THE CROMWELLIAN SETTLEMENT OF THE COUNTY OF LIMERICK.
P BY JAMES GRENE BARRY, Y.R.S.A.I.
Some preliminary remarks are necessary to lead up to my subject, and to explain how the Crornwellian settlement came about.. In a previous paper I showed the results of the Desmond con- fiscations, and the consequent settlement of this county under Queen Elizabeth. After the Flight of the Earls in 1607, English and Scotch " Undertakers," as they were called, got grants to the extent of three million acres in the six escheated Ulster counties (I). In these grants, however, only the arable Iand is mentioned or measured, amounting to 511,467 acres. The mountains, bogs, and uncultivated lands were treated as " waste land " ; but, in course of time, we find this "waste land " was taken possession of by the grantees. The native Irish were restored," as it is called, to about 75,000 acres of arable land, and, we may assume, also acquired a due
proportion of L' waste land." It must be remembered that this Ulster Settlement under James I. was unlike the Munster Settlement of his predecessors, as - there had been no general rising or overt act of treason committed by the old proprietors. After the defeat of the Irish at the battle of Kinsale, in 1603, O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, had made his submission and was graciously received into favour by King James in bndon. Hugh OPDonnellwas, on his submission, created Earl of Tyrconnell.
P- - (I) The six counties were Armagh, Tyrone, Coleraine (now Derry), Donegal, Fermanagh, and Cavan. 2
The King took this opportunity to abolish Tanistry and other Professor Richey says that the Protestant clergy "got for the first old Irish customs, and substituted instead the feudal system of land time a social status in the country which they had never enjoyed tenure. The Earls had their vast territories made into shires. before." Sheriffs were, for the first time, appointed, and judges went circuit. The new Planters formed a loyal body, whose interests was to The Earls, without consulting their Clans, agreed to hold their support the Government in enforcing religious conformity. They lands, for the future, direct from the Crown, and their vassals and naturally looked forward to futher confiscations. The Catholics of clansmen were turned into tenants at fixed rents and tenures, instead the Pale were, at last, forced to side with their CO-religionists,and of holding under the old customary due$. Under the Irish system thus came about for the first time an united Irish party. We, there- the Chief was elected from the reigning family by the Clan, and was fore, find two elements of discontent : I--the confiscation of the tribe merely tenant for life of the lands of the Clan, except certain lands in Ulster, owing to the outlawry of the Chiefs ; 2-religious demesne lands, which went with the chiefry. Horvever, this persecution, which extended to the whole of Ireland. attempt, which I believe was honestly made, to get rid of what was Partial risings were from time to time put down with the strong considered barbarous customs, was marred, unfortunately, by the hand, and considerable portions of the Counties of Leitrim, Long- enactment, in 1605, of certain Penal laws against the religion of the ford, King's County and Wexford, were escheated and planted. Irish people. Up to this time the doctrines of the Reformation had When the Government of Ireland came into the hands of Black made no way in Ireland. The late Dr. Richey, Professor of Feudal Tom " Wentworth, Earl of Strafford, the country was, to all appear- and English Law in T.C.D., says, in one of his well-known lectures ances, enjoying a period of peace and contentment. In order to find .on Irish History :-(2) " The entire population of Ireland was funds for his royal master to fight his Scotch subjects, Strafford hitherto Catholic ; the Catholics were divided into two parties-the made a progress through the greater part of Ireland, and appointed Trish Catholics and the Catholics of the English connexion. The LLDiscoverers,"to investigate and pick holes in the titles to lands former, clinging to native usages and laws, were in their traditions granted during the previous reign. By taking advantage of technical and ideas utterly opposed to the English rule, and they, as irrecon- errors in these patents from the Crown, he succeeded in raising a cilable~,were destined, if they could not triumph, hopelessly to lalge sum for the King, without giving him the trouble to appeal to succumb. The latter, except in the question of religion, were Parliament. Tht~swe have a new source of discontent. thoroughly English ; they fdrmed the mass of the English partisans, The old Connaught proprietors, who in Queen Elizabeth's time lent to the Government the physical force necessary to its main- paid large sums to save their estates from a claim three hundred tenance, and swelled the official party in the Irish Parliament. It years old, and had got new patents from the Crown, had' now these was this Catholic party which passed the acts relative to the affairs same estates confiscated. Strafford at first offered them half their old of the Church and the dissolution of the Monasteries." estates under fresh patents, the other half to revert to the Crown for We see the Irish of that period differed on every subject except a new Plantation; but Charles was now in trouble with his Par- religion. After the plantation of Ulster, and the enactment and liament, and preferred money. Consequently, they were graciously strict enforcement of penal laws, the whole aspect changed. The allowed to compound for the retention of their estates by the ritual and formularies of the Church were altered, and an active payment of large fines. campaign commenced against the old religion. Endowed schools were ~ucliwas the condition of affairs in Ireland when the outbrealr +establishedin each county, and a provision was made for a resident or national rising of 1641 toak place. It is not my intention to ' Ptotestant clergy in every parish ; so that under this plantation, take sides in the controversy as to the alleged wholesale massacres .and atrocities connected with this event,except to state that it has (2) "A Short History of the Irish People." Ed. 1887, p. 613. 4 been conceded by all unprejudiced historians that the exaggerated details of massacres given by Sir John Temple, in his narrative were 1,360 subscribers under this scheme, and the sum subscribed published in 1645, may be discounted and discredited. amounted to ;643,406 5s. od. Prendergast, in his Cromwellian Settlement of Ireland," gives I have so far given, as concisely as possible, the three active the names, occupations, and amounts subscribed by these adven- elements which led up to the civil war of 1641, which lasted for over turers. We find all classes mixed up in this adventure-Peers, nine years, and ended so disastrously for the Irish nation by the Parliament-men, army men, gentlemen, professional men, merchants, confiscations and settlement of the country under Cromwell. ' traders, farmers, and artisans. 2,;oo,ooo acres were to be parcelled The Irish were at first successful in capturing the principaI out among these men, in proportion to the money subscribed. Sub- walled towns. when Limerick revolted, Captain George Courtenay, scribers of Lzoo were to be allotted I,OOO acres in Ulster ; of £300, .: a younger son of Sir William Courtenay, was in the castle with sixty of r,ooo acres in Connaught ; of L~oo,1,000 acres in Munster ; and his own company, twentyeight warders and others, to the number of of 6600, 1,ooo acres in Leinster. In this way an army of ;,OOO foot two hundred men, but they were scanty of provisions and could get and 400 horse was raised and equipped for service in Ireland ; but none from the town except by stealth. They had arms of one sort or before they reached that country the Civil War broke out in other for all the men, but not above sixty muskets or caliveis that were England, and they were ordered to join the Parliamentary forces at serviceable : the rest were petronels, pistols, carabines, brown-bills and Edgehill, where they were cut to pieces by the Royal forces. fowling pieces. There were three demi-canon, two sakers, and one The next scheme adopted by the English Parliament for the minion ; but not above five or six firkins of powder in the place. The re-conquest of Ireland was the pledging of the chief sea-ports to the first work the Irish set about in order to take the fort was the making of public, on the following terms :-Limerick City, with 12,000 acres a .boomacross the river, over against a place called Mock Beggar Mear (1) of land adjoining, was offered for ~3o,ooo,and a rent to the State of within musket shot of the castle. It was made of long ashen trees A625 a year ; Waterford, with I j,ooo acres adjoining, at the same fastened with iron links on the Thomond side to two mill stones, and at rate ; Galway, with ~o,booacres adjoining, for &7,joo, and a rent of the other end to the tower of the key. The Irish plied the garrison £520 a year ; and Wexford, with 6,000 acres adjoining, for ~5,ooo, with their shot from St. Mary's church, so that none could stir in the and a rent of £156 4s. 4d. a year. But the English public refused castle-yard. On June z~sfCaptain Courtenay capitulated when part of to swallow this rich bait, having in mind the fate of the Adventurers. the wall fell down." Limerick was taken by the Confederate Catholics, In 1b43 the Marquis of Ormond had been made, by the King, under Lords Ikerrin and Muslrerry and General Barry, on June zrst, Lord Lieutenant and Commander-in-Chief in Ireland. He, however, 1642. King Charles now offered to come over and lead his army to made terms with the Parliament in 1647, and surrendered to them subdue thpse wicked and detestable rebels," but the Parliament Dublin and the other fortified towns ; whereupon a reinforcement refused either to allow him to leave England or to vote funds for of 1,400 foot and 600 horse were sent to Ireland, under Generals the army. They substituted a scheme for raising funds by private Kipper and Massy. subscription to pay an army for conquering Ireland. On the death of the King, in 1649, the Parliament were free to By the Adventurers' Act, passed on February ~6th~rCq, give their undivided attention to the conquest of Ireland. The every one who would bring in and adventure money for the " General they selected was Oliver Cromwell. reducing of Ireland should hare so many acres of the Irish rebels 'ro understand the situation at this date in Ireland, it will be lands, proportionable to the money which they brought in." There necessary for us to enter fhe Irish camp, and see how matters have I I 639 (3) . " Life of the Duke of Ormond." Vol. II., p. 304 developed there since 641. In the Parliamqnt which met in the Catholic party had a majority both in the Houses of Peers and common enemies and disturbers of the peace of our Sovereign Lord Commons. The Members of Parliament for the County of Limerick were Sir Edward Fitzharris and Bromne Miles ; for the City of the King," and ordering the Nuncio to forthwith quit the Kingdom of Ireland. Limerick, Alderman Nicholas Arthur and Dominick White ; for Kilmallock, Messrs. Kearney and St. Leger; for Askeaton, Roger Of course there was a counter-blast from Rinuccini and the Rice and Maurice Williams. Bishops, denouncing the peace of 1648. Ormond, whc had once again changed sides, now entered Kilkenny in state, and was Roger, or Rory, O'Moore was the most prominent Member of the Catholic party in this Parliament. Having failed in, his efforts received with acclamation and great rejoicing. His first act, how- to redress the grievances of his CO-religionists,he formulated a plan ever, was to dissolve the Supreme Council. Such was the state of parties in Ireland on the death of Charles to seize Dublin Castle, which failed. He was in correspondence , F with Owen Roe O'Neill, a nephew of the Earl of Tyrone, who had I. Ormond at once proclaimed Charles II., and called on all the'. lost his ancestral territory as we have seen. O'Neill was an able and Irish parties to unite under the Royal banner against the rebel experienced General, who had graduated as a soldier in the Nether- Parliament of England. On the 12th of October, 1649, he signed a lands. He took command of the old Irish of Ulster against the treaty with Owen Roe O'Neill, but, unfortunately for the Royal Scotch army of Montrose and Leslie, I 2,000 strong ; and his victory cause, Owen Roe died on the 6th of the following November, and against the former General, at Benburb, proved his prowess as a his veteran Ulster army of 6,000 foot and 500 horse were left without a leader. ' capable leader and skilful General. The country at this time was governed by the Kilkenny Con- Ormond was not successful in his efforts to unite the Irish federation, consisting of the Bishops, clergy, Peers, and principal parties under his leadership. (4) " Ormond had used all imaginable Catholic gentry. The Papal Legate, or Nuncio, Rinuccini, arrived pains and descended to all the arts of persuasion to engage the magis- on the scene in 1645, and soon afterwards a split took place between trates and citizens of Limerick to a step which was necessary for the" the Lords of the Pale and the Church Party led by Rinuccini. The security of their persons, estates and religion. But he was so far from prevailing that they did not treat him with those outward forms of former made peace with Orinonde in I 646, purchasing their own safety at the expense of the clergy and of the old Irish of Ulster. The civility and respect which had been in no other place denied. The Nuncio, from Limerick, :issued a decree condemning the peace officers that commanded the City guards neither came to him for orders and calling on all military and civil officers to "withdraw their nor imparted them to him. . . . To show the contempt they had allegiance from the late Supreme Council." of the King's authority they committed to prison the Viskount Owen Roe O'Neill marched his Ulster men into Leinster, and Kilmallock, a Roman Catholic peer and an officer of the army (the soon had possession of Kilkenny; the Supreme Council flying to Lord Lieutenant himself being upon the place), for no other reason, but Dublin. O'Neill formed a provisional Council in their stead, with for quartering for one night some horsemen under his command by the the Nuncio as President. But the other section of the Confederates Marquis of Ormond's own orders, within the liberties of the City. . . were the strongest; they entered into a treaty with Lord Inchiquin There was a Dutch shiIj in the river, on board which he put two trunks (Morogh-an-totane), who commanded the Parliamentary forces in of papers he was desirous of sending abroad. Dominick Fanning Munster-he had changed sides in 1644, and now changed over to gathering a parcel of young men about him in a riotous manner entered the King's party. The combined forces were turned against Owen the ship, broke open and rifled the trunks. When they found instead Roe and his Ulster army. A proclamation was issued from Kilkenny, of money papers they desisted. The Mayor had opposed them in the
where the Supreme Council had re-established itself, declaring Owen attempt but in vain. The Marquis, to encourage the good inclinations + (4) " Life of the Duke of Ormond." Vol. II., pp. 546-59. Roe OINeill, Rory OIMore, and the other Catholic leaders " to be 9 professed, removed to Clare, quartering the troops he had with him Deputy. On the 12th ?Ifay, 1652, the Leinster army surrendered, (1700 foot and 350 horse) in the neighbourhood. . . . Fanning and .and terms were agreed on, known as the " Kilkenny Articles." The his party called in Colonel Mortagh O'Brien, a man entirely devoted to Ulster and Munster forces accepted these terms soon after, and laid their faction, with his regiment increased by zoo recruits, and though down their arms. the Mayor opposed his entrance at the gates, they made their way into They were, according to these " Articles," to receive protection the City by force, seized the magazine of corn laid up there for the for themselves and their fanlilies, and the Parliamentary Commis- supply of the army, and a quantity of corn belonging to his Excellency sioners undertook to mediate between them and the English Par- himself. . . . Soon after Ireton advancing with his troops they liament, that they might enjoy in peace what remained of their appeared inclined to accept a garrison, but would have it composed of ! lands ; and those not satisfied with the action of Parliament were to., their own choosing, among which they insisted particularly on O'Brien's be free to leave the country, and to take service with any foreign' regiment. This obstinacy and disobedience of Limerick made it State they might select. impossible for the Marquis of Ormond either to gather or keep the The country was now, at the end of the mar, in a deplorable body of an army together." Limerick refused to receive or treat / state-depleted of men and money, stricken with fire and sword, with him. He finally made Loughreagh his headquarters, and without cattle or growing crops, and with a plague-stricken and appointed Lords Clanricarde and Castlehaven and General Preston starving population. The population of Ireland in 1641 was to the commands of the Leinster and Munster forces, and made r,~oo,ooo;in 1652 it was only 85o,ooo,-a reduction of 6~0,oooin a Bishop Heber McMahon, of Clogher, General of Owen Roe's veteran decade. The population of Dublin in 1641 was estimated at zo,ooo. 1I Ulster men, with the result that the Bishop and his army were It is recorded that in Dublin alone 17,ooo died of the plague totally defeated by Sir Charles Coote in a pitched battle near between 1650 and 1652. The total revenue of Ireland was only Letterkenny, The Bishop and many notable Ulster men were taken ~198,000a year, but the cost of the army of occupation, estimated prisoners, and were in due course hanged and quartered in the town at 30,000 men, came to ~500,oooa year. of Enniskillen. The remedy found by the English Parliatnent for this lament- able state of affairs was a plan for the speedy planting of the country 1 Olives Crornwell now appears on the scene, having been made Lord Lieutenant of 1reland and Commander-in-Chief by the Par- with the "Adventurers " and disbanded soldiers. It was proposed liament. He arrived in Dublin on the 15th of August, 1649, with a that all the confiscated lands should be at once surveyed, and that force of 8,000 foot and 4,000 horse, and the sum of ~zoo,~ooin " all soldiers should bring in their demand of arrears, so to give cash. The Munster garrisons, under Lords Inchiquin and Broghill, every man by lot so many acres as should answer the value of his revolted, and joined the Parliamentary forces in the October and demand." The private soldiers and non-commissioned officers November following ; and when Cromwell sailed from Youghal on were to have their lots at the same rate as the "Adventurers"; the 20th May, 1650, the conquest of Ireland had been practically lieutenants, cornets, ensigns, and quartermasters at two-thirds of completed, Limerick and Galway being the only towns of any the same rates; and all officers above those degrees at one-half those importance which still held out for the King. sates ; and should any private soldier wish to compound his arrears General Ireton, Cromwell's son-in-law, succeeded as Lord in gross, he was to get ten acres of land for every year of his service. Deputy and Commander of the Parliamentary Forces. Limerick Half the Province of Connaught, west of the Shannon (in- surrendered to him in October, 165 I, after a gallant defence, lasting cluding portion of the County Clare), was set apart for the Irish six months. Ireton died there on the 15th of the following proprietois, who were ordered to transplant before the first day of November, and was succeeded by 'General Fleetwood as Lord May, 1654, under the penalty of death. A band along the River I0
