Picturesque Ireland : a literary and artistic delineation of the natural scenery, remarkable places, historical antiquities, public buildings, ancient abbeys, towers, castles, and other romantic and attractive features of Ireland . Grty Abbey. 592 PICTURESQUE MacDunlevys, MacGennises, MacCartans,OKellys, MacGilmores. The county con-tinued chiefly in possession of the samefamilies at the period of the Plantation, withthe addition of the Anglo-Norman familiesof Savage and White, the former of whichsettled in the peninsula of the Ards, onthe eastern side of Strangford Lough, andthe latt
Picturesque Ireland : a literary and artistic delineation of the natural scenery, remarkable places, historical antiquities, public buildings, ancient abbeys, towers, castles, and other romantic and attractive features of Ireland . Grty Abbey. 592 PICTURESQUE MacDunlevys, MacGennises, MacCartans,OKellys, MacGilmores. The county con-tinued chiefly in possession of the samefamilies at the period of the Plantation, withthe addition of the Anglo-Norman familiesof Savage and White, the former of whichsettled in the peninsula of the Ards, onthe eastern side of Strangford Lough, andthe latter in the barony of Dufferin, on thewestern side of the same gulf * (Lewis,Topog. Diet?). Ancient records show that,before the 20th of Edward II., there weretwo counties, Down and Newtown ; that the Ruined Ai-ch, Grey Abbey. Ards had at that time separate ju- ^r^^S^ risdiction, with sheriffs of its own, and that Lecale, as within the Pale, held communication with Dublin by sea, the Irish holding the mountain passes between it and Louth. These several juris-
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