Some account of the territory or dominion of Farney : in the province and earldom of Vlster. . d and duetifull behavior I was content to establishe inhis fathers place, the rather for that the Countrey had before elected himaccording to their custome and These customs are alluded to by the poet Spencer in his interesting View of the State of Ireland, he says, 9 Dated December 16, 1578. ,0 S. P. O. L 74 SOME ACCOUNT OF THE TERRITORY They use to place him that shalbe their Captaine, upon a stone11alwayes reserved for that purpose, and placed commonly upon a hill: Insome of which I have
Some account of the territory or dominion of Farney : in the province and earldom of Vlster. . d and duetifull behavior I was content to establishe inhis fathers place, the rather for that the Countrey had before elected himaccording to their custome and These customs are alluded to by the poet Spencer in his interesting View of the State of Ireland, he says, 9 Dated December 16, 1578. ,0 S. P. O. L 74 SOME ACCOUNT OF THE TERRITORY They use to place him that shalbe their Captaine, upon a stone11alwayes reserved for that purpose, and placed commonly upon a hill: Insome of which I have seen formed and ingraven a foot, which they say wasthe measure of their first Captaines foot, whereon hee standing, receives anoath to preserve all the auncient former customes of the countrey inviolable,and to deliver up the succession peaceably to his Tanist, and then hath awand delivered unto him by some whose proper office that is ; after which,descending from the stone, he turneth himselfe round, thrice forward, andthrice backward. The inauguration stone of the Mac Mahons still exists. The Mac Mahon Stone. on the hill of Lech, formerly called Mullagh Leaght, or The Hill of theStone, three miles S. W. of Monaghan, and is marked in an antient of Ulster, in the State Paper Office, Mullogh-lost, so called of a stonether^e, of vfh Mc Mahon is made. The impression of the foot was effacedby the owner of the farm about the year 1809- The tradition of the placeaffords another proof of its identity, and a belief prevails at this moment, 11 Sir Henry Bag-nail to Lord Burghley, from Newry, Sept. 9,1595, Sythence the writing eof my Lre, old Oneyle is dead, and the Traitor (Tirone) gone to the Stone to receave that P. O. OR DOMINION OF FARNEY. J^ that the golden chair of the kings of Ireland lies underneath the flag, whichhas actually led to some attempts to raise the A few months subsequent to the election of the new Mac Mahon, HughONeil, affecting at the time t
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