Identifier: journalofroyalso45roya (find matches)
Title: Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland
Year: 1915 (1910s)
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
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Publisher: Dublin, Ireland : The Society
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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ury. Bingham disdained to answer, and the furious Burke with a sweep of his sword struck off the silent and scornfulhead.1 In 1602 Queen Elizabeth leased to Captain Ralph Bingley for a term of years the site, &c, of the late monastery of Begging Friars Of the B.V.M. of Rathmullan in MSwinie Fanets country, containing in itself one ruinous church, a steeple, a cloister, a hall, three chambers, an orchard (elsewhere an apple-loft), a quarter of stony and unfertile land called Killinecrosse, and half a quarter of the likeland called Farrennebragher (Fearann na mbrathair, Friarsland). King James granted the fee to James Fullerton in 1603, andabout 1617 Bishop Knox entered into possession and converted thebuildings into a residence for himself, retaining the tower and choir of the church for a domestic chapel. The date 1617 is carved on astone over the principal door, and another stone, lying loose within 1 Murphy, 0 Cleriglis Life of Hugh Roe ODonnell, p. 91, sqq. Plate XX) (To face page 222
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Rathmullan, Exterior of Choir, South Side. BRACKFIELD BAWN. PROCEEDINGS 223 the ruins, bears the date 1618 There are some fragments of a tombstone with the arms of MacSwiney, and perhaps on this account the ruins are absurdly named locally and on the Ordnance Maps, both of the earlier and the later editions, MacSwynes Castle. MacSwiney of Fanad had a castle here on the beach, which in 1587 was the scene of the kidnapping of Aodh Ruadh O Domhnaill,Red Hugh ODonnell, planned by Sir John Perrot. The castle,says 0 Clerigh, was on the edge of the strand, and a church had been founded there close by in honour of Mary Mother of the Lord,to celebrate the canonical service and the Mass, and it was much frequented by the laity and clergy of the neighbouring district. It Was built by the Clann Suibhne, who occupied the territory along the loch as far as the open sea, and other territories besides. 1 Certainvaults to the west of the friary have been pointed out as remains of the castle, but 0 Clerighs words leave no doubt that it stood on the beac

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