number of horse and foot had paffed it, he marched with the horfe to Six-mile bridge, which we paffed, and went the next day to Clare, where we remained till we made articles. All what I write, I affure you is true, and shall not be uneafy for that reafon, if you make ufe of my name. I am Sir, Your most humble fervant, WESTMEATH.* CLOUNINE, August 22, 1749. To Mr. Walter Harris, Clarendonftreet, Dublin. Thomas, who in 1714, fucceeded to the Earldom of Westmeath was a lieutenant colonel in the earl of Tyrone's regiment, in King James's army, and was outlawed May 11, 1691; but being in the city of Limerick at the capitulation, and one of the hoftages exchanged for the due obfervance of the articles, his outlawry was reverfed and he was restored to his eftate. See Kimber's Peerage of Ireland, page 14. No. XIII. Of the Men of Learning and Genius, born in the County and City of Limerick. L IMERICK has given birth to many fatef men and warriors, who have diftinguished themselves in the fenate and in the field; but it is not our intention to fpeak of any but the men of learning, many of whom are now living. RICHARD CREAGH, D. D. a native of Limerick, and fon to Nicholas Creagh, merchant, was educated at Louvain in Brabant, and lived in the year 1576. According to Mr. White's M. S. he was primate of Armagh, and was confined fome time in the tower of London, where he died and was buried in 1587. He wrote. An Ecclefiaftical History, part of which is a controverfy in matters of faith, with Thomas Arthur, a Physician. 2. A Chronicle of Ireland. 3. The lives of the Irish Saints. 4. An effay on the Irish language. 5. A Catechifmin Irish. † He obtained a fubfidy from Pope Gregory XIII for fupporting Irish Students. JOHN KEOGH, D. D. was born about the middle of the last century, at Cloonclieve, * within three miles of Limerick, where his ancestors enjoyed an estate on both fides of the Shannon Ware's first Book of Irish Writers, page 25. * This place is now called Rivers, the estate of Kilner Brafier, efq. The ancestors of Dr. Keogh enjoyed it for one thousand seven hundred years, and his family, called in Irish Hiftory Maç. Eochadh, were lineally defcended from the kings of Ireland, fourteen of them having fwayed the fceptre at the hill of Tarah. See Hibernian Magazine for 1778, page 327. Shannon and Mulkern, let in the year 1748 for about fix thousand pounds per annum. His grandfather's name was Mahony Keogh, who lived in a handfome, well fortified caftle, the, remains of which are ftill to be feen. They loft this estate by Cromwell, for their loyalty and adherence to king Charles I. Dr. Keogh was educated at Trinity College, where he continued feven years, and gained great credit and reputation for his extenfive knowledge, particularly in the mathematics. He married the daughter of Dr. Rous Clopton, near Stratford on Avon, of which family, honourable mention is made by Mr. Theobald, in his pre face to Shakespeare. AFTER his marriage with this lady, he wrote, 1. Scala Metaphyfica, or a demonftration of the dependence which the feveral degrees of animated nature have on the Creator, from the highest angel to the lowest infect. 2. An Hebrew Lexicon, with an allufion to every Hebrew root. 3, De Orthographia. 4. The Solution of myftical Problems. 5. A Latin Grammar. 6. A Profody, reducing it to five general rules. 7. A Greek Grammar, wherein he comprehends the formation of all Greek verbs, on one half sheet of paper. 8. An Analogy of the four Gofpels. 9. A demonftration of the Trinity in latin verfe. There were few branches of learning from the alphabet to the Oriental languages, This is now called Castle Troy, and is near Rivers. but. + This book is in the Cafhel Library, to which it was given by that learned prelate, archbishop Bolton. #This book was fhewn to Sir Ifaac Newton, who highly approved of it. but Dr. Keogh was acquainted with. The world could not fay to him, Scire tuum nihil eft, nifi te fcire, hoc fciat alter. He wrote many other books, which were destroyed by an accidental fire, at his dwelling house near Strokeftown, in the county Rofcommon. The following infcription is fixed in gold letters, over one of the hall doors, in the Univerfity of Oxford; "Reverendus Dr. Johannes Keogh, magnus, "Hibernicus folvebat talem queftionem tali die" for anfwering a mathematical problem, fent from Paris, which could not be refolved by any other perfon in Great Britain. DR. KEOGH had a very numerous family, not less than twenty one children, yet he never would take tythe from a poor man. Six only of his children furvived him, one of whom, the Rev. Dr. John Keogh, his eldest fon, settled at Mitchelftown in the county of Cork, and was chaplain to Lord Kingfton. He was a very learned divine, and wrote feveral useful books, particularly" Botanalogia Univerfalis Hibernica." concerning the medical virtues of herbs, trees and thrubs, with their names in English, Irish and Latin; to which is added a Treatife on Chalybeate Waters, and another on the Prophylactic part of medicine. This book was printed in Cork, in a fmall quarto, in the year 1735, and is dedicated to the Earl of Antrim. In the year 1778, he had a fon John Keogh, efq; refident in Capel-ftreet, Dublin; and a daughter daughter married to the late Jofeph Kathrens, efq; Philizer of the court of King's Bench. * JAMES ARTHUR, born in the city of Limerick, became a Dominican at Salamanca, where he received his education. He was a profeffor of divinity at Coimbra, in Portugal, and died at Lisbon in the year 1670. He wrote and publithed in two folio volumes, Commentaria in totam fere S. Thomæ Summam, and was preparing ten volumes more for the prefs, when he died. EDMUND O'Dwyer, was appointed bishop of Limerick, by the pope's nuncio, in 1646; he was one of thofe, who were exempted from mercy by General Ireton, at the fiege of Limerick, but made his escape and died at Bruffells. He was a native of Limerick, wrote two poetical effays, one on the miracles of St. Bridget, the other on the inextinguishable fire of St. Bridget at Kildare. I MATHEW KENNEDY, Doctor of Laws, mafter of the high court of chancery, and judge of the admiralty court of Ireland, was a native of the county of Limerick. He published at Paris in 1705, a Chronological, Genealogical and Hiftorical Differtation of the Royal Family of the Stuarts, from the time of Milefius, in Octavo, 292 pages. † JAMES WHITE, was born in the city of Limerick in the year 1715; he returned from the College of Salamanca in Spain, in 1736, and Hibernian Magazine, for 1773, page 329. 1 White's Manufcript, page 64. was |