountains ill decidedly their finest point of view; he should then proceed along the eastern shore to Mackanagh inland, on which are the ruins of an ancient chapel. Now commences the channel to the upper lake. The ino^t prominent feature in its scenery is a bold crag, called the Eagle's Nest, still more precipitous than its grand and beautiful namesake at Killamey. 'I'he oontra<*t between the wild sterility of this and the bri^'ht verdure of tlie wooded and undulatini? lands, — the green foreground relieved by the deep blue of the surrounding hills, in consequence of whose va< rung altitudes the waters of the lake are seen in every variety of light and shade, — all these present at once a scene of fascinating beauty, a magical Cdinhination of the sublime and soft, which, never failing to draw forth the warmest admiration when iir>t beheld, insure the mountain-lakes a lasting place among the most pleasing recollections of the intelligent tourist." The lakes abound in trout and salmon; and produce what the country people call a lub, and what the * Sportsman in Ireland' describes n< " a bastard between the common and the sea or white trout."

    CARRAHUBBOCK, a creek in the barony of Tyrera^'h, 4 miles west-south-west of EUuikey, co. Slik'o, Connaught. It presents facilities for the for. ination of a good fishing-harbour ; and its proprietor, Mr. Howley, offered materials, several years ago, for a harbour or a lighthouse.

    Internet Archive parliamentaryga00unkngoog, Chapter 191

25. Ruins of Amigan Castle and Cappa Castle near Croagh

    Croagh · townland · Limerick

    The village of Croagh, formerly a corporate town, has in its vicinity the remains of Amigan Castle and the tall ruins of the ancient castle of Cappa. The parish church, situated in the village, was formerly collegiate. Six almshouses were founded and endowed by John Walcott, Esq., for six poor widows.

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    CUOACSil, a parish, containing a village of the same name, in the barony of Lower Connello, 3 mile> north-east by north ot Rathkeale, co. Limerick, M Ulster. Length, 4 miles; breadth, 2; area, 7.221 ueres. Pop., in 1831, 3,394; in 1841, 3,185. Houses />01. The surface is flat, tame, and apparently poor, >et eon-'i-^ts, for the most part, of good tillage land. 'I' lie road from Liuierick to Rathkeale runs through the interior. Among the mansions are Ballinvirigh, Smythiield, and Ballyline. The village of Croagb, though now little more than an obscure hamlet, was aneiently a corporate town. In its vicinity are one or two of the mansions, the remains of Amiganea^tle, and the tall ruins of the ancient castle of <'appa. In the village are six almshouses, founded an«l endowed by John Walcott, Esq., for six poor widows. The parish-churcb, situated at the village, was fornjerly collegiate. Fairs are held on March I, May 1, Aug. 3, and Nov. 1. Area of the village, 8 acres. Pop., in 1831, 274; in 1841, 187. Houses 37— Thi-< parish is a rectory, a prebend, and a separate benefice, in the dio. of Limerick. Tithe composition, £553 \(U. lid.; glebe. XIG 7s. l|d. Gross income, X570 4^. O^d. ; nett, £474 18s. 8d. Patron, .^lutthew Barrington, Esq. A curate has a stipend ot £75. The church is a very old building. SittinK^ <)0; attendance, about 30. The Roman Catholic ' chapel has an attendance of from 600 to 700; and, in the Roman Catholic parochial arrangement, is united to the chapel of Kilfenny. In 1834, the Protectants amounted to 73, and the Roman Catholiec to 3,379; ajid 3 daily schools — one of which was jwiUried with X18 from the Baptist Society, and one with jtlO from the National Board— had on their book<i ir»| boyn and 135 girls. In 1840, the National Hoard had a school at Lishnamuck, and a boys' seh(H)I and a girls' ^^hool at Croagb.

    ('R().-\(iH.MORPX a lofty and conspicuous mountain in the parish of Ballintoy, barony of Carey, co. Antrim. I'Uter. On its summit are a large cairn and other sepulchral remains, — the subjects of nuii?iM«iiiH vafTue and incredible traditions.

    Internet Archive parliamentaryga00unkngoog, Chapter 234

26. Ruins of Augustinian abbey and St. Tigernach tradition

    Clones · town · Monaghan · 500–549

    On the south side of Clones stand the remains of an abbey for Augustinian canons, allegedly founded in the early 6th century and dedicated to St. Peter and St. Paul by St. Tigernach, a legendary bishop said to have removed the see of Clogher to Clones. A monastery at the site acquired landed property later given to Sir Henry Duke and eventually passing to Lord Dacre.

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    Antiquities ] — On the south side of the town, and separated into two groups by the road to Cootehill, stand some aiKMent buildings, ruins, and other monument-, which connect Clones with antiquity, and formerly rendered it a place of considerable celebrity. To the right are the remains of an abbey for Auguslinian canons, which is alleged to have been founded early in the (Jth century, and dedicated to St Peter atjd St. Patil, by a person whom legend, rather than history, calls the saint and bishop Tigernach of the blmMl royal, who removed the see of Clogher to Clones. Sir Charles Coote's version of the pretended liistory of this person and the abbey is probably as good as any other, and may be quoted for the purpo^^e of enabling perspicuous readers to surmise or ileteet the portion of fact out of which the legend was fabricated : — ** St. Tigernac wusthe third bishop who enjoyed the see of Clogher; St. Macartin only b.inng presided there between him and St. Patrick, whom Joceline states to have been the original fouTider, and to have built the church of Clogher, even before that of Armagh was erected. St. Tigeriiar, according to Ware, was called legate of Ireland, to whom St. Macartin, as far as in him lay, be- (jueathed the bivhoprick, together with his blessing. He lixed his seat at Cluaine, from whence, in the !ri-h annaU, he is called Cluanois ; for this town was itriu'inally nanied Cluanoi«i, then Clunes, Clownish, < " ii:ii-h. and la^t Clones. The church here was one of till tour principal churches of the diocese ; wherein, a- aUo in the ehtir<h of Derymoailain, the memory of St. Ti.'irnac i>i famous. He died the 5tb of April, .VjH. or .')^!>, on which day, in the martyrology of Mol.in. h\> <!iarh is thus noted: • In Scotland (i.e. th.' LPc itiT, or Ireland^ the birth-day of St. Tigernac, lii-l.op .ind conft'-^or."* The story adds, that St. 'iijv'rii.ich lo*t his >ight in his old age, died of the pi ijuf, a:i(l *' w.iH buried in the church of Cluanois," 'i'lie ritention of the name of ** St. Tierney," in the (1» -ijnation of the manor, and probably in various oth( r a>iMMiations with the town, will, of course, | appear to simpletons some evidence that everything t the ecr!r-ia-tiral annalists allege respecting '* the ! bi>hop" and tounder of **the abbey' is true. A | ii.oii.i-t.Ty whi<'h eventually stooil at the south end I

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27. Ruins of Bright and Screen castles overlook road

    Bright · townland · Down

    The road from Killough to Downpatrick in Bright parish is overlooked by the ruins of two old castles, Bright and Screen. The parish also contains Oakley, the seat of James Binney, Esq., and the hamlet of Ballynoe.

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    BRIGHT, a parish in the barony of Lecale, in the vicinity of Ardglass, and 3 miles south by east of Downpatrick, co. Down, Ulster. Length, southsouth-eastward, 4| miles ; breadth, 2} ; area, 5,544^ acres, — of which 17 acres, 14 perches, are water. Pop., in 1831, 2,030; in 1841, 1,886. Houses 338. The land, though light, is arable and good. The road from Killough to Downpatrick traverses the interior ; and is overlooked by the ruins of the old castles of Bright and Screen. Oakley, the seat of James Binney, Esq., stands about 2^ miles east of the road. The hamlet of Ballynoe stands on the north-west border. A southerly projection of the parish descends to the west side of Killough bay. >— This parish is a rectory and a separate benefice in the dio of Down. Tithe composition, £538 I8s. 9d. Gross income, £443 lis. 6d. ; nett, £325 17s. 2d. Patron, the Crown. The rectorv was formerly appropriate to the deanery of Down ; but, by order in Council of 31st Oct, 1834, it was disunited thence, and incorporated, as a separate benefice, with a perpetual

    curacy which had been established in the pirisli | and, by the same order, the tithes of the townlande of Errenagh, Castle-Screen, Ballynoe, and Cunnianatown, were annexed to the deanery, and those of the townlands of Carradrossex and Comroonreagh, formerly belonging to the incumbent of Rilcli^ were annexed to the rectory. The church was built, in 1745, chiefly at the expense of Daniel Delany, demo of Down. Sittings 200; attendance, from 80 to 100. The Roman Catholic chapel has an attendance of about 500; and, in the Roman Catholic parodiial arrangement, is united to the chapels of Killough and Rossglass. In 1834, the parishioners consisted of 394 Churchmen, 246 Presbvterians, and 1,390 Roman Catholics ; and 2 daily sdiools — one of which was aided with £10 a-year from the National Board —had on their books 102 boys and 65 girls.

    Internet Archive parliamentaryga00unkngoog, Chapter 181

28. Ruins of Castle-Brack and Roskeen castle, Queen's County

    Castlebrack · townland · Laois

    The castle from which the parish of Castle-Brack takes its name has long been in ruins, as has Roskeen castle located a little to the north of it. The only mansion in the parish is Cappalough.

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    CASTLE-BRACK, a parish on the norther border of the barony of Tinnehinch, and of Queen' CO., 6 miles west by north of Portarlington, Leinstei Length, south-eastward, 5^ miles ; breadth, from 1 mile to 2\ ; area, 9,275 acres, 3 roods, 24 perchei Pop., in 1831, 1,855; in 1841. 1,924. House 318. The castle whence the parish has its name ha long been in ruins ; and Roskeen castle, a little t the north of it, is also a ruin. The only mansion i Cappalough. A large proportion of the parochii surface is bog. The highest ground is in the nortl west, and has an altitude above sea-level of 488 feel The nascent Barrow flows some miles on the hour <lary. and takes leave at a surface elevation abov sea-level of 235 feet. Fairs are held at the village c hamlet of Castle- Brack on May 15, Aug. 12, Nov. II — This parish is a vicarage, and part of the benefic of Oreoan [which see], in the dio. of Kildare. Tfa vicarial tithes are compounded for £70 Os. lOd., an the rectorial for £140 Is. 8d. ; and the latter at impropriate in General Dunne of Bi ittas. The Re man Catholic chapel has an attendance of 500 ; mat in the Roman Catholic parochial arrangement, i united to the chapel of Rosenallis. In 1834, tfa Protestants amounted to 126, and the Roman Cath< lies to 1,724; and two daily schools—one of whic was in coimection with the National Board — ^had o their books 57 boys and 63 girls.

