THE

HISTORY

OF THE

COUNTY OF DUBLIN.

BY

JOHN D'ALTON, Esq., M. R. I. A.,

BARRISTER AT LAW.

DUBLIN:

HODGES AND SMITH, COLLEGE-GREEN.

M.DCCC.XXXVIII.

GENERAL HISTORY

OF

THE COUNTY OF DUBLIN.

DUBLIN, the metropolitan county of Ireland, is bounded on the south by the county Wicklow; on the west by that of Kildare, on the north by Meath; and on the east by the Irish Sea. It extends from north to south thirty English miles, from east to west about eighteen, and contains, according to the survey and valuation return of 1824,* 147,884 Irish acres, i. e. 237,741 acres in English admeasurement, exclusive of the city, and the liberties of Donore and St.Sepulchre's thereto annexed. Of this quantity about

This return, which was in truth but a transcript of the scale for road assessments in this county, as recognized in the act of 1763 hereafter particularly mentioned, and based on immemorial local subsidies, is an exceedingly defective, but as yet, unfortunately, the best criterion; the trigonometrical survey of this county not being completed suf ficiently to verify a total estimate. Through the kindness, however, of Lieutenant Larcom, a return of the parochial acreable contents is promised for this work, as accurately as can at present be ascertained, and within the requisite time.

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