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Dublin Phil Soc A 1-117 p104 revised:Hoppen 10/11/08 20:01 Page i Commission Manuscripts Irish material: Dublin PhilosophicalPAPERS OF THE Copyrighted Society Dublin Phil Soc A 1-117 p104 revised:Hoppen 10/11/08 20:01 Page ii Commission Manuscripts Irish material: Copyrighted , xx, no. 241 (1698). See item 160. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society The Giant's Causeway. Reproduced from Dublin Phil Soc A 1-117 p104 revised:Hoppen 10/11/08 20:01 Page iii PAPERS OF THE Dublin Philosophical Society 1683‒1709 volume i Commission Manuscripts Irish Edited by k.material: theodore hoppen fba Copyrighted IRISH MANUSCRIPTS COMMISSION 2008 Dublin Phil Soc A 1-117 p104 revised:Hoppen 10/11/08 20:01 Page iv This edition is dedicated to Anne Commission Manuscripts Irish material: Irish Manuscripts Commission © 2008 45 Merrion Square Dublin 2 www.irishmanuscripts.ie No part of this text may be reproduced in any format or for any purpose other than personal use. Modification, reproduction or transmission in any form, electronic or print, is prohibited without the prior permission of the publisher. Copyrighted ISBN 978-1-874280-84-2 (2 VOLUME SET) ISBN 978-1-874280-60-6 (VOL I) ISBN 978-1-874280-65-1 (VOL II) Printed by ColourBooks, Dublin Typeset and designed by Dunbar Design, Holywood, Co. Down Dublin Phil Soc A 1-117 p104 revised:Hoppen 10/11/08 20:01 Page v SERIES CONTENTS VOLUME I FOREWORD ABBREVIATIONS LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS NOTE ON DATES Commission NUMBERING OF MANUSCRIPTS AT TRINITY COLLEGE, DUBLIN GENERAL INTRODUCTION EDITORIAL INTRODUCTION SECTION A: Minutes 1683–7, April/May 1693, July 1695 SECTION B: Papers 1683–1701 Manuscripts VOLUMEIrish II ABBREVIATIONS SECTION C: Letters 1683–1706 SECTIONmaterial: D: Papers and Letters 1707–1709 SECTION E: Miscellaneous SECTION F: Satires on the Dublin Society by Dudley Loftus, 1684 APPENDICES A: Officers of the Dublin, Royal and Oxford Societies B: Biographical list of members of the Dublin Society CopyrightedGENERAL INDEX Dublin Phil Soc A 1-117 p104 revised:Hoppen 10/11/08 20:01 Page vi CONTENTS VOLUME I FOREWORD vii ABBREVIATIONS ix LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS xi NOTE ON DATES xiii NUMBERING OF MANUSCRIPTS AT TRINITY COLLEGE, DUBLIN Commissionxiii GENERAL INTRODUCTION xv EDITORIAL INTRODUCTION xxxvi i THE SOURCES xxxvii ii THE TEXT xlv iii THE ANNOTATION xlvii iv THE ILLUSTRATIONS xlix Manuscripts SECTION A: Minutes 1683–7, April/May 1693, July 1695 Introduction Irish 3 List of items in Section A 5 Minutes 9 SECTION B: Papers 1683–1701 Introduction 107 List ofmaterial: papers now lost 108 List of items in Section B 113 Papers 121 Copyrighted Dublin Phil Soc A 1-117 p104 revised:Hoppen 10/11/08 20:01 Page xi LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS The Roman numerals refer to the plate number of the illustration in this edition. The Arabic numerals in parenthesis refer to the item to which a particular illustration belongs. PLATE NO. ITEM NO. DESCRIPTION I (19) A scheme of three suns and two rainbows. Reproduced from B.L. Add. MS 4811, f. 162v. Ia (19) Diary of the Dublin weather, May 1684. Reproduced from Bodl. MS Ashmole 1813, f. 347. II (120) Eight geometrical figures. Reproduced from P. T. , xiv, no. 162 (1684). III (121) Three geometrical figures. Reproduced from T.C.D. MS I.4.18, f. 59. IV (122) Four geometrical figures. Reproduced from B.L. Add. MS 4811, f. 57. V (124) Six meteorological figures. Reproduced from B.L. Add. MS 481l, f. 138. Commission VI (125) Scheme of an engine for raising water. Reproduced from B.L. Add. MS 4811, f. 142. VII (133) A ship with an oblique wind. Reproduced from T.C.D. MS I.4.18, f. 