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29. Ruins of Castle-Carey near Cushendun

    Cushendun · townland · Antrim

    In the vicinity of Cushendun stand the ruins of Castle-Carey, described as uninteresting, along with Cushendun-house, the seat of E. A. MacNeill, Esq.

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    Britain ; but, thoagh it may bare subsenred the intimate connection which in ancient times existed between the Irish and the Scottish Dalriada, it communicates with too remote a part of Scotland — ^the very point of the long peninsula of Kintyre — ^to be brought into subserviencv to the purposes of modem intercommunication. The Cushendun dispensary is within the Ballycastle Poor-law union, and has a district of 22,916 acres, with a population of 4,075; and, in 1839-40, it expended £77 13s. 9<)., and administered to 820 patients. Fairs are held on the first Wednesday of Feb., April, June, August, Oct., and Dec. In the vicinity are Cushendun -house, E. A. MacNeill, Esq., and the uninteresting ruins of Castle-Carey. About 300 yards from the mouth of the Dun, in a curious and rare conglomerate, beneath a cliff 1234 feet in height, are a series of interesting caves, one of which, of very considerable magnitude^ is used for housing cattle in winter, and two are used as car-houses, boat-houses, and in various other capacities. Pop. of the village not specially returned.

    CUSHIER (The), a rivulet of co. Armagh, Ul- Fter. It rises near Portnorris, and not far from the centre of the county ; and runs about 1 1 miles northnorth-eastward, past the village of Clare, and through the town of Tanderagee, to the Newry Canal.

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30. Ruins of Castle Carra near Cushendun

    Cushendun · townland · Antrim

    The ruins of Castle Carra stand a little north of Cushendun in County Antrim, along the picturesque coast road toward Ballycastle. The castle is one of several antiquarian features along this coast.

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    CULFEIGHTRIN, a parish on the coa«t of the barony of Carey, 1| mile east of Ballycastle, co. Antrim. Ulster. Lengthy 7 milcit ; breadth, 5} ; area, 26.^37 acres 3 rood*. 21 perches. Pop., in 1831, 5.012: in 1841, 4,577. Houses 803. It occupies the north-eaxt corner of the county, from the vicinity of Ballycaotle, round to the village of Cushendun. About 10,000 acres are arable ; and the remainder coMiii»ts alinO'it wholly of heathy mountain. The coa<t possesses some of the most romantic and richly picturesque sections of the magnificent seaboard range, both basaltic and conglomerate, of the county ; but, in it;« chief features of scenic interest, it will be noticed under the words Fair-Head, Tor, Murloch, and CtJSHENDUN; and in its mining features it has already been noticed under the word Ballycastle: see these articles. The coast-road from Cushendun to Ballycastle abounds in attractions for the mineralogist and the geologist, presents to the man of taste unsurpassed boldness and sublimity, and almost endless sources of admiration and astonishment, and offers to the poet, the painter, and the antiquary, splendid views acro-«s the North Channel, and various incentives to reflection on the ancient intercourse between the Irish and the Scottish Dalriadas; but this road is practicable only for pedestrians. Adjacent to Cushendun are the mansion and grounds of Mr. .MacNeill; a little farther north are the ruins of Castle-Carra ; thence to the bay of Murloch, beyond the point of Tor, extend the clitfs of Cu-hleak, con^i^tiiig of micaceous schist, with subordinate beds of primitive limestone, syenite, and felspar porphyry; projecting from the«4e clirfs is the headland of Tor, crowned with the ruins of the great fort ; farther on is the bay of Murloch, with its curious admixtures of micaceous schist, basalt, and conf;Iomerate ; thence to Fair Head, the ba^e of the cliffs is strewn with enormous fragments, chiefly of columnar greenstone. Fair Head itself presents an unrivailed display of columnar basaltic masses soaring into cliff'i ; and finally occur the curious abandoned coal-mines noticed in the article on Ballycastle. The hills which rise inland from the cliffs of Cushleak become covered with be<Is of red sandstone and chalk : and the summits of some of the highest are capped with basalt. The detached conical hill of Drimnakill, to the north of Murloch bay, exhibits a vast subsided mass of columnar greenstone, thrown together with such confusion as to seem almost chaotic. Two other roads than the shore one, lead through the interior of the parish from Cushendun to Ballycastle; and, though both are practicable for carriages, the more inland is the superior in both facility and sctnery This road crosses the river Dun ; leaves the long, narrow, fertile Glendun to the west ; a<i>cends Grange-hill ; traverses 4 miles of wild, dreary, unprofitable moor; and then — to bor* row the de»cripiioii given in Curry's * Guide to the Giant's Cau-eway' — *' the Inland of Raghery appears in tioMt, the Pap« of Jura in the distance, and the strait between Riu:hery and Fair Head. To the left, acru'i'4 the inuuntain country, are discovered the lotty hilU of Knocklade, 1.820 feet high, and Sliebh-ni-aura, 1.530 above the level of the ocean. Ballycastle soon becomes visible in the low country to the left ; and beyond it. projecting into the ^ea. j are seen the -^iiow- white c.iff:* ot Kenluian. As the \ traveller is above Fair Head, the flat table-land upon \ it* summit, and the little loughi which have collected j

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31. Ruins of church and castle at Boytonrath

    Boytonrath · townland · Tipperary

    The parish of Boytonrath in Co. Tipperary contains the ruins of a church and a castle, alongside the seats of Boytonrath and Belleview. The Clonmel-to-Golden road passes along its east side.

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    BOYTONR ATH, a parish in the barony of Middletbird, 3| miles south- south-west of Cashel, co. Tipperary. Munster. Length, I^ mile; breadth, H; area, 991 acres, 2 roods, 23 p'erches. Pop., in 1831, 331; in 1841, 255. Houses 37. The seats are Boytonrath and Belleview ; and the only other objects of interest are the ruins of a church and a castle. The road from Clonmel to Golden impinges on the east — This parish is a wholly impropriate rectory, in the dio. of Cashel. The tithes belong to the vicars choral of Cashel ; and a stipend is paid to a neighbouring clergyman for the performance of its occasional duties. It has neither church nor chapel. In 1834, the Protestants amounted to 4, and the Roman Catholics to 344; and 2 pav daily schools had on their books 77 boys and 36 girls.

    BRABAN. See Prbban.

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32. Ruins of Clonmacnoise: towers, churches, crosses, castle

    Clonmacnoise · townland · Offaly

    The ruins at Clonmacnoise span from the earliest period of stone architecture in Ireland to the close of the 12th century, comprising two pillar towers, fragments of monasteries, various churches and cells, monumental crosses, and the vestige of an episcopal castle. Most structures were small, rough-built cells erected by princes as sepulchres, now reduced to rubble.

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    The ruins at Clonmacnoise are of Tarioas dates, from probably the earliest period of stone architecture in Ireland down to about the close of the 12th century, or in one or two instances considerably later. They consist of two pillar towers, the fragments of two monasteries, the remains of various churches, cells, and chapels, some monumental crosses, and the ghastly and lumpish vestige of a palatial or episcopal castle ; but, excepting the towers, one of the churches, two of the crosses, and one or two inconsiderable fragments, they have been reduced to nearly un amorphous and rubbishy mass ; and, even when they were entire, they appear to have been aggregately so plain and occasionally rude in architecture as to afford little incentive to description. The churches, or piles which have been dignified by that name, were erected by princes and chieftains principally if not solely as places of sepulture ; and, with probably no more than one exception, they were small, clumsy, shabby structures^mere rough-built cells. Archdall, who could not lose so ample an occasion of displaying the magniloquence of his antiquarianism, says, ** The several founders named these churches as follows: Temple Righ, or Melaghlin's Church, built by O'Melaghlin, King of Meath, and to this day it is the burying-place of that family ; 'J'cmple O'Conor, built by O'Conor Don; Temple Kelly ; Temple Finian or MacCarthy, built by Mac- Cart hy More of Muiister ; Temple Hurpan, or Mac- Laffy's Church ; Temple Kteran; Temple Ouanev; Temple Doulin, which is now the parish-church; and Temple MacDermott." The great field of ruins owes nearly all the picturesque effect which it posse«ises to the two pillar-towers ; it expands in such a sheet of architectural desolation, as oppresses the observer on even a near view with the idea of monotony, and gloom, and utter ruin ; and, when examined in detail, it presents comparatively few objects of either architecture, sculpture, or historical association, with which a chaste mind can be gratified.

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33. Ruins of old church of Clonmel near Cove

    Clonmel · parish · Cork

    The ruins of the old church of Clonmel stand in a valley about a mile from Cove, surrounded by a densely-filled cemetery. Many tombstones bear the names of strangers, chiefly seafaring persons.

