map without boundaries of barony, town-land, or parish;---compofed of names, for the greater part unannexed to any defcription of territory, but the naked counties---without pedigrees, branches of families, chriftian names, or any poffible clew to direct particular defcendants of houses, to trace, or to bring evidence of their claims, or of their origin.--

Perufe the map ---Let this alarming piece of ordnance be measured and fcrutinized :---In Tyrone if we find the imaginary indelible title of O'Neille, and O'Hagan; there is as effectually fecured a like claim of right, from poffeffion, upon the evidence of this inftrument, to Hamilton, Caulfield, and Chichefter: for all these names ftand together, expreffed in the fame character; and are equally hallowed by this antiquated memorial. Look at the other extremity of the kingdom: Barry, Brown, Barret, Roche, Carew, Boyle, De Courcy, Fitzgibbon, and Fitzgerald---range with O'Callaghan, O'Drifcol, O'Donnovan, and O'Donaghoe---all which prefent refident Catholics names, now retain a very refpectable fhare of the eftates of their ancestors, or of their tribe: confequently let the Court of Claims revive when it may, they are logically precluded from violently feizing upon what is already in their own poffeffion.

The proprietors of Armagh are comprized under Brownlow, Caulfield, Atchefon, O'Neille, and O'Hanlon :---Of Lowth; under Bellew,Taaffe, Vernon, Dowdall, Flemming, Netterville :---Of Meath; under Barnwall, Nugent,Taylor, Prefton, Plunket, Huffey, Deafe and Chievers :-In Donegal, Derry, and Firmanagh, we do not trace one British name, except Boyle, and Cole; nor a native

a native one, but Macguire, O'Flanňagan, and Mac Donough: and where little O'Flannagan is now to be found, except in "Goldfmith's Good Natured Man," Ortelius muft return from heaven to tell. The proprietors of Monaghan and Cavan are comprized under Mac Mahon, Hamilton, O'Reily, Sheridan, Corry, Plunket, Brady, Kiernan, Cole, and Mac Tiernan :Of Down, and Antrim ; underWhite, Mac Gennis, O'Neille, Macartan, Savage; Mac Donnell, O'Hara, and Macquillan. Thefe feven latter counties are now pretty securely peopled, occupied, and fettled: O'Neille, and O'Hanlon are in a minority in Armagh; and Magennis and Macartan muft have other aid than a free parliament, to dif poffefs the Hills and the Rawdons, in Down; or the Macquillans to drive back to Scotland the Macdonnels of Dunluce, Mazareen, and the Glynns. The Proprietors of Longford and Weftmeath are comprized under Farrel, Tuit, Delamar, Cruise, Dalton, Dillon, Malone, Fox, Geoghagan, Daly, and Fitzfimmons:-and gentlemen will here obferve, that almost every name, either of the ancient, or the Proteftant church, in these once bloody counties, are now refident families there, cemented together for a century; and by neighbourhood, confanguinity, friendship, and property, pledged to peace. Of the Queen's County; under Moore, Dempfey, Wandesford, Brennan, Fitzpatrick, Coughlan, Maloy, and Carol:----Of Kilkenny and Tipperary; under Butler, Mathew, Maddin, Egan, O'Brien, Kennedy, and the most ancient family of the O'Dwyers of Kilnemanah ----Of Waterford; under De la Poer, Sherlock, Aylward, Fitzgerald, Boyle, Felan, Walth, and Carew.Here is fcarcely a British or an Irish name, comprized in these three moft inportant counties, which is not at this day a con

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formift, and in poffeffion of refpectable, or of enormous landed property; fanctioned by the authority of this alarming chart:-Of Carlow and Kildare; under Cook, Bagnal, Cavanagh, Fitzgerald, Rochford, Wogan, Euftace, Aylmer, Allen, Sarsfield and White :Of Wicklow and Wexford; under Byrne, Toole, Murphy, Cavanagh and Colclough Of Limerick and Clare; under O'Brien, O'Connor, Mac Mahon, O'Loughlin, O'Gorman, Mac Clancy, and the princes of the country, Macnamara :-Of Mayo; under Brown, Burk, Bingham, Fitzmaurice, Joice and O'Maley :— -Of Kerry; under Brown, Mac Carty, O'Sullivan, O'Leary, Mac Gillicuddy, O'Mahony, Mac Ellicot, Fitzmaurice, Denny, Crosby, Trant and Blennerhaffet..

