. A history of the County Dublin; the people, parishes and antiquities from the earliest times to the close of the eighteenth century. own, on which, in 1582,he was residing (-). After the dissolution of St. Marys Abbey the lands then knownas Harolds Grange, on which there were a small castle and a water-mill, were granted by Henry VIII. to Barnaby Fitzpatrick, Baronof Upper Ossory, whose son occupied the unenviable position ofcompanion for correction, or whipping-boy, to Edward Upper Ossorys residence was far from Dublin, and it was,we are told, for the relief of his horses on his rep
. A history of the County Dublin; the people, parishes and antiquities from the earliest times to the close of the eighteenth century. own, on which, in 1582,he was residing (-). After the dissolution of St. Marys Abbey the lands then knownas Harolds Grange, on which there were a small castle and a water-mill, were granted by Henry VIII. to Barnaby Fitzpatrick, Baronof Upper Ossory, whose son occupied the unenviable position ofcompanion for correction, or whipping-boy, to Edward Upper Ossorys residence was far from Dublin, and it was,we are told, for the relief of his horses on his repair to Dublinfrom the country that the possession of Harolds Grange wasdesired by him. At the close of the sixteentli century, owing to () Christ Church Deeds; Calendar of Irish State Papers; Calendar of LiberNiger, by Professor Stokes, in Jonrnal !./., vol. xxiii., p. 311 ; RathfarnhamCastle, its Site and History, by Jolin P. PrenihMiiast in The Irish Tunes, May 19,1891 ; Plea , 11 Edw. II.,m. 17 ; 13 Kilw. II., in. 20. {-) Christ Church Deeds; Plants Eliz., No. 4027. MAKLAY AND TIIK W III1KCHURCH NEIGHBOURHOOD. 59. 1/3 a. V CO bo ^ t/l n ^*5 ^c E S 5 ^ GO PARISH OF WHITECHURCH. the absence of the owner, the tenants of Harolds Grange sufferedseverely from the visits of soldiers, who rifled their houses beyondmercy. This treatment was due to the non-payment of countycharges, for which Lord Upper Ossory claimed that tlie lands, asoriginally monastic jjroperty, should be free, and in 1599 the thirdBaron sent a petition to Lord Burghleys son, afterwards the firstLord Salisbury, jjraying redress. This jjetition was recommendedto Burghleys son by a gift of fifteen marten skins, all Lord UpperOssory could afford at the time, owing to the calamity of thiswoeful kingdom, and was supported by a letter from the notoriousArchbishop Miler Magrath, whom the messenger, one of theHarolds Grange tenants, met when on his way to London (i). The chief of the Harold clan, then a boy
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