Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland (1915) (14779349091)

Identifier: journalofroyalso1915roya (find matches)
Title: Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland
Year: 1849 (1840s)
Authors: Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland. Transactions Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland. Proceedings and transactions Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland. Proceedings and papers
Subjects: Ireland -- Genealogy Ireland -- History Societies, etc Ireland -- Antiquities Societies, etc
Publisher: Dublin, Ireland : The Society
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN



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were originally built into the Monument on the bridgedemolished in 1844, as an erection such as described by Mr Joljin his pamphlet on the old Bridge, would be more in keeping with,the 18th, than with the 16th, century. (The Illustrations to this Paper are from blocks kindly put at theSocietys disposal by the Author). Plate X) (To face page 122
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THE ROBERT DAMPORT STONE ( 123 ) THE EARLDOM OF ULSTER (Continued from vol. xliv, page 66) I^ART IV. Inquisitions touching Coleraine andMilitary Tenures By GoDDARD H. Orpen, M.R.I.A., Member. The County of Coulrath (Cuil-rathain, the ferny corner, nowColeraine) included primarily the thirteenth century deanery ofTwescard (tuaiscert, the northern district ), which comprised theNorth-east Liberties of Coleraine in County Londonderry, and thebaronies of Upper and Lower Dunluce, Cary, and Kilconway, inCounty Antrim. To these for administrative purposes had beenrecently added, as we learn from this inquisition, the seignorialmanors of Northburgh in Inishowen and of Roo at Limavady. Thecounty court was held at Coleraine, and there were manorial courtsat Roo and Armoy. Up to the year 1315, when the hands of Edward Bruce and hisIrish supporters fell heavy upon the land, this district of the Twescardwas apparently the most thickly settled and the most prosperousdivision of the lordship of Ulst