. A history of the County Dublin; the people, parishes and antiquities from the earliest times to the close of the eighteenth century. -74S. SHANKILL AND SHANGANAGH. 85 sui^planted the Lawless family. Tliey appear first in 1447 at Shan-ganagli in the person of Edmund Walsh, to whom the seigniory ofthat place was leased in tliat year by the Vicars Clioral of Cathedral. Some twenty-live years later, in 1473, legalproceedings were instituted against Edmund Walsh fur refusing tojDay rent and continuing to hold the lands after the expiration ofhis lease, but the dispute was settled, and
. A history of the County Dublin; the people, parishes and antiquities from the earliest times to the close of the eighteenth century. -74S. SHANKILL AND SHANGANAGH. 85 sui^planted the Lawless family. Tliey appear first in 1447 at Shan-ganagli in the person of Edmund Walsh, to whom the seigniory ofthat place was leased in tliat year by the Vicars Clioral of Cathedral. Some twenty-live years later, in 1473, legalproceedings were instituted against Edmund Walsh fur refusing tojDay rent and continuing to hold the lands after the expiration ofhis lease, but the dispute was settled, and we iind amongst the sub-sequent owners of Shanganagh, in 1482 Charles Walsh, in 1509Richard Walsh, and in 1521 Charles, son of Richard Walsh (i). The castles at Shankill and Shanganagli, of which remains are tobe seen, as well as a fortified dwelling called Pucks Castle, nearRathmichael, were probably erected in tlie fifteenth or sixteenth. Pucks Castle. From (I pholugmph by Mr. Thomas Mason. (1) Sweetmans Calendar, 1293-1301. p. 10; Masons History of Cathedral, pp. 70, 89, 90 ; Patent Rolls, pp. 190, 252 ; Christ ChurchDeeds, No. 333 ; Exchequer Inquisition, Henry VIII., Co. Dublin, Xos, 47, 115. 86 PARISH OF RATHMICHAEL. century. Shanganagh Castle, which stands close to Loughlins-town river, in the valley near Ballybrack, was the largest of thethree, and possibly some portion of it dated from 1408, whenThomas Lawless undertook to build a castle on the lands. Under
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