Identifier: historytopograph00fros (find matches)
Title: The history and topography of the county of Clare, from the earliest times to the beginning of the 18th century
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Frost, James
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Publisher: Dublin, Printed for the author by Sealy, Bryers & Walker
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center

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Sheriffof this county, a notable projector, and whose projects forthe most part, are attended with profit, hath agreed withthe town and county, for the building of a large stonebridge, to carry houses thereon, on each side over the riverBarrow. A journey from Bunratty Castle, in the county ofClare, unto the famous port of Youghal. From BunrattyCastle, the seat of the Earl of Thomond, into the townof Sixmilcbridge, belonging also to that noble family, is 1This Thomas Spaight is the an- leases made to him of Cappa Lodge, cestor of the highly respectable and various other lands in the county, families of that name in Clare, He is also represented in Clare, in Limerick, and Tipperary. I lis son the female line, by Robert Carey Thomas, was appointed by the Earl Reeves, D.L., of Bessborough, Killi- of Thomond, Seneschal of his Lord- mer, and by Krancis Morice, Esq., ships Courts Leet and Courts Baron of bpringtield, Sixmilcbridge.in the county of Clare. He had 538- IIISTORY OF COUNTY CLARE.
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dineleys journal, 16S0. 539 three miles ; from whence to the city of Limerick, towhich there are two ways, namely by the Oil Mills,1 andthe seat of the MacNamara (Cratloe Castle), beyond it,or over the high mountain, famous for. an admirable pros-pect, hanging as it were over Sixmilebridge town, andcommonly called by the name of Gallowshill ; this is theupper, the other the lower way to Limerick ; and fromtown to the city six miles either way,. whence the townhath its name.

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