Shannon, four miles wide, was reserved for the soldiers, in order to and such other persons as are to remove with him, with the quantities secure the imprisonment of the transplanted Irish. This band was and qualities of their stock and tillage, the contents whereof are as subsequently reduced a mile from the river, and a circuit round follows, viz. : the said Sir David Bourke, adged 64 years, middle stature, Limerick City of three miles. brown hair; the Lady Catherine Bourke, adged 58 years, white hoary When this proclamation for transplanting was issued, the hair; Oliver Bourke, son of the said Sir David, adged 38 years, middle gentry and farmers were busy in harvesting their scanty crops. stature, full face, black hair ; Edmund Bourke, another son, adged 37 Each person had to get a certificate, describing his or her personal years, middle stature, sick of the body, red hair; Patrick Bourke, appearance, position, age, and that of each member of the,ir families another son of the said Sir David's, adged 35 years, tall stature, flaxen and households ; also the quantity of cattle, horses, crops, etc., pro- hair ; David Bourke, another son, adged 28 years, middle stature, flax~n posed to be removed. These documents are known as "Transplanters' hair." Then comes a list of their followers and servants, " their Certificates,"and had to be presented to the Commissioners for the substance one plough of garans, tenn cows, six acres of barley sowed, allotment of lands in Connaught before the first day of February, the substance whereof we believe to be true." (5) 1654 The following names appear in these lists connected with the The old Anglo-Irish families of the Pale-Butlers, Fitzgeralds, County and City of Limerick :- Barnwalls, Cheevers, Dillons, Cusacks, Lutterells, Plunkets, Talbots, Arthur, Barry, Bourke, Brown, Casey, Clanchy, Creagh, Can- - Nettervills, &c, whose ancestors, from the time of King John, held the tillon, Comyn, Gould, Fitzgerald, Fitzgibbon, Kennedy, Fitzharris, Pale for the English against the mere Irish, were now, in the depth of Harold, Hartigan, Hurley, Hogan, Lacy, Lee or Leo, Mulqueen, winter, forced to transplant into Connaught, with their families. They Mulcahy, McMahon, McSheehy, Liston, Naish, Power, Purcell, sent petitions and remonstrances to the Government without avail, their OIBrien,O'Shaughnessy, OIMolloney, OIHea,O'Mahony, O'Madigan lands were required for the motley crew of Adventurers and soldiers, and OIHeffernan, OIHalloran, O'Dwyer, OIConnor, Ryan, Roche, Roch- they had to go. ford, Ronan, Russell, Rawley, Stacpoole, Stritch, Sarsfield, Scanlan, The old native inhabitants of Limerick, and the colony of fisher Sullivan, Sheehan, Walsh, White, Wolfe. men, claimed exemption from transplanting, on the ground that they Sir Nicholas Comyn was a notable citizen of Limerick, who had had always assisted the English garrison and that it was their interest 1 to transplant with many of his neighbours. His certificate describes which induced the City to surrender during Ireton's seige. These were him as "Sir Nicholas ~ombn,of the Liberties of Limerick, numb at the descendants of Danish and English traders who inhabited the the side of his body of a dead palsy; his Lady Katherine Comyn, English-town, and who considered themselves the aristoqacy of Lime- aged thirty-four years, flaxen hair, middle stature ; and one maid rick, and who looked down on the mere Irish who dwelt in the Irish- servant, Honor McNamara, aged 20 years, browne hair, middle town. But the Crom~ellianstreated all alike, and many of their names stature, etc." Ignatius Stacpoole, of Limerick, is described as an may be found in the list of the transplanted from the " prescint of "Orphan, aged I I years, flaxen hair, full face, low stature. Limerick." Katherine, sister of the said Ignatius, 8 years, flaxen hair, ft~llface, Here is a characteristic petition from the children of a Limerick having no substance to relieve them." Alderman, in 1654 :-" The humble petition of Christina Roche, The following is the certificate of a County Limerick gentleman of dustace Kate and John Roche, the children of Alderman Jordan Roche, position, whc se property was confiscated :- '' We, the Commissioners, decd. : sheweth that Alderman Jordan Roche dyed seized of a vast real do hereby certify that Sir David Eourke, of Kilpeacon in the Barony of estate to the value of ~2000a year, and likewise of a considerable Small County and County of Limerick, hath, upon the 19th of personal estate, all which devolved and came to the publique. That November, 1653, delivered unto us, in writing, the names of himself (5) Book of Transplanters' Certificates, County Limerick. your poor petitioners are in a sad and deplorable condition for want of committee representing both classes. In the county Limerick ~30,000 sustinance, or mayntenance, and have nothing to live on, but what they worth of land was set out for Adventurers at the rate of 81- per acre. can earne by their needles and by washing and wringing, and they pray Dr. William Petty, physician to the forces, entered into an Agree- to be allowed something out of their father's estate." Alderman Roche ment, dated December ~~th,1654, for the surveying and mapping of lived at Newcastle, that ivy-clad ruin Limerick people know so well, the escheated lands in Ireland. He was to receive for every thousand and was owner of the surrounding lands. plantation acres of profitable land surveyed £7 3s. qd. For every It was on the Cathdic nobility and gentry that the blow chiefly thousand acres of bog and mountain, called unprofitable land, £3, and fell, as most of the peasantry who survived the civil war hkd left the the same price for church lands. In addition, he was to receive a sum of Lrooo for the maps. The work was contracted to be completed in country. Forty thousand Irishmen went into the services of the Kings I of Spain, France, and Poland, and served with distinction in the low thirteen months from February ~st,1655. This is the history of the well-known countries and elsewhere on the continent of Europe. The Bristol sugar Down survey," which was merchants had entered into an agreement with the Government for the completed in the county Limerick in 1657. The survey and maps are transportation of men, women and children, to the sugar plantations in to be seen in the Public Record Office, Dublin. the West Indies. In a few years 6,400 natives of Ireland were shipped Dr. Petty employed over one thousand assistants in this great work, to the sugar plantations under the warrant of the Puritan Parliament. chiefly disbanded soldiers, who were placed under skilled surveyors. It is on record that in the month of October, 1655, rooo young men Petty's chief assistant in this survey was 'I'homas i'aylor, ancestor of the Marquis of Headfort. who got extensive grants of land in the neighbour- and 1000 girls were shipped from the port of Galway, consigned to merchants in Jamaica. hood of Kells, county Meath. A great part of the county Limerick was surveyed and mapped T e remnant of natives who still survived all this were not sent to CJ-t under the supervision of Mr. Thomas Jackson. According to his survey " h or Connaught," for the following reasons, (6) given by Colonel the total escheated lands in this county amounted to zgo,ooo acres, or Ingoldsby, Governor of Limerick :- one half of the whole county. (I) "They were useful as earth-tillers and herdsmen. In the Eooks of Survey and Distribution the names of the old (2) "Deprived of their clergy, and living among the English proprietors and grantees are given, the townlands with the area, the settlers, they wduld become, eventually, Protestants, and parishes and baronies. (The maps are, when compared with the loyal subjects to the Parliament. Ordnance Survey maps, found to be wonderfully accurate.) (3) "The gentry in Connaught, deprived of their followers, must According to this survey there were about ~o,oooacres of church either starve, or, in time, become peasants themselves." lands in this county, and the unprofitable land amounting to about one- On the 26th September, 1653, an Act was passed for the settlement tenth of the whole. The commons attached to the adjacent townlands of Ireland. The towns, church lands and tithes, were reserved by the and hamlets were not assessed against the grantees in their patents. Puritan Parliament for their own purposes. They abolished all Church In July, 1656, the first allotment of lands in this county was made dignitaries-Archbishops, Bishops, Deans, &c. They reserved, also, the to the soldiers. The first regiments disbanded were the horse regiments counties of Dublin, Kildare, Cork, and Carlow. The rest of Ireland of Generals Ludlow, Sir Charles Coote, Colonel Ingoldsby and Colonel was to be divided between Adventurers and soldiers. It was found Pretty. Colonel Chidley Coote's regiment got assignments of land in that the amount due to the Adventurzrs was &36o,ooo, and the arrears the barony of Coshlea, at the rate of 121- an acre, equal to A600 for of pay due to the soldiers ~1,550,000. 1.0ts were to be drawn by a rooo acres. Colonel Richard Coote got an assignment in Small county, at 161- an acre, and Major Ormsby and Major King, in Coshma, at 141- (6) Threnodia Iiiberno-Catholics, &C., p. 25. an acre. General Jones and the officers of the Life Guards got grants Although large sums were spent in Tory-hunting, the race did not in Clanwilliam, at the rate of 221- the acre. become extinct until the middle of the eighteenth century. The The country was in a deserted and wasted condition at this time- baronies were heavily fined by a blood tax in this warfare. For every a complete wilderness. Most of the soldiers became discontented and Cromwellian officer killed by the Tories, a fine of £100 was levied on refused to settle on their lots, and were glad to sell their debentures to the barony, and for every soldier or settler the sum of £20. their officers for the price of their passage back to England. One of' The priests who had escaped hanging, or transportation to the the grievances of the soldiers was that they were forbidden to marry the West Indies, were interned in the Isles of Aran and Inishboffin, which Irish girls, under severe penalties. Another cause of discontent was were made penal settlements for the occasion. Each priest was allowed the great increase of wolves and Tories. sixpence per day for his maintenance. Wolves had become so numerous tha: the Governors of each A small body of Quakers settled in the city of Limerick in 16~2. district were directed to fix certain days for wolf-hunting, and a reward They were looked on by the Cromwellians as a L'particularlydangerous of £5 was offered for the head of every wolf brought to the local people." Colonel Ingoldsby, the Governor, was directed by the authority. Wolves had become so troublesome about Dublin that the Government to " secure divers persons commonly called Quakers, who Government, in 1653, gave Captain Edward Piers a lease of the lands were disturbing the congregations of sober Christians, and discouraging of Dunboyne, valued at £543 8s. 8d. a year, on the condition of main- divers godly ministers of the Gospel, and thereby bringing into contempt taining a pack of hounds for wolf-hunting, with "a knowing huntsman, the ordinances of God." two men, and one boy." He was bound to bring in a certain number After the restoration of Charles 11. the old proprietors entertained of wolf-heads, as stipulated in his lease, for the next five years, under a great hopes of getting back, at least, a portion of their ancient estates, penalty of £5 for every wolf's head short of the number. This, I which most of them had lost by joining the King's side against the think, is the first mention of a regular public pack of hounds in Ireland. Parliament. However, from the first they were doomed to disappoint- In the first United Parliament, which met at Westminster in 1657, ment. The Irish Parliament met on the 8th of May, 1661. It was Captain Morgan, M.P. for the County Wicklow, complained of the composed of 260 members, principally representatives of the new Crom- heavy assessment the counties had to bear owing to the cost of hunting wellian burgesses, who now inhabited the towns. The counties had and paying for the capture of the three burdensome beasts, " the Tory, only 64 representatives in the House of Commons. Limerick County the Wolf, and the Priest," pnd prayed relief. (7) The Tories were the was represented by Sir William King, of Kilpeacon, and Robert Oliver natives who refused to transplant and were outlawed, -4s a rule, they of Clonodfoy ; Limerick City by Standish Hartstonge and Gerald were led by some gentleman who had been despoiled of his estate. Fitzgerald ; Kilmallock by John Bridges and Rrooke Bridges ; Askeaton They kept up a constant guerrilla war against the new settlers. Large by Richard Southwell and Peter Pett. sums were given by the Government for the capture of the leaders, and The House of Lords was composed of 72 Protestant Peers, many £5 for the head of every Tory brought in to the local authorities. of them of recent creation, and 24 Bishops, with only 21 Catholic Peers. No doubt, the folldwing nursery rhyme is familiar to many :- The first act of this Parliament was to decree that no member l' Johnny Dory, what is your story? I went to the wood and shot a Tory. would be qualified to sit and vote unless he had first taken the oaths of I went to the wood and shot another : supremacy and conformity. This act got rid of the Catholic minority, Was it the same, or was it his brother? " I hunted him in, I hunted him out, and it is not surprising, therefore, that there was no redress for the Three times through the wood, and about and about, ancient forfeiling proprietors. It was decreed that all Adventurers and 'Till out of a hush I spied his head, So I levelled my gun and shot him dead." soldiers in occupation of confiscated lands on the first day of January, (7) Parliamentary Diary, 10th June, 1657. 1660, were not to be disturbed. In 1662 a Court of Claims was established to hear and decide the whom 1453 acres in the North Liberties of Limerick were allotted, cases of certain " Innocent Papists.'' This Court had authority to sit before Parliament : " Why then, Mr. Speaker (said Sir Jerome), there's for twelve months, but, as a matter of fact, they only sat from the Captain Winkworth. Captain Winkworth came with an order for the month of February to the following August; and out of 4,000 claims Liberties of Limerick, but the Doctor said, 'Captain, will you sell? listed for hearing they only gave decisions, mostly favourable, in 6,80 Will you sell? ' 'No,' said the Captain, 'it is the price of my blood.' cases. The rest got no redress. \ 'I'hen said the Doctor, "Tis bravely said : why then, my noble Captain, The Acts of "Settlement and Restoration," which passed between the Liberties pf Limerick are meat for your master,' meaning the Lord 1661 and 1665, settled finally the land question of that period. Deputy." Among those whose claims had not been settled up to'this were the Petty had got the following order made in Dublin, 25th February, " '49 officers," i.e., those officers who had served the King in Ireland 1657, which assigns him the coveted lands. '' We assign to the afork- previous to the 5th June, 1649. They were now br~ughtin under the said Dr. Wm. Petty and his heirs and assigns, the several lands hereafter Acts of Settlement, and got grants of lands and houses in the towns, mentioned, which lands contain in all 1453 acres one rood, lyeing in the which had not previously been disposed of. This assignment was made North Liberties of the City of Limerick, and are in satisfaction of through trustees specially appointed for the purpose. Captain John A653 19s. 3d., for certain service done since the 5th day of June, Croker, of Skule Castle, was one of the trustees appointed. The sum I 649.'' of £3,000 was due to him for arrears of pay. He bought Eallynagarde Sir William Petty married, in 1667, Elizabeth, dLughter of Sir for this sum from Colonel Randal Clayton, who had got a grant of it for Hardress Waller, of Castletown. He left two sons and one daughter. an arrear of £478. It was the property of Theobald Bourke. Among Both !Sons succeeded to the peerage of Shelbourne, conferred on Petty's the Restorees of Charles II., under the Acts of Settlement, were the widow, but, both dying without issue, his vast estates came, in due following " Innocent Papists " from the County Limerick :-Lord Castle. course, to the descendants of his only daughter, who had married the eonnell, Lord Brittas, Piers Lacy, of Bruff; Sir Edmund Fitzharris, of first Earl of Kerry, from whom the present Marquis of Lansdowne Clonodfoy, and Major Oliver Fitzharris ;John Fox, of Bulgaden ;Terence descends, and who now owns the North Liberties of Limerick, which O'Bryan, of Pallasgrealr ; Dermot O'Sheahan, of Rathmore ; Colonel his ancestor acquired in the manner stated above. Pierce Walsh, of Abington ; John White, of Loughill; Robert South- This completes a very cursory sketch of the great revolution in the well, of Rathkeale ; an4 Thady Quin. Lord Castleconnell and Piers ownership of land in this county, 250 years ago. About two-thirds gf Lacy had shared the King's exile. the county of Limerick changed hands in the two great revolutions I Having made an accurate copy of the Book of Survey and have sketched-the Desmond and the Cromwellian settlements. Before Distribution for the County Limerick, I shali give in detail, at the end the "rising" of 1641 the Catholic gentry were owners of nearly nine- of this paper, the portion dealing with the South Liberties of Limerick, tenths of the land in this country ; after the Cromwellian 'settlement and can, from time to time, should circumstances permit, publish the they only retained about one-third of their ancient patrimony. survey and distribution of the escheated lands in this county, barony by It is, however, a mistake to assume that the farmers and peasantry barony. suffered in like manner. The Cromwe:lian settlers, like their English The North Liberties of Limerick are omitted from the Down Survey predecessors, the " Undertakers," found it impossible to work their books, as Sir William Petty was determined this valuable tract should lands profitably without the assistance of the natives, consequently they fall to his own lot. He very candidly tells the story (8) himself. Sir very soon commenced to let their lands "farm-ways " to the Irish, and Jerome Sankey having brought the complaint of Captain Winkworth to very often accepteci as tenants the old proprietors or their descendants. 'The Irish Government did their best to prevent the acquisition of land (8) Larcom's l' Down Swvey." I 8 by the old Irish, but without much success. On the accession of James 11. the land of the country was practically in the occupation~of the native Irish, but only as tillers of the soil. Lord Clarendon, was Lord Lieutenant in 1686, says that few of the Adventurers and soldiers then remained in the country. Many contemporary writers lament that the children of the settlers THE CROMWELLIAN SETTLEMENT OF THE COUNTY OF could only speak Gaelic, and bitterly complain that owing to daily LIMERICK. association with the natives and intermarriage with Irish girls, " Old Noll's Ironsides " had degenerated into mere Irishmen, and here I part company with the Cromwellian settlers, undergoing the old proces of BY JAMES GRENE BARRY, D.L., M.R.S.A.I. r becoming "more Irish than the Irish themselves." PART THE SECOND.