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    CLONMEL, a parish in the baronv of Barrymore, and in the immediate vicinity of (5ove. co. Cork, Munster. It contains the village of Whitepoint, and part of the town of Cove : see these articles. Length, d( miles ; breadth. 3 ; area, 3,197 acres. Pop., in 1831, 2,869; in 1841. 2.564. Houses 413. Pop. of the rural districts, in 1841, 1,950. Houses 302. Various authorities, including the Census of 1831. treat Clonmel and Templerobin as one parish. Length, 6 miles ; breadth. 3 ; area, 6.791 acres. Pop., in 1831. 11.069. Houses 1.310. Clonmel proper consists principally of the western part of Great Island ; and the united parish consists of Great Island, Hawlbowling Island, Spike Island, and the Rocky Islands, all situated in Cork Harbour. The coasts, the surfiice. and most objects of interest will be noticed in the articles Cove. Great Island, Hawlbowling and Spire: which see. In the valley which extends from the hill above Cove, and at the distance of about a mile from that town, stands the ruins of the old church of Clonmel amidst a denselyfilled cemetery. A large proportion of the names on the tombstones are those of strangers, chiefly seafaring persons ; and a common ground near the west end of the church contains, in some undistinguished spot, and amidst general burial, the ashes of Tobin, the author of ** The Honeymoon," and those of the Rev. Charles Wolfe, the author of the well-known ** Lines on the Death of Sir John Moore." Tobin died within sight of the land around Cork Harbour, on a passage to the West Indies for the recovery of health ; and Wolfe, who was bom in 1791, and served as curate of Donoughmore in the dio. of Armagh, removed to Cove for the benefit of his health, in 1822, and died there of consumption in 1823. ** It is singular," remarks Mrs. Hall, *' that the literary fame of both Tobin and Wolfe was posthumous ; the world knew nothing of them or of their genius until their hearts were indifferent to praise, and their ears deaf to the voice of the charmer. How beautifully, and in what an affecting manner, did Sir Humphrey Davy picture the melancholy glory of posthumous fame in the prologue which he wrote for poor Tobins' comedy of the Honeymoon ! " — Clonmel parish is a vicarage in the dio. of Cloyne. Vicarial tithe comfiosition. £9*2 6s. 1^.; glebe, ^'60. The rectorial tithes are compounded for £184 12s. 3)d.. and are appropriated to the dean and chapter of Cloyne. The vicara^ of Clonmel, and the rectory of Templerobin, constitute a benefice which is variously designated Clonmel, Cove, and Great Island. Gross income, £496 12s. 8^d.: nett, £461 3s. lOid. Patron, the diocesan. The incumbent is also chancellor of Limerick and archdeacon of Tuam ; and. in the former capacity, holds the benefices of Rathkeale, Kilscannel. ClonoUjgh, Clonshire. and Dundonnell. in the dio. of Limerick. Two curates for Clonmel benefice have each a salary of £75 and the surplice fees. The church is situated in the town of Cove and parish of Templerobin ; and was built, in 1812. at the cost of £2,769 4s. 74d., —of which £1,846 3s. Id. was borrowed from the late Board of Fin>t Fruits, and £923 Is. 6|d. was raised by subscription. Sittings 750 ; attendance 700. A military chapel on Spike Island, an hospital on Spike Island, and a general hospital at Cove« all in connection with the Established church, have average congregations of respectively 150, 26, and 6. A Methodist chapel has an attendance of 100. Two

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34. Ruins of old parish church at Burnchurch

    Burnchurch · townland · Kilkenny · 1810

    Farmly, the seat of R. Flood, Esq., stands near the ruins of the old parish church of Burnchurch. A new church was built in 1810 by means of a parochial assessment and a loan from the late Board of First Fruits, with sittings for 100 and attendance of about 60.

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    BURNCUURCH, a parish in the barony of Shillelogher, 44 miles south-south-west of Kilkenny, co. Kilkenny, Leinster. Length, westward, 3^ miles ; breadth, 1 1 ; area, 3,363 acres, 2 roods, 37 perches. Pop., in 1841, 977. Houses 170. The territorial arrangements, previous to the adjustment of boundaries bv the Ordnance survey, assigned to this parish a large area in Shillelogher, and also a district in Galmoy. Pop.> in 1831, of the whole, 1,450; of the Shillelogher section, 1,184; of the Galmoy section, 266. The land is all profiUble, and chiefly in tillage. The road from Kilkenny to Carrick-on- Suir traverses the interior; and is intersected by a crosf-road from Ben net's -Bridge. Farmly, the seat of R. Flood, Esq., stands near the ruins of the old parish church ; and the only other noticeable seat is Bally mack. The hamlets are Bumchurch, Ballymack, Knockham, and Bully. Fairs are held at Barnchurch on Julv 25 and Oct 18.--Tbia parish is a vicarage in the dio. of Ossory. The vicarial and the rectorial tithes are each compounded for £160 6s. 3d. ; and the hitter are impropriate in the vicars choral of St. Patrick's cathedral, Dublin. The benefice of Burnchurch consists of more denominations, and is more perplexing in both its topography and its statistics, than probably any other in Ireland. The Fourth Report on Ecclesiastiod Revenues and Patronage, states it to consist of the vicarages of Burnchurch and Danesfort, the imi>ropriate cures of Kilfera and Pleberstown, and the rectories of Jerpoint-West, Ballvlinch, Grangelegan, Dunbella, Kilreegrange, Blacknew, Mollgrange, Blackrath, Orangelovan, and Rathbin ; and the same report incidentally mentions, as included in the benefice, the four adfiitional denominations of Woollenrange, Ardarra, Burrismore, and Lismatigue. The first Report of the Commissioners of Public Instruction omits some of the 18 denominations thus enumerated; introduces the additional denominations of Garran, Mocktown, and Abbey-Jerpoint ; and states that in Abbey-Jerpoint are included Pleberstown, Ardarra, and Lismatigue. Tet, as the two reports exactly coincide respecting the amount of population within the benefice, the^ must be regarded as diflfering only respecting the dutribution of the territory, and the adjustment of its topographical nomencUture. Another perplexing circumstance is, that some of the denonunations in the benefice have no territorial existence, and that others are variously called parbhes, granges, and townlands. The limitedness of our space will not permit an attempt to unravel the perplexities of this circumstance ; and we shall simply copy as it stands a Note in the Report on Revenues and Patronage : " Incumbent reports that he cannot state the breadth of the union, or the extent of the several members which comprise it : but that Burnchurch, Danesfort, and Kilfera, are contiguous, and separated from Woollengrange, Ballylinch, Dunbella, and West-Jerpoint, b^ the river Nore ; that Grangelegan is on the north side of Kilkenny; that the denominations of Ardarra and Burrismore, the former near Waterford, and the latter

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35. Ruins of Rindisart Castle overlooking Ballylickey cove

    near Ballylickey · population centre · Cork

    The cove of Ballylickey receives the Ouvane rivulet along the shores of Bantry Bay and is almost overlooked by the ruins of Rindisart Castle, one of several scenic features along the northern shore near Bantry.

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    south-west of Dunmanway, 45 south-west by west of Cork, and 171 south-west of Dublin. Hills of corrsiderable elevation almost surround it. On the south stands the mansion of the Earl of Bantry, encircled with its small but beautifully situated and handsomely embellished park. See SEACOvnt. On the east some respectable houses straggle up the lowef declivities, and are overhung by the magnificentlT panorama- vie wing Knock-na-fiach. On the nortn along the shores of the bay, at distances of from I mile to 4^ miles, are the romantic cove and cascade of Dunemarc, where the Moyalla leaps over a precipice of 20 feet into the sea, — the commanding vantagegrcHind behind Gurtenroe-house, whence Bantry bajT IS seen stretching from its bead at the spectator's feet in a long studded belt to the ocean, — the cove of Ballylickey, receiving the Ouvane rivulet, and almost overlooked by the ruins of Rindisart-castle, — the little estuary of the Coorloum looking up the deep< chasmy, impressive glen or gorge of the rivulet, — and the demesne of Ardnagashill, commanding, from' various points, a series of richly composed views athwart Bantry bay and its flanking Highlands. But the whole environs of the town are a natural museum, an absolute gallery of landscape ; and the towif itself is less a vestibule to the gallery, than a feature of uu terest in its centre.

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36. Ruins of sanctuary houses near Cahir church

    Caher · townland · Kerry · 1776

    Near the former church in Cahir parish, Kerry, are ruins of small houses built by locals as sanctuaries during wartime. According to Dr. Smith in 1776, privateers never plundered these refuge houses.

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    townofCAHiRCiVEEN: which see* length, 7 miles; breadth, 6; area, 19,100 acres. Pop., in 1831, 5,633 ; in 1841, 6,315. Houses 1,069. Pop. of the rural districts, in 1831, 4,461; in 1841, 4,823. Houses 854. The parish lies round Valentia Harbour, and the mouth of the Fartin river, but chieflr east and north-east of Valentia Island. Its prevailing character is that of boggy mountain. Yet though the views are wild and solitarj, the mountains go out in offsets to the very margin of the sea, and about one-half of the whole sur&ce is unprofitable, a considerable extent of land is naturally good, and much bog and moor have recentl;^ been reclaimed. A large estate, belonging to the university of Dublin, was described, upwards of half a century ago, at chiefly bog, verv reclaimable, and capable of being converted into nne meadow and pasture land. The well-known Daniel O'Connell was a native of the parish ; and both he and his kinsman, Charles O'Connell, as middlemen of much of its land, have contributed largely to its georgical improvement. The walls of the humble birth-place of D. O'Connell stand at the head of the Cahir river's estuary. Hillgrove, the neat cottage of C. O'Connell s agefit» stands a little to the west ; and Bahoss, the seat of C. O'Connell himself, stands somewhat inland. An old castle, called Littur, was built by the O'Sullivans* and afterwards possessed by a branch of the Macrehans. Ballycarbery castle stands opposite Cahirdveen: see Balltcarbert. Near Dowlas Head, whicb screens the north side of the entrance of Valentia Harbour, are several caves, — ** one of which," says Dr. Smith, " is so low as hardly to admit of a boat with a man standing up in it, but farther in, the roof is as high as that of a Gothic cathedral : in this cave there is a very small but confused echo ; but when a person speaks, the voice is so reverberated from side to side, as to seem louder than a speaking trumpet." — This parish is a rectory in the dio. of Ardtert and Aghadoe. Tithe composition, £226 ITs. Id. ; glebe, £98 14s. The rectories of Cahxr, Glenbeoh, and KiLLiNANE [see these articles], constitute the benefice of Cahir. Length, 17 miles ; breadth, 7. Pop.» in 1831, 11,227. Gross income, £656 5s. 7|c]. ; nett, £596 lOs. 4jd. Patron, the Crown. One curate has a stipend of £75; and another has, in lieu of stipend, the use of Cahir glebe. The church was built, in 1815, by means of a loan of £496 di. 2^. from the late Board of First Fruits. Sittings 70 ; attendance 40. The former church was stated by Dr. Smith, in 1776, to be the only one then in repair in the whole barony; and near it, says he, ** are the ruins of several small houses, built formerly by the neighbouring inhabitants, as places of sanctuary in time of war, which the pnvateers never plundered." The Roman Catholic chapel of Cahir has an attendance of 2,000 ; and, in the Roman Catholic parochial arrangement, is united to two chapels in the other parishes of the union. In 1634, the Protestants of the parish amounted to 113, and thd Roman Catholics to 5,913; the Protestants of the union to 164, and the Roman Catholics to 11,635. In the same year, the schools of the parish were a classical school supported by fees, a free-school sap^ ported by subscription, and a National school supported by £18 from the Board, £25 from Lord Lansdownc, and various sums from three members

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37. Salmon fisheries of the Bann at Coleraine

    near Coleraine · town · Derry · 1824

    The salmon fisheries of the Bann at Coleraine were important and afforded a considerable export. In July 1824, 750 fish were taken on one day, weighing two tons, and on one occasion an enormous 1,500 salmon were reportedly taken at a single haul.

