. A history of the County Dublin; the people, parishes and antiquities from the earliest times to the close of the eighteenth century. ol. x!., ; vol. Ix., No. 23; DuUin Journal, No. 25-20. (2) Dublin Society Proceedings, vol. i., p. 187. (3) Burkes Landed Gentry, under Rialls of Old Conna. (•*) Exshaws Magazine for 1770, p. 384 ; DiiUin Journal, No. 6808 ; Will ofWilliam, Bishop of Limerick. 108 PARISH OF OLD CONNAUGHT. Amongst other residents besides Mr. John Roberts we find aboutthis time Sir William Hawkins, Ulster King of Arms, who residedin a house called Bolton Hall, the Right Hon.
. A history of the County Dublin; the people, parishes and antiquities from the earliest times to the close of the eighteenth century. ol. x!., ; vol. Ix., No. 23; DuUin Journal, No. 25-20. (2) Dublin Society Proceedings, vol. i., p. 187. (3) Burkes Landed Gentry, under Rialls of Old Conna. (•*) Exshaws Magazine for 1770, p. 384 ; DiiUin Journal, No. 6808 ; Will ofWilliam, Bishop of Limerick. 108 PARISH OF OLD CONNAUGHT. Amongst other residents besides Mr. John Roberts we find aboutthis time Sir William Hawkins, Ulster King of Arms, who residedin a house called Bolton Hall, the Right Hon. Theophilus Jones,who resided at Cork, and the Right Hon. John Monck Mason, anuncle of the historian of St. Patricks Cathedral, and himself anauthor as well as a politician, who resided at Thornhill (i). ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY. Within the parish of Old Connaught there are the remains oftwo churches, one situated close to the village of Old Connaughtand the other standing on the lands of Ballyman. Mr. EugeneOCurry formed the opinion that others had existed within theparish, but no trace of them is now to be found. Old Connaught. Old Connaus;ht Church—West end. From a photograph hji Mr. Thomas Mason. Church is a small late oratory thirty-three feet ten inches long andnineteen feet three inches wide externally. The east window hasa very flat arched spley badly cracked. There are only small slits (1) Taylor and Skinners Map; Lewiss Dnhlin Hnide, p. 171; Die-tionary of National Biograpliy, vol. xxxvi., p. 43;j. ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY. 109 in the nf)rt]i and west walls, l)iit in \]]r south wall there are twoplain ambries, a small oblong window, and tlie gap of the defaceddoor. The west wall is surmounted by a bell chani])er. Themasonry is ])oor and late, with many rounded stones. Of BallynianChurch only a fragment stands, consisting of the east and partof the south wall. In the latter there is a window with a lintelmade of one of the early tombstones inscribed with concentricmark
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