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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    Uahy Af’ Kicrnan and APGaurori ; mofl: of whom were ih potrcffion of their eilates at the beginning of the lall century. Brefney is now called the co. of Cavariy ii\ prov. ’ Ullfer, tho’' formerly it took in Leitrim and part of 'Annalyy and was divided into E. and W. Brefney. Bregia or Brcgmuiny a plain extending round the royal palace of Thm/;, .called alfo Alagh Bregh ; it reached as farais -Trim and Duleek, ; CO. Meath, prov. Lei niter. Bregmuin, an antient territory of the 0^BrB ens ] *iit. in coc-Weitmeath, prov. Leinfter, BREGOGE,-a vicarage in dioc. of Cloync, lit. i in bar. Orrery, co. Cork, prov. Munfler. Bremore ^iir. f mile W, of Balbriggen, co. Dublin, prov. Leinlter. Br EN AN * s T o w N, fit. about 9 miles from 'Dublin, ill CO. Dublin, prov. Leinlter. In a ■ glen adjoining it is a fuperb Cromlcachy fuppofed to have been a druidical altar or tomb. 'Breoghain, an antient dillridt containing fthe entire co. of Waterford, in prov. Munltcr ; ' fo'denominated from lying on the river Braghan .or Brigus. The inhabitants of thisdiftri£t were ■frequently called Slioght Breaghan, or the race ‘ dwelling on the forked river ; and were the Brigantes of Ptolemy, theircountry was bound- ed on the E. by Abhan Braghariy on the N. by the Suircy on the W. bv the Blackwatery and on the S. by the fea. Their moll antient chiefs were denominated Hy Breaghan and Breag/iany whence by corruption O' Brainy and made by the gencalogifts of latter ages to defeend from the O’Briens of Bhotnondy whereby they have . confounded one. race with the other. The Bly Breaghans were difpolTeffed of the S. parts of tlicir country by Aongus, at the head of the clan of the Dejiiy who had been expelled the co. of Meath by Corm.ac AAac Art in 278. hrom that time the Southern parts of this antient dil- trifl were in pofrelfion of the chiefs of the Dcfiiy but the Northern remained under the govern- ment of its antient princes, until the arrival of ■the Englifh, when the greater part of the ^country was divided among tfie Boylcsy Sher locks, PoorSy Aylwardsy Daltonsy JVaddin^s^ &c. feuda- tory tenants of Henry lid. who, after the gene- ral diftribution of the kingdom amongit his followers, referved to himfelf all the country from Cork to Waterford. The antient princes ‘however Hill retained a part, which they held by grant from the Englifh monarchs, and we find an Bricn in the tenure of a conliderable land- ed property in this co. at the commencement of th-e lall century ; but whether deicended from the Hy Breoghans or O'Briens of I horaond, is not certain. The Slio^lit Breog/ian was alfo call- ed bv the antient writers Slioght Lugach or'the race on the Water, which feem to be the lame the Lucent of Ptolemy ; 'thd’ others place the Lucent or Luccniiy along Dingle bay in the co« Kerryy prov. Munfler. Brescanagh ov Brackenaghy a manor in the bar. Coolc’s-town, King’s co. prov. Leinfler ; in wdiich are very extenfive flour mills eredled by Mr. Montgomery, called yohn'Seville mills. Here is an antient burial place, Brial-point, fit. in bar. Ardes, co, Down, prov Uifler ; from this place the coail bends in a little to tlie W. ’till you come .to Green ifland, about a i-| mile, which contains 2 acres always green, and to which, at low water, a man may walk dry. Here is a kind of harbour never frequented but by fliipfi in great diflrefs, by reafon of a dangerous entry, having on the S. the fatal Norik rocksy which are a long range, firetching N. N. E. at leafl a league, of which many lie funk in the water ; fo that ’tis hazard- ous to venture between them and the main land. On thefe rocks 18 failors were lofl fome years ago, and all buried together in one common grave, in the neighbouring church yard of Slane. The N. rocks are otherwife called St. Patrick's rocks, from a feat of done among them, called St. Patrick's chair, from whence thefe rocks have taken this fecond name. Brian’s-fo RD, a village fit. in bar. upper Iveach, co. Down, prov. Uifler ; within 2 miles W. of Ncwcallle : near which, on the fkirts of SUeu Neir and Slicu Snavan mountains, are 2 deer parks, remarkable for excellent venifon ; or rather i park divided into 2 (by a wall carri- ed thro’ the middle of it) finely moeded, cut into ridings and vifloes, and water’d by a river running thro’ it in a channel of rocks and pre- cipices, which paUes under a bridge ot licwn flone ; from whence are beautiful profpcdls of the fea. This place is 65 miles dillant from Dublin fairs held on afeenfion day and 3 June, Near it is Bullamor, a feat of lord Clanbrajjtl. Brickleeuse, fit. in bar. Corran, co. Sligo, prov. Connaught. Brick river, fit. in bar. Clanmaurice, co. Kerry, prov. Munfler-; it rifes about a mile E. of Ardfcrty and running Eaflerly,^ and then Northerly, paffes by Lixnaiv, and joins the Feat and Galcy. Bricky RIVER, fit. \\\h^r. Decies ^vithout, in CO. Waterford, prov. Munfler ; it takes.its nle near Clonkardine, and 'empties itleU into tiic bay Diingaruan, after a courfe of about. ^ miles. Bride-CHURCH, a vicarage In dioc. of Kil- dare, fit. in bar. great Connell, co. Kildare* prov. Leinfler. Bride river, rifes in bar. Barrymore, co. Cork, prov. Munfler, near a place called Glan- prehan ; takes its courfe Etillcfly, and runs thro’ the bog of Kilrea, and paffes thro’ part of the CO. Waterford, aftet a multiplicity of wiudiage