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    at a low ebb in Coleraine. Several attempts at establishing a library have failed ; and I believe no private reading association exists. From 50 to 60 monthly periodicals" — from 50 to 60 co/iies of periodicals, we presume — "are taken in by the principal bookseller of Coleraine, which are chiefly circulated amongst the clergy and country gentlemen. * * * The salmon fisheries of the Baim at Coleraine are important, and aflTord a very considerable export: three and four hundred salmon have been more than once taken at a haul; and it is said that, on one occasion, the enormous number of 1,500 were taken at a haul. It is certain that 750 fish were taken on one day, in July, 1824, the weight of which reached two tons." The principal inns are the Commercial, the Corporation Arms, the Oak, the Swan, and the Queen's Arms.

    Poor-law Union^ ^r.l — The Coleraine Poor-law union ranks as the 88th ; and it was declared on Nov. 28, 1839. It lies partly in the county of Antrim, but chiefly in that of Londonderry ; and com;* prises an area of 175 square miles, or 112,176 acres', with a population, in 1831, of 50.940. Its electoral divisions m Antrim are 3 ; in Antrim and Londonderry, 3; and in I^ndonderry, 14. Those in Antrim, with their respective population, in 1831, are Portrush, 2,549,— Beardyville, 2,357,— Bushmills, 2,659 ; in Antrim and Londonderry, Knockantern, S,307t'-* Ballvlagan, 2,062,— Port- Stewart, 2,932; in Londonderry, Coleraine, 6,645. — Bannbrook, 1,791, — Articlave, 2,338, — Downhill, 1,677. — Let terloan, 1.922, — Drumcroon, 3,a34, — Somerset, 2,310, — Agivey, 2,509, — Aghadowey, 2,818, — Ringsend, 1,039,— Glenkeen, 1.966,— Garvagh, 3,333,— Slaght, 1,678,— Bovagh, 2,014. The number of ex-officio and of elected guardians is respectively 9 and 27 ; and of the latter, 3 are elected by Colerame division, 2 by each of the divisions of Drumcroon, Aghadowey, Garvagh, Knockantern, and Bushmills, and one by each of the other divisions. In the rate-books there were traced, of persons who rank as £10 electon in the county constituency, 24 who were rated

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38. Salmon Leap cataract on the River Bann

    near Coleraine · town · Derry

    About a mile above Coleraine the River Bann falls over a ledge of rocks 13 feet high, forming a broad and picturesque cataract known as the Salmon Leap. A factory of the Hon. Irish Society stands at one end of the cataract, reachable by a pleasant walk along the river banks.

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    Enoirons.'] — The word 'environs* brings into one group several objects of interest which lie dispersedly in both parishes, and even beyond their limits. Jackson. Hall, the residence of Mrs. Maxwell, stands about a furlong below the suburb of Killowen ; and, though itself an old-fashioned edifice, contributes a well-wooded demesne to the landscape of the town and river. Millford, the seat of S. C. Bruce, Esq., the glebe-houses of Coleraine and Killowen, and several villas, lodges, and neat farm -houses, all adjoin the town, or stand within a short distance of it, and form features of beauty in its valley. The Bann, about a mile above the town, falls over a ledge of rocks 13 feet in height, forming a very broad and a somewhat picturesque cataract, called the Salmon Leap. A factory belonging to the Hon. Irish Society stands at one end of the cataract; and a pleasant walk leads to it from the town up the banks of the river. At Mount- Sandell, a mile south of the town, is a fine ancient earthen work or Daniidi mound, one of the largest in the kingdom, boldly overhanging the river, and partly covered with wood. Another ancient earthen work occupied a spot where the terraces of Jackson-Hall now stand; and a third occurs on the river side, opposite the Cranagh. Faint vestiges exist of a very ancient ecclesiastical pile at Camus, originally Cambos, on the Baiui, S miles below the town; yet they are to l>e traced chiefly in the monumental remains of the font, of a curious, defaced, sculptured pillar, and of an old cemetery. A blind passion for monastic antiquity in every ecclesiastical monument, of course asserts the pile to have been an abbey ; and it even condescends, in the far-sightedness of its penetration, to inform us that the abbey was a celebrated oue, and that it owed its origin to St. Congal, who flourished in the latter part of the 6tb century. Not a tiew interesting features of the great basaltic field of ADtrim aud

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39. Sarsfield and Wogan ownership of Clane manor

    Clane · town · Kildare

    The manor of Clane formerly belonged to the Sarsfield family and then passed to the Wogan family. Archdall and Seward erroneously say it passed to the O'Hogain family. It was sold by the representatives of the Wogans.

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    The town of Clane, in the above parish, stands on the left bank of the Liffey, and on the road from Dublin to Rathangan, 6^ miles south-west by west of Celbridge, 12^ east-north-east of Rathangan, and I6j west-south-west of Dublin. This tovm waa burned in 1798, and was afterwards rebuilt A bridge of 6 arches maintains communication across the Liffey. In the immediate vicinity are an ancient earthwork of the kind called a Dun, and the ruins of an old castle, the history of which appears to be lost. An ebbev for canons regular is alleged to have been built at Clane in the 6th century bv St. Ailbe, and to have been, in the 12th century, toe meeting, place of a synod, which waa composed of 26 bishope and numerous abbots and other dignitaries, and whidi ordained that none but alumni of the eollese of Armagh should be eligible to professorships of divinity. The pretended antiquity of the abbey possibly points to a remote Culdean establishment. A Frandscaa friary, considerable remains of which still exist, was founded, nobody knows by whom, in the early pari of the 13th century. The manor of Chine formerly belonged to the fiunily of Sarsfield ; it passed from them to the fiMnily of Wogan,— .Archdall and Seward erroneously sav, to the family of O'Hogain t and it was sold by the representatives of the Wogens, ai the same tame as RATBcomtT : which see. Fani are held in the town on April 28, July 25^ and Oct* 15. Area of the town, 25 acres. Pop., in 1831, 1,216 ; in 1841, 335. Houses 51.

    CLANEBOT, or Clandkbot, a qaoodam territorial name of part of the counties of Antrim and Down, Ulster. In the reign of Edward IIL, the sept of Huffh-Boy O'Neill, who inherited part of

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40. Saxon church and kistvaen at Bannow

    Bannow · townland · Wexford

    The parish church of Bannow is an ancient structure with Saxon-style windows predating the Norman invasion. Inside the church, sculptured ornaments include a stone-coffin or kistvaen and an antique baptismal font.

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    ** On more closely inspecting these remains, it was easy to trace the plan of the town, which consisted of several wide streets, crossing one another, and extending generally 89 or 100 yards before the traces were lost. One of them ran down into the sea at the month of the harbour. We followed its traces, and there found what appeared to have been a fine quay at the edge of the water, the remains of which were nearly 200 yards in length; and higher up was the foundation of a very extensive edifice, evidently some pablie building. As it was dear that here had existed a large and important town, it was greatly my wish to excavate some parts of it, in search of antiquities ; and a gentleman of the vicinity, who seemed as eealous as myself, promised to assist me with 50 men. He did not keep his word however ; and I only made such discoveries as were possible by ray own personal exertions. I cut across one of the hollow ways, and ascertained it was paved beneath the soil, and so had been a street. I dug into one of the mounds, and came to the foundation of walls of masonry, and so was convinced they had been houses, i visited the church, and saw it was a very ancient structure. The windows were not the pointed Gothic, such as were subsequently introduced by the Normans ; but Saxon, similar to those of Corraac's chapel at Cashel, and in that style of architecture known to have existed in Ireland long before the invasion. I examined the inside, and found it tilled with sculptured ornaments, as remarkable for their antiquity as their beauty. Among them was a stone-coffin or kistvaen, in the cavity of which was a receptacle for the head and shoulders of the man. Beside it was a baptismal font of very antique sculpture in relief. In fact, the whole appearance of the place — the impression that we were standing over a once populous city, which yet remained almost entire, with all its busy inhabitants, it might be buried under our feet — gave to its present silence and solitude an interest greater, perhaps, than is attached to any other remains in the united kingdom.

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41. Scenic view of Graigue and Brandon Hill on the Barrow

    Graiguenamanagh · townland · Kilkenny

    One of the finest scenes along the River Barrow is the view of the town, bridge, towers, and monastery of Graigue, set against adjoining groves and the lofty steep side of Brandon. The river's course features hills, woods, demesnes, and ruins forming beautiful landscapes.

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    Ross, The current of the river, rn the uplarNf or early part of its course, is extremely rapid ; and it partly careers along a rugged path of sandstone rocks and boulder», and partly traverses a narrow and precipitously-screened glen of limestone gravel. The subsequent and greatly the larger section of its course is slow, majestic, and constantly but not boMly sinuous, through a country prevailingly champaign and very generally level, yet sufficiently variegated by hills, swells, woods, demesnes, and ruins, to fonn a succession of pleasing and even highly beautiful landscapes. One of the best of the scenes is the view of the town, bridge, towers, and monastery ef Graigue, relieved by some adjoining groves, and backed by the lofty and steep side of Braiidon — The salmon fishery of the river has very greatly and rapidly declmed during the last thirty years ; and is believed to have been damaged 8f>lely by numerous artificial obstructions, so formidable as to destroy almost the whole of the fry before they reach the sea. The fish go up to span from the latter part ol October till November, and do not return till February. The fishery of the estuary, or of Waterford Harbour, is a commonage in deep water, and private

    property near the shores Previous to 1811, neariy

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42. Schomberg besieges Charlemont under Teague O'Regan

    near Charlemont · village · Armagh · 1689–1690

    During the Williamite War, the Jacobite governor Teague O'Regan defied Schomberg's summons of Charlemont fort. Schomberg sat down to starve the garrison, and O'Regan eventually capitulated on his own terms with the honours of war.