Having given the history of the Down Survey in the First Part of the Cromwellian Settlement of the County Limerick, it only remains for me to give in detail, from " The Books of Survey and Distribution," the transfer of the escheated lands, townland by townland, and parish by parish, in each barony of the County. The total area of Ireland, exclusive of bogs and loughs, according to this survey, was 10,500,ooo acres, Irish Plantation Measure. Of this there were 1,500,ooo acres of mountain and coarse grazing, and about 1,500,000 waste and commons, leaving 7,500,ooo profitable or arable land. It was estimated that English settlers and Protestants held about 2,000,000 acres, and that the Glebe ar~dChurch lands amounted to 300,000 acres, leaving the area of lands escheated at 5,200,000 ?cres, plantation measure. The Down Survey gives the total area of the County Limerick at l 375,320 acres, I.P.M., of which amount about ~30,ooowere escheated. The following return of the baronies, surveyed under the supervision of Mr. Thomas Jackson, gives an example of how the lands were classified.
Unp~ofitahle. Baronies P~ofitable I Idand- ~ / under I ober 1 Church Lands. / Total I.P.hI. - 5c0 Acres. 500 Acrei. South Liberties A. R. P. A. R. P. A. R.. P. ofLimeriLk .. 11~342 I 29 1,352 2 0 Clanwilliam . . 17,30z 2 37 1,362 o o 942 o o Small County . . 10,819 o 16 483 2 0 - Kilmallock . . 1,915 I 21 17 0 0 Coshlea . . . q,o74 r ro 3,107 2 36 1,476 0 0 Coshma .. 15,195 o o 502 2 0 ----p-----p------Totals . 85,748 3 33 6,821 0 36 1.418 0 0 5,002 O II / 1 / l I 99.994 1 0 DOWN SURVEY OF THE COUNTY LIMERICK.
SOUTH LIBERTIES OF LIMERICIC.
Thomas Arthur S Gardens ... Daniel Bowman .. ., Pat. Creagh Fitzstephen 7 Gardens . . . 130. .. . Richard Fanning . . I Gardec . . . Do. .. . Sir Nicholas Comyn . . I Garden ... Do. .. . I Garden ... Do. . . Thos. Arthur .. . Bealincurrv Richard Gavin . ... Sir Ralph Wilson (I)... Sir David Bourke .. I Garden ... DO. ... Pat. Harrold .. . Farran~on&~h .. . Daniel Gowrman .. . J. Oge White .. A Garden . .. Do. ... B. Rice . Do. .. Do. ... J. Stritch ... Do. Do. ...l Corporation Land . .. Corlcenree 1: ~otseqnestereci ,,I Earl of Thomond . . Farrangalla Do. . . Courbraclc Christopher Sexton .. . Priors Land Corporation Land .. hlonegealagh & I -- - (1) Colonel Sir Ralph W~lsongot large grants of lands in the Coun~y,including Alderman T. Arthur ... Reboge , , , Sir Wm King (3) 131 0 0 Bilboa, near Cappau~nre,Caherconlish, Koher, Ralhbane, and Tervoe, afterwards Sir Nicholas Comyn ... no. .. . Do. :::l 258 0 0 sold to the Monsells. The late Charles Monck Wllson, who sold Caherconlish in Sir Jeff Gallway ... Park Callehoolane ... Do. .. 140 0 0 1865, was the last of this family res~dlngin this County Thos. Arthur .. . Gortneskagh .. . John Vaughan ...l 27 0 0 I __- I (3).Sir William King qot lands to the extent of 21,600 acres in this County. He fixed h~sresidence at Kilpeacon, the ancient Demesne of Sir David Bourke, Bart. Leaving no issue, his estates descended to his grand nephews, Richard and Edward Villiers. 1Ie succeeded Sir Ralph Wilson as Mayor of Limerick, A.D. 1665.
John Fox-Fitzjames .. . Bailysheda . . Richard Waller . .. ST. LAURENCEPARISH. Alderman Thos Arthur Rathmisteele .. . Qdward Weir . .. Do. ... Do. . . . Duke of York ... I Don~inicliFanning .. . Rathbane .. . Sir Ralph Wilson ... OLD PROPRIETOR TOWNLAND I GRANTEE AREA,I. P. M. Do. ... Do. ... 110. l Do. . .. Banelisheen .. . .John Winkworth .. . a. r. p. DO. ... Two Ardnevokes ... Do. . ,. Laurence White and Du. ... Turf bog common to ... Margaret Creagh ... Gortacolliboe . . Daniel Bowerman ... 4 0 8 adjacent lands .. . Do. ... Rathgrellane ... Sir Iialph Wilson ... Pierse Creagh ... Do. .. . Do. .. . Dominiclc Fanning Sken Abbey Do...... , . . Hart. Stacbpoole .. . Ranneree ... DO. . .. Nicholas Bonrke Fitz- william ... North Ralhurd ... John Friend (2) ... James Bourlie ... ' DO. .. John Winkworth .. . Nicholas Power ... Gorteenonelagh ... Sir Ralph Wilson ... Roberr Long Merchant . Clownelong .. . Daniel Bov~n~an .. . DO. . Bog in cornm.~,n*, .. . .. James Rawley Lisanalta .. Francis Gregory ... I44 I 0 Do. Galvone I no. :::I commons of DO. . . Do. ... 129 o o ... Spittle land ... Not sequestered , ... DonougH O'Brier .. 1 Derryknocka~le .. . Wdliam Pope ... 430 o o John Arthur, of L merick/ Ballynecloghy .. Richard Waller ... 162 o o (2) Captain John Friend got also the iands of Bosliill and adjoining townlands, Do. ...l Do- ... Abraham Green ... 21 o o still in possession of his descendants. M. Oge Stritch Annaghrosty . Francis Rolleston . 188 o o -.l Bog in common 63 o o a. r. p. Sir Jeff Gallway I Lord Brittas ... Cleyduff' . .. Thos. Walcott Alderman Fanning .. Shedfeaclde ...' Abraham Green Do. .. Do. . .. Hollow Blades Do. ... Ardrnore ... Duke of York Lord Castleconnell .. . Rahine ... Samuel Wade Three commo~lshe- Not sequestered Do. ... Carrow and Rahine Thos. Walcott longing to the Lord Brittas .. . Shaunavoy .. . Wm. Gilnbleston Corporation , .. Do. ... DO. .. . Hollow Blades Bishop's land ... Kilkelleen, no. Same and John Clancy Ballyloskey ... Thos. Walcott Knocknan~ontill~, Rd. and Wm. Rich. and Hallynementragh ... Do. Garryglassy, - Ed. NcUlick ' 1 1 Garrycragbeg and Richard Bourke. of Ballyvarry Garrymoney Ballyvarry Ballyvarry Wood Glebe .. . Singland .. Do. nn.- -. . 110. Do. , . .. Do. . Do. Do. ...l Bellynucklin Do. Do. ,, carrowmartin 1:: DO, a. r. p. Bart. Rice . . , Cloghenrory . Henry Bindon 182 o -0 Bog in common ... 67 0 0 Baron of Rrittas .. Callaghitroy , Hollow Blades ... 360 o o ...l als. CastleItroy Lady Dowager Castle- Cloghenkeaton ... David Bindon Jordan Roche (6)and Newcastle, Lislean, Do. ... 570 0 0 , connell (7) Ed. Rourlte and Ballyknock Bog in common ...... Waste land Do. . .. Islaneouran . . Patrick Vannts Jordan Bourke, of Lime-1 Ballyglassanne, I Do. . .. Alderman j. Creagh . .. Tiervououghtragh . .. Sir Ralph Wilson rick part of Newcastle Do. . Cahir Keilegeneragh Do. Jordan Koche, aforesaid Knockmnrry, Do. John Creagh .. . Corbally ... Patrick Vannts part of Newcastle Lady Dowager Castle- Do. . .. Samuel Eames Etl. Bourke FitzRichard Belldsimon Duke of York cdnnell - Do. . Towleton .. . Do. Bishop's land ... Ballymachasell ... Not sequestered ... 41 o o Uo. .. Derryland . .. Hollow Blades Do. ... Castle of Mongrett Do. ... 773 o 0 Thos.Arthur, of 1,imerick Drumrus ... John Winckworth Do. .. . Knockanes .. . Do. ... 17 0 0 Ed. and Jas. Bourke ... Eallyneclogh ... Ruben Jacob Do. ... Toordalourty and Do. ... 672 o 11 Do. ... Do. . . Thos. Walcott Ballvkea Do. . .. Do. .... Abraham Grwn Do. .. Ballycomin .. Do. 313 o o Do. [b. Robert child-.. ~ogin common' ..l ... 159 0 0 .. Temple Rlongrett ... Not sequestered Sir GeB Gallway :::l Bealavolin !. .. Mary Francis no. I l I (6) Jordan Roche, of Newcastl~,was Mayor of Limerick in 1639, and was father (7) Margaret, Lady Castleconnell, was wldow of Edmond, fifth Lord, who die: of Dominic Roche, crested Baron Tarbert and Viscount Cahervally by Jarne- 11. A.D. 1638. She was daughter of Sir George Thornton, one of the "Undertakers of Elizabeth's time, and was first married to Donagh O'Brian of Carrigogunnell, who . had left her, as jointure land, the two Cratloes and Portdrine in Clare, and Clogh- keating and Corbally in Pubhlebrian In her transplanter's certificate, dated 19th December, 1653, she is described as "adged 70 years, middle statue, flaxen ha~r. Her substance 20 cows, 20 sheep, 10 mares and garrans, and two riding nags ; four sows, and six acres of winter corn, out of which she pays contribution," also, "27 servants and retainers." John and William Bourke Scartballyvallish .. ~obertGarner Do. . 1 Do. . . . Rob. Twigg Do. Do. ... Wm. T. Power John, William, and Carnarry .. John Cripps Thomas Bourke, and Thos. Power I l I M. Haly Sir Wm. King I a. S. p. William Comin, of Coolreagh and Rob. Twigg Jordan Roche, of Limk. Liccadoone . Thomas, Bishop of 1 4 0 0 Whitestown Carrigmartin Do. Lm~erick Lord Brittas and Jordan Ballyloughane ...I Wm. Yarwell Ihvid Itoche Cah~rvally ... Hollow Blade? Roche Bog in common .. 70 o o Jordan Roche . . . Brownstown Do. 38 o o Protestant land ... Baliynabraher ... Not sequestered 247 0 0 DO. . .. Cnocklarmore no. :::l 4 o o (Frinrstown) Lord Brittas and Jordan Ballyogartine .. . Robert Twigg ... 67 o o Roche Thomas Power, of Park Park, Drornbanny, Standish Hartstonge (8) 371 o o (To Be corziinued.) 1 l and Rallymackin (8) Standish Hartstonge, of Bruff, creatcd a Baronet in 1681, was son of Francis Hartstonge, who married the eldest of the three daughters of Sir Thomas Standish, who had a grant of the extensive estate of Lacy of Bruff. The first Earl of Limerick mariied Miss Ormsby, niece of Sir Henry IIa~tstonge,the la5t Barnliet, and succeeded to his estates, on his death without issue. THE CROMWELLIAN SETTLEMENT OF THE COUNTY OF LIMERICK. BY JAhlES GRENE RAI PUBBLEBRIAN BAROEY. (I) Lady Southwell ... Monaster and Not sequestered ... Baliymacstradeen Alderman F. Fanning and Garranamanach . . . Arthur Ingram and John his assignees, and Der- Newenham ... ?not Clancey, LP. (2) Earl of Bath (3) .. Cahirduff ... Not sequestered ... Ed. Bourlte .. . Laclcnegrenane .. . I-Iollow Blades .. . Torlagh O'Brien and Knocltnegraney and Sir A. Ingram and John Morough O'Brien .. . Garranebeg . .. Newenham .. . Do. ... Ballymartin .. Thos. Blackall, Sir A. Do. ... 110. . . . Ingram and Wm. Webb Earl of Thomond .. . Kilcurley ... Not sequestered ... (I) Pubbhbrian Baitmy. A sept of Norsemen settled along the Maigue river in the 9th century. The district between the mouth of the Maigue and Limerick was called after them CaoiZle-$2~-Chos?zanzhagh,and sometimes Easa awa 00. LIMITED, LIMERICK. KILLONAGHANEPARISH. OLD PROPRIETOR TOWNLAND GRANTEE AREA,I.P.M. a, r. p. Margaret Brian Als. Charabudd .. Sir A. Ingram and John 134 o o l a. r. p. Stephenson, I.P. (4).. Newenhanl ... Morogh O'Brien, of I Billonaghanmore . .. Thos. Blackall .../ 80 2 10 Same and ye relict of Ger- Mackirireagh .. . Lucas Taafe ... 64 I 18 Gransy .. . ald Fitzthornas Gerald, Knockdrumassell E-Iollow Blades ... 68 o o Margaret Erian ... Killonaghanheg ... Do. 8 330 I.P. ... (now Torvhill)., ... Do. .. . Do. ... R. Sweet 26 o o Bog ... I2 *Q 0 Do. ... Do. . .. John Parker Mich. FOX,of Limerick ... J. Elackdll Knockdromassell .. Sir A. Ingram and John 1x2 2 32 Margartt Lady Dowager Rallinvinoge Newenham Castleconneli Turf Bog belonging 92 3 8 Do. to adjacent lands no. 34 3 14 " A Lough besides '9 I 8 Margaret Brian. Als. same ... SGphenson Ladsincontroversy Col. Carey Dillon ... g 3 24 Do. ... Cahirnatanaha no. '::I Do. ~- l l (4) Margaret O'Brien was daughter of Iiichard Stephenson, of Dunmoylan, who was killed in 1642, and his wife, Margaret, daughter of Sir Brian duff O'IIrien, of (6) In a foot-note to an article on Manister Abbey, by T. Johnson Westropp, in Carrig-o-gunnel], who died in 1615. Brian duff had got a re-grant of Carrig-o.g~~nnell vol. xiu of the Royal Historical and Atch~ologicalSociety Journals, he states that and the Lordship of Pubblebrien from Elizabeth. His only son, Donogh, died without Attyflyn was granted to Tames, Duke of York, in 1660, and was purchased in 1703 by issue in 1632, and was succeeded at Carrig-o-gunnel1 by a third cousin, Donogh, of Montifort Westropp, of Kilkerin, Co. Clare, for £760. Downe, who married the above Margaret who had been left considerable estates in Pubblehrien by her uncle and mother. Both her own and her husband's large estates were now forfeited. a. r. p. Sil Morice Hurley, Sir A. Ingram and John I 18 2 16 Kildrlff, LP. (7) Bsllynamurragh has been anglicised into '' Ballymc~rphy." Donogh O'Bryan,I. P., of Ballyanrahanbeg ...l Sir S. Barnardiston Francis Barkley, LP, . Carrigogonill Ballycahane .. . Geo. Peacoclte ... Margaret Brian Kilcolman ... Wm. Barker Do. Do. .. . Sir A. Ingram and John Lands in common to Newenham ... adjacent lands . Do. . . Kildonnell ... Wm. M'el~h . .. James Haly, of Limerick Rrosliamore .. . Geo. Evans Do. Do. .. . Marta and Mary Towler Liscoulta Wm. Barker Do. DO. Margaret Brian ...... Sir A. Ingram and John Pat Kearney Cloghateacka ... DO. Newenham . .. Margaret- Brian Do. south ... Do. Bog llelonging to Col. C. Dillon Glasclohe Do. same ... Do. .. . Cornelius McDermody,of Killtarnple .. . DO. Earl of Thomond , Boherowen .. Not sequestered .. . Earl of Bath Hallyregau ... Do. ... Killtarnplan ; Willian Margaret Brian, ills . Skeaghanamore . .. Geo. Peacocke . .. Roche, of Limerick Stephenson Skeaghanabeg ... Do. ... William Casey, Cloun Do. Gortfluchenny and Do. .. . anner;O'Brian and Dermo Leachnageroge . .. Lands in common to/ Comnlons of Bally- do. ... Bryan McMurtagh .. Coteacka .. . Do. John Faning, I.P., of Garranyweelanbeg Geo. Evans Limerick Daniel McMahon .. KillincallyBog of same ... WmDo. White no. Graigebeg ... Wm. Barker Wm. Stritch, of Limericl Faha .. . Sir S. Barnadiston a. r. p. Do. Do. ... Wm. Osborne Sir Dawd Bourke .. I OLD PROPRIETOR TOWNLAND GRANTEE AREA,I. P. M. a. r. p. Wm. Roche, of Limerick Bearnacoyle, half Sir Samuel Barnardiston 203 3 8 ploughland .. . THE CROMWELLIAN SETTLEMENT OF THE COUNTY OF LIMERICK. BY JAMES GRENE BARKY, [).L., M.R.S.A.I. PART THE FOURTH. l a. r. p. Baron Castleconnell (2) Castleconnell ... Andrew Ralu ... 23 0 0 Stradbally ... Richard I'rirce ... 67 0 0 Do. ... John Snow ... 197 2 0 Glebe .. Duke of York ... 27 o o Islands in the Shan- Samuel Eamrs 220 non Upper Portcrushy Earl of Inchiquin ... 228 o o Do. ... Do. . .. 29 o o Lower Portcrushy Do. ... 336 o o Do. ... Do. ... 501 o o Boherquill ... IIumphrey Hartwell ... 145 o o I'arke ... no. ... 339 0 0 l Bog in Common .. LordHartwell Inchiquin and H. 435 3 0 (I) Originally Aoslrimaiphe the territory of the clan O'Chouazize (O'Gunninqs). 