173v. VIII (137) The Giant’s Causeway. Reproduced from P. T. , xviii, no. 212 (1694). IX (141) Two obelisks. Reproduced from P. T. , xv, no. 178 (1685). X (142) Two geometrical figures. ReproducedManuscripts from B.L. Add. MS 4811, f. 24. XI (143) Twelve figures related to engines for raising water. Reproduced from T.C.D. MS 1.4.18,Irish ff 111, 111v, and 112. XII (146) A turlough. Reproduced from P. T. , xv (1685). XIII (148) Two acoustical figures. Reproduced from P. T. , xiv, no. 156 (1684). XIV (153) Three bladder stones. Reproduced from P.T., xvii, no. 202 (1693). XV (156) Two figures of a scolopendra marina. Reproduced from P.T., xix, no. 225 (1697).material: XVI (157) Three figures of antlers. Reproduced from P. T. , xix, no. 227 (1697). XVII (158) An insect of the beetle kind. Reproduced from P. T. , xix, no. 234 (1697). XVIII (159) A bladder stone. Reproduced from P. T. , xx, no. 236 (1698). XIX (160) The Giant’s Causeway. Reproduced from P.T., xx, no. 241 (1698). XX (160) Eight figures of joints from the Giant’s Causeway. Reproduced from CopyrightedP. T ., xx, no. 241 (1698). XXI (162) Three figures of frontal skull bones. Reproduced from P.T., xxii, no. 261 (1700). XXII (163) Two figures illustrating the lyre. Reproduced from P.T., xxiii, no. 282 (1702). XXIII (164) Five optical figures. Reproduced from R.S. Copy Letter Book 10, 51. XXIV (165) Figure illustrating telescopic sights. Reproduced from B.L. Add. MS 481l, f. 7. XXV (168) Two figures of the ‘Connaught-worm’. Reproduced from P.T., xv, no. 168 (1685). Dublin Phil Soc A 1-117 p104 revised:Hoppen 10/11/08 20:01 Page xii xii PAPERS OF THE DUBLIN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY 1683–1709 PLATE NO. ITEM NO. DESCRIPTION XXVI (171) W. Molyneux’s hygrometer. Reproduced from P. T. , xv, no. 172 (1685). XXVII (172) Two figures of the water-newt. Reproduced from P. T ., xv, no. 177 (1685). XXVIII (174) Two figures of a boat crossing the Rhine. Reproduced from B.L. Add. MS 4811, f. 124v. XXIX (175) A way of setting a boat over a river. Reproduced from B.L. Add. MS 4811, f. 125. XXX (180) Three geometrical figures. Reproduced from P. T. , xvi, no. 187 (1687). XXXI (181) A surveying figure. Reproduced from P. T ., xix, no. 230 (1697). XXXII (182) Six optical figures. Reproduced from Jean de Hautefeuille’s Moyen de diminuer la longueur des lunetes d’aproche (Paris, 1697), plate opposite p. 8. XXXIIII (185) Five figures of a ‘double-cat’. Reproduced from P. T. , xv, no. 174 (1685). XXXIV (187) Two anatomical figures relating to the heads of fowl. ReproducedCommission from P.T., xvii, no. 199 (1693). XXXV (190) A ‘serpent-stone’. Reproduced from T.C.D. MS I.4.19, f. 4. XXXVI (197) Figure of a bodkin cut out of the bladder. Reproduced from P. T. , xxii, no. 260 (1700). XXXVII (202) Two geometrical figures. Reproduced from B.L. Add. MS 4811, ff 139v and 140. XXXVIII (206) Two figures of a ‘horny girl’. Reproduced from Nouvelles de la république des lettres (July 1686), Manuscriptsp. 790. XXXIX (207) Two geometrical figures. Reproduced from R.S. Classified Papers I, 20. XL (329) Figure of a level. ReproducedIrish from B.L. Add. MS 4811, f. 117v. XLI (344) An engine to consume smoke. Reproduced from B.L. Add. MS 4811, f. 141. XLII (419) Six figures of an air pump. Reproduced from Southampton MS D/M 1/2, pp 5 and 6. XLIII (426) Figure of a condensing engine. Reproduced from Southampton MS D/M 1/2,material: p. 12. XLIV (428) Figure of the stages of sunspots. Reproduced from B.L. Add. MS 4812, f. 8v. XLV (435) Figure of a barometer. Reproduced from R.I.A. MS 12/D/34, p. 22. XLVI (436) An engine to force water out of a quarry. Reproduced from B.L. Add. MS 4812, f. 15. XLVII (441) Figure relating to air in fluids. Reproduced from T.C.D. MS I.4.18, Copyrightedf. 