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    CHARLEMONT, a market-town, and formerly a parliamentary boroujgh, in the above parish, stands on the right bank of the Blackwater, and on the road from Armagh to Dungannon, 4f miles southeast by south of Dungannon, 5\ north-north-west of Armagh, and 67 ( north by west of Dublin. The post and market town of Moy, so immediately adjoins it as to be separated topographically only by the river, and politically by being in a different county; and, for all economical purposes, it is strictly one town with Cbarlemont, and the more important section of their joint mass: see Mot. A neat new stone-bridge carries the thoroughfare across the river. The Ulster canal passes close to the town ; and is expected to occasion a stimulus to trade. A weekly market is held on Saturday ; and fairs are held on May 12, Aug. 16, and Nov. 12. The castle or fort of Cbarlemont is a place of considerable military strength, crowning an eminence on the margin of the Blackwater, a little below the bridge ; and it is maintained in repair, and used as the ordnance depot and head-quarters of the artillery of the north of Ireland, and is usually occupied by two companies of artillery, amounting, with wives and children and other parties, to a population of about 300. This strength was formerly of great importance on account of its commanding the passage of the Blackwater, and checking the turbulencies of the O'Neills of Tyrone. ** During the brief contest between William and James, the governor was a brave officer, named Teague O'Regan. Schomberg summoned the fort, and received for answer, that * he was an old rogue, and should not have it ;' to which the Dutchman sent a reply, * that he would very soon give the governor better cause for anger.' The fortress was extremely strong ; it occupied the summit of a hill which commanded a very important pass, and overlooked the Blackwater ; it was surrounded by a morass, and approachable only by two narrow causeways. Its possession was very necessary to Schomberg, and he determined to * get it by some means or other ;' but finding the garrison and the governor resolute to keep him out, and knowing that he had to do with brave and experienced soldiers, he ' sat <!owri ' quietly before the fort, to wait until famine had done the work for him. And this ensued at length ; the gallant old governor capitulated * on his own terait«,' and marched out with all the honours of war. An anecdote is recorded which exhibits the stern and re>olute character of the old soldier. An attempt wai^ made to relieve the garrison ; an officer named McMahon, at the head of 500 men, gallantly made his way through the besiegers, and reached the walU of the fort. Teague O'Regan, however, had men enough for his purpose ; he accepted the supply of provisiions McMahon had brought, but obstinately retii^i'd to admit his soldiers, inasmuch as they would speedily consume the food they had conveyed, and render their enterprise worse than useless. He bade them, therefore, fight their way back again. But old Schomberg, who was alive to the move-

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43. Scotch Quarter founded by 1665 fishing colony

    near Carrickfergus · town · Antrim · 1665

    The Scotch Quarter of Carrickfergus, occupied chiefly by fishermen, takes its name from a Scotch colony that arrived around 1665 from Galloway and Argyleshire, driven from their native land by prelatic persecution. It consists almost wholly of a single street.

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    f present name after the year 1677, when the Lordieutenant, the Duke of Orroond, issued a proclamation ordering all Roman Catholics resident in cities, corporate towns, and forts, to remove beyond the walls. It consists principally of South-street, Weststreet, and Davy-street, mutually disposed in the form of a triangle, and of Ellis-street extending along the road to Ballinure. The Scotch Quarter is occupied chiefly by fishermen, and had its name from a Scotch colony of the same craft of the present inhabitants* ancestors, who arrived about the year 1665, from Galloway and Argyleshire, and were driven from their native land by the violence of prelatic persecution. This suburb consists almost wholly of a single street, part of which is edificed onl^ on one side ; and it possesses, or has around it, vanous reminiscences of the Marquis of Donegal's extinct mansion of Joymount. The two suburbs are jointly much more populous than the town within the \i^l8 ; and the Irish Quarter is itself verj slightly the latter's inferior in bulk. Even in 1811, when the population was less than at present, the relative number of houses was 213 within the walls, 168 in the Irish Quarter, and 122 in the Scotch Quarter, and the number of inhabitants was 985 within the walls, 810 in the Irish Quarter, and 561 in the Scotch Quarter. The whole town, with the exception of a mere sprinkling of houses, has a deserted, care-worn, and comparatively haggard appearance. Much of it has a mere village character,— consisting of thatched cabins and straggling suburban abodes ; and the densest parts of it are so crowded, irregular, and untidy as to produce on a stranger an irksome ami repulsive effect. Most of the houses are built of stone ; some are built of brick ; and ancient ones, which have now nearly all disappeared, consisted of bricks in frames of oak.

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44. Sea-reed on the Burren used for cattle and housing

    Burren · townland · Clare

    Sea-reed growing on the Burren is noted for feeding cattle during the winter and serving as durable thatch for houses, lasting up to 20 years. This highlights the practical uses of local flora in the region.

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    Vegetable*,^ — Only plants which are tare, or al least not altogether common, need be named. Anm. do arenaria, sea-reed, or sea-niatweed, on the of Burren, feeds cattle in winter, and serves as of 20 years' duration for houses. Asperida chica, squinancy-wort or small woodroff, is plentiM on the sandhills of the west coast, and on the linie^ stone rocks near Corrofin. Gallium piudllan, least mountain bed-straw, abounds in the limestMie rocks at Magherinraheen. Gentiana vema, sprii^ gentian, is plentiful at Glaning, near Galway hav. Gentiana amarella, autumnal gentian, abounds on limestone sni north-east of Corrofin. Sium latifolium, brond-leavcd water-parsnip, is plentiful on the side of the Feigni above Ennis Bridge, and in ditehes near Corrofim Sium repens, creeping water -panntp, oeam in a marsh on the Fergus, above Ennis Bridge. BntiK mus umbellatus, flowering rush, oecnra in ditthw near Corrofin and D'Esterre's Bridge. Arbolas nta ursi, red-berried trailing arbutus, abonnda, in eoi^ pany with Dryas octopetala, on the limestone iWNi^ tains of Burren. PotentilU fruticosa. shrubby cfaM^ foil, grows on the bottom of turloughs, tmta tttMM

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45. Separation of St. Anne Shandon and St. Paul parishes

    near Shandon · locality · Cork · 1728–1787

    The parishes of St. Anne Shandon and St. Paul were originally parts of St. Mary Shandon. They were separated and erected into distinct parishes by act of the Lord-lieutenant and Privy-council, respectively in 1728 and 1787.

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    chapel. The line of the old wall of the castle waa the l)0uridary between St. Mary Shandon and St. Anne Shamlon, and is now indicatt'd by the east end of the friary chapel. A monastery called Shandon Abbey stood in the parish, where the north wall it now situated; but, in 1819, the oidy vestiges of it were an ancient well and part of an old chapel, then used as a store. The parishes of St. Anne Shandon and St. Paul were originally parts of St. Mary Shandon, and were, with consent of the patrons, and by act of the Lord-lieutenant and Privy -council, separated from it and erected into distinct parishes, respectively in 1728 and 1787. An official report of St. Mary's, in 1819. says, " The ground set within the parish, especially at Sunday's Well, for villas, brings as high a rent as from 20 to SO guineas an acre per annum. The ground for tillage varies very much in value, some being taken at £10 or £10 lOs. per acre." An official report, in 1837, says that parta of the land '* are occupied by gardens attached to villas, and other parts are used' for grazing and for townfields. "_St, Mary Shandon is a rectory, and a separate benefice, in the dio. of Cork. Tithe composition, £25. Gross income, £229 19^. 2d. ; nett, £174 3s. Id. Patron, alternately the Duke of I^inster and the Earl of Barrymore. The denomination of St. Catherine is sought to be identified with the quondam parish of that name, and is the estate of the Earl of Cork, who clainis entire exemp. tion from tithes, or any payment as impropriator, to the rector. The incumbent is also chaplain of the county of the city gaol, which is situated in the parish. A curate has a stipend of £75. The parish-church waa built in 1093, by means of parochial assessment Sittings 1,000; attendance 800. A Roman Catholic chapel, attached to the city gaol, has an attendance of 30, besides the prisoners. In 1834, the parishioners consisted of 1,666 Churchmen, 84 Presbyterians, 63 other ProtCkUnt dissenters, and 13,683 Roman Catholics; and 15 dailjr schools had on their books 451 bo^s and 363 girls. One of the schools was salaried with £20 from the Natioiud Board, and £20 from a charity lermon, one with an aimual public collection, and one with £60 from subscription ; and each of the latter two waa aided also with a portion of the dividends arising from £2,000 3| per cent, reduced annuities. In 1840, the National Board had two schools in the parish.

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46. Shandon Abbey monastery ruins

    near Shandon · locality · Cork · 1819

    A monastery called Shandon Abbey stood in the parish of St. Mary Shandon, near where the north wall is now situated. By 1819, the only surviving vestiges were an ancient well and part of an old chapel, then being used as a store.

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    chapel. The line of the old wall of the castle waa the l)0uridary between St. Mary Shandon and St. Anne Shamlon, and is now indicatt'd by the east end of the friary chapel. A monastery called Shandon Abbey stood in the parish, where the north wall it now situated; but, in 1819, the oidy vestiges of it were an ancient well and part of an old chapel, then used as a store. The parishes of St. Anne Shandon and St. Paul were originally parts of St. Mary Shandon, and were, with consent of the patrons, and by act of the Lord-lieutenant and Privy -council, separated from it and erected into distinct parishes, respectively in 1728 and 1787. An official report of St. Mary's, in 1819. says, " The ground set within the parish, especially at Sunday's Well, for villas, brings as high a rent as from 20 to SO guineas an acre per annum. The ground for tillage varies very much in value, some being taken at £10 or £10 lOs. per acre." An official report, in 1837, says that parta of the land '* are occupied by gardens attached to villas, and other parts are used' for grazing and for townfields. "_St, Mary Shandon is a rectory, and a separate benefice, in the dio. of Cork. Tithe composition, £25. Gross income, £229 19^. 2d. ; nett, £174 3s. Id. Patron, alternately the Duke of I^inster and the Earl of Barrymore. The denomination of St. Catherine is sought to be identified with the quondam parish of that name, and is the estate of the Earl of Cork, who clainis entire exemp. tion from tithes, or any payment as impropriator, to the rector. The incumbent is also chaplain of the county of the city gaol, which is situated in the parish. A curate has a stipend of £75. The parish-church waa built in 1093, by means of parochial assessment Sittings 1,000; attendance 800. A Roman Catholic chapel, attached to the city gaol, has an attendance of 30, besides the prisoners. In 1834, the parishioners consisted of 1,666 Churchmen, 84 Presbyterians, 63 other ProtCkUnt dissenters, and 13,683 Roman Catholics; and 15 dailjr schools had on their books 451 bo^s and 363 girls. One of the schools was salaried with £20 from the Natioiud Board, and £20 from a charity lermon, one with an aimual public collection, and one with £60 from subscription ; and each of the latter two waa aided also with a portion of the dividends arising from £2,000 3| per cent, reduced annuities. In 1840, the National Board had two schools in the parish.

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47. Shandon-castle's origins and later use

    Cork · city · Cork

    Shandon Castle, situated on the north side of Cork city, is traditionally said to have been built by either King John or the Barry family shortly after the Norman conquest. It later functioned as a courthouse for the lords-presidents of Munster.

