Ulster Journal of Archaeology, 1908, Vol. 14 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Ulster Journal of Archaeology, 1908, Vol. 14

A grant of acres was made in 1610 by king James to Domach Mac Suibhne, To hold as of the castle of Dublin in common socage, and subject to the conditions of the plantation of Ulster-legal jargon quite unknown to the Ma... Læs mere c Suibhne, who had possessed their lands for ages under the old eq'uitable Brehon laws, before Chichester came along with his plantation schemes, and the subsequent centuries of Ulster land confusion and trouble. These acres were then known as Leanagh and Corragh, and were but a small part of their ancient lands of Banagh, which comprised about acres, and Boylagh about acres. It was in Banagh, in the parish of Cill-leacht-oidhche (the church of the stone of the night), that the peninsula now known as St. John's point was situated.

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