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Page 44
... ancient table by which it had from time immemorial been assessed to subsidies and other land taxes . The statute is the more worthy of notice here , as furnishing that scale of parochial , baronial , and acreable contents , which has hi ...
... ancient table by which it had from time immemorial been assessed to subsidies and other land taxes . The statute is the more worthy of notice here , as furnishing that scale of parochial , baronial , and acreable contents , which has hi ...
Page 45
... ancient state , without due con- sideration of the changes that had taken place in the value , pro- ductiveness , actual contents , and parochial arrangement of the se- veral denominations . In 1777 an act of parliament was passed ...
... ancient state , without due con- sideration of the changes that had taken place in the value , pro- ductiveness , actual contents , and parochial arrangement of the se- veral denominations . In 1777 an act of parliament was passed ...
Page 54
... ancient bridge , of five rude , unornamented arches , ( from which the whole locality is more usually called Ballybough- Bridge , ) and another modern one , nearer to the sea by a short interval . The village is almost entirely on the ...
... ancient bridge , of five rude , unornamented arches , ( from which the whole locality is more usually called Ballybough- Bridge , ) and another modern one , nearer to the sea by a short interval . The village is almost entirely on the ...
Page 57
... ancient path of an old mill ; " and the White Book of Christchurch , in describing the course of riding the franchises in 1488 , thus details this portion of the route : - " Leaving the stone well on the left hand , they proceeded ...
... ancient path of an old mill ; " and the White Book of Christchurch , in describing the course of riding the franchises in 1488 , thus details this portion of the route : - " Leaving the stone well on the left hand , they proceeded ...
Page 70
... ancient name of Moynealta , connects itself with the highest legends of the bardic age , which allege that Partholanus , one of the earliest invaders of Ireland , closed his adventurous life on this barren shore . Other authorities ...
... ancient name of Moynealta , connects itself with the highest legends of the bardic age , which allege that Partholanus , one of the earliest invaders of Ireland , closed his adventurous life on this barren shore . Other authorities ...
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abbey acres afterwards ancient annual rent annum arable Archbishop of Dublin Balgriffin Balrothery Barnewall Baron Bishop Bray called Canc castle Castleknock century chancel chapel Chapelizod chief Christ Church Christopher Clondalkin Clontarf common Coolock county of Dublin crown Dalkey Dean demesne died seised Earl Edward English erected Esker Eustace Fagan Finglas Fitz flowering forfeited glebe granted grass Hamilton heir Henry hill Hollywood Howth impropriate Inquis inquisition Ireland Irish James Kildare Kilmainham Kilternan King king's knight lands Liffey Lusk Malahide manor Meath messuages mill monument mountain Newcastle Nicholas notice Palmerstown parish parliament passed patent Patrick's Cathedral Portmarnock Portrane possessions prebend prebendary present prior proprietor Rathcoole Rathfarnham rectory regal visitation Richard river road Robert rocks Roman Catholic ruins Santry seised side stone Swords Talbot Tallagh Taylor thereof Thomas tion tithes town townland vicar vicarage village visitation of 1615 walls William wood
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Page 81 - That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona.
Page 301 - As for nobility in particular persons, it is a reverend thing to see an ancient castle or building not in decay, or to see a fair timber tree sound and perfect; how much more to behold an ancient noble family, which hath stood against the waves and weathers of time?
Page 55 - I am to be gathered unto my people : bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite, in the cave that is in the field of "Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field of Ephron the Hittite, for a possession of a burying-place.
Page 345 - VILLA.* WOULD you that Delville I describe ? Believe me, Sir, I will not gibe: For who would be satirical Upon a thing so very small ? You scarce upon the borders enter, Before you're at the very centre. A single crow can make it night, When o'er your farm she takes her flight : Yet, in this narrow compass, we Observe a vast variety ; Both walks, walls, meadows, and parterres, Windows and doors, and rooms and stairs, And hills and dales...
Page 346 - Observe a vast variety; Both walks, walls, meadows, and parterres, Windows and doors, and rooms and stairs, And hills and dales, and woods and fields, And hay, and grass, and corn, it yields: All to your haggard...
Page 142 - And if thou wilt make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stone: for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it.
Page 203 - How would it have joyed brave Talbot, the terror of the French, to think that after he had lain two hundred years in his tomb, he should triumph again on the stage and have his bones new embalmed with the tears of ten thousand spectators at least (at several times), who, in the tragedian that represents his person, imagine they behold him fresh bleeding...
Page 820 - I saw young Harry, with his beaver on, His cuisses on his thighs, gallantly arm'd, Rise from the ground like feather'd Mercury, And vaulted with such ease into his seat As if an angel dropp'd down from the clouds, To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus, And witch the world with noble horsemanship.
Page 417 - Content with science in the vale of peace. Calmly he look'd on either life, and here Saw nothing to regret, or there to fear; From nature's temperate feast rose satisfied, Thank'd Heaven that he had lived, and that he died.
Page 55 - And the time drew nigh that Israel must die: and he called his son Joseph, and said unto him, If now I have found grace in thy sight, put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me; bury me not, I pray thee, in Egypt: but I will lie with my fathers, and thou shalt carry me out of Egypt, and bury me in their buryingplace.