'lleir chief seat was Castleconnell (Caislean m' Choizaine). They were dispossessed by the O'Briens of Thomond, who in turn had to give place to the Bourkes. William de Burgh got a grant of Castleconnell and a large part of Clanwilliam from Icing John. This barony and the barony of Clanwilliam in Tipperary, known as West and East Clanwilliam, got their names from William FitzAdelan de Burgh, who lived at Xthassel and founded the Augustinian Abbey there, A.D. 1200. (2) This was William, sixth Lord Castleconnell. He joined the Confederate Catholics in 1642 and sat in the General Ascembly in Kilkenny. IIe raised and commanded a regiment of horse against the Parliament, and when his estates were cotitiscated he joined King Charles in his exile, and serxed in the Ihke of York's srgiment. On the restoration his attainder was reversed and his eatates were restored in part. His grandson, the eighth Lord, cast in his lot with lames 11, was attainted, anrl lost all his estates. He died without issue in France, 169:. OLD PROPRIETOR a. r. p. Lord Brittas Killinure .. . James Collins Lord Caqtleconnell . .. Ballygoymore .. . William Icing 316 o o Do. .. . George Evans Richa~dBourke, of Ball>- Madeimoy Do. Do. ... Lord Brittas varry Codebane ...I.. . Do. 14 I 0 Do. ... Colonel Dillon Knqckeagh ... John Friend Walter Bourke and Ikvid Cloonelteene ... Ralph IVilson ... Edwatd Willis Barry 175 0 0 Knockatanacashlan Lady Brittas Conor Clancy, Richard 110. ... Samuel Mollineux ... Do. John Friend Bourke, and Donogh 175 o o Carrickerrily ... Do. Conor Downeenana ... Lord Brittas Templen~ichael ... Lady Brittas lohn Friend Ballyart ... Hollow Blades Claynoe ... A Irigram no. Lord Krittas Lord Brittas, Charles ar Grennnoatragh and A. lnqram Simon Clancy Grenanitragh A Common ... Do. Bog ~n common ... Do. Richard Wolfe, of Lim Garr:iniskey .. . John Mansell a. r. p. 110. .. Thomas Mausell Katherine Bourke and In Williamstown ... Wm Mathews 40 o o riclt,and Conor Clanc Dr. Arthur Bog in same ...l of Ballybricken ... 18 0 0 Edward Bourke Boskill .. . John Friend Farranferin ... Do. Walter Bourke, of Castl Castlcerkin ... Ulissu.; Burgh (5) erkin Garryclash ... 110. Synode ... Danirl Al~bott Laurence White, of Lim ... John Vrienci rick Williaim I a. r. p. William Bourke ... Galbooly .. Iiichard Powell 256 3 13 William Bourke, of Kil- Lismullane ... Sir R. Wilson ... 338 2 '6 Conor Clancy and Lord Rathjordan ... William Mathews lownan Do. ... Ed. Willis ... 162 o o Brittas John Bourke ... Kishyquirke .. Hollow Blades ... 159 3 28 Bog ... Do. . 21 0 0 Cloghnadromin ... Sir R. Wilson ... 160 o o Ca~tainPurdon .. 160 o o Lord Brittas 23090 o o Sir W. King Do. %allyguy I I Lord Brittas .. . Insenlaurence ... iohn X7aughan Grer~anbeg I-Iollow Blades Ballyhrnan ... a. r. p. Ballynebuolly ... Sir G. Ingoldsby Thomas R dce, ofBdly-/ In Rochestown ..I Laurence Clayton ...l 78 o o Cormack 0'1-Ieyne .. . Caheruebeg ... Do. loghla i Daniel Heyne .. . Eallyboodan ... Do. Michael Bourke, of 1 DO. . Do. Graige ... Sir W. King Rochestown Lord Brittas .. Willialnstown ... Do. .. 8800 Catherine Bourke, widow Rochestown ... John Mansell ... 36 o 0 of Dr. Thos. Arthur (7) Do. ... Wm. Mathews ... 93 0 0 Glebe ... I10 l I (7) Dr. Arthur's family were granted by Charles I1 a portion of their old estate, viz. : Dymphna Arthur, widow ; John Nugent and Dymphna, his wife ; Edmund Walsh and Christina, his wife ; Daniel Arthur, Nicholas Cornyn, and Christina, his \\alter Bourke ... Luddenbeg ... ,Sir Geo. Ingoldsl~y wife, heirs of Thomas Arthur, Esquire, M.D., deceased, stone house in Mungret Gurteeniteen ... , Street, Limerick, and several !gardens ; a quarter of a ploughland in Williamstown Garrar~lianbuoy ... and ye middle storey of the castle thereof, and two-storey houses at each end thereof, John Rourke ... Gortneskelin ., 40 acres in the three-fourth of ploughland, and a one-third part of half ploughland David Bourke ... Do. ... with ye bawne in Rochestown, 36 acres, total 123 acres and 17 perches statute. lleeskavally .. . Total rent, £1 3s. o~d.,Barony Clanwilliam, County of Limerick. Enrolled, Gortbally .. . 15th October, 1684." Gortvoher ... Glenetrim ... Garden plot ... John Bourke, of Caher- Gortnaskein .. narry I Gortnecuttoehy ...I OLD PROPRIETOR Gortansleavoik John Creagh, Ed. Bourke, Kilcullen Sir Thomas Southwell.. Richard Bourke, Lau- Thomas Uourke, of Ballyloghlan ...l Lourence Clayton .. rence White Uallyloghlan Dominick Roche, of Ballymacreese and Duke of York Theobald Bourke, of Ballynegarde ../ DO. Limerick Labbanamucky (afterwards Abraham Ballynegarde Waste .. . Do Lismullanebeg Thomas Bishop, of Laurence Comyn "'1 Litwrick (now ballyneety) Dominick Roche, of Boherlode and Protestants Limerick Ballynevrana l SMALL COUKTY. (8) Thady Grady of Kil. Two parcells of Bur- T. C. D. keleen gess land in Any a. r. p. Sir Maurice Hurley of Curkenkeele .. . Richard Coote (II) Kilduff (g) Two parcells in Do. William Fitton of Aney Ballyda ,V, , Gortycornelca .. . Do. l Farrangoosey (8) This Barony includcd the ancient territory of the O'Cia~nzhaic(O'Kerwick, Farrancaslan anglicised Kirby) of dine Cliarh, who were su!jject to, and paid tribute to the Hill of Any, part of T. C. D. kings of Cashel. The earls of Desmond acquirell this district at a con~paratively Sceoard ... R. Coote early date, and made it almoa: an independent county, aud thus it came to he talled c ;ortndine ... no. the " Small County" of Limerick. Clashrnol e .. 110. (9) The O'Hurleys possessed consiilcrable landed property in the east of Limerick Gortynskagh ... Do. Gardens in Any ... T. C. D. county for several centuries. Maurice IIurley of Knucklong and Killduffe, who died in 1637, according to an inquisition taken early in the reign of James I, held Knock- James Grady of Any, Burgess land in Any R. Coote 1.P. (12) Farranbally long, Hamnionstown, Longstone, etc., in free socage from Gibbon Fitzgibbon, Mortgage or Mor- T. C. D. Macatal~ Kin'dery; also Ballyacadane and Rathellan. From the White Knight he held the townland of Glanlarlir Kilduff Castle near Pallasgrean and other denomina- gany Do. . 5 0 0 tions of land he held by patent from the king. Manrice was succeeded by his eldest Gardens in Any .. son, Thomas, whose son, Sir Maurice, now lost for evt:r the family estate. Cleyneshanagh .. K. Coote ... 5 0 9 Knockaphaclee .. . Do. .. 5 334 (10) Wiliiam Fitton of Aney was grandson of one of the undertakers of that name Gortnecaragh, .. Do. ... 5 3 2 (see Journ 11, No. I, p. 11). Sir Edward Fitton had a grant of 12,ooo acres, and Coology, and his nephews, Richard and Alexander, 3,000 acres of the Desmond estates. Sir Rathenrard Edward hcld Glenogra Castle and lands, on lease from Sir George Bourchier of Lough William Fitton and Burgess land in Any T. C. D. ... 5 0 0 Gur, and was high sheriff of the county in 1598. We tind, now after a lapse of little, Anabella Browne 13parcels more than fifty years, these lands ag.in confiscatd and granted to the Cromwellian Maurice Baggott .. Baggottstown .. . Ben. Eurton 727 0 13 adventurers. John Baggott, T.P. (13) 1)o. ... 1)o. 33 0 0 Michael Haly of Tooreel Elton and Brittas ... Richard Coote Edmond Fox of Bally gallagh John Haly of Limerick.. Do. / Earl of Inchiquin . 198 o 0, l -----p-l I (11) Richard Coote was grandson of General Sir Charles Coote (the elder), and a. r. p. brother to General Sir Charles Coote (the younger), who was created Earl of Mount- Sir M. Hurley rath on the Restoration. Richard was created Baron Coote of Colooney, by patent Bishop of Emly Bishop's land 510 o o dated September 6th, 1660, and received large grants of land in the east of the county 22 0 0 of Limerick. His son was created earl of Eellamont, by William 111, for his services. The Cootes of Ash Hill, Kilmallock, and Mount Coote, are descended from his younger brother, Chidley Coote, a 1ieut.-colonel in Cromwell's army. (12) Donogh O'Grady of Kilballyowen got the title to his estate confirmed by James I. He died in 1653, leaving by his wife-a daughter of Sir Thomas Brown of Camas-a son, Darby of Kilballyowen, who married Faith, daughter of Sir Thomas Standish, who had got a grant of the de Lacy estate about Bruff. By this connection O'Grady preserved his estate at Kilballyowen ; although other members of the family - 1 - - -1- I had theirs confiscated. Darby O'Grady's sister was married to Gibbon Fitzgibbon, a. r. p. Macatan Kiddery, of Eallynahinche, who now lost his estates. Their grandson, .Sir M. Hurley . .. Kilfrush .. John Bullenbreffle .. 520 I 29 Maurice Fitzgibbon, a captain in the army of James 11, was killed in a duel by his. Ballycarowney . . Thos. Inburgh .. 100 0 o cousin, Darby Grady, the founder of the Elton family, A.D. 1699 Do. .. . Sir Wm. King ... 186 o o (13) Colonel John Baggot of Baggotstown was a member of the General Assembly Uo. .. -~rthurCooper ... 50 o o of Confederated Catholics, and held a high position in the Irish Army. He was in Waste . .. 90 0 0 the city of Limerick during Ireton's siege in 165i Both he and his son Maurice now had their estates confiscated. OLD PROPRIETOR TOWNLAND GRANTEE AREA,I.P.M. Mahon McTeige Grady Killmacdonaghduff. Rob. Morgan a. r. p. Darby Grady of Hall~n-Ragamusbeg and ... Geo. Perceval Ellen and Wm. Stritch Cahergillamore ... Rob. Morgan ... Iog o o scooley Kilkellane of Limerick 1 Do. ... Anthony Raymond ... 195 2 10 Ballyvaney Do. 8 Parcells of Glebe. I5 I o X part of Kiii-( Bishop's land ... Tullybracky ... 230 o o ballyowen Glebe ... Claghane ... 35 0 0 Waste a.. r. p. Derby Grady and Edd Gormmstown . Rob. hlargan 268 o 10 OLD PROPRIETOR TOWNLAND GRANTEE AREA+ P.M. Fox . .. Richard Coote 118 o 14 Adamslown ... Do. a. r. p. Sir David Bourke, I.P(I~Kilpeacon & Inch- Sir Wm. King 606 o o morrismore 14) 1.P.-Innocent Papist. OLD PKOPKIETOR TOWNLAND a. r. p. Ed. Fox ... Ballygilden arid Rob. Morgan .l 786 o o Garrysnllivane ' Jas. Vertlon Do. Lord Kingston a. r. p. Ed., Margaret and Ellen 864 o o Kawley (15) Ballingooley (15) I find James Rawley a freeholder on the estate of Mr. Edward Fitton in a return dated 1592, and in 1598 he was tenant of Lough Gur castle and adjacent lands to Sir George Bourchier. This James Rawley, or Raleigh, was said to be uncle to Sir Walter Raleigh. He built a spacious castellated mansion close to the river Scule ...I Grurge Irgoldsby Camogue, in the parish of Cahercorney, adjoining Lough Gur, on the townland still Uo. ... 110. retainin9 his name-Kawleystown. Ellen Rawley, widow of Kichard of Rawleystown, Commons of Scule Do. was a daughter of Lacy of Bruff; she and her children, Edward and Margaret, held and Ballyloghlane conciderable landed property in this and the adjoining parishes, all now confiscated. Another parcell of Uo. Near relatives, Richard and Ednlond Raleigh of Ballynamona Castle, also lost their same estates, ~Vhichadjoined those of O'Grady of Kilballyowen, with whom Edmond had Theobaid Bourke, I.P. ... a dispute, and in a duel with swords cut off O'Grady's arm. This was Thomas, eldest son of Darby O'Grady of Kilballyowen. Among those transplanted gentry from the John Lysaght of Adare . county Limerick are to be found the names of Edmond Rawley of Rawleystown, and Edmond and Richard Rawley uf Ballynamona. Walter Rawley was not an uncommon name in this district up to a recent date. RER, 1.P M. --- hfahowneoge Bryan ... Same Cormach Ryan, I.P. .. Mungfund . Lord Kingston .Moylegau Earl of Orrery Do. J. Stepney, Conor O'Connor . .. Portcard Iinockanerry . . Colonel fhllon McCorrnack Bryan and Clasaghinrescagh . . I-Ieathy Mountain ... I)o. Phi1 Iiyan Mountain Ballavorheen .. Cormack Ryan ... Moogher and Gort- Robert Wilkinson Ed. Waish, junr. .. Dromsallagh .. Earl of Orrery anakitty McDermot and Mullagh- Bog in aforesaid .. Col. Peirce Walsh, 1.P Carranbane .. . Edward Walsh lin McMurrogb, I.P. Unprofitable hog i~ Dermot 1Zyan and Conol Mt. of same ... DO. common 110. O'Dwyer Andrew Ram Corniaclc Mulrian .. . Garrageen and Robert Williinson Monamucky Annagh and Cnock- Earl of Orrery A mountain .. Do. owtymoveen ShrubbySame wood .. Do. Mountain ... Do. Do. Bog in same ... Do. Shruhbs in same . Do. Mahown McKennedy 1 Earl of Orrery Peirce and Edward Clonlloughlin .. . 110. Walsh, junr. Gortenane .. . no. Jamcs Ryan and Rorg 3onesimell ... Do. Kyan McTeige Part of Rossanyheg Cormack and uprot'itable Teige htcowrley Crynn, Buckane .. . George Evans Rvan Teige O'Brian . .. land T 1 n 1.1. Thornas fic~crmot Conor McTeige ... :orrantiri.ergan .. Earl of Orrery Cormack Part of same McOwney Ryan rublrergarrlff .. . Lord Kington Kyan and 'Teige I'ei~ce Waish ... [ -- --P-- Croagh Colnmon to thre~ adjacenl towns OLD PROPRIETOR TO~VKIAN1) GRANTEE AREA,I.P.M. "Caezraiphe Lrelonged to the Ni C'aiaiubrz Aobhdl~aof whom the O'Donovans were --P --P chiefs possessing the lands along the Maigue from the Shannon to Croom and B~uree. A. r. p. Teigc O'Brien, of Togh g,ill~ra . Earl of Orrery ... 788 0 0 (2) The Purcells of Croagh and Ballyculhane, etc., held considerable estates in Drumalty, Gortiq Cornclius Clancy .,. '57 0 0 this Barony. General Purcell was executed after \he surrender of Limerick to Ireton, T;tw;;$h and Toin- in 1651. Phineas Bury, who now got a grant of their estates, was ancestor of the Unprofitable land.. . . Earls of Charleville. , 973 0 0 ARE*, S.P.M. RRA, I. P. AI. Uavid Fitzgerald and Ballengarren I Do. Katherine Fitzgerald. Lisn~ackme ::l Do. of Ballygarren Gerald Fitzjarues Gerald Rich. Fitzgerald, of Farrenrmnie .. . Do. and Geraltl Fiiztheo- Fananranlie bald, G e r a l d, anc Court ... Do. Wm. Shane Fitzgerald ( Ballinecurry ... 