The history and topography of the county of Clare, from the earliest times to the beginning of the 18th century . Restoration. He residedat Great Billing in Northamptonshire,and being a Protestant, his estatesescaped the general forfeiture. He isburied in the Cathedral of St. Marys,Limerick, and on his tomb he isstyled the second Earl in royal fashion.(Lodges Peerage, and Note by theHon. Robert OBrien.) 542 HISTORY OF COUNTY CLARE. Ennish Macony is at present (1681), the interest of theofficers of the 1649 security. Coney Island1 took the name from the great numberof rabbits and coneys there.
The history and topography of the county of Clare, from the earliest times to the beginning of the 18th century . Restoration. He residedat Great Billing in Northamptonshire,and being a Protestant, his estatesescaped the general forfeiture. He isburied in the Cathedral of St. Marys,Limerick, and on his tomb he isstyled the second Earl in royal fashion.(Lodges Peerage, and Note by theHon. Robert OBrien.) 542 HISTORY OF COUNTY CLARE. Ennish Macony is at present (1681), the interest of theofficers of the 1649 security. Coney Island1 took the name from the great numberof rabbits and coneys there. In it is seen the ruins of anancient chapel, but without monument or inscription. Coverhane2 Castle, was the seat and abode of Henrythe first Earl of Thomond, of that name, during the life ofhis father Earl Donogh. Deer Island, heretofore called Inish moor. The lodgeis built out of the ruins of a church or chapel. In the barony of Ibrickan, and in the barony ofCorcomroe. in this county, both which baronies belong tothe Earl of Thomond, it is said that no mouse or rat willlive by any means twenty-four RUINS OF THE ABBEY OF Castle. G. Abbey. Ross Roe, barony of Tullagh, and parish of Kilmurry,part of the estate of the Honble. Lord Viscount Clare, nowin the possession of Mr. John Fennell, is a fair seat, situateamong good lands and orchards, with a very pleasant and 1 Coney Island.—The wall? of theruined church are still standing, andnear them the foundation of a stillmore ancient church. There is a highhill on the island, on the summit ofwhich stands a monument to thememory of one of the children of the late Field-Marshal Sir John Fitz-gerald, 2 Crovreaghan was one of the sevenmanors into which the estate of theEarl of Thomond in Clare wasdivided. dineleys journal, 1680. 543 profitable large Pool or Lough on the one side thereofabounding with large trouts. Here are also great plenty ofwild fowl. About a mile and a half from hence by water,between the cas
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