. A history of the County Dublin; the people, parishes and antiquities from the earliest times to the close of the eighteenth century. ritance of the OMothans. At the beginning of the thirteenthcentury the lands were included amongst the property of theCrown in the Vale of Dublin, the rent beine assigned to the Arch-bishop of Dublin, to recoup his losses through the erection of Dublin () Exelic(|uor Tn([uisition. Philiji and ^fary. Xo. ]^ ; Calendar of Patent Rolls,James I., p. 52(); iSurvey of and Newcastle ; Census of 1( ; HearthMoney Roll. (^) The Lesser Castles of the Count
. A history of the County Dublin; the people, parishes and antiquities from the earliest times to the close of the eighteenth century. ritance of the OMothans. At the beginning of the thirteenthcentury the lands were included amongst the property of theCrown in the Vale of Dublin, the rent beine assigned to the Arch-bishop of Dublin, to recoup his losses through the erection of Dublin () Exelic(|uor Tn([uisition. Philiji and ^fary. Xo. ]^ ; Calendar of Patent Rolls,James I., p. 52(); iSurvey of and Newcastle ; Census of 1( ; HearthMoney Roll. (^) The Lesser Castles of the County DubHn, by E. R. .M-C. Dix in TheIrish Builder for 1897, p. 53. 22 PARISH OF TALLAGHT. Castle; but soon afterwards the lands were granted for the endow-ment of a stall ill the newly founded cathedral of St. the close of that century the lands, which were valued at £10,were returned as worth nothing on account of war, and probablythe castle was erected not long afterwards. A tradition that achurch existed near it does not appear to be well founded. Onthe suppression of St. Patricks Cathedral, towards the close of the. Tymon Castle in 1791. From a. plate In Groses ^liitiqiti/ies of Ireland reign of Henry VIII., when the castle is mentioned as being ina ruinous state, the lands passed into lay hands, being leased by theCrown in 1550 to Bartholomew Cusack, and in 1553 to JamesSegrave, the tenant of Kathgar Q-). In the seventeenth century the lands were in the i^ossession ofthe descendants of Archbishop Lof tus; the castle, which was thenrated as containing two hearths, being occupied by a family calledRelly. In 1638 Barnaby Relly, a devout Roman Catholic, diedthere, directing in his will that he should be buried at Tallaght,and leaving a silver cup to one of the younger sons of his landlord,Sir Dudley Loftus; and at the time of the Commonwealth NicholasRelly was living there with a household of fourteen persons, (A) Masons History of St. Patricks Cathedral, p. 5G ; 5th
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