1 Do. Gerald Fitzjaines, o Ballinecurry Court, I.P. Do. Land in difference Thos. McGarret, of between same and Fryennaghnagh Faha Ness Fiizcerald, relict o :oh11 I-Ially, late of Linie I KII,COI:NANEPARISH. - - --p-- --P- -- - I I -- OLD PROPRIETOR P1111 Flt~gcrald,of Garrat McThomcs, of Phineas Bury 239 0 0 Dronioherbeg Ballinacourty, an d. bd. kitzgernld, of Droinohernlore ...l Do. Pat Hogan, of Bal- 1 14 0 'o Ilron~ohern~ore liiiamona l Thos. E itzgerald, of hr. Murry McPnrcell, of Milltowne Capt. Teige McMahon Eallinshoril~clrl~lore Milltownc, I.P. and F~ancisEellars .. Glyn and Nlchs. banning of L~mcrlcb,I. P. Sir Geoff. Gallway, I.P. Graige John Bury Thos. BlcShane Geiald, Uallymony . Wm Taylor DO. ...l d. Bray OLD PROI'RIETOR REA, I.P.M. Bog .. . Do. Gerald Fitzgerald . . Ballygleaghane . Wm. Taylor -- Tynlrelly Shanbally- I>o. a. r. p more Dermolt McMahon ... Tuogh .. Henry Widenham (3) ... 418 o o Garranard and Q- Do. Ed, I'urcell, of Curry ... Curry ... Do. ... gort Bog - 19614 3r oU Bog to do. . . 110. Dermott McMahon ... ~ennigarrane 10. ... 19 o o 1 81 U o Killeen and Bally- Do. ICennedy McTitlogh, anr ICillamamgo ... Sir S. Barnadiston . Morrogh hlcDai;iel Do. . .. Z'hineas Bury ... 45 0 0 53 0 0 Bryne, McTullogh .. I14 0 0 The\. Fitzgerald, of 0 0 Monenane goole Cnoclieo .. . Do. . ., 31 0 0 Slr Geofl. Gallway 13allynomore .. John Lysaght ICilllterill . . Do. 137 o o Morlsh $ ltzgerald, (;erald (;or [alassy I'hiness Bury Land in difference 43 0 0 iiitzgerdld, of Gorta Bog between Sir S lassy, and David Nih~l, Barnadiston and of Limenclc Sir 11. Waller Callynoebeg .. 1 Do. John Fitzgerald late of Corra ... John Hunt (4) 335 0 0 Curra Rest of Parish Not sequestered Boi: ... 45 0 0 John Lysaght I (3) IIenry Widenham was brother of Lieut. -Colonel John Widenham, who got a OLD PRO~'RIB.TOR TOWNLAND GRANrEk AI:~,I.I,.AL grant of Castletown-Roche, County Cork. Henry Widenhani purchased Court and p- other adjoining townlands in 1702, from the Comniissioilers for Sales of Forfeited a. l. p Estates. Ile was High Sheriff of the County in 1702. IIenry Widenhani had issix, Thoa Dondon, of Ealiyctecn Thos. Westropp .. 76 I 20 two daughters, co-heiresses. The eldest, Msry, married in 1709, Valenline Quin, Rallpstezn M~tchelstown Slr S. Bdrnadlston .. 110 o o eldest son and heir or Thady (&in, of Adare. 13y this marriage, ail Henry Widen- Ball~ncannaroe . Do. .. . 130 z 32 hain's estates in Kenry ancl Coiinelloe, under the Act of Settlement, went into the Wm. Roche, late of Ballinvohel Te,ge McMalione 161 z 0 Qnin family, and are now included in the estate of the Earl of Dunraven. The L~merick,1.1'. other daughter married the eldest soc of Sir Standish Hartstonge, Bart., of Bruff, and Davld Fltzgerald, of Balllnacourty brought Court and the other purchased towulands into that family, now represented Ballln~~cou~ty by the Earl of Liniericlr. MLIIL~.Malone, of L~merick (4) Ancestor of the deVere of Curragh and Hunt families of Limerick and -- Tipperary. THE CROMWELLIAN SETTLEMENT OF THE COUNTY OF LIMERICK-(Continued.) P RY JAMES GRENE BARRY, M.R.S.A.I. -- PART SIXTH. COSHMAGH BARONY. TOWNLAND a. r. p. Nell Lacy, als. Ballygibbon and Chas. Ormsby 745 0 0 Fitzperalcl Tankardstown Tohn Gold, of Knock Knocksowney Do. ../ 291 0 0 sowney Garrett Fitzgerald . . Thornastown and Jeff. Owens ... 226 z 27 Gortnepequiney Peter Wallis ,.. 113 I 13 Wm. Blackney ... 450 o o Chas. Pym ... 225 o o Earl of Orrery ... 84 o o Peter Wallis .. 5.100 OLD PROPRIETOR TOWNLAND GRAKTEE AREA,I.P.M. a. r. p. Pat Kearney, I.P. ... Clounigar ... A. Ormshy .. . 109 0 0 Jas. Lysaght, LP. ... Clogher ... Do. ... 750 0 0 John Fox, LP. .. . Ballyvenoge and Do. ... 266 o 0 Ballysallagh Jas. Lacy, I.P. ... Ballinchory ... Do. . 3200 Edy Lacy, I. P. ... Parcells of land ... Do. .. . 300 Wm. Rahally ... Rahalysacre ... DO. ... 7 2 o Jas. Fox, I.P. ... Foxes acres ... Do. ... 5 2 0 Nichls. Haly, I. P. ... Drumin Fauntsland Do. ... 87 2 o Gurteencoogy .. . Do. ... 2 2 o Jas Fox, LP. .. Scoule .. . Do. ... 9 0 Q John Fox, I.P. ... Do. .. . Do. ... I2 0 0 Ed. Kearney, LP. . Do. Do. James Kearney, I.P. .. . Two parcells .. Do. Jas. Lacy, I. P. ... Part of Ballin- Do. Geo. Thornton, I.P. ... Ballinanty N. ... Duke of York 23 o 0 clouney SirEd.Ormsby :::l 21 oLo Ed. Warr 214 0 c Nichs. Haly, I.P. ... Knockallyturlis .. Do. ... I12 0 0 ... Ballingegaura .. DO. 143 0 0 P. Lysaght . S. Balinanty ..) Do. 228 o o ... F'arranfincealay, Do. 34 0 0 Ballineely 143 0 0 DO. ... part of Ballyvaroon Symon Hurley, I.P. ... Ballinlea DO. .. 145 0 0 Wm. Marshall, I. P. .. . Garbally Marshali' itandishHartstor.ge ... 70 o o Nichs. Haly, I.P. (2) ... Grallagh ... Sir Ed. Ormsby ... 220 0 0 Earl of Bath ... Rahane ... Not sequestered ... a. r. p. Jas. Fox, I. P. ... Ballygrennan ... Geo. Evans (3) ... 404 o o David Lacy, I. P. ... Athlacka ... Chas. Ormsby ... 707 o o Geo. Thornton, and Jas. Carrowreagh, Bally- John Bayly ... 183 o o John Fox, I. P. ... Ballincolloe ... Do. ... 107 o o Grady wollen, als. Mull- Geo. Thornton, I.P. (I) Ballincurragh ... Do. .., 105 o o town Ballinamona ... Do. ... 85 o o Geo. Thornton ... Ballinstonyheg ... Geo. Evans .. 6200 Pat Kearney, I.P. ... Clounbrien ... Do. ... 236 o o Geo, Thornton .. Ballinstonemore ... Geo. Evans ... 126 o o Mulltowne ... Do. ... 65 o o Same and Jas. Fox .. Uregar . .. John Bayly ... 229 o o Geo. Fitzgerald, I.P. ... Uregar hill, and Geo. Evans ... 174 o o Farranhenymore Pat Kearney. I.P. .,. Ballyhanmore ... Do. ... 85 0 o Ed Kearney, LP. ... Ballyaney ... Ed. Kearney ... 219 o o Ed. Lacy, I.P. ... Ballylananheg ... Geo. Evans ... 29 3 o Crostoge Edy ... Do. .. . 900 Bog, Curragh and 124 2 10 Common ... a. r. p. John Supple, I.P. . Cregans ... Earl of Orrery ... 1050 o o Ballingaule .. . Geo. Evana .. 2900 F'arrangeiliragh and Earl of Orrery ... 32 o o (2) Earl of Bath. This was John Bouchier, fifth Earl of Bath, son of General Rathgoban Sir George Bouchier, who got the seignory of Loughgur after 1583. He married Rachel, daughter of Francis Faree, Earl of Westmoreland, who succeeded him, as he died without issue. The present representative of this family is Count John Faree De Salis, D.L., of Luughgur. (I)George Thornton was son of the " Undertaker," Sir George Thornton (see ante Vol. I. "Limerick under the Reign of Queen Elizabeth.") One of his sisters (3) George Evans. Colonel George Evans, of Ballygrennan Castle, M.P. for had married John Bourke, of Brittas, and another Sir Maurice Hurley, of Knocklong. County Limerick, was succeeded by his son, George Evans, M.P. for Charleville, Thornton having joined the Confederate Catholics in 1642,now had the broad lands, and Lieutenant of the County. He built Bulgaden Hall, and resided there until it acquired after the Desmond Confiscation, forfeited. was burnt down. His son, Right Hon. George Evans, created Baron Carbery in 1715,resided at Caherass, where he died in 1749. Bishop of Limerick . Deesart and Carri- Not sequestered geen Nichs. Icearney 3ellagh .. . Dub. Coll. Hallyorgan Geo. Thornton, I.P. Zarhow .. . Sir T. Southwell Disertillasney .. 110. ... Dub. Coll. A great surround of Not sequestered Earl Kildare Ballygrene ... Not sequestered Protestants Ed. Lee, I.P. aollagh .. . Arthur Ornrshy Lisgillagh, Monas Prot. land Thos. Lee Do. . .. Sir Ed. Ormsby ternenay, Eally Not forfeited Maurice Fitzgerald Dollow ... Do. stradeen Do. ... Arth. Ormsby Walter and Maurice L I'uloivoig ... Chas. Ormsby Pat Meagh, Jas. Brew Glenmore and Chidley Coote Stephen Lee, LP. Ballyculien .. . Do. and Rob. Hurley Gortvonteen Ed. Lee, I. P. Rossteniple ... Do. Stephen Anster Grange Anster .. Do. Jas. Lee, I.P. Ballinta Heyward St. Leger Abbey land .. Not sequestered Jas. Bourke Doenkipp ... And several parcell Not sequestered Bally muckane ::I sir r:: Orrnsby of Abbey land ad Do. ... Chas. Ormshy joining grist mill Cloncullane .. Sir Ed. Ormsby Parknemrahy .. Stephcn Lee, LP. Clorehane .. . Chas. Ormsby A parcell lying be Bog of ditto. ... tween ye land o Jas. Lee, I.P. Tullavin ...I Chas. Ormsby John Gould, Bog thereto Money Fox, and Morise, a!s. Mahown Tworine 1:: Sir Ed. Ormsby Ballygibmore, Hickey neanng William Henry Casey, 1.P. Carhuekeel .. Do. Blewitt's land Henry Casey, 1.P. Shanacluon ... DO. A parcell lying be- Several gardens in Do. tween Rathfinis Croome land and Slr Earl of Kildare Several parcells ... Not sequestered Maurice Hurley Pat Purcell, I.P. Garraunroe and Sir Ed. Ormsby 4nother between Ballyphookoe Sir M. Hurley, Commonsof ye same and Ricd. Creagb Bog belonging to ye >orteenlackan L adjacent lands % parcel1 between Ballylosky .. . 110. Sir M. Hurley Teige O'Fanning Kalhhrenagh .. 1)o. and Haly's land Ed. Fanning Fanninstown ... Do. 2ortanmrahan and Commons toye same adjoming Com- Ellinor Fitzgerald al! Keoghowney Do. mons Harris George Bullybally .. Do. Garrett Fitzgerald Caherassy .. . no. John Lysaght, I.P. hlondellighy .. Do. Maui ice Fltzgeratd Lisnamully ... DO Geo. Thornton, I. 1'. Donomean and Do. Ballinstraw Curraghvinoge .. . Peter Wallis 01.11 PROPRIETOR TOWN[AND GRANTEE AREA,I.P.M. p- a. r. p. Richd. Dundon, I. P. ... Crravel~eg .. Ihh. Coll. ... 40 o o Pat Meade, I.P. .. . Ballinfiory . .. Arthur Ormsby ... 37 o o Jas. Bourbe, I. P. ... Rallinscrory ... Sir Ed. Ormsby ... 175 Q o Maurice Herbert, P. Mullanes Do. I...... 13 o o a. r. p. Thos. Russell ...l Russells Curragh ...I Sir Ed. Ormsby . 92 3 o John Lysaght ... Black Abbey in 5 Do.- ... 10 o o parcells, Several gardens o do. in Athdare1 town Pierce Creagh, I. P. ... 12 severall gardens Do. in Athdare town Morise McTeige ... Garryowen and gar- Do. dens in same John Fitzgerald and Two parcells in ye Do. James Lysaght same Wm. Stritch, LP. ... 4 parcells do. ... Do. Jas. Creagh, I. P .. . A garden .. Do. Unforfeited ... 7 parcells White Abbey Pierce Creagh-Fitz-Pierce 4 parcells of Burgess Do. (4) land in ye town Stephen Lee .. . Kealoge,Wademore, Do. Traghoulagh,Clou- nagh, Farranmore- trea Gurteenwaren ... Do. Thos. O'Cullane ... 3 parcells of Spittle Do. land Wm. Stritch ... Whites Burgess Do. land Jas. Lysaght ... Gortneglash ... Do. John Fitz-Edmund Burgess land ... ' Do. Gerald Gorteendoglaney .. . Peter Wallis Nichs. Lylis, Castle Roberts begs Sir Ed. Ormsby Pierce Creagh &others, lI some Protestants Do. ... Not sequestered Do. ... Poore Abbey ... Sir Ed. Ormsby Do. ... White Abbey (48a. Do. not sequestered) Do. ... Gorteenmorebegg.. Do. ... Rowermore, Rower- hegg, Ilanarory .. . Do. ... Beabus ... (4) Pierce Creagh. This Pierce Creagh was Mayor of ,Limerick in 1651. He married a daughter of McNamara of Cratloe Castle, and died in 1670, and is now represented by the Creagh's of Dangan, Co. Clare. His name appears as Alderman Pierce Creagh, in the Inrolments of Certificates of transplanted persons, A.D. 1653-4. THE CROMWELLIAN SETTLEMENT OF THE W,LJNTY OF LIMERICK-(Continued.) BY JAMES GR,ENE BARRY, M.R.S.A,I. PART SEVENTH. (I) COONAGH BARONY. ULLAAND CLUGGINPARISH. James Butler and Mary, Pollarstown Henry Harding relict of James MurtagE -.l 671 O -O 'McBryen and Jamer Longford Andrew Brandon Butler -.l 61 O O Same & Phil. hIcMahonj Bog of Lismakelly Thomas Harding ... 40 0 0 of Killura John White ... 279 0 0 Same Killanurra Jer. Carthy ... 43 3 6 Do. ... 40 2 0 Conor O'Bryen, - of Killo Coarse Land . geeny Jer. Carthy ... 139 o 32 Turlagh McBryen of 8allyvolode . Ballinvolode Good grazing of bo John White ... 148 2 o of ditto. Do. .. I32 3 24 Conor McBryen Cloghdalton . Do. ... 52 032 McMurtagh Tirlagh Hollow Blades .. 232 o 0 McBryen Do. Do. ... 75 0 0 Tirlagh McBryen of Do. ... 38 o o Ballyvalode Do. . Henryand John Warding IOO 0 0 Earl of Thomond .. Lands hot sequestered ... 461 o o Tirlagh McBrynn .. Newtowne John White ...l 16 o o (I)Ui Cuanach, an ancient tribe who possessed this Barony which included Aes Greine. " Aes Greine of the fine bright land was obtained. "By O'Coaning of the territory of Saingel. (Singland) "He possessed a cheery land around fair Greine. " From his noble descent from Eoghan." O'Heran. For a further account of Greine or Grian see Joyce's "Irish Names of Places." Henry de Londres, Archbishop of Dublin, got a grant of this district in 1215. A branch of the O'Brien's held almost exclusive possession of Coonagh from an early date down to Cromwellian times. ULLAAND CLUGGINPARISH-CO~~~ZBUC~. OLD PROPRIETOR I TOWNLAND I GRANTEE a. r. p. Miles McGrath Murtagh McBryan and Cloghkillibarri ... Thos. Sandon ... 600 o o Conor McBryan ... Bad pasture ... James Dawson ... 100 o o Earl of Thomond ... The restoftheF'arish Not Sequestered William Rydane, John Farrandonolinroe Andrew Brandon .. ,..l Rydane and Arrebregy . Morogh Casey ... Hackman Phil. Packer Conor McBryne of Moanroe Henry Harding .. Farrandonogh ... Murtagh McBryen of Part of Shrub do.. Longford ... Andrew Brandon .. Conor McBryan, Conor Henry Harding .. Thomas Mahoune McMurtagh, and Bryen McOwen ... Doone ... Lord Kingston ... McBrven of Mouenroe Donagh Ryan Conor ... A fifth unprofitable Ryan Roger Ryan Murtagh McRryen, I.P. Gg~,'k":,"~and . lohn White Bryen McBryan Daniel McBryen ... Conor McLeaghlin Conor McMurtagh ... Both Crosses . Andrew Brandon and Phil. MC. Erg Bryan, I.P. Teige McBryan of Cross, Col. Carey Dillon .. Marcus McGrath of Killi- and Sir Morris Hurley, Hollow Blades newallan .. . Lissowan ... Hollow Blades ... I. P. .. . A. Brandon Mahoune Owen Bryan of Hicky and Bryan MC- Shandangine . lohn White Killimullan Bryan of Shandangine Meaghlin Bryne Killimullan .. . Do. .., Wm. Hickey ... Dunalter Andrew Brandon .. Bryne McBryne Conor McLeaghlin Wm. Hickey, Melaghlan Cullinaghcinfrey Andrew Brandon .. Phil. Ryan and Connor Reagh, Thos. Ryan, and Leakamore . McMeaghlin Bryne,I. P Dermott Ryan, Andrew Donagh Bryne MC Wm. Hickey and Murtagh McBryne .. Gowlagh ... Earl Mountalexander (3) Mahon Ryan, I. P. .. . Roger Ryan .. . Curraghauphoyle Moris Hurley and Conor Callagh McBryan of Knockballyfookam and Thos. Ryan ... Bog . Do. ,.. Knockballyfookane ... Ballynitty Cloghin Murtagh Bryne of Long- Teige McBryen of Bally- Thursley and i ford ... Tomoline ... Hollow Blades ... runa ... Brackyle b Dermott Bryne of Tomo- Murtagh McBryen of Gortnalosty, Gort line ... Shrubs ... Do. .. . Longford ... nasallagh Murtagh Bryne .. . Clounirnskeenahehy A. Brandon ... Connor McBryan of Gortclassiany Teige McByrne ... Leackacrowe ... Do. .. . Knock .. . Arekerakaile Magrath Ryan and ... Do. ... Lord Kingston ... Miles McGrath of Clog- Gortanallyfovine William Ryan, I. P. ... Do. .. . (3) Earl Mountalexander hereadan, Chas. Mc- Dnl. and Donagh Bryenof Bohernecraggy Gortenallenm re Mahoune of Purtane ... Purtane .. . Holloy Blades ... Conor McBryen of Cly- Gortagarron, Gort Thos. and Dnl. Donnellan nee, Wm. Ryan of barnaboy, Cuila Conor McBryne Bohereeny,Teige McB. guillickbui Conor McMurtagh McB. of Ballyruan, Tirlagh Inheanmenagh of Cloghdalton ... Killmackogue ... John White ... McB. of Ballynacloghy Gortnanoghy I I I and Kenedy RlcByrne Gortvonymeanna- of Derrynane, I.P. ... gould (2) Doone-Dun BlCse, it., the fort of Blessb, who was swineherd to the King of Gortamurragh and Coonagh. Gortaleanaboy .. 