A Historie of Ireland

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Excerpt from A Historie of Ireland: Written in the Yeare 1571 Each of these five (where they are framable to civility, and answere the writts of the Crowne, ) be sundred into shires and counties, after this manner. In Leinster lye the counties of Dublin, Kildare, Weixford, Caterlagh, Kilkenny, King & Queenes counties, these two lately so named by Parliament in the raignes of Philip and Mary, having Shire-townes accordant, Philipstown and Marryborrow. Septes, Irish of name planted in these quarters they reckon, the Birnes, Tooles, Cauanaghes, which is the nation of Macmurrow, Omores, Oconnores, Odempsyes, Odun. Citties of best account, Dyvelin: the beauty and eye of Ireland, fast by a goodly river, which Cambrensis calleth Avenlifius. Ptolomy Libnms, they call the Lyffie. The seat hereof is in many respects comfortable, but less frequented of marchant strangers, because of the bard haven. Kildare hath Kildare and the Naass. Weixford hath Weixford and Ross. Kilkenny hath Kilkenny the best dry towne in Ireland on the Southside of the river Suirus, also Callan and Thomastowne. Meath is devided into East and West Meath, and the counties of Longford. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.