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    which may be very briefly disposed of, they scarcely deserve to be pictured back from oblivion. A fort on the south side of the town, called Elizabeth's Fort, MTBS rebuilt as a citadel to curb the insubordinatc Roman Catholics in the reign of James^ L ; and it formed a regular square fortification with four bastions. Another small work, called the Cat Fort, stood also on the same side of the river, but never was of material importance. Shandon-castle, on the north side of the city, is variously said to have been built by "King John, and by the Barrys soon after the conquest ; and it afterwards served as the court-house of the lords-presidents of Mimster, and of the itinerant judges. Skiddy's-castle, situated close to the north gate, was built in 1445, by the family of Skiddy, who figured prominently in the civic offices of the city, and eventually retired to France; and it afterwards was long used as a powder-magazine. In an almshou-te adjoining this pile, Catherine Parr, the great-granddaughter of the famous old Thomas Purr, died, in 17^)2, at the age of 103 years.

    The inland on which the central division of the city stands communicates across the northern branch of the Lee by three bridges, and across the southern

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48. Shankill as original seat of parish worship

    near Shankill · parish · Antrim

    Shankill was the original location of the parochial place of worship for the Belfast area. By 1846, it had declined into an obscure locality situated some distance north-west of Belfast.

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    bank, Everton, Ballysillin, Eglantine Hil], Brookvale, Ardoyne, and Springville; on the Lagan, are Lakefield, Lismoyne, Malone, Maryville, and Ormeau; and on Belfast Lough, are Greenmount, Jennymount, Grove, Skegoneill, Seaview, Fort- William, Mount-Vernon, Low-wood, Parkmount, and Greencastle. Shankhill was the original seat of the parochial place of worship; but is now an obscure locality, some distance north-west of Belfast. But exactly the same reason which has occasioiied the comparatively modern, but intrinsically great and steadily prosperous town to eclipse Shankhill in giving name to the parish, should occasion it to eclipse the almost equally obscure hamlet of Connor, in giving name to the diocese, and the decayed and unimportant town of Antrim in giving name to the county.

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49. Shannon rapids at Castle Connell described by Inglis

    Castleconnell · town · Limerick

    The Shannon rapids below the village of Castle Connell were described by Mr. Inglis as a spectacle approaching the sublime, where the river pours a vast body of water through rocks for nearly half a mile. He compared them favourably to Welsh waterfalls and the Geisbach in Switzerland.

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    moment recollect any example of more attractive river-scenery. The wide, deep, clear, river is, for more than a quarter of a mile, almost a cataract; and this, to an English eye, must be particularly striking. It is only in the streams and rivulets of England that rapids are found ; the larger rivers generally glida smoothly on without impediments from rocks ; the Thames, Trent, Mersey, and Severn, when they lose the character of streams, and become rivers, hold a noiseless course; but the Shannon, larger than all the four, here pours that immense body of water, which above the rapids is 40 feet deep, and 300 yards wide, through and above a congregation of huge stones and rocks, which extend nearly half-a-mile ; and offers not only an unusual scene, but a spectacle approaching much nearer to the sublime than any moderate-sized stream can offer even in its highest cascade. None of the Welsh waterfalls, nor the Geisbach in Switzerland, can compare for a moment in grandeur and effect with the rapids of the Shannon. Nor is the river the only attractive object at Castle-Connell ; its adjuncts are all beautiful. The greenest of lawns rise from it ; the finest timber fringes it ; magnificent mansions tower above their surrounding woods ; swelling knolls are dotted with cattle and sheep. * * The inn at Castle-Connell is beautifully situated, and very moderate in its charges; and the inhabitants of Limerick make abundant use of it ; for, besides that Castle-Connell is resorted to as summer-quarters, it is also a noted rendezvous of the tradespeople on Sundays and holidays. Houses are scarce and dear. For a ver^ small house £\0 a-month is asked; and a couple of rooms indifferently furnished could not be had for less than 25s. per week." In a progress up the river, immediately above the village, ** nothing could be greener than the sloping banks which we rowed swiftly by : they were adorned, too, on the Limerick side especially, by several pretty villas ; and this being hayseason, the slanting sunshine falling athwart the after-grass, bathed it in hues that were almost too brilliant to be natural The river is here from 200 to 300 yards wide, and averages from 30 to 40 feet in depth. About 2 miles up the river from Castle- Connell, we reached 0'Brien*s Bridge, an old bridge with a castle, and small village on the Clare side of the river. The bridge has 13 arches, and is only interesting from its antiquity. There is a slight fall of water, but not so much as to occasion any difficulty or danger, either in ascending or in shooting the arch. Bevond O'Brien's Bridge the country improves ; fine cultivated hills appear at some little distance from the river ; and although a deficiency of wood may be remarked, the views on either side present many sweet pictures of quiet pastoral scenery,— verdant slopes, and drowsy cattle, and noddinr Mrater-lilies, and here and there a iiirm-houie, and its more animated accompaniments." The Limerick canal, connecting the city of Limerick with the natural navigation of the Shannon above the rapids, passes along the parish ; and the Commissioners for the Improvement of the Shannon projected cbanget at Castle-Connell to cost £7,000, and other changes in the vicinitv of O'Brien's Bridge to cost X4,0O0. The castle whence town and parish have their luune stands in ruin on the summit of an isolated rock in the town, and forms a very picturesque object. It was built by Conal, a celebrated chieftain of the diatrict, and is said to have been a seat of the O'Briens, king4 of Munster; and it was afterwards enlarged by the English, and given to De Burgo, a baron of the family of Fitz-Andelin, on condition of his holding it for the English Crown. During the siege of Limerick, De Ginckle thought it a dangerous neighbour to the city ; and, tfier obtaining possession of

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50. Shaw mansion at Ballygally Head, 1625

    Ballygalley · townland · Antrim · 1625

    Near Ballygally Head, in a bleak situation overhanging the sea, stands the mansion of the Shaw family, erected in 1625. The small parish church sits at the base of the nearby Salagh Braes.

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    CARNCASTLE, Caibncastle. or Castle- Caibn, a parish on the coast of the barony of Upper Glenarm, 3 miles north-north-west of Lame, co. Antrim, Ulster. It contains the village of Old- MIIX8 : which see. Length, southward, 4} miles ; breadth, from 1^ to 3} ; area, 9,725 acres, 2 roods, 25 perches. Pop., in 1831, 2,167; * in 1841,2,079. Houses 325. One moiety of the land is chiefly mountainous and partly marshy; and the other moiety consists of good arable land. The splendid new coast -road of the county traverses the interior. On the coast is Balltoellt Head : which see. Beneath this promontory, and on a bold rock, which is completely insulated at high water, stands the ruin of a castle which gives name to the parish, and which derives its own prefix of * Carn,* or * Cairn/ from the nature of its position. This pile, like a number of others in the wild otitskirts ot the three kingdoms, is traditionally alleged to have been erected by an ancient prince to protect from the addresses ot an unwelcome suitor the person of hi» high-bom dauj^hter, — who, of course, held family dignity and military fortifications in derision, and was duly carried off by her enterprising admirer. Near Bsilygelly Head, in a bleak situation overhanging the sea, is the mansion of the Shaws, erected in 1025 ; and at no great distance are the SaJagh Braes^ with the small church of the parish at their base. The only other obiect of any importance isa cotton fiictory. — This parish is a rectory in the dio. of Connor. Tithe composition, jointly with that of Kilwaughter,£16D 2s. Id. The rectories of Camcastle, Kiiwaughter, Ballyeaston, and Derry-Keighan, constitute the benefice and prebend of Camcastle. Gross income, £748 8s. 8d.; nett, £666 lis. 3d. Patron, the diocesan. Dbrrtkrighan is 25 miles distant from the other three members of the union ; and it contains the church of the benefice, and is the only member of it under the care of the incumbent, — who, however, holds also the benefice of Dungarvan, in the dio. of Lismore. See DERRTKEioHAif. Ballyeaston, in its two constituent parts, or quoad

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51. Shillelagh chapel-of-ease built by Earl Fitzwilliam

    Shillelagh · town · Wicklow · 1829

    A chapel-of-ease at Shillelagh in County Wicklow was built in 1829 using a donation of £1,600 from Earl Fitzwilliam and a grant of £900 from the late Board of First Fruits. It provided 500 sittings for the parish of Carnew.

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    rection of Gorey — This pariish is a rectory, and a i^epurate benefice, in the dio. of Ferns. Tithe composition and gross income, £830 156. 4id. ; nett, £701 4s. T^d. Patron, the diocesan. Two curates have salaries of respectively £92 68. IJd. and £80. The church is an old building, and was enlarged by parochial assessment. Sittings 600; attendance 500. A chapel- of-ease at Shillelagh >vas built, in 1829, by means of a donation of £1,600 from Earl Fitzwilliam, and a grant of £9(X) from the late Board of First Fruits. Sittings 500 ; attendance 170. The Roman Catliolic chapel has an attendance of 1,000. In 1834, the Protestants amounted to 1,895, and the Roman Catholics to 3,416 ; and 6 daily schools — 4 of which were aided with respectively £66, £66, £40, and £40 a-year from Earl Fitzwilliam — ^had on their books 3'2G boys and 193 girls.

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52. Siege and demolition of Dunboy Fortress

    near Dunboy · street · Cork · 1602

    The fortress of Dunboy, about 1.5 miles south-southeast of Castletown-Berehaven on the shore of Bantry Bay, belonged to the O'Sullivans and was manned by Spaniards in 1602. After the surrender of Kinsale, Sir George Carew commanded an assault; the upper part was taken by storm and the castle was demolished by the Queen's forces, bringing an end to savage warfare on the southwestern coast.