4ndrew Brandon .. (3) Earl Mount Alexander. This was Hugh Montgomery, 2nd Viscount Mont- Ineryemenagh rhos. Sandon gomery, who forfeited his estates in England as a Royalist, but, on the Restoration Earl of Thomond ... Killeighvally .. Yot Sequestered .. was created Earl of Mount Alexander, and had his English estates restored and got Bog Zol. C. Dillon large grants in Ireland. He married a daughter of the 1st Earl of Drogheda and left issue. The title became extinct in 1757 on the death of the 5th Earl. Teige McBryne and ... Killinlavane . A. Brandon WilJiam Bryne .. Gortaanavullen . Tirlagh McBryne of Curreengeenaiffe ... Do. Rallynegrenagh .. . James Dawson 186 o o Kennedy McBryne .. Killmore Do. .., Ballinacloghy ..l Connur Reagh O'Hea of Sir M. Hurley and Wm. Bog ... McBryne, 1.1'. Gortnagard ... Gortavally . Do. . .. Ed. Harrison Murrogh O'Hea McShane Pious Uses Sir Morris Hurley of Shane O'Hea ... Red Bog Knocklong and Hicky Knockroe .. . James Dawson McTho~.Joan O'Hea ... Gortavally Bog . Theobald Lord Baron o McMahoune Ed. O'Hea Brittas, I.P. Coole ...l Jamer Darson ...l 35 0 0 McRichard & Sir Morris Sir M. Hurley and Hurley, I.P. Murroghoge McBryn~ Clockdine . DO. ...l IIO o o Tirlagh Bryne of Cookey Do. of Pallice, I. P...... Any Hicky, widow, I.P. Clyrone 114 18 Red Rog Gamaliel Waters .. . 85 I 8 Do. and Conor Thomas Browne of Hos Kiltilly Bog of Do. 20 o 16 O'Hea ... Carrigogounagh . An eighth unprofitablt e... pital, I. P. Red Rog of Cappag (4) Henry, Earl of Tho- mond ... Castlegarde .. Not sequestered .. . Murtagh McBryne Roger Ryan, Sir Morris Hurley, Conor and E. Ryan .. . Curraghmccomyne Sir Audley Mervin Teige McBryne of Ballin- ruan, I.P. ... Leackamccoumyn Earl Mountalexander .. . Wood Richard Bourke of Drom- keen, and Miltown ... Ed. Harrison ...l 179 3 -8 Do. ... Bog 1 ...I Undistin~uishable Rinvanna Coarse Robt. Browne. I.P. Wm. ~ourke,'lateof Knockinisty ,..l Ballingal&h ...l Do. BALLINACLOGHYAND GREANPARISH. a. r, p. OLD PROPRIETOR TOWNLAND GRANTEE AREA,A.R. P. Murtagh McBryne of 1 Castletown ...l Andrew Brandan ...I 504 3 8 Castletown ... a. r. p. Same fit for building Do. Murragh McTeige .. ./ Hal!ytrasne .../ Pious Uses 186 0 o Curragh of same ...I Do. ...l Coolnamone Do. 84 ~r~ne%f~all~t&sne ...... o o Do. of Couly McEryne Commons to do. ... Col. C. Dillon ... 31 I o ... o Do. Derrirane ... Andrew Brandon ... 69 o Do. - Kennedy McBryne ... Do. Do. ... 103 I 24 neen ... Do- ... Gorteenanyne ... Pious Uses (4) Henry O'Brien, 7th Earl of Thomond, inherited, with the Clare estates, Do. .. . Part of Ballyvodeen Ed. Harrison considerable ancestral estates in the County Limerick. His grandson, Henry, 8th Do. ... Do. .. . Hollow Blades Earl, died without issue in 1741, and was buried in Limerick Cathedral. By his will Do. ... DO. ... A. Brandon the great Thomond estates were left to Murrough, Lord O'Urien, son and heir of the Do. .. Bog in Con~mon ... Col. C. Dillon Earl of Inchiquin, with remainder to Percy Wyndharn, Lady Thomond's nephew, who Lord Thomond rest ... Not sequestered succeeded to the estates in 1756. when he was created Baron Ilrackan and Earl of Murragh McTeigh Mc- Thomond. He died unmarried in 1774, when these estates went to his nephew, the Bryne ... Gortalyne ...( Cornelius Clrncy ...l 185 3 24 3rd Earl of Egremont. The patrimony of the O'Brien's of Thomond is now vested in Claimed by Thomas Apjohn Charles Henry Wyndham, 3rd Baron Leconfield. Sir Morris Hurley (5) ... Kilduffe Pious Uses ... ZIO I o Dub. Col1 ... 10 o o Ballinlooby . Ed. Harrison ... 141 0 20 Murraghoge McBryneand Sir M. Hurley ... Pallice Ed. Harrison ... 383 2 16 Sir M. Hurley .., Any Hickey of Caherna- nenagh ... Cahirnemenagh , Pious Uses ... 410 2 16 Mahoune O'Hea of Parke Thos. O'Hea of Grean, Part of Moymore . Do. ... gr o o I.P. ... Sir M. Hurley, I.P. ... Part of DO. Do. ... 13 0 0 110. ... Bog 29 2 32 Do. ... Knockgreany Con mon to adjacent towns.. . 138 3 24 Sir M. Hurley ... Teige McBryne of Derk, Knockderk Pious Uses ... a33 2 32 and Wm. McB. of Glebe to Do. Do. 1g 0 0 Cross, and Teige McB. of Clynoe Ed. Harrisou .. 237 17 Thos. Sandcn ... 116 I o ~rv&Dnl. McB. ... I Pious Uses ... 127 I 3 ~a~eMcMurtagh ... Mahoune McB. and Muartagh McBryne ... Charles McBryne of of Bohernagrogy ... Tirlagh McB. of Ballina- Knockane Thos. Sandon . 31 o o cloghy ... Clockareaka Do. ... 38 o o Dnl. McB. of Cross ... Wm. Hicky and Murtagh McB. of Longford, I. P. (5) Sir Morris Hurley of Kilduff and Knockleng, see ante note Small County Barony. THE CROMWELLIAN SETTLEMENT OF THE COUNTY OF BY JAMES GRENE BARRV, M. R.S. A.I. PAR?' THE EIGHTH. COSHLEA BARONY. John Cantwell, I.P. (I) Lisnaroorr ... Curraghdine .. . Sir Oliver St. George .. Gortkislane .. . IIugh Massy Ballyhane . . William Barraby Cnrrowkeele ... Iiuph- Massy Garrane Knocb- garranduffe . .. Kill~canuan .. . William Barraby Cashoonkieran .. . Carrow Therny ...( Kealogs, Parke . . Galbally Mone- Galbally Annagh Castlecrea Curraghrosty .. . Killmone ... Ardrahin .. . (;arranylena arid ... Sir 0. St. George Cvrraghkilbrana ...l 11ugh hlassy William Pettie Thornas Green Ihllinamuddagh ...I Anne Wybrow Do. . / Sir Wm. Peitie C&- '(&h (~tthe foot of thc mountain). This barony runs East and West along the Galtee range and some of the most ferliie land in Munster, the " golden vein." The Fiizgibl,ons (the " \Vhite Knight" and the " Sons of the Old Knight ") owned the greater part of this barony until the 1att.r part of the 16th century. (I) This was a branch of the Tipperary family of Cantwell. The de CantcviILes, a Norman family, got rxtel~rive grants of land in the counties of Kilkenny and Tipperary early in the 13th century. Sir Edward Fitzharris (3) Clonafoy .. .I Amhrose Jones ...l 300 o 27 Ballyclysheen and of Clonefoy Inchycomb ..l inne Wybrow Ballingarry and Ballguh .. . DO. Ballinclacklau ... Peter Wallis ... 158 3 13 Hugh Massy Eneas McGrath of Sir Wm. Pettie Glenarry Jefford Stoute Gleanagruer ...l Do. Do, Ballygusdonagh .. , Peter Wallis Clnonmore and Ed. Fitzharris and Downtreleague ... Hugh Massy (2) Thomas McGrarh .. Kiltigarriffe .. . Giles Powell .. 100 o o Ballynamona and Robert Oliver ... 138 0 0 Rathmear .. . Do. Ed. Cooper ... 90 o o Coolerve, Ballyregg Sir Mons Hurley .. Knocklong ... Wm. and J. Reeves ... 223 0 0 & Scartmurameer Do. no. Knocklarby .. Giles Powell ... 158 0 0 DO. .. . William Barraby Do. Cloghastra ... Rob. Oliver (4) ... 96 0 0 Lissardcennell .. Do. Do. Glenlarby .. . Giles Powell ... 213 2 0 Bog common to Garrylouga .. Hugh Massy Mountain common to all Manor of Galbally 1476 o o Donogh 91 John McGrath Uohernacurry ... Wm. Armstrung ... 84 o o OLD PROPRIETOR TOWNLAND GRANTEE AREA,I. P.M. Rallinloolev and ~arratacium~.. Do. I l I a. r. p. Do. ... Wm. & Jas. Reeves 260 o -0 .( Nicholas Haly of Wicholas Haly & Jan~es Tworheen .. . Red Hog 79 0 0 Fitzgerald Do. .. Do. ... 76 o o Miles McGrath ... I51 0 o Do. ... Dub. Coll. ... 76 o o '' l led Bog ... , 439 0 0 (2) Captain Nuph iMassy of Dnntryleague, aniofficer in the Cromwellian army, was ancestor of the Massys Baron Massy and Massey Baron Clarina and the cadet families of that nalr.e, of whom the Stoneville family are the principal. In the course Sir M. Hurley and l Rathgulane ...l Wm. & J. Reeves ...l 58 o -0 of time the Massys became, both from their position and property, one of the most Gibbon ~itzgibbon influential families in the County Limerick, and retained their large estates and Bea1,scadane . 1 Dub. ,011. John 91 I-Ielen Fitzgibbon Wm. $ J. Reeves political influence up to a recent period. Down to the passing of the Land Purchase l Acts the Massys still held upwards of 53,000 acres in the Counties of Limerick and (3) The Fitzharlis's were Barons of Kilcavan, in the County Wexford, and were Tipperary, which the above-mentioned Hugh Massy acquired under the Act of descended from the noble house of Meyler Fitzhenry. Sir Edward Fitzharris was the Settlement, youngest son of Mathew Fitzharris Baron Kilcavan, and had his estates in Coshlea Barony, confirmed by patent from James I. His son was executed at Tyburn for treason A.D. 1681. (4) Robcrt OIiver was 3. Cromwellian officer, who got large grants of land in this barony. He purchased Clonodfoy Castle and demesne of the Fitzharris' from the grantee and changed the name to Castle Oliver. The Right Honorable Silver Oliver, who was for many years before the Union M.P. for the County Limerick, introduced a settlement of Palatines into this district about 1740 This fine estate went in the female line, early in the last century, to the Gascoyne family, now repre- sented by Colonel Gascoyne and the Hon. Cosby Trench. This estate has been lately sold to the tenants under the Land Act. I l a. r. p. John Fitzgihbon ... Ballinlong . . . Amlzose !ones .. 8200 Wm. Meagh ... Milltowne . . . Chidley Coote (G) Sir M. Hurley, LP. ... Ihocklong ,., Ed. Cool,er ... 362 o o Rich. Creafih ... Flen~ingstowne ... l o. DO. .. Do. ... Ambrose Jones ... 218 o o Do. ,.. Rohernahotony .. Do. Do. .. . Do. ... Sir W. Pettie ... 20 o o Sir Ed. Fitzharris ... Ballingadybegg ... Do Gibbon Fitzgibbon, I. P. Hamonstown . .. Ed. Cooper ... 80 o o Do. . Do. more ... Do. Do. ... Do. .. . Giles l'owell .. 40 o 0' Do. ... Garrykitteen ... I)o. Jas. Heffernan, LP. ... Michalstown ... Ambrose jdnes .. 385 "0 o DO. ... CarrowgarritTe ... Do. Do. .. . Do. ... R. Oliver ... 20 o o John lhleagh Fitzgeorge. .. Old Garte z pnrcells Do. Do. ... Do. .. Lord Collooney (5) .. 70 o o Do. ... A curragh .. . Do. Do. . . Giles Powell ...... 305 0 0 John Gold of Ii~lock- Anlambony and John Fitzgibbon ... L)ownemoonals and Rob. Oiiver ... 629 o o stowney . . Rallymaulagh ... Chidley Coote Ballynehensy Rob. Guosy of Kilnosy.. . Do. James and N. IIaly ... Knockamen Lord Collooney ... 210 o o Pat. Kearney and Garrett Rallingurry and John Fitzgihbon .. . Garrynea :::I Ed. Cooper .. . 207 0 0 Fitzgerald ... Rallynophoyne ... Do. A curragh- in Ballin- nossy ... Nicholas Haly ... Ardpatrick ... DO. no. ... Ardevolane ... DO. Tohn Fox ... Ballynehow ... Do Randall Hurley ... Ballyvoodane ... Do. no. ... Graige ... Do. Garryphooky and 1 Glendoenane . ...l 219 o o Nicholas Haly Sr Gibbon Ballinscalla .. . Lord Collooney Fitzgibbon Ballinvreeny ... Do. Do. ... Dorrinstown . Do. Do. ... Steevenstown ... Do. Do. ... Martinstown ... Do. Bogincommon ..,/I Henry Wall of Ballygrdneady and 'Hugh Massey Milltown Ballvqueen Rich. Grim no. . . v---- Pat. Keaney of Kilmal- Ballycuilane 317 0 0 lnck Miles Fitzharris .. . Ballymacshanbuy . . Chidley Coote ... l Ballyshondehy ... Wm. Mead ... g8 o 0 ~ich.-~ai~and Gibbon Ballyknoghy .. . Do. ... I13 0 0 Fitzgibbon Jamestown . .. Chidley Coote ... I81 0 0 Nich. Naly, J.P. ... Tirmore& Ballinarig Rob. Oliver Garrymonagh .. Do. ... r83 o o Do. ... Gibbonstowne ... Rich. Grice ~athniwhittagh ... Do. 153 6 o John Burgett ...... Tyanstowne and I-lenry Ponsonby Do. . .. Rich. Grice ... go o '0 Do. Kilbreedy Lord Collooney Cleaghagh ... Chidley Coote ... 57 0 C Do. ... Do. ... Hugh RIassy Ballycarrowney . .. Do. ... 112 o o Ballenveely . . John Moland ... 188 o o I l (5) Rirhard Cook was created Baron Coote of Colooney by Charles 11, in 1660. See Note (I) Small County unit). (6) Chidlcy Cootc was ancestor of the Cootes of Mount Coote and A5h Fliii, Kilmallock. LIBERTIES OF KIEMBLLOCK. -----. OLD PROPRIETOR TOWNLAND (I RANTEE __ -_ - _- - - --L l Sir M. Hurlev. I. F ...1 Gortnesitana&y-. .. Sir Ed. Fitzharris .,. Cloghnodfoy ... IIenry IJonsonIly John 13urgett: '1.1'. Do. Lawrencetown . Do, Richard Creagh, 1. P. :::l DO. :.'l Chidley Coore Hallynaniona . Do. Randolph Hurly 1 Ballyvosknody ... Lord Colloonev M~ch.and Mat. Huriy Morestown ... Do. .. . , Do. Killeenan Rob. Oliver ... Hishopsland , .. Farenvasleemn~ore.. Koplogh . . Lord Collooney Gleal~e . . Gurtemaell ... Do. BalIyshane .. Do. John Fox . .. Ardsheraee .. . Towrenhoan ... Do. . Sir M. Hurley .. Ralreard 'I'ullo ... Do. John Meagh and Lucas 3 parcels. ... Chidley Coote Spittle ... 110. Stritch ... Do. .. . Do. Pat Ikarney and Rich. Ardkillmartin .. Durragh ... Rob. Oliver Creagh .. . Nonaghmurry ... Garryarthur .. . Do. Do. ... Moneclarine . . Bog & Mountain .. . no. Ballinnecourtey ... Lord Collooney Wllliam~Lcwis Keale ... Rob. Oliver Keelcragy ... Do. John Gold Fitzwalter ... l'arknemonegeile ... hbbeyballinegaule.. Dub. Coll. Mat I-laly .. Several parcls.