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A55719 The Present state of Ireland together with some remarques upon the antient state thereof : likewise a description of the chief towns : with a map of the kingdome. 1673 (1673) Wing P3267; ESTC R26213 101,146 318

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West Mounster Mean-Woun that is Middle Mounster and Vrwoun that is the Front of Mounster But at this day it is distinguished into these Counties Limrick Kery Corke Waterford and Tipperary And in these Shires are comprehended besides many safe Stations and Roads for Shipping twenty four Towns of Note and Trading sixty six Castles of Old Erection and including in the whole eight hundred and two Parishes This Province being counted the largest of all Ireland Ulster called by our Welch Britains Vlt●● in Irish Cui Guilly in Latin Vltonia and Vlidia in English Vlster On the North it is divided by a narrow Sea of three or four hours Sail from Scotland Southward it extends it self to Connaught and Leinster The East part lieth upon the Irish Sea And the West part is continually beaten with the boisterous rage of the main West Ocean This Province and farthest part of Ireland fronteth the Scottish Islands which are called the Hebrides and are scattered in the Seas between both Kingdoms whose Inhabitants at this day are the Irish-Scot and their Language is the same as the Irish The Form Form thereof is round reaching in length from Coldagh Haven in her North to Kilmore in her South neer an hundred miles and in breadth from Black-Abby in her East to Calebeg point in her West one hundred thirty and odd miles The whole in Circumference about four hundred and twenty Miles Aire This Country seldom feeleth any unseasonable extremities the quick and flexible Winds cooling the heat of Summer and soft and gentle Showers mollifying the hardness of the Winter Briefly the frozen nor torrid Zone have not here any usurpation the clouds in the Aire being very sweet and pleasant yea and when they are most impure are not unwholsom nor of long continuance the rough winds holding them in continual agitation Commodities This equal temperature causeth the ground to bring forth great store of several Trees both fit for Building bearing of Fruit plentiful of grass for feeding of Cattle and is abundantly furnished with Horses Sheep and Oxen The Rivers likewise pay double Tribute deep enough to carry Vessels either for pleasure or profit and Fish great store both for their own uses and commodity of others Salmons in some Rivers of this Country abound more in number than in any River of Europe To speak in general though in some places it be somwhat barren troubled with Loughs Lakes and thick Woods yet it is every where fresh and full of Cattle and Forrage ready at all times to answer the Husbandmans pains And now Nature being much beholden to the Art and Industry of the British Planters in this Province who cause all things to flourish there has wholly taken away the former complaints how that the various show upon Banks the shady Groves the green Meadows hanging Hills and the spacious Fields fit for Corn being left unmanured did seem to be angry with their Inhabitants for suffering all to grow wild and barbarous through their own negligence It is divided into the Counties of 1. Louth 2. Cavon 3. Fermanagh Division 4. Down 5. Monaghan 6. Armagh 7. Colrane 8. Tirconnel 9. Tir-Oen and 10. Antrim In which are comprehended two hundred and fourteen Parishes whereof fourteen are Towns of Note for Commerce and Traffick and thirty Castles for the defence of the Country and keeping under the wild Irish wilder and more untractable formerly in these Northern parts than the rest of Ireland But now by reason of the last general Rebellion the Irish being upon the matter wholy rooted out from hence there is as hopeful a British Plantation going on in this Province as in any other in all Ireland Connaught This Province named by Giraldus Cambrensis Conaghtia and Conacia by the Irish Conaughty and the English men Connaught is bounded Eastward with part of the Province of Leinster Northward with part of Vlster Westward with the West main Ocean and on the South it is confined with a part of the Province of Mounster closed in with the River Shanon and butting against the Kingdom of Spain The Form Form thereof is long and towards the North and South ends thin and narrow but as it grows towards the middle from either part it waxeth still bigger and bigger extending in length from the Shannon in her South to Eins Kelling in her North one hundred twenty six Miles and the broadest part is from Tromer in her East to Barragh-Bay in her West containing about fourscore Miles The whole in Circuit and compass is above four hundred Miles The Aire Aire is not altogether so pure and clear as in the other Provinces of Ireland by reason of certain moist places covered over with grass which of their softness are usually termed Boghs both dangerous and full of vaporous and foggy mists This Country as it is divided into several portions Commodities so is every portion severally commended for the Soil according to the seasonable times of the year Thomond or the County of Clare is said to be a County so conveniently situated that either from the Sea or Soil there can be nothing wish'd for more than what it doth naturally afford of it self were but the industry of the Inhabitants answerable to the rest Galaway is a Land very thankful to the painful Husbandman and no less Commodious and profitable to the Shepheard Maio is replenished both with pleasure and fertility abundantly rich in Cattle Deer Hawks and plenty of Honey Slego coasting upon the Sea is a plentiful Country for feeding and raising of Cattle Letrim place rising up throughout with Hills is so full of rank grass and Forrage that as Solinus reporteth if Cattle were not kept sometims from grasing their fulness would endanger them And Roscomon is a Territory for the most part plain and fruitful feeding many Heards of Cattle and with mean Husbandry and Tillage yeilding plenty of Corn. As every particular is thus severally profitable by inbred Commodities so is it no less commended in the generality for the many accommodate and fit Bays Creeks and Navigable Rivers lying upon her Sea coasts that after a sort invite and provoke the Inhabitants to Navigation Division It is divided at present into these five Shires that is to say 1. Letrim 2. Roscommon 3. Maio 4. Slego 5. Galloway and 6. Thomond or the County of Clare In which are comprehended but eight Towns of any consequence for commerce and traffick an Argument of the imperfect plantation of it by the English Conquerors and about twenty four Castles for the defence of the Country of Old Erection besides such Fortresses as have been raised occasionally in our latter troubles But in the whole it contains three hundred and fix Parishes These four Provinces makes up a Kingdome which for the bigness is of a most beautiful and sweet Country as any under Heaven A Character of all Ireland being stored throughout with many goodly Rivers replenished