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A37731	An exact description of Ireland chorographically surveying all its provinces & counties ... : with an index of all the provinces, counties, baronies, cities, towns, forts, castles, rivers, lakes, havens, bays, mountains, promontories, &c., in such a manner as may serve for a geographical dictionary for Ireland ... : done according to the latest surveys, and agreeing with all the new maps / by Laurence Eachard ...	Echard, Laurence, 1670?-1730.	1691 (1691)	Wing E142; ESTC R22203	53,151	182

Munster who have to assist them certain Gentlemen and Lawyers who are directed by the Lord Lieutenant As for the several Degrees of States this Country has the very same as in England as Earls Barons Knights Esquires c. Here are also the same Courts as in England as the Parliament which at the King of England's Pleasure is called by the Deputy and by him dissolved the Star Chamber the Chancery the kings-Kings-Bench the Common-Pleas and the Exchequer likewise four Terms in a Year Here are also Juces of Assizes of Nisi Prius and of Oyer and Terminer and Justices Peace in every County Also the King hath his Serjeant at Law his Sollicitor c. As for the Common Laws Ireland is Governed by the same with England The Strength of this Nation consists partly in the Situation being begirt about with difficult and dangerous Seas and partly in the several Fortif●…ations and Castles built by the English since they became Masters of it Their Forces have never been reckoned very numerous till of late and then they have either been so ill Disciplined or of such Cowardly Dispositions especially in their own Country that an Enemy of no very great Power were it not for their strong Places might easily tame ' em The Arms of this Kingdom are Azure an Harp Or stringed Argent which Arms King Iames the First to shew himself absolute King of Ireland caused to be Marshalled with the Royal Arms of Great Britain and have ever since been set upon our Coyns I should speak of the Revenues Coyns Weights Measures and such like of this Kingdom as for the first I can have no perfect account of so that I dare not say any thing of it as for the rest they are mostly the same as in England The Ecclesiastical Government is under four Archbishopricks viz. Armagh Dublin Cashell and Tuam under these were at once a great number of Bishopricks and those but poor ones as they are generally now but since the Reformation have been reckoned o●…ly 19 and of some of those I am a little uncertain Six are under Armagh the Metropolitan viz. Londonderry Connor Dromore Clogher Kilmore and Dundalk three under Dublin viz. Kilkenny Kildare and Fearnes five under Cashell viz. Waterford Limrick Cork Ardfeart and Emly and fi●… under Tuam viz. Gallway ●…lone Killala Clonefert and Killalow This Island was anciently divided into many several Peoples and Provinces as the Robognii Darnii Volontii Vennionii and Erdinii in the North parts now Ulster the Auteri Ganganii and Nagnata in Connaught the Menapii Cauci Blanii and Brigantes in Leinster and the Luceni Velabri Ulterni Vodii and Coriondi in Munster Afterwards it came to be divided into five Parts which were so many Kingdoms viz. Ulster Connaught Meath Leinster and Munster Since then the Kingdom of Meath have been joyned to that of Leinster the rest remaining as before so that is divided at present into four distinct Provinces viz. 1. Ulster 2. Connaught 3. Leinster and 4. Munster The first of these lie on the North the second on the West the third on the East and the fourth on the South These Provinces are divided into 32 Counties and those subdivided into 253 Baronies or Hundreds and those have in them 1586 Parishes These shall be every one treated of in their Order CHAP. IV. Of Ulster shewing its Name Bounds Dimensions Riv●…s Products Remarks c. and describing all its Counties Towns and Castles THE Province of Ulster is called by the Latins Ultoni●… and sometimes Ulidia by the Irish Cui Guilly or Province of Guilly by the Welch Ultw●… and by the English Ulster It is Bounded on the East with St. George's Channel on the West with the main Atlantick or W●…stern Ocean on the North with the Ducalidonian or Northern Ocean on the South with the Province of Leinster and on the South-West with the Province of Connaught So it is encompassed on 3 sides with Sea being almost of a round Form ULSTER PROVINCE The chief Rivers of this Province are 1. B●…nne rising in the County of Down in Armagh it receives the River Tanwagee and then passes through the great Lake Neagh then divides the County of Antrim from that of Londonderry and falls into the Ducalidonian Ocean a little below Colerain 2. Lough-Foyle which washes St. Iohn's Town and Londonderry then falls into the Ducalidonian Ocean making a great Bay or Lake of the same Name 3. Swilly in the County of Dunnaga●… falling into the Ducalidonian Ocean with a kind of a Lake 4. Lagen-Water in Down washing Dromore Lisburn and Belfast falls into the Bay of Carrickfergus 5. Newry-Water parting Down from Armag●… and falls into Ca●…ngford-Bay 6. Main in Antrim c. This Country abounds with large Lakes shaded with many and thick Woods the Soil is fruitfull in Corn and Grass but in some places a little Barren howbeit fresh and Green to see in every place well furnished with Horses Sheep and Oxen and it affords great plenty of Timber and Fruit-Trees The Waters are deep and fit for Vessels very well replenished with Fish and as for Salmons here are more in some Rivers of this Country than in any other River in Europe In this Province is one Archbishoprick viz. Armagh Six Bishopricks besides Raphoe united to Londonderry viz. Londonderry Connor Dromore Clogher Kilmore and Dundalk Ten Market Towns viz. Athordee Armagh Carrickfergus Carlingford Drogheda Dundalk Dunnagal Londonderry Louth and Newry 14 Towns of Commerce and Trade 34 places that return Parliament Men or Boroughs 30 Castles for the Defence of the Country and 214 Parishes in the whole The chief City of all is Londonderry The Boroughs are are as following viz. four in Antrim Antrim Belfast Carrickfergus and Lisburn Three in Londonderry Colerain Lamnevaddy and Londonderry Six in Dunnagal Ballishannon Dunnagal St. Iohn's Town Kilberg Lifford and Raphoe Four in Tyrone Agher Dungannon Omagh and Strabane One in Fermenagh viz. Eniskilling Two in Cavan Belturbet and Cavan One in Monoghan viz. Monoghan Two in Armagh Armagh and Charlemont Six in Down Bangor Down Hilsburrough Killileagh Newry and New-Town And Four in Louth Atherdee Carlingford Drogheda and Dundalk The Religious Places in this Province were once the Abbey of Dunnagal the Monastery of Derry the Monastery near the River Liffer that famous one at the Bay of Carrickfergus also Millifont Abbey and lastly the most Renowned Monastery at Armagh out of which many others were propagated in Britain and Ireland These Places when standing were very much frequented by Pilgrims This Province before the English Conquered it was a Kingdom of it self under its own Kings First Conquered by Iohn Curcy a valiant English-Man in the Reign of King Henry the Second Soon after it was so neglected by the English that it was causioned into many Estates and Principalities by the Natural Irish. In this Estate it continued the Kings of England having but