- ...I.l Waste ~.. Plerce Creagh of Limerick A parcell .. Chidley Coote Baliyagoge ... Rob. Oliver (;leabe ... Vicars Land ... not seqd. Ballyoregan ... Do. Mat Haly ... Maghareragh ... Waste ... Do. Ferrangiilanbert .,, Bishop of Limerick Ballygreny .. . Henry Ponsonby lames Meagh .. Gortacollis & other Ballyvotory and parceils ... Do. Mullans ... l Do. Tames Verdon, I. P. ... Stealicollis .. . Do. Bog and Curragh in , Pierce Creagh ... Deebert .. . Chidley Coote common ,.. Nicholas Farrut ,.. Ballycallanl~eg . . . Nicholas Farrut Mortelstowne .. DO. Bishop of Limerick . .. Gortanevooly . .. Ki!fenane and Bally- 4 Gortneskeagh . .. george ... kob. Oliver Henry W'all ... Stoalanalts . . . H. Ponsonby Aglean, part of Kil- Do. .. . Do. ...I Bishop of Limerick fenane . .. Do. Gorthealneboy .. . Do. Ballynletny ... Do. Johi~Fox .. . I'ronce . . , Chidley Coute Eallynecoaty and Sir M. Ilurley . . . I'arknacourt . . Peter Wallis Ball~neghursh .. . Do, IioO. Haly ... Gorticlagan ... Chidley Cootr Balliniggin .. . P. Creagh ... Clownesteevane ... Do. Ballingerode .. Ed. Cooper John Gold FitzWm. . ericge ... Comnlons . ,. Killioreske .. . Garrilassy ... Rob. Oliver Gotnelanaha ... Do. Halfcornes .. . Chidley Coote Pat Meade ... Gortinpark ... Fanningstowne ... Henry I'onsonhy Keybruss, Moan- Eneas Oge McGrath ... Ballintobles ... Rob. Oliver garriffe ... Do. (Commons 35) ... Ed. Cooper Gortbohergragh, Rich. Creagh, LP. ... Ballycrany and Gortboy ... Ballycaroney .. . Henry Ponsonby Gortinprickedoosy and Barracklieg .. . - Kilmaliock got its name from a monastery founded in the 7th century by St. Mochellog. Kilmallock and " the Liberties" are in the Parish of St Peter and Paul's. THE CROMWELLIAN SETTLEMENT OF THE COUNTY OF 0r.1)P~or'~1r.1 OR LIMERICK-(Continued). --- BY JAMES GRENE BARRY, M.R.S.A.I. John Gold Garryivamnick . . Vice-Pres. for County Limerick N.M.A.S. Knocknacash .. . Do. Small l'arcells ... Do. (Continued from the Journal of the Limerick Field Club, vol. iii., p. 237.) Gorteenacoyne ... Kacknovane .. . Rich. Grice and Sir M. Hurly Gortgarriffe .. . Rich. Smith PART THE NINTH AND 1,AST. Thos. Hoare and David Gartgamffno . .. - Meagh FitzDomnick . . Gorteenalrevadagh.. R. Grice and CONNELLOE BARONY. (I) Gortueaghlagh .. . I<. Smith Peter Creagh Fitzpeter. Gortivonedukle .. . David Verdon Gortrahine ... Gortanncmoyle ... Kob. Haly Rapcneraherny .. . Chidley Coote Francis Creagh Bantraghcreagh .. Gorteenoushy ... Do. Denis Byrne Glanistaire ... Richard Hunt Callamore ... IIen. Ponsonby Do. ... Tohn Bourke John Fox Gortkncckane .. . Do. ... Philip Packer Gorticorneyle . . . Moragh Sheehy, 1. P. .. Gleangoure and S Burton Gortinvorish ... Chid. Coote Ballyfoirons Wm. Shippy and John & Et]. tiould ... ParLeale, Gortna- John Bourke cloghy James Stritch, late of Finereghy, Gort- Limerick Gunaghnamallagh ... Rich. Hunt lewis Kathern Herbert .. Ballynona . Do. Rahindoologhy .. R. Grice and 13. Smitl Killaghtan Bishop's Gortindraigh and , Land not sequea- Deeglam .. . tered ... Camiane .. . Sir Ed. Fitzgerald .. Aghnviskie ... John Vaughan Rob. Haly, LP. Parcells of land . .. not seqd. Do. .. . Do. no. Farranlewis . . . i Gorteenigillane ... Sir Stephen White Fryanlewis .. . 1 Rat h .. . William Fitzmorris Iisheendaragh .. . Gortmore and ... Lord Kingston Gurl~sheen ... Auleogorman .. . D. of York Farrencrassa .. . Coolmacree 381 ... William Fitzmerris Mounteen I parson Dromcornane 380.. . Do. parts of Gortclayey (Common of pasture 1 Irisheen, Garryowen Hishop of I,imericki' 289) ... Sir S. White Sir M. liuriy Sortnatiim ... Shroanrath ... John Rourke ;ortyknockanpeirsse Miskeen ... Lord Kingston Sortl~oy,Garryneita Do. Xcholas Haly [nchynaghien .. . Do. (I) "The Ui-Conaill, of the Battalion of Munqter." (O'Herin). Do. ... K. Grice & K. Smith The O'Connell tribe were driven out of this district by the ~itzgeraldsof Desmond before A.D. 1200. The Earls of Desmond owned the whole of this district for nearly 400 years. In 1583 the lands in this Earony were confiscated and parceled " This grant was made to the person who was at the time Blshop of Limerick in his out among "The Undertakers."-(See " Limerick in the Reign of Queen ~lizabeth," private capacity, not as Bishop. It is not now easy to identify this Rlshop, 1)ut it was by J. G. Barry, Journal Limerlck Field Club, 1897.) probably John Vesey, who was promoted from Limerick to the Archblshoprick of The Desmond Rental of O'Connelloe, 1452, gives a detailed accopnt of their Tuanl in 1678. He was Chaplain to the lIouse of Comnrons In 1661, and was demesne lands, &C., in this Barony. Again under the Cronlwellian Settlement a evidently a persona pmta with the Government, as we find him promoted to the great portion of this Barony changed hands. In the eighteenth century Connelroe Rectorship of Shandrum and Vicxr of Charleville, Dean of Cork and also Archdeacon was subdivided for fiscal purposes into the present Baronies, Upper and Lower of Armagh. His father succeeded him as Archdeacon in 1672. Connelloe, Shanid and Glenquin. OLD PROPRIETOR a. r. p. - Sir Ed. Fitzgerald and Gortnatallagh and Coll. Fran. Courtney ... parcel1 in contro- Sir Ed. Fitzgerald .. Killeene .. . William Fitzmorris versy Setween them I). of York ... 72 o o Ballydubeg ... Sir S. White Part of Monotallagh Do. ... I42 0 0 Clouncnnnan ... Hollow Blades Sir Ed. Fitzgerald ... Ballynihilly, Liskel- Clounpekan ... Bishop of Ossory lane & Ballydurty ... Andrew Brandon ... 400 0 0 Clouncoyle and .. Sir S White Gortneskagh ... Do. ... 231 0 0 Ballyniekerry .. . Juhn Bourke Do. .. . Do. ... 44 0 o Cleaneduffei ... Lord Kingston 1 I OLD PROPRIETOR TOWNLAND GRANTEE AREA,I.P.M. a. r. p. controversy Ire- Sir Ed. Fitzgerald Gortabrabine Wm. Fitmn~orrii 230 o o tween Fitzgerald ...... I and Coll. ... Aldworth Do. . .. Lord Kingston Garridufle . .. Sam Uurton and W Sheppey 1,ord Kingston Dominick Roche, of Knockcuoleencane Lord Kingston ... Limerick, J.P. .. Do. ... Sir Thomas Chamberlain Do. Cahirvoyle .. . Lord Kingston .. . no. Lord Ranelagh .. a. r. p. Sir Ed. Fitzgerald .. Leaviebegg ::f Sir S White ... Dominick Roche, of Knockadennody Leavimore and Limerick, J.P. ... and Cahirdagh ... Lord Kingston ... 718 o o Ratheenagh ... James Bourke, of .. Portrynard and Nichclas Uurke ... 190 o o Monero and ... Lord Kingston ... Limerick, J.P. ... Ibocknashmngh John Bourke ... 767 o o Ballintohuire .. Sir S White .. . Gorteenedrady ... Do. .. . and Moher ... Lord Kingston .. . I Teigue McThomas .. Clonpastine ... Do. Wm. Lacy, of Ballin- Belane Thos. Boon James Cullane ICingstreete .. Earl of Orrery Sir Ed. Fitzgerald, of Kosnerey Lane, Clonicregan .. Thos. Boon Clingles Movan i% Ballin- Sir John Fitzgerald and Ed. Sheehy W. Ballykeanane .. A. Brandon longiny .. . \Villiam Fitzmorris .. Nich. Haly, of Tworine.. Eallyny Do. Do. Rob. Dowges Symon McHenry, of Ballaghnahulling l Wm. Godolphin .. Hollow Blades Castletown and Gortroe ... Lord Kingstown .. Dourlass Francis Belears A. Brandon no. Wm. Thompson and Do. ... Do. John Field Commons and Ros. Do. S. Barnadiston part of Castle- Killitmore enery "'1 ICillmore A. Brandon ... 158 o o Clonbonniffe Wm. Godolphin and ... Both Coole ~orseH' Over Lambert 536 0 0 Digby Foulkes .. ...l 16 0 0 Brooke Bridges ... Wm. Godolphin .. Phil. Collam, of Bally- Kilgobnett ... A. Blandon knockane Ballyknockane .. Dub. Coll. ...l 98 o o James, Lord Bath .. Clogmichell ... Do. Nich, Karney, of Kil- Symon McHenry .. Capsghnighane . .. Oliver Lambert mallock Liskanned Brook Bridges pnrt Wm. Lacy, of Ballin- John Haly, of Limerick of Kilmihille Thomas Boon ... 102 0 0 Garrett McHenry, of Cappananthe Oliver Lambert and Commons of same 17 o o Cappaghnanty .. Brooke Bridges .. Ballynaile DO. ... 133 0 0 and Cloneduffe ... A Brandon Wm. Lacy Ballyteaghmill .. Do. ... 360 o o 0. Lambert Common of same .. I2 0 0 Symon McHenry .. Russinghouse . . Wm. Godolphin .. Wm. Collum, of Lisamot. Lisamota Do. ... 152 o o Wm. Domville and Gortenafaha .. Bishop of Ossory , .. 240 o o Digby Foulkes .. Scortnamadery .. Do. ... 223 o o Henry Garrald Rildonnell and Ballyroe, Eallifierni: Cashanssuill .. Lord Icingston Wordstock and D. of York ... 76 o o Commons to said 1 Cahernaffa .. A. Brandon ... 111 o 17 townlands .. 1 Kilmiteria Wm. Thompson and John Field ... 111 o 17 Conor McHenry .. Gortadene and John Fitzgerald Lisacurry Henry Widdenham ... 72 o o Ballinsrowe ... A. Brandon Common to all ad- John Mortagh McHenry Balliarliffe and jacent lands by Gortmote and Sir Wm. Domville and name Knockfeern: 511 o c Maghinmore ... Wm. Godolphin .. Ballinfrankp .. . lieorge 1krceva11 368 o o Balleanliffe and ...l 221 0 0 Killcomedone .. Do. ... Gortmore ... Do. Mota Do. .. 8000 Bog in Common .. . Hugh Gorman Kilmory . .. Sir Wm. Domville and Wm. Godolphin .. and Teige Gorman, .. I / Lord Kingston and Sir.- 1 '2 Thomas Southwell .. Rich. Wall .. Knockbanevard . .. 0 Lambert & B Bridges Common to three Parishes, Rath- keale, Croagh and Nantenane ... Commons to adja- cent lands ... l 1 Abbey and lands a. r. p. belonging to Col. Rich. Stephenson ... Garranehoy ... 0. Lambert ... 142 0 0 Pigkott not se- GorteenecorveClershire .. Do. ... 55 0 0 questered ...... Bishop's land not seqr. .. 121 0 0 Cooleballyshane . .. 110. ... 162 o o Graige and Knocli- drimin ... Do ... I81 0 0 a. Ed. Sheehy Ballinerogy ... And. Brandon .. . 896 Gorteenecaraghan Wm. Hampton ... Rallikennedy ... Bishop of Ossory ... Ballicol~nanand Henry Widdenham ... 74 Castlecwince ... A. Brandon .. . 202 Tyrnehelly ... no. ... 66 Commons to adja- G. & 1%'. Fitzgerald RallyAoyne Bishop of Limerick g8 0 '0 cent lands ... 33 ... Glebe ... I 6 1 Ballyfallen ... Thotnas Moynane ... Granard ... Lord Kingston and ThadyQ~lin(2) ..I 75 0 0 Commons adjacent 1 130 o o John Fitzgerald of ~innetersto~nand Finnetersto,m ...l Bailyogan . erInert ..,l 761 0 0 Do. ... Grange ... Thady Quin . 78 o o Ellinor Butler ... Knockaderry ... Wm. Hampton Sheehy Widow ... Caheraghan and Jas. Webster (2) Thady Quin could not have been an original Grantee as he was not of age. Lisleyasta ... Bishop of Ossory Prol~ablyhe purchased, and had the lands enrolled in the Act of Settlement, 1662. a. Rich. Stephenson . Manor Dunmoylan Sir Thos. Chamberlain 182 Denis Brien Ballinneburney .. . Lord Kings ton Monewherille .. John Bourke .. 891 Rich. Hunt Brook Bridges .., 444 Coll. C. Dillon Waste land .. I734 Wm. Collum Part of Ardagh ... Rich. Hunt Dooncahy Sir T. Chamberlain ... 494 Jas. Bourke Do. ... Do. Lislmne Lisnakean Lord Kingston .. 183 no. ... T.C. D. Ballinvarrilly . . U'ni. Godolphin ... 141 Sir Daniel O'Brien .. Farrentabla ... Brook Bridges Ki!lcoleman . Lord Kingston .. 673 Dromgour ... Do. Do. Thos. Sandon ... 285 Lisbrenagh ... R. Hunt no. tIollow Blades .. 200 Waste 921 Mahon Kennedy . Bllinvirric ... Nich. Bourke (3) ... 106 0 0 a. r. p. Thos. Fitzgerald ... Rathneseare ... J. ST N. Eourke ... 309 0 0 John Shea ... Ballyearla .. Dublin College I42 o o Morris Legg ... Argowleinore ... Wm. Godolphin ... 230 3 26 ...l Argowlebegg ... Rrooke Bridges ... I7 o o Jas. Bourke of Limerick Ballyrobbin ... John Bourke ... 124 o o Wm. Godolphin ... 161 o o Rrien and Tirlough Kennedy ... Scart .. . Brooke' Bridges Dermot Oge O'Brien ... Derrywantry and Ballvbane .. Wm. Godolphin Denis Brien ,. . Ba!lineberrin Waste Edmund Sheehy ... Curraline OLD PROPRIETOR Sir Daniel O'Brien . Keanmoge Cahirmeaghill Daniel O'Brien and OLD PROPRIETOR and Ballynard ... Sir Thos. Southweli ... Rathronan .. Sir T. Southwell ... Wm. Collum Althea ... Rich. Hunt ... James Lacy Creeve of Lismeale 1 Wm. Godolphin ...l 139 o '0 Do. .. . Dame Anne Crisp ... Cunnigar I55 0 0 John Bourke .. . 1x6 2 16 Rich. Stephenson .. Ballyvoghlan Sir Henry Slingsby ... 64 2 6 Liscordan and Ihniel O'Brien l Caherlogh ...l Do. The lands granted to the Bourkes were again confiscated after the Treaty of Morris Herbert Ballykealy ... Sir T. Southwell (3) John Hurley of Knock- Ballyduane Limerick, and they disappear from among the landed gentry of the district, but the long Lispealcan Bourkes of Tiermore, near Shanagolden, are commonly reputed to be the present Gadanard and representatives. The Coat of Arms on the tomb of Michael Bourke of Tiermore, Fadanite John Hurley born 1724, represent the same arms as those borne by the Bourkes of Clanwilliam. ...l ...l John Bourke was M.P. for Askeaton in James 11. I'arliament of 1689. a. r. p. John Liston I a. r. F. Jas. Creagh FitzAndrew Clounlehard .. . Thady Quin ... 1579 0 0 a. r. p. and Dnl. Shyhane ... Sir T. Chamberlain ... David Vaughan . Kilbradan, Loghfane Sir Thos. Southveli . 232 o o Waste ... 1100 0 0 Rich. Stephenson Ballinteen Sir T. Chamberlain 125 o ...... o Donogh O'Brien .. Clounteich ... Do. ... 328 2 38 Rathnegore ... Lord Kingston 44 o o :::I Rich. Stephenson ... Banoge and Do. ... 105 2 0 Mary Fitzgerald ... Ardamaine ...1J. &N.Bourke ... 121 o v ltathbradine .. . - a. r. p. 172 o 0 James Rice of Limerick Ballyainy Edward Cosgrave Tirlagh McMahon ... Ballynah .. . Bishop of Limerick .. . Rich. Stephenson ... Ballytalh Sr Corbally Do. Listotaun ... Do. Tirvor and Rath- Sir T. Chamberlain Ballinitty ... Do. 8r fana, Robertstown Gragan Clonagh Do. Do. ... Carne ... Do. ... 192 0 0 Sir Ed. Fitzgerald .. . Lisnacullia ... Sir T. Southwell Foynes ... Heiress of Col. (4) ... 86 o 0 Rathneigmore .. . Do. Trenchard, a Protest Rich. Stephenson of Ballinisky .. Do. ... Col. Courteney ... Aughanish and Protest. Land ... 180 o o Dunmoylan ... Inismare ... Faunvore .. . John Rice .. . Rathvally ... Ed. Cosgrave John Hurley ... Ballyneguy .. John Hurly -- no. Do...... D. of York (4) This heiress was a descendant of Trenchard, the "Undertaker" of Queen Cloneagh, Bishop's John Eourke Elizabeth's time. These estates were purchased by an ancestor of Lord Monteag1.e Land ... early in the eighteenth century. I I a. r. p. Tirlogh McMahon .. Knocknebroyly ... Bishop of Limerick ... 410 2 o Jas. & Conor Shaghin .. Ballyroe ... Lady Anne Crisp .. 63 I o Roger McMahon and Lisready .. . Do. ... 172 0 0 Sir Dnl. O'Briefi .. Do. .. . John Bourke ... 172 o o Do. Keanbancurry ... Bishop of Limerick ... 308 o o Do. .. . John Bourke ... 153 o o Sir Teige McMahon .. Kilteely ... Sir T. Chamberlain ... 