Picturesque Ireland : a literary and artistic delineation of the natural scenery, remarkable places, historical antiquities, public buildings, ancient abbeys, towers, castles, and other romantic and attractive features of Ireland . Coi>j-Tlght,1879, by Thomas Kelly, New York. Cromlech at Knockecn. The district now embraced by the maritime county of Waterford was desig-nated by Ptolemy as the home of the Menapii, a tribe which also occupied Wex-ford. Prior to the seventh century small tracts of the most southern coast aredesignated by other names ; but these appear to have merged
Picturesque Ireland : a literary and artistic delineation of the natural scenery, remarkable places, historical antiquities, public buildings, ancient abbeys, towers, castles, and other romantic and attractive features of Ireland . Coi>j-Tlght,1879, by Thomas Kelly, New York. Cromlech at Knockecn. The district now embraced by the maritime county of Waterford was desig-nated by Ptolemy as the home of the Menapii, a tribe which also occupied Wex-ford. Prior to the seventh century small tracts of the most southern coast aredesignated by other names ; but these appear to have merged, at an early period,into that of Decies, from the preponderating influence of the Desii or Decii, atribe that finally occupied the central and larger portion of the county at thetime of the Anglo-Norman invasion. In the twelfth century the chiefs of thetribe took the name of OFeolain, and Melaghlin OFeolain, prince of the Decii,was made prisoner at the siege of Waterford by Strongbow, and was only savedfrom death by the mediation of MacMurrough. He was the last chief whoenjoyed the full powers of his predecessors ; but although Raymond le Grosoverran and depopulated their territory, and the Poers, who had been given thecustody of the greater portion of it, in ii 77, had waged sangu
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