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Title: A history of the County Dublin; the people, parishes and antiquities from the earliest times to the close of the eighteenth century Year: 1902 (1900s) Authors: Ball, F. Erlington (Francis Elrington), d. 1928 Subjects: Dublin (Ireland : County) -- History Publisher: Dublin : Alex. Thom Contributing Library: University of California Libraries Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Text Appearing Before Image: where his fatherliail I)()Uglit another estate inv him, were laid waste. The deposi-tiiiiis of the Bulkeleys servants and tenants, in most cases liketheniselvus, of Welsh l)irth, giv^e a deplorable picture of the damage.Old Bawn House, with its oflices, garden, and orchard were statedt.) have been completely ravaged, and at Dunlavan, we are told,the desti-uction of a house only just completed and of a gardenand orchard newly surrounded with quick-set hedges was lamentableto behold. At Tallaght cows and hoises belonging to the orphanchildifu i)f a ])rother of Archdeacon Bulkeley, and cattle and sheepbelonging to the Archdeacon himself, were either stolen ur Mjhl ata sacrifice, and at Dunlavan great iron-ljound caits. luiililingmaterials, and a bell intended fur the chuic-h were carried rjll. 3tis rather startling to lind in these depositions a claim put forwardfor the entire cost of Old Bawn, altliough the damage does notappear to have been irreparable. A still more remarkable claiiii

Text Appearing After Image: Old Bawn. From a j,/iolii!/r<i/ih in the Colectioii of th Uni/nl Societ// of AHliquavks of Ireland. for compensation was suggested by the Archdeacon, who statedthat his mother-in-law, having continued a widow for many years,had been forced to marry again against her will during the rebellion,and that ■ he firmly believed in his conscience that his wife hadlost thereby a legacy which her mother had intended to leave hcr.(i) (1) Depositions of KUl (.Archdeacon Bulkeley, Robert Willianis. William apRoberts, William Pan-y,?»1 vies Williams. Thomas Howell, \Villiam .Myles, andRichard Burnett, of Tallaght and Dunlavan). 34 PARISH OF TALLAGHT. When the survey of the parish was made after the establishmentof the Commonwealth, Old Bawn, which appears before this tohave completely recovered from the effects of the rebellion, wasthe only house within the parochial limits occupied by a familyof position. The account of the household numbering no lessthan thirty persons is not a little curio

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