3x0 1 0 Loughill ... Not sequestered ... 379 0 0 OLD PROPRIETOR Thos. Fitzgerald .. Ballydonoghue ... Ballycloghane .. . Tearannuilly .. . Gerald Fitzgerald .. Ballinguile and East Meanus Law. White Ballycullen & W&; Do. Thos. Fitzgerald .. Meanus .., Tullyleagh .. Do. Ballynemudagh ... Do. Tullyglass and Kin. Do. naird and Lisne. carrig .. . Clonoughter ... Do. Killacallo .., Rich. Hunt Kilfergus .., Do. Ballyquillihanan ... Gerald Fitzgerald . Caheragh, Killeanj Do. ~GurdonRoche of and Tullerv .. . Sir T. Chamberlain . Limerick Klllincole .., Coll. C. Dillon THE CROMWELLIAN SETTLEMENT OF THE COUNTY OF LIMERICK. BY JAMES GRENE BARRY, M.R.S.A.I. (Vice-Pres. for County Limerick N. M.A.S.) CONCLUSION. Macaulay, in his Histoy of England, states that : "IN Ireland, during the reign of Charles 11, existed feuds, compared with which, the hottest animosities of English politicians were lukewarm. The enmity between the Irish Cavaliers and the Irish Roundheads was almost forgotten in the fiercer enmity which raged between the English and the Celtic Races. The interval between the Episcopalian and the Presbyterian seemed to vanish when compared with the interval which separated both from the Papist. During the civil troubles, the greater part of the Irish soil had been transferred from the vanquished nation to the victors. To the favour of the crown, few either of the old or the new occupants had any pretensions. The despoilers and the despoiled had, for the most part, been rebels alike. The Government was soon perplexed and wearied by the conflicting claims and mutual accusations of the two incensed factions. Those colonists among whom Cromwell had portioned out the conquered territory, and whose descendants are still called Cromwellians, asserted that the aboriginal inhabitants were deadly enemies of the English nation under every dynasty, and of the Protestant religion in every form. They described and exaggerated the atrocities which had disgraced the insurrection of Ulster; they urged the king to follow up with resolution the policy of the Protector; and they were not ashamed to hint that there would never be peace in Ireland till the old Irish race should be extirpated. The Roman Catholics extenuated their offence as best they might, and expatiated in piteous language on the severity of their punishment, which, in truth, was not lenient. They implored Charles not to confound the innocent with the guilty, and reminded him that many of the guilty had atoned for their fault by returning to their allegiance, and by defending his rights against which is his division for A~ooo."It is therefore, his most humble the murderers of his father. The Court, sick of the importunities of the prayer that your Majesty will be graciously pleased to give order to two parties, neither of which it had any reason to love, at length relieved the Right Honble. the Commissioners, that by the Bill now pre- itself from trouble by dictating a compromise. That system, cruel, but paring are to regulate the Adventurers interests in Ireland, that most complete and energetic, by which Oliver had proposed to make the there may be a view had of this indirect dealing, and that right be Island thoroughly English, was abandoned. The Cromwellians were done the petitioner therein." I induced to relinquish a third part of their acquisitions. The land thus ' "Referred (8th December, 1664), to the Duke of Ormond and surrendered was capriciously divided among claimants whom the Govern- those other honourable persons who are appointed to assist his ment chose to favour. But great numbers who protested that they were Grace in the consideration of the Bill (of Explanation) to be pre- innocent of all disloyalty, and some persons who boasted that their pared for the Settlement of Ireland."-to report Vol. F. Record loyalty had been signally displayed, obtained neither restitution or Tower, Dublin Castle, p. 266. compensation, and filled France and Spain with outcries against the injustice and ingratitude of the House of Stuart." (MatauZay's Uz'sfory The worthy knight died before his petition was heard, as his widow, of England-Vol. I, p. 92.) Dame Anne Crispe, appears as grantee under the Act of Settlement. The allotment of lands was vested in a Board sitting in London, She obtained lands in the Parishes of Rathronan, Kilscanlan and who, like the Estate Commission of to-day, depended on local 1,oughill. subordinates for laying out and partitioning the allotments. As may When the civil war broke out in 1641, the gentry of the County be imagined, this system did not give satisfaction, and complaints Limerick threw in their lot with their fellow Catholics-or, as usually were many and allegations of bribery and corruption not infrequent. designated in the official language of the day, " Papists." There were, Sir Nicholas Crispe had adventured over A3000 for the pacification of however, many Protestant colonies scattered throughout the county, Ireland, but only £1000 worth of land ifell to his share in the County these settlements represented the undertakers of Elizabeth's reign and Limerick. His Petition is as follows :--l their tenants. Their castles were well garrisoned and provisioned- Courtney held a strong position at Newcastle West; Southwell and The Petition of Sir Nicholas Crispe Knt. Herbert at Rathkeale; Dame Elizabeth Dowdall held Kilfinny Castle " Sheweth-That your petitioner having a Lott for his adventure for six months against the forces of the Confederates. She states that in the barony of Connello in Ireland, those that had share in the she had a garrison of forty horse and one hundred foot soldiers, in her same barony with him (who were men of power in that ill time), remarkable, though highly-coloured, account of this siege, which is re- being to divide the said barony into four equal pa~ts,which was produced from the original depositions in T.C.D. Library, by the Rev. J. done, each fourth part to be subdivided into four equal quarters Dowd, in his " History of the County Limerick." Dame Anne ,Waller, which, contrary to all justice and equity, in that quarter where your wife of Sir Hardress Waller, made a gallant defence of Castletown petitioner's lott fell they divided the one half into three parts, which during her husband's absence in England The Earl of Kildare held should have been by a cross line into equal quarters as by a Croom Castle ; The Earl of Bath, Loughgur ; and Dame Barbara character thereof under the hand of the Sirveyor hereunto annexed Browne, Aney (Hospital). This lady was the daughter of John Boyle, appears. By which unequal doing, contrary to order and practise, Bishop of Cork, and married Sir John Browne, Knt., son of Sir Thomas they left your Petitioner his proportion in a Bogg and coarse land, Browne, an Englishman, who married the only daughter of the " Master which your petitioner cannot let for more than the Qult rent, of Aney," and thus got the broad lands of the Commandery of the Knights Hospitallers of Aney. Dame Barbara's grand-daughter brought The following is a summary : - this rich inheritance into the Kenmare family by her marriage with "Grant of 15th Charles 1 (1640) to Dame Elizabeth Waller Nicholas, second Lord Kenmare. In her deposition she gives a graphic wife of Sir Hardress Waller Knight second daughter of Sir John description of the raids made on her by her neighbours-lacy of Dowdall of Kilfinny, of the manor and lands of Castletown, Carrigkettle, Hurley of Knocklong, O'Brian of I 'uharra, and I3aggot of Cappagh, Beigh Castle, &c. Castletown created a manor to enclose Baggotstown, and she claims A3,800 for her losses in stock, corn, 600 acres as deer park in capite at one Knight's fee reat of furniture, and personal effects. She finally took refuge with Dame estate at rent of £120 to the crown remainder to issue and then Waller, and gives the fol'owing accoun't of the siege of Castletown to each of the four sisters. Grantee to keep for the service of the "She also saith, that the castle of Castletown, where she fled for crown three well armed horsemen and twelve footmen. To settle refuge, was besieged on the 26th of March, 1642, by Luke Purcell of on the estate at least 21 English freeholders and not to have more Croagh, Lieut-General; Captain John Fitzgerald, second brother of Irish tenants on a longer tenure than 2 I years. Thomas Fitzgerald of Glyn Esquire ; Lieut-Col. Garrett I'urcell of The large grants of land which Sir Hardress Walier received for Curragh, and divers others to the number ot two or three hundred his services were excluded by the Act of Settlement, and he himself rebels, who lay close to the castle, so that the besieged could not stir was outlawed, but his wife's property was not interfered with, and after out ; during which time she often heard the besiege15 say that they had some years he was allowed to return to Castletown. the king's authority for what they did. During the siege one-Thomas The following County Limerick gentlemen held comn~issionsin Hill, shoemaker, of Castletown-was killed by a shot from the besiegers, the Confederate army :- and at length, for want of water, the place was yielded up, about the Colonel Lord Burke of Castleconncll. 13th of May following, having been besieged five weeks and odd days ; Colonel Lord Burke of Brittas. the quarter was for their lives and wearing clothes, and a few other Lieut.-General tJatrick Purcell of Ballycullane. commodities." Colonrl Garret Purcell of Curragh. Dame Barbara Browne goes on to say that " she was courteously Lieut.-Colonel 1.uke i'urcell of Croagh. 1 treated by Patrick Purcell, who conducted her with a sufficient convoy Colo lel John Baggoc of Baggotstuwn. to Macroom where she was delivered into the hands of her nephew, Colrtnel Pier~eWalsh of Abbeyowney. Lord Castleconnell " C'dptain J%ohnFitzgerald of Glyn. Sir John Dowdall married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir l'homas Captain 'L homai Huiley of Knocklong Southwell of Rathkeale, in 1604, and settled on her the castles and Captain Murtogh O'Brian of Duharrd. lands of Kilfinny. Sir John purchased Castletown and other lands in Capt tin I homa; McGibbon of Mahoonagh Kenry in r 62 r. He died in I 623 His eldest daughter, Anne, married Cqxa~nMaurice Fi~zgeraldof Ballyteige. William Pigott, son of Sir John Pigott of Capard, Queen's County, and Captain Ed~ardFitzgerald of Cnherass. succeeded her mother. 'The Pigotts still hold the castle and lands of Captain Stevenson of Dunmoylan. Kilfinny. The second daughter, Elizabeth, married Sir Hardress W~ller Colonel Richard Stevenson (High Sheriff of County Limerick). before 1640, and got as a dowry Gastletown and the other lands in Captain John Roche of Fanningstown. Kenry. This was confirmed by a grant to her from the king, the Captain Eddy Lacy of Bruree. of which I have seen. Captain John Lacy of Athiacca. Captain Ed. O'Shee of Ballyallon. Landed Estates Court Act followed and a new class of landlord appeared, Captain Richard Fitegerald of Ballymartin. generally successful professional and business men, who brought the Captain P. Purcell of Pallaskenry. commercial spirit into their dealings with their tenants. They were not Captain Garret Fitzgerald of Herbertstown. an improvement or, those whom they succeeded, who came to be known Captain Teige O'Brien. as "Th' ould stock," to distinguish them from the new corners. Rack- Captain David Power. renting and evictions brought forth the land agitation, which, in our Captain Kichard Cullum. own time, produced Mr. Gladstone's remedial legislation and culminated George Thornton of Dunnaman. in the recent Land Purchase Acts, which have transferred the ownership Nicholas Lillis of Dysert. of the land from the landlords to the occupiers. The landless gentry Leogh of Tullavine. retain their demesnes, and their former tenants-the men with the old Garret Dunlea of Dunnamane. Norman and Celtic names-get possession of the land which their fore- Ed. Dunlea of Oolagh. fathers fought for and lost. A peaceful revolution-and let us hope a Edward Lacy of Kilmacanearla. permanent one, and that it will bring us peace, concord and toleration, Lacy of Carrigkettle so that all may unite in helping to promote our country's prosperity; M. O'Brien of Carrigogunnel. by working and utilising to the utmost the "unearned increment" of John Sheahan of Rathmore. her fertile soil ; by reviving and encouraging home industries, and thus Maurice Casey of Rathcannon. stimulating local trade, so that we may see at no distant time a successful The following names also appear :-Burkes, O'Briens, Barrys, Ryans, development of our natural resources-a nation's true wealth-now O'Gradys, Ilundons, Creaghs, Naish, Sheehy, White, Hurley, Rawley, lying dormant and unproductive. Clancy, Dwyer, Kirby, Fitzgibbon, O'Hea, Hynes, etc. Further confiscations took place 'after the Treaty of Limerick, and William of Orange Nassau gave the l~ndsgranted to the Duke of York (James 11) to his favourites, both hale and female. On the king's death, Parliament passed an Act of Resumption, and all these lands were sold hy public auction in Ihblin, in 1703. This is known as the O Chichester House Sales. The documents connected with these sales are preserved in the Public Record Office, Dublin. The Cromwellian Settlement appeared a, permanent one, as the years passed the new owners of the soil of our county waxed powerful and wealthy, and by the industry of their tenants the productiveness of the land increased and rents went up. However, by the Repeal of the Corn Laws and the great famine of 1847, a crisis came to many land- lords ; their estates became bankrupt and interest on mortgages could not be met. Their estates were compulsorily sold under the Encumbered Estates Act at prices ranging from seven to twelve years' purchase. The