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    immediate environs of one of the lines of railway projected by the CommiBsioners. See Berehaven. Fairs are held on Jan. 1, Easter- Tuesday, May 12, and Sept. 4. A small district-bridewell in the village is kept in good order, but is defective in fecurity. A dispensary here is within the Bantry Poorlaw union, and serves for a pop. of 23,382 ; and, in 18:J9-40, it expended £139 Ss. lHd„ and administered to 3,540 patients. In 1841, a Loan Fund had a capital of £93, circulated £479 in 344 loans, and cleared £6 19s. 6d. of nett profit. About l^ mile south-south-east of the village, and on the shore of the bay, stood the fortress of Dunboy, celebrated for its strength, for the importance of its position, and for the influence it wielded over the turbulent local history of the 15th and I6th centuries. •* It belonged to the O'Sullivans ; and was, with their co-operation, manned by Spaniards, in the year KJOi. After the surrender or Kinsale, Don Juan, the Spanish commander, gave orders for Dunboy also to be yielded to the English ; but Daniel O Sullivan, then proprietor of this castle, incensed at such an unceremonious disposal of his property, surprised and disarmed the Spanish garrison, and prepared for defence against the English. In spite of great and threatening difficulties, for the fort was almost inaccessible from the circumstances of its situation, Sir George Carew commanded an assault. The attack was so vigorous, that the upper part was taken by storm. The besieged still defended the lower chambers, with desperate obstinacy; and the governor, who had been appointed by O'SulIivan, after receiving a mortal wound, endeavoured, in his expiring moments, to fire the magaiines, and thus involve both friend and foe in one general ruin. He WHS fortunately prevented from committing this act of barbarous violence ; and the castle was demolished by the Queen's forces." The capture and demolition of the fort possessed signal interest, from their ocrasioiiing the instant cessation of the savage and exterminating vi'arfare which had so long desolated the south-western coast of the kingdom. Area of the town, 4 1 acres. Pop. , in 184 1 , 881 . Houses 123. Families* employed chiefly in agriculture, 12; in manufartures and trade, 96; in other pursuits, 76. Families dependent chiefly on property and profestiioiiH, 9 ; on the directing of labour, 95 ; on their own manual labour, 24 ; on means not specified, 56. CASTLETOWN, or Castletown -MacEn- KiRY, a quondam parish in the barony of Upper CJonnello. 4^ miles south-east by south of Newcastle, CO. Limerick, Munster. Length, 9 miles ; breadth, 6; area, 2:),27<>i acres. Pop., in 1831, 10,742. Hou<es 1 ,576. The surface consists partly of upland pa«iture. partly of valuable bog, and extensively of excellent arable land ; and is drained northward by the main stream and several early aflfluents of the rivulet Deel. The road from Newcastle to Mallow tr.i verges the interior. Fairs are held at Castletown on Feb. II, April 17. Nov. 3, and Dec 1. 'I'll is place was formerly a seat of the MacBneirys, uiul tlie vjte of a very large monastery, and some

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53. Siege of Clonmel 1650 by Hugh O'Neal against Cromwell

    Clonmel · town · Tipperary · 1650

    Clonmel declared for the Irish Roman Catholic party in 1641 and endured a memorable siege in 1650. Hugh O'Neal with 1,200 provincial troops defended the town so gallantly against Cromwell that the town only fell by capitulation, after which it was dismantled.

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    History.] — Clonmel, notwithstanding its acknowledged antiquity, docs not figure in any noticeable authentic event of ancient history. After the Anglo- Norman conquest, it passed, in common with very extensive landed property in the county of Tipperary, into the possession of Otho de Grandison, an Englishman, and the founder of its Franciscan friary. The town seems to have made some figure in the struggles of ages between the English and the Irish round the frontier of the Engliith pale; and it cornea distinctly into notice in connection with the rebellion in favour of Simnel and Warbeck. Its inhabitants evinced a disposition to revolt after the death of Elizabeth ; but were so checked and repressed as to be deterred from open outbreak. The town declared for the Irish or Roman Catholic party at the conunencement of hostilities in 1641, and continued to be one of their strong posts throughout the subsequent rebellion. A siege which it underwent in 1650, and which terminated in its capitulation, is one of the most memorable in the annals of Ireland. Hugh O'Neal, a spirited young man, with 1,200 provincial troops, maintained the town in so gallant a manner against the besiegers, that Cromwell's temper, arts, and militiiry strength, were fairly put to the test; while, on the one hand, Ormonde made strenuous but vain efforts to succour the besieged ; and, on the other. Boetius MacEagan, the Roman Catholic Bishop of Ross, was particularly active in collecting, animating, and leading on the remains of the troops that Cromwell had put to flight in various engagements. The town was dismantled after its capitulation; yet it continued till the treaty of Limerick to adhere to the muse it had originally espoused. Clonmel gives the title of Karl, in the peerage of Ireland, to the noble family of Scott. Captain Thomas Scott was an oflicer in the service of William HI.; and his grandson, John Scutt, Esq., was made Lord-chief-justice of the King's Bench and Baron Earlsfort in 1784, Viscount Clonmel in 1789, and Eurl of Clonmel in 1793.

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54. Siege of Fitzstephen at Carrick Castle

    Carrick · townland · Wexford

    At the true castle site, on the opposite side of the river from the surviving tower, Fitzstephen was besieged by the Wexford men and defeated all attempts to take the castle until treachery succeeded. The Irish compelled three captive bishops to swear falsely that Strongbow's forces had been destroyed, inducing Fitzstephen to surrender, after which he was treated with great cruelty.

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    CAR RICK, or Carrio, a parish in the barony of Bargie, co. Wexford, Leinster. Post-town, Taghmon. Pop., in 1831, 707. This parish, though reckoned a vicarage in the dio. of Ferns, has not now a separate existence in the ecclesiastical divisions; nor is it noticed in the census of 1841. It contains the village of Danes-Castle : which see. CARRICK, or Carrio, a parish in the barony of West Shelmalier, 2 J miles west of Wexford, co. Wexford, Leinster. Length, south-westward, 3i miles ; breadth, from ^ to If; area, 3,009 acres, 37 perches. Pop., in 1831, 1,054; in 1841, 1,25L Houses 210. It lies along the right bank of the Slaney, and of the upper part of Wexford Harbour ; and is celebrated in connection with Carrick-castle, the first that was built by the Anglo-Normans in Ireland. A small antique tower surmounts the pinnacle of a rock, forms one of the most strikingly picturesque objects in the kingdom, and is very generally mistaken for the original castle. Mr. Shiel, adopting the common mistake, is reported to have thus described it in a speech at Wexford : ** Situate at the gorge of the mountain, and commanding the passage over the stream, whose waters are darkened with its shadow, it is invested with many melancholy associations, and imparts to the solemnity of the scene what I may call the political picturesque. From the fosse of that tower, memory may take a long and dismal retrospect. * * Years have flowed by, like the waters which it overshadows, and yet it is not changed. ^ It stands as if it were the work of yesterday; as it was the first product of English domination, so it is its type." But ** the true castle of the first Anglo-Norman — 'adventurer and conqueror* " — says Mrs. Hall, •* was on the opposite side of the river; a stately pile that crowned the summit of a rugged hill, barely enough of which now remains to mark the space it occupied ; for the plough has now passed over nearly the whole of it. In this castle, Fitzstephen was besieged by the Wexford men ; but he defeated all their attempts to take it, until treachery effected their purpose. The Irish demanded a parley, and informed the English knight that Strongbow and all the British adventurers in Dublin had been destroyed, and that an immense force was on the march to Carrick. The information was of course doubted bv Fitzstephen ; and so the Irish compelled three bishopii, who were their prisoners, to go to the walls of the castle and make oath to the truth of the statement, upon which Fitzstephen surrendered, and was subsequently treated with great cruelty." The chief evidence that the present tower forms no part of the original fortalice, is found in a passage of Giraldus Cambrensis, and in a note of his translator. " MacMorogh," says GiraU dus, "marched to besiege Dublin, but left Fitzstephen behind, who was then building a hold or

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55. Silver mines and Ostman mint at Clonmines

    Clonmines · townland · Wexford

    A 1684 manuscript describes five or six deep pits or silver mines near the beach at Clonmines, abandoned when river water flooded the workings. During the sway of the Ostmen and Danes over Ireland's maritime districts, they are said to have established a mint here for silver coinage.

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    fosse. A MS. description of Wexford, written in I<>84, states that it *' was a place of ^eat trade in times passed, and a harbour for shipping, until the sHnd filled up the passage near the town of Banno, which was the destruction of both these townes ;" that it **tooke its name from the silver or royall mines formerly dug there and on the other side ef the river ;" that *' there are still to be seene five or six deepe pitts or mines, and some of the oare yt was cast up. which seemes to contain more leade than silver ;'* that ** there lived in these partes within a few yeares a very old man yt sayed, he remembered to have seen miners at worke there, but that the river water came in upon the workmen so fast that they were forced to quitt the undertaking for good and all ;" and that the town was ** a very ancient CDrporation, but now quite ruinated, there remaining only four or live ruinated castles, an old ruined church, called St. Nicholas, and a monastery also ruined, culled St. Augustine." Some traces of mining shafts are still visible near the beach ; and during the sway of the Ostmen and Danes over the maritime di>tricts of Ireland, they are said to have here established a mint for silver coinage. Several of the ruins, military and ecclesiastical, referred to in the old !r.;inu>cript, still stand in a field upon the Scar; and they form the most remarkable assemblage of rtiins in the county, and popularly bear the name of ** the Seven (-astles of Clonmines." Three of them fitrnre as strong square towers of the kind common tlirouu'liont Ireland ; one has an architectural character >trictly ecclesiastical; one, alleged to have been erected 7 centuries ago by Sir Roger de Sutton, a companion of Fitzstephen, is occupied as the resi- (U'ucc of his descendant, Mr. Richard Sutton, a farmer ; and the whole, when seen with the bay and its screens for a backgrotmd, form a picturesque group. The Augustinian church is alleged by Alemando to have been founded by the family of Kavanagh; but was enlarged and repaired, and possibly constructed for the lirst time as a monastery, in 1385, by Nicholas litz- Nicholas, clerk; and it afterwards passed into the possession of Dominican friars, and was granted at the dissolution to John Parker, at the aniMial rent of 'is. 4d. Irish. The ruins of the church, says .Mr. Brewer, "evince a considerable degree of former splemlour, and are surmounted by a square tower, of light and graceful proportions, which rises from the central ureh that separates the chancel, nave, and ai>les. The great east window, which is in the pointed form, and in the architectural style of the Uth century, was formerly divided into 5 days or lii:lit<, and ornamented with much handsome tracery work." The fouinlations of numerous other buildin^^s may be detiH'ted athwart an area of about 90 acres ; Imt the dejwpnlation is now so complete, that Mr. Snt ton's family are the only inhabitants. The !H>rou>rh seems to have been held of the Crown in fffc lMir<;,»^'e ; an<l several inquisitions post mortem, in the ri'i^ns of James I. and Charles L, mention X\u' <<'W\n o( certain persons in burgages in the town. Members of parliament were returned in it> n:iin(> np to the date of the Legislative Union; and the Karl of Ely and Charles Tottenham, Esq, then ri-cfivcd the smn of 4.*lo,00()as compensation for itn lo.-i ot tVaiichi>e. — Cloinnines parish is an impropriatr curacy, an<l part of the benefice of OweniMH F. f whi« h -eej, in the dio. of Ferns. The tithes are compounded for £K), and belong to C»sar Colcloiuli, K>'|. In \S-U, the parishioners were all Uonian Cat holies ; and a hedge-school was attended in -iimm«T hy ahout 42 ehihlren.

