"raptur'd I try the train, Bids wond'ring navies, on the billows ride, Or to Madras our wandering steps confine, The liberties and franchifes, or county of the city of Limerick extend several miles from the city. The county begins at Ballinecourty bridge, on the Caffle Connell road; at Ahanebridge, on the Abingdon road; at a Smith's forge near Ballineety, on the Cork road; at the hill near Friarftown, on the Kilpeacon road at Barnakile bridge, near the four mile ftone, on the Rathkeal road; at Clarina bridge, on the road to Afkeaton, over the ferry. Within this line, freeholders have no votes for county members, although they have in St. Francis's abbey, which joins the city of Limerick.s + Tarbert is on the confines of the county Limerick, and the feat of Edward Lellie, efq. НАР. A ARRANGED ALPHABETICALLY. ༄,,, BINGDON is a small town, seven miles eastward of Limerick. Its ancient name.. was Wethencia or Wotheney, famous for an.. abbey which stood there. On the 26th of June.. 1537, the lord deputy Grey came to this abbey, where O'Mulrian, lord of the country, Ulick. Bourke of Clanrickard, and Thybot Bourk. M'William, made fubmiffions and took the oaths of allegiance. John O'Mulrian, was the laft abbot. Queen Elizabeth in the 5th year of .. her reign granted this abbey for ever to Peter Walfhe, in capite, with the following lands, at yearly rent of 571. 25. 3d-Caflane, Reanaghe, Kilmevenach, Knocknegurtane, Rathreigh, Kappenocke, Kappecullen, Lifmellan and Anagh., *See page 189. WHEN Leonard lord Grey quitted the government of Ireland, of which he was lord deputy, although his fervices were numerous, he was, followed into England by fome of his enemies, who got him imprifoned in the tower, by exhibiting against him feveral complaints, amongst which were the following. That he held fecret correfpondence with 66 James In this Abbey were buried in 1205, Theobald Eitz Walter the founder, and head of the Ormond and Butler family And in 1299, Theobald V. Butler of Ireland. See Carte's life of Ormond, vol. 1. p. xxvii. Archdall's Monafticon Hibernicum, page 413. 66 James of Defmond, and went to visit him in his tent, in his night gown, and forced "the abbot of Owny (Abingdon) to give him forty pounds to preferve the abbey from "ruin. That he forced O'Brien to give him thirty kine and hoftages; that Ulick Burk, a baftard, gave him an hundred marks to "have Ballimacleire caftle, and to be made "Mac William. That the exploits at O'Brien's bridge, &c. were in favour of O'Brien, a “ rebel, Defmond's fon-in-law, and to the prejudice of Donough O'Brien, a good fubject, and that he took a bribe of eighty kine “from Macnamara. That trufting Defmond "and O'Brien, he hazarded the King's army in a long and dangerous journey, wherein Det"mond quarreled and deferted him, and "O'Brien fent but one man with a battle-axe "to guide him.”* ADARE is an ancient town, eight miles diftant from Limerick, and has a good bridge. over the river Maige, which is navigable for large boats. This town, was, famous for a ftrong caftle of the earl Defmond, and for a number of religious houfes. In the year 1581, Colonel Zouch having fubdued Defmond's forces, difbanded a great part of the army, but this was no fooner done, than lord Lixnaw attacked the caftle of Adare, which he took, and put the garrifon to the fwordt. Zouch incenfed at this, marched against him with four hundred men, and found the Irish had retreated from Adare. He then advanced Wynne's History of Ireland, vol. 2, p. 56. to to Lifconnell, near which place he defeated feven hundred of lord Lixnaw's men, and took a great quantity of goods and cattle. SOME large and very perfect ruins of the Trinitarian friary, ftill remain at Adare. The fteeple refembles a caftle, and is fupported by a plain arch, with four diagonal ogives meeting in the centre, and ftairs leading to the battlements. The nave and choir are small and plain without poffeffing any thing remarkable; in the rear are feveral other ruins; the entrance into the friary was by a low gate on the weft fide, which is ftill ftanding. See page 194 for a further account of this House. THE Gray Friary in Adare, for which fee page 193, with its poffeffions, containing fixteen acres of land, a church, &c. three parks, a water mill and water courfe, with a fishing weir on the river Maige, were granted to Sir Henry Wallop, kt. the fourth of November, 37th of Queen Elizabeth, together with twenty acres, one fmall park, and one carve of land in the fields of Adare; two meffuages, twelve acres, and half a carve of land in Caftle Ro-` berts, and a ruinous caftle; three meffuages, two cottages, twenty-four acres of arable land, a water mill and water courfe in Kilcoile, alias Kilcril, with the tythes of the rectories of Adare, Ballyfuiter, Choro, Cloghran, Twoth, Curragh, Killnage, Roer, Kilcrill, Ballyrobert, Ballyfanynge, and half of Ballygoell, all in this county and parifh of Adare. All the poffeffions of the Trinitarians and Auguftinian's in Adare, were alfo granted to Sir Henry Wallopt. BESIDES Archdall's Monafticon Hibernicum, page 415. Id.p. 417 BESIDES many remains of antiquity at Adare, insof which prove it to have been a place of confequence, the demefne of Wyndham Quin, efq; forms an excellent landfkape, beautifully variegated with wood and water. The deer park is well stocked, and extenfive, containing four hundred acres. The meadows floping on each fide of the river Maige, the abbies nodding their venerable heads over, the filent ftream; the extensive vistas of aged trees, the shaded walks,—where many a faint, a many a faint, and many a hero trod—present a most pleasing scene to a contemplative mind. There are fome good pictures in Mr. Quin's houfe, particularly a fine painting of the Annunciation, by Dominicino, brought from Italy by his fon. ANY or KNOCKANY, is a fmall village twelve miles fouth eaft of Limerick, it is fitua ted on a pleasant river in the barony of Small County, where a friary for Eremites, following the rule of St. Auguftine, was founded in the reign of King Henry II. by John, the fon of Robert, and fundry others. On the 23d of June, gift of Queen Elizabeth, a leafe was made to Edward Abfley, and John and Mary Abfley of this friary, for the term of forty years, at the annual rent of 471. 7s. 6d.* The མ་ན་བ། ruins of this building are ftill vilible. Here we find a noble caffle on the river, and a fmaller one in the village, both of which belonged to the Earls of Delmond.. ACCORDING to Mr. Archdall, whofe authority is indifputable, the Preceptory for Knights Hofpitallers, which is mentioned in page 188, |