Topographia Hibernica; or, the topography of Ireland, antient and modern. Giving a complete view of the civil and ecclesiastical state of that kingdom ... / [William Wenman Seward].

  • William Wenman Seward
Date:
1797
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Credit: Topographia Hibernica; or, the topography of Ireland, antient and modern. Giving a complete view of the civil and ecclesiastical state of that kingdom ... / [William Wenman Seward]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    in lead, and painted Hone colour ; it was creel- ed in 1747. Birterblty-bay, Ht. In bar. Ballinahinch, CO. Galway, prov. Connaught. Bi?. T^s-H ALL, fit. in bar. Moycullen, co. Galway, prov. Connaught. Bishop’s-court, a handfome feat of George Ponfonby, efq. fit. near Crofs Keys, co. Kildare, prov. Leinfier ; near which, on the fummit of a hill, Hand the ruined church and tower of Aughterard.—Alfo a parifh in co, Waterford, prov. Munfter. Bishop’s-hALL, the feat of Samuel Boyce, efq. near Waterford, in co. Waterford, prov. Muniler. Bishop’s-isle, an ifiand fit. near bar, Moy- fena, coail of co. Clare, prov. Munfter. Black^abbey, lit, in parifh St. Andrew, co. Down, prov. Ulfier ; formerly an abbey of Bcnedifline monks, founded by John de Cour- cy, before the year 1210. Black-bank, fit, in co. Armagh, prov. Ul- fier ; 55 miles from Dublin : the mountain lands hereabout appear to have been formerly cultivated ; vefliges of the plough are Hill vi- fible there. Black-bull, fit. in co. Wicklow, prov, Deinfier. Black-bull-tnn, fit. in co. Meath, prov. Leinfler ; about 10 miles from Dublin. Black-castle, fit. in bar. Navan, co. ^leath, prov. Lcinfier. —The like in bar. Cor- kerry, co. Wefimeath, prov. Leinfier. Black-cave-head, a (^ape in bar. Glen- arm, CO. Antrim, prov. Ulfier. Blackhall-head, a cape in bar. Bear and Bantry, co. Cork, prov. Munfter. Bl ACK-H ARBoupv, fit. in bar. Erris, co.lMayo, prov. Connaught, oppofitc the Atlantic ocean. •pLACK-Haven, fit. in bar. Glenarm, co. Antrim, prov. Ulfier. Black-head. There are 3 fo called, in bar. Belfaft, co. Antrim, prov. Ulfier. 2d in bar^ Courceys, co. Cork, prov. Munfier. 3d^in bar. Burrin, co. Clare, prov. Munfier. Black-lion, a village in bar. Skrecn, co. Meath, prov. Leinfier, 19 miles from Dublin. Black-lion-inn, lit in co. Cavan, prov. Ulfier, above 84 miles from L>ublin ; it is other- wife called Largely^ and a mile beyond it are the ruins of a church.. Black-mills, fit. in co. Dublin, prov, Leinfier, 2 miles beyond Chapelizod, and 4J from the cafile ot Dublin. They were the firfi erefted in Ireland fo.r tiic purpofe of flattening 4ron. BlAciCMooR-HiLL, a mountain in bar. Tal- bot’s-town, -CO. Wicklow, prov. Leinfler. Black-rock, a large and bandfome . village .in bar. Half-Ralhdov/n., co. Dublin, prov. M I^einficr, 4 miles from the cafile of Dublin, It is moft agreeably fcated on. Dublin bay, and has a flue profpefl, on one flde of the numerous vcfiels that arrive in or go out of the harbour, and on the otlier of the adjacent country, ter- minated by the mountains of Wicklow. Tiie plealing lituation of this place, purity of the air, and conveniency for bathing, induces per- fons of the firfi difiinTion to choofe it for their fummer refidence. Near it is Neptune the ele- gant feat of lord CionmeL—Alio a country refi- dence of lord Cloncurry.—Likewife the name of a rock lit. in the bay of Galway, prov. Connaught, lat. 53 : 55, Ion. 10 : 47. — Ano- ther on coaft of co. Sligo, prov. Connaught.— Alfo an ifiand near bar. Forth, on coafi of co, Wexford, prov. Leinfier. Black-rocks, rocks fo called fit. on the coafi of co. Mayo, and bar. Erris, prov. Con- naught. Bl acksod-b AY, fit. in bar. Erris, co, Mayo, prov. Connaught. BlackstAFF-RivER, fit. in CO. Down, prov. Ulfier ; called alfo Annadorn river,^ from an in- confiderable place of that name near which it riles, taking a S. W. courfe, and falls into the N. end of the inner bay of Dundriim. BlACKSTAiPvS mountainsj fit. in co. Car]ov,% prov. Leinfier. Blackstones mountains^ fit. in bar. Dunker- 011, CO. Kerry, prov. Munfier. Blackwater-bridge, lit. in co. Kildare, prov. Leinfier, 22 miles from Dublin; one mile and half beyond which are Rylough ruins. Bl ACKWATER-FOOT, fit. ixi CO. Down, prov. Ulfier, above 72 miles from Dublin ; near which is a feat of the earl of Charlcmont^ in an ifiand in Lough-Neagh, near Cooney ifiand. Bi. ACXWATEr-river, a large river which ri- fe s in co. Kerry, prov. Munfier, and having palfed feveral towns in the co. Cork, falls into the lea at Youghal. — Alfo feveral other rivers of fame name, viz. ift that whicii runs thro’ the co. Armagh, prov. Ulfier, and falls into Lough Neagh. 2d in co. Meath, prov. Leinfier, whicii falls into the Boyne at Navan. 3d in co. Long- ford, prov. Leinfier, which fails into the Shan- non N. of Laneiborough, .and 4th in the co. Wexford, prov. Leinfier, which is lofi in the fea at Ban now bay. Blackwater-town, fit. in bar. Armagh^ co. Armagh, prov. Ulfier ; above 66 miles from Dublin.—Alfo a village in co. Wexford^ prov. Leinfier, where fairs are held on 25 Maro Blackwood, fit. inco. Down, prov. Ulfier. Bl ADHMA-SLiABH,[or Slleub-bloom) a range of mountains between the King and Queen’s co. prov. Leinfier, which in antient times was one of the boundaries of Munfier on the Leinfier fide ; there is fiill remaining in ihde moun-