. The history of Ireland, from the earliest period to the year 1245, when the Annals of Boyle, which are adopted and embodied as the running text authority, terminate: with a brief essay on the native annalists, and other sources for illustrating Ireland, and full statistical and historical notices of the barony of Boyle. rsone of the representatives of tlie County Roscommon), by her he hasissue three sons, Cooto, a Deputy Lieutenant of that county, andlately its Sheriff; William, a barrister; and Arthur-Edward, anofficer in the 89th Regiment of Foot; and four daughters, Alice,Margaret, Fanny-
. The history of Ireland, from the earliest period to the year 1245, when the Annals of Boyle, which are adopted and embodied as the running text authority, terminate: with a brief essay on the native annalists, and other sources for illustrating Ireland, and full statistical and historical notices of the barony of Boyle. rsone of the representatives of tlie County Roscommon), by her he hasissue three sons, Cooto, a Deputy Lieutenant of that county, andlately its Sheriff; William, a barrister; and Arthur-Edward, anofficer in the 89th Regiment of Foot; and four daughters, Alice,Margaret, Fanny-Louisa, and Eliza. Coote, the stock whencethese t\vo lines of Hughstown and Oakport diverged, died in1796, p-nd was buried on the south side of Ardcarne church. Within the demesne of Oakport is a grave-yard,and on the townland of KnockadafF another. From thefoot of the high ground in this latter vicinity, calledOx-hill, the annexed view of Oakport, and its lake,has been taken.—On Farnagalliagh, i. e. the maidsmeadow/ contiguous to the church of Ardcarne, aresome ruins, traditionally identified with a nunnery,which was once a cell to the Abbey of Kilcreunata,in the County of Gal way; while, on the summit of thehill, that gives name to Knock-vicar, a monastery forDominicans was early founded, but of this no traces. ~^ THE IARISII OF ARDCARNE. 115 are now discoverable. Tliis latter place is situatedon the road, before mentioned as diverging northwardfrom Ardcarne church, and here the Boyle river iscrossed by a bridge of ten arches, which an inscrip-tion states to have been erected in 1727, under thesuperintendance of John French, Edward Drury,Owen Lloyd, Charles Mulloy, and James Scily. Thewooded banks of the river give here a very pleasingcharacter to the scene. Pursuing the road hence,northward, over insulated hills varying considera-bly in extent and elevation, with bogs and mooryground at their bases, Mount Prospect, and the vil-lage of Crosna are attained, from each of whic
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