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56. Sir Daniel O'Brien of Carrigaholt rebels and is restored

    near Carrigaholt · townland · Clare · 1641–1662

    During the wars of 1641, Sir Daniel O'Brien of Carrigaholt rebelled against British authority and incurred forfeiture of his estates. In 1662, Charles II restored him to his possessions and created him Viscount Clare and Baron of Moyarta.

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    HUtory,'^ — Our limits will admit only a few brief and uncontmuous notices of the prolific and interesting civil history of Clare. In 298, Lugad or Le\vy, surnamed Meann, one of the Dal-Casbian kings of Leath Moth, made such new political distributions of territory, as dissevered Clare from Con naughty and connected it with Munster. Three principalities, called respectively Tuaidb-Muin, Jar-Muin, and Des-Muin, names which meant North-Munster, East-Munster,and South-Munster, and were softened or modernized into Thomond, Ormond, and Desmond — occupied the broad expanse of Munster ; and Tuaidh-Muin or Thomond, according to the treaty of Dioma, extended from the Atlantic to Slieve-Dala in Ossory, and from the Arran Islands to Knocknaine and the river Feale, and in consequence included all CUre, a small part of Kerry, and the greater part of Limerick and Tipperary. This great pnncipality was long accounted the special patrimony of the Dal-Cassians ; but was afterward* divided into two sections, — one of which wa« modern Thomond, nearly corresponding with Clare; and eventuallv was all swallowed up in the monarchy of the celebrated Brian-Boromh, or rather gave law to all the rest of Ireland, under the administration of that singular figurant in Irish story and legend, who held his court at Kincora, on the eastern border of the county, near Killaloe. — la 1543, Muragh O'Brien, after* vainly attempting a general rebellion against English authority, submitted to Henrv VIII., surrendered all his possessions, renounced the name of O'Brien, and abjured the Irish language; but, in terms of a compact which accompanied his submission, he received back his lands to be held by an English tenure, took the title of Earl of Thomond for himself, and that of Baron Inchiquin for his eldest son, and agreed to train his people in the practises of husbandry and the general habits of civilization, lovalty, and good order. The territory of Thomond, soon after, was, under the name of Clare, made one of the six new counties into which the Act of 11 Elizabeth, c. 9., ordered Connaught to be divided ; and it was, about the same time, sectioned out into 8 baronies, which widely differed from the present baronial divisions, and accorded with the possessions of the Macnamaras, and the O'Gradys on the east, the O'Loughlins on the north, the MacMahons and the O'Deas on the west and the south, and the O'Briens of the house of Inchiquin, or Earls of Thomond, in the centre. In 1001, on petition of the second Earl of Thomond. the territory vras again included in Munster ; though, in legal distribution, it continued till the latter part of last century to be comprised within the Connaught circuit. During the wars of 1G41, Lord Inchiquin adhered to the cause of Britain, and prevented any serious commotion from occurring in Clare; yet Sir Daniel O'Brien of Carrigaholt rebelled and incurred forfeiture, but, in 1662, was restored to his possessions, and made Viscount Clare, and Baron of Moyarta by Charles II. In the wars of the Revolution, Lord Clare, the grandson of Sir Daniel, espoused the Jacobite cause ; as did also Donough Macnamara, Redmond Magrath, Donough and Teigv O'Brien, and some other men of less note ; and they jointly forfeited 72,246 acres of profitable land, valued at £12,060 17s. of annual rental. The county was little affected by the rebellion of 1796; but during wious years of the

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57. Sir Francis Drake's retreat at Crosshaven harbour

    Crosshaven · town · Cork

    Crosshaven harbour, a creek on the south side of the Annabouy estuary, was the scene of Sir Francis Drake's snug retreat and dexterous manoeuvre when chased into Cork Harbour by a superior Spanish fleet.

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    or Carrigaline river, a brief distance within iti entrance round ('ainden Fort. It was the ncene of Sir Francis Drake'it snug retreat and dexterous manceuvre, when chased into Cork Harbour by a superior Spanish fleet,— an incident which seems to figure in every topographist's and tourist's notice of Carrigaline, Annabiioy, Cove, Cork Harbour, and almost every spot with which it can be dragired into connection. See Annabuoy- The creek has 3 fatboins of depth at low water ; is completely landlocked, so as to be sheltered from every wind ; and po-sessei a singular coinia nation of a I vantages as a Hshingstation ; but it has neither pier nor quay, and seemt to have sustained a neglect as unae(<oun table as it is undeserved The village looks from the shoie of the creek toward Cove ; and is sheltered by a large hill whicrh ri^es on the oppo.-ite shore, h. crested with a rude cairn, and bears the name of Currabinnagh. Area, 20 acres. Pop., in 1831, 513; in 1841, 514. Houses 104.

    CROSS MAGLEN, a small market-town in the piri-h of Creggan, Iwrony of l.'pjwr Few*, co. Armagh, l-lster. It stamU K miles north-west of Duitdalk A market is held weekly ; and fairn are held on Feb. 3, .March *24. June 30. Sept. 22. Nov 3, and Dec. '27. The Trotsmaglen dispensHry is within the Castle- Blaney Poor-law union, and has a district of 58.400 acres; with a population of .'54,000 ; and, in 183l>, it expended £148 \5*. 8d.,and ailmini:«tered to 1.192 patients. Area, 3(» acres. Pop., in 1831, 545; in 1841. 540. Houses 112.

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58. Sir Hugh Cullom's charity for widows in Urney

    Urney · townland · Cavan · 1686

    About 160 years before publication, Sir Hugh Cullom left tenements in Cavan town for the support of poor widows in the parish of Urney. The rental of about £9 12s. a-year was distributed by the rector among 12 poor widows.

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    Crossdoney, Killeshandra, Stradone, and Ballymaehugh. The Cavan dispensarv serves for a district of 17,703 acres, with a pop., in 1831, of 11,391 ; and, in 1839-^,itreceived£l 13 188.,expended£10648.5d., and made 2,482 dispensations of medicine. A small property, consisting of tenements in the town, was left, about 160 years ago, by Sir Hugh Cullom, for the support of poor widows in the parish of Urney ; and a rental of about £9 12s. a-year, which is yielded by it, is distributed by the rector among 12 poor widows. In 1841, a Loan Fund in the town had a capital of £2,205 ; circulated £9,793 in 2,531 loans ; realized £98 17s. 7d. of nett profit ; and expended £90 in charitable purposes ; — and, from the date of its formation till the close of 1841, it circulated £37,987 in 10,259 loans, cleared a nett profit of £549 2s. 6d., and expended in charitable purposes £295.

    Trade, ffc.'] — The town has a share, somewhat proportioned to its population, in the linen trade of the countv. Its general trade, through the medium of its marlcets and fairs, was formerly inconsiderable, but has increased since tolls and customs ceased to be collected. Its retail trade is of comparatively large importance ; and commands a large extent of surrounding country. A weekly market is held on Tuesday; and fairs are authorized by charters on Sept. 14 and Nov. 1, and are also held on Feb. 1, Easter- Monday, May 14, June 30, Aug. 14, and Dec. 22. A branch of the Provincial Bank was established in 1884, and a branch of the Agricultural and Commercial Bank in 1836. The public communications in 1838, were a coach to Belturbet, a coach to Dublin, and the mail-coach in transit between Dublin and Enniskillen. The railway from Dublin to Enniskillen — ^branching off at Navan in Meath from the Dublin and Armagh railway — touches Cavan .

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59. Sir James Cotter monument in Carrigtohill church

    Carrigtohill · town · Cork · 1684

    The parish church of Carrigtohill is very old and contains a marble monument dated 1684 dedicated to the memory of Sir James Cotter. The church provides sittings for 80 people and had an attendance of 50.

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    Carrigtohill parish is a vicarage, and a separate benefice, in the dio. of Cloyne ; and has, from a very remote period, had incorporated with it the particle or parish of Kilcurfin. Vicarial tithe composition, £^46 Is. 4d. ; glebe, £22 lOs. Gross income, .£•307 lis. 4d. ; nett, ^^306 14s. 5|d. Patrons, alternately the diocesan and the representatives of Mr. Anderson of Fermoy. A curate has a stipend of £6[) 4s. T^d., and the use of the glebe-house. The vk*ar is noti-rcsident, and holds the benefice of Magourney in Cloyne. The rectorial titbes are compounded for £690 2s. 8d., and are impropriate in (ieo. Leckey, Esq. of Middleton. The church is very old ; and contains a marble monument, of date l('>^, to the memory of Sir James Cotter. Sittings fX) ; attendance 50. The Roman Catholic chapel has 2 omciates, and an attendance of 3,000. In 1834, the Protestants amounted to 101 ; and the Roman Catholics to 3,729 ; and 5 daily schools — one of which was wholly supported by Mr. Smyth Barry, and two were partially aided by subscription — had oil tlirir hooks 1 1 1 boys and 68 girls.

    CAKRK^rE, an alias name of Carrigafotls : which ocr.

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60. Sir James Crofts garrisons Belfast Castle, 1552

    near Belfast · city · Antrim · 1552–1800

    In 1552, Sir James Crofts, then Lord-deputy, garrisoned Belfast Castle and probably erected outworks. Some traces of these outworks, in the form of strong earthen ramparts and a deep fosse, existed at the commencement of the 19th century.

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    ters, and underwent dismantling and renovation, yet remain^, on the whole, in the possession of the O'Neills. In 1503, Gerald, Earl of Kildare, then Lord-deputy, captured the castle, dismantled it, and retired to Dublin ; and, again, in 1512, after it had been repaired and re-occupied by the O'Niell's, the same Earl recaptured and destroyed it. In 1552, Sir James Crofts, then Lord-deputy, garrisoned it, and probably erected outworks of it, some traces of which, in the form of strong earthen ramparts and a deep fosse, existed at the commencement of the 19th century. Hugh MacNeill Oge, of the Clan-Hugh- Boye, soon af^r received possession^ of it by legal tenure from the crown ; but being slain in a conflict with a predatory party from Scotland, was succeeded by an English officer of the name of Lane. Though the castle and the country around it were henceforth considerably under the power of the English, the latter was actually held, and the former practically overawed, by the O'Neills ; and they began to be decidedly Anglicised only when, in common with all the estates of the insurgent chiefs, they were formally confiscated after Shane or John O'Neill's rebellion.

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