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An Historical And Geographical Account Of Ireland.
ULSTER , 9 COUNTIES . Counties , Chief Towns . Counties , Chief Towns . Down Dau-n Patrick Londonderry Deny " Armagh Armagh Tyrone Omagh Monaghan Monaghan Fermanagh Enniskillen Cavaii Cavan - Doncgall Lilford Antrim Carrickfergus
CONNAUGHT , 5 COUNTIES . Leitiim Carrick on Shannon Sligo Sligo Roscommon Roscommon Ualway Gal way Mayo Ballinrobe & Castiebar
MUNSTER , 6 COUNTIES . Clare Ennis Limerick Limerick Cork Cork Tipperary C'kmi . iel Kerry Tralee Wateri ' ord Wateribrd The history of Ireland has been carried to a very remote antiquity , and may , with greater justice than that of any other couniry , be . distinguished into the legendary and authentic . In the reign of
Edward II . an Ulster Prince boasted to the Pope of an uninterrupted succession of one hundred and ninety-seven Kings of Ireland , to the year 1170 . Even the most moderate Irish antiquaries carry their history up to about 500 years before the Christian tera , at which time , they assert , that a colony of Scythians , immediately from Spain , settled in Ireland , and introduced the Phoenician language and letters j
into this country ; and that however it might have ben peopled still earlier from Gaul or Britain , yet Heber , Heremon , and 1 th , the sons of Milesius , gave a race of Kings to the Irish , distinguished from their days by the names of Gadelians and Scuits , or Scots . But as our limits will not permit us to enlarge on the dark and contested parts of the Irish history , we shall only observe , that it was
about the middle of the fifth century that the great apostle of Ireland , St . Patrick , was employed in the propagation of Christianity in this country , though there had been Christian missionaries here long before , by whose means it had made a considerable progress among the inhabitants of Ireland . After this period , Ireland was occasionally invaded by the Saxon Kings of England ; but in the years 795 and called
798 the Danes and Normans , or , as they were , the Easterlings , invaded the coasts of Ireland , and were the first who erefted stone edifices in that kingdom . The common habitations of the Irish , till that time , were hurdles covered -with straw and rushes , and , but very few of solid timber . The natives defended themselves bravely against the Easterlings , who built Dublin , Waterford ,
Limerick , Wexford , and Cork ; but they resided chiefly at Dublin , or in its neighbourhood , which , by the old Irish , was called Fingal , or the Land of Strangers . The natives , about the yeai 9 62 , seem to have called to their assistance the Anglo-Saxon' King Edgar , who had then a considerable maritime power ; and this might have given occasion for his clergy to call him King of great part of Ireland . It is certain that Dublin was about that time a flourishing city , and VOL , x . y y
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
An Historical And Geographical Account Of Ireland.
ULSTER , 9 COUNTIES . Counties , Chief Towns . Counties , Chief Towns . Down Dau-n Patrick Londonderry Deny " Armagh Armagh Tyrone Omagh Monaghan Monaghan Fermanagh Enniskillen Cavaii Cavan - Doncgall Lilford Antrim Carrickfergus
CONNAUGHT , 5 COUNTIES . Leitiim Carrick on Shannon Sligo Sligo Roscommon Roscommon Ualway Gal way Mayo Ballinrobe & Castiebar
MUNSTER , 6 COUNTIES . Clare Ennis Limerick Limerick Cork Cork Tipperary C'kmi . iel Kerry Tralee Wateri ' ord Wateribrd The history of Ireland has been carried to a very remote antiquity , and may , with greater justice than that of any other couniry , be . distinguished into the legendary and authentic . In the reign of
Edward II . an Ulster Prince boasted to the Pope of an uninterrupted succession of one hundred and ninety-seven Kings of Ireland , to the year 1170 . Even the most moderate Irish antiquaries carry their history up to about 500 years before the Christian tera , at which time , they assert , that a colony of Scythians , immediately from Spain , settled in Ireland , and introduced the Phoenician language and letters j
into this country ; and that however it might have ben peopled still earlier from Gaul or Britain , yet Heber , Heremon , and 1 th , the sons of Milesius , gave a race of Kings to the Irish , distinguished from their days by the names of Gadelians and Scuits , or Scots . But as our limits will not permit us to enlarge on the dark and contested parts of the Irish history , we shall only observe , that it was
about the middle of the fifth century that the great apostle of Ireland , St . Patrick , was employed in the propagation of Christianity in this country , though there had been Christian missionaries here long before , by whose means it had made a considerable progress among the inhabitants of Ireland . After this period , Ireland was occasionally invaded by the Saxon Kings of England ; but in the years 795 and called
798 the Danes and Normans , or , as they were , the Easterlings , invaded the coasts of Ireland , and were the first who erefted stone edifices in that kingdom . The common habitations of the Irish , till that time , were hurdles covered -with straw and rushes , and , but very few of solid timber . The natives defended themselves bravely against the Easterlings , who built Dublin , Waterford ,
Limerick , Wexford , and Cork ; but they resided chiefly at Dublin , or in its neighbourhood , which , by the old Irish , was called Fingal , or the Land of Strangers . The natives , about the yeai 9 62 , seem to have called to their assistance the Anglo-Saxon' King Edgar , who had then a considerable maritime power ; and this might have given occasion for his clergy to call him King of great part of Ireland . It is certain that Dublin was about that time a flourishing city , and VOL , x . y y