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Of Dublin; under St. Lawrence, Luttrell, Talbot, Warren Of Sligo; under O'Hara, O'Bean, O'Dowd, Mac Conavy, Mac Dermot, Jordan, Dillon, Nangle and Philips :Of Leitrim ; under Mac Gauran, O'Rourke and Mac Randal Of Galway; under Blake, Lynch, French, Brown, Burk and Madden Of Kofcommon; under Bermingham, Crofton, Burgh, Donellan, Fallon, Kelly, Mac Naughten, and the monarchs of the ifland, O'Connor, to this day, in lineal descent from Roderick ;-but they have hitherto kept it very closely to themfelves, if they entertain any intentions of reaffuming the fovereignty: and let my friends commence Pretenders when they will, my allegiance was long fince fworn to his prefent Majefty, and I never will transfer it, either to a Republic, or a Pretender,

And this is the whole map; which contains a compilation of British and Irish names of families, whofe defcendants, reprefentatives, or

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clan, ftill retain, out of all proportion, the greater fhare of territory in a large majority of the thirtytwo counties; the Irish moiety of which names, or thofe of England ftill remaining Catholicks, cannot, therefore, upon the validity of this map, now occupy thefe counties by violence, unlefs like the mifer, they may be amused by pilfering from themselves: and the Proteftant families mentioned in it, difcover here their titles, recognized by all the authority which this inftrument can convey; my opinion a very poor one, but fuch as it is, it is explicit in bearing teftimony to the authenticity of their claims.My endeavour was to afcertain, that the authority of the map was very flender, but if any, that it fpecially establishes the right in poffeffion of the moft confpicuous of our prefent Proteftant nobility, and of a majority of our present moft opulent private gentlemen.

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I have thus wearied you and myself, with this tedious but accurate delineation of Ortelius, because many pretend to dread the map, who never faw it and fome who poffefs it, are not willing to disclose it, but referve it as an inftrument of mysterious intimidation.

But from what period, upon the emancipation of the Catholics, is this reaffumption of lands to commence, amid the fluctuations of property, and through the series of thefe bloody and barbarian events, to which this divided, and pelicanlike ifland, feeding its children with its own blood, has been fubfervient for 400 years?---Is this enquiry into titles to originate with the incurfions under Strongbow ?---No!----For two thirds of the great Catholic families of the prefent day, ruined or in affluence, are the defcendants of those who compofed the train of that Earl of Pembroke,

Pembroke, or of fucceeding British marauders; and, therefore, Aylmer, Plunket, Dalton, Fitzfimmons, Walth, Delamar, Talbot, Bellew, Netterville, Barnwall, Prefton, and the other Catholic families enumerated in the map, and not Milefians, must accede to relinquish every colouring of title, before the territorial claims of the Milefian race. When O'Nial of Tyrowen, in 1602, was marching to join the Spaniards at Kinfale, he paffed at Mallow, near the caftle of Hugo De Barrett, and being informed that it was the habitation of a zealous Catholic, whofe ancestors had been in poffeffion for 400 years, "I hate the English churl, notwithstanding," faid the Firbolg, "as if he had arrived but yesterday."

The M Cartys were kings of the kingdom of Cork, at the firft incurfions of the Welfh, and it was Strongbow himfelf, who fubdued Dermod Mac Carty More Shortly after the fame period, the Barnwalls reduced the O'Sullivans, and feized and fettled at Bearhaven, in the county of Cork and early in the reign of Henry VII. the O'Sullivans retaliated, attacked them at an advantge, and utterly flaughtered and extirpated the clan: for fuch events were not unfrequent in thefe dark and fanguinary days.To whom therefore, upon a general restoration of property, is the castle of Hugo De Barrett, the kingdom of Cork, and the territory of Bearhaven to be adjudged, by a parliamentary committee of Claims, formed out of the modern Catholicks of the kingdom? Or with what colour of confcience, can the Milcfians be reluctant to make reflitution of their eftates to O'Connor, O'Drifol, and the genuine aborigines of this ancient ifland: for it is a well known fact, and no doubt of extreme importance at the prefent period

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