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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injury. Bingham disdained to answer, and the furiousBurke with a sweep of his sword struck off the silent and scornfulhead.i In 1602 Queen Elizabeth leased to Captain Ralph Bingley for aterm of years the site, &c., of the late monastery of Begging Friarsof the B.V.M. of Rathmullan in MSwinie Fanets country, containingin itself one rmnous church, a steeple, a cloister, a hall, threechambers, an orchard (elsewhere an apple-loft), a quarter of stonyand unfertile land called Killinecrosse, and haK a quarter of the Hkeland 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 thebmlduigs into a residence for himself, retaining the tower and choirof 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 Clerighs Life of Hugh Roe ODonnell, p. 91, sqq. Plate XX) (To face page 222
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RATHMULLANExterior of Choir, South Side w^ 1^^^^^^ ^wttBB/i Ik . BRACKFIELD BAWN PROCEEDINGS 223 the ruins, bears the date 1618 There are some fragments of a tomb-stone with the arms of MacSwiney, and perhaps on this accomit theruins are absurdly named locally and on the Ordnance Maps, bothof the earlier and the later editions, MacSwynes Castle. MacSwiney of Fanad had a castle here on the beach, which in1587 was the scene of the kidnapping of Aodh Ruadh 0 Domhnaill,Red Hugh ODonnell, planned by Sir John Perrot. The castle,says 0 Clerigh, was on the edge of the strand, and a church hadbeen founded there close by in honour of Mary Mother of the Lord,to celebrate the canonical service and the Mass, and it was muchfrequented by the laity and clergy of the neighbouring district. Itw^as built by the Clann Suibhne, who occupied the territory along theloch as far as the open sea, and other territories besides. ^ Certainvaults to the west of the friary have been pointed out as remainsof the ca

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