49. XLVIII (442) A house struck by lightning. Reproduced from P. T. , xxvi, no. 313 (1708). In addition, very small sketches, redrawn from the manuscript originals, and not numbered, are to be found with items 23, 56, and 444 in this edition. Dublin Phil Soc A 1-117 p104 revised:Hoppen 10/11/08 20:01 Page xv GENERAL INTRODUCTION he intellectual world of late seventeenth-century Ireland was closely interwoven Tinto the wider social and political situation of that country, and its preoccu- pations and biases thus reflected the divisions within Irish society. Those who re- sponded most readily to the complex intellectual currents then flowing through much of western Europe, currents bearing with them new waysCommission of looking at the natural world and at man himself, came largely from a small social caste made up of those who had settled or whose ancestors had settled in Ireland during the six- teenth and seventeenth centuries. These men looked first to England or Scotland for the source of their ideas and prejudices. They belonged to a wider British com- munity and their situation in Ireland was essentially a colonial one. Their cultural dynamic, in both the broad sense of communalManuscripts behaviour and outlook and the nar- row sense of conscious intellectual articulation, was driven by a complicated en- gine made up of memories, contacts with relatives and friends across the Irish Sea, a feeling of separation from both Irishthe native Gaelic and the old English elements in Irish society (brought about by cultural as well as simply religious considerations), and a distinct sense of superiority and efficiency. This group produced the most positive response in Restoration Ireland to contemporary advances in learning. From it came most of thematerial: men who were in touch with international scholarship. It was natural philosophy that provided perhaps the most dynamic element within the late seventeenth-century world of learning.
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    FINGAL AND ITS CHUECHES. F I M G A L. 'i'.CHuRCHES IN Use ^Churches in Ruins 1 ' f I f f T J FINGAL AND ITS CHURCHES: ' a Ibietorical SFietcb/v- ( FtBi;n9I5 THE FOUNDATION AND STRUGGLES Of' CHUECH OF lEELAND IN THAT PART OF THE COUNTY DUBLIN WHICH LIES TO THE NORTH OF THE RRTIR TOLKA. ROBERT WALSH, M.A., Rtctor of Malahide, with Portinarnock, Diocese of Dublin. DUBLIN : WILLIAM McGEE, 18 NASSAU STREET. LONDON : SIMPKIN, MAESHALL, AND CO., PATEKNOSTER ROW. 1888. Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2015 https://archive.org/details/fingalitschurcheOOwals TO THE MEMBERS OF Zbc ffingal Clerical Society, IN GRATEFUL RECOLLECTION OF MANY HAPPY AND PROFITABLE MEETINGS THROUGH PAST YEARS ; AND IN THE EARNEST HOPE THAT MEETINGS AS HAPPY AND AS PROFITABLE MAY BE GRANTED THROUGH YEARS TO COME, trble Iblstors OF THE DISTRICT IN WHICH HE AND THEY MINISTER IS DEDICATED BY THE AUTHOR. PREFACE. tN the early part of this year I read some papers at meetings of the Fingal Clerical Society on the past history of the Church in the district. Many of those who heard the papers expressed a hope that they should be printed. Partly encouraged by these kindly critics of my papers, and partly induced by an opinion, which I have long entertained, that many members of the Church of Ireland know too little of her past won- derful history in their own neighbourhood, I have expanded my papers into the story told in this volume. My aim has been to write for the many whose knowledge of the subject is limited, but who may be interested in learning something more of the leading facts of a history of fourteen hundred years—not for the learned few, who will doubtless be disappointed if they expect in this volume evidences Vlll Preface.