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	Thomond - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Thomond Bridge with King John's Castle on the southern bank of the River Shannon in Limerick.
		Thomond College of Education, Limerick was a teacher training college in Limerick City, until it was amalgated with the University of Limerick.
		Historically Thomond is referred to as one of the 'Kingdoms' which existed in the island of Ireland before the Norman invasion.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Thomond (332 words)

	The O'Brien Clan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		O'Duibhgin, O'Dugan, (or O'Deegan), chief of Muintir Conlochta, a district in the parish of Tomgraney, in the barony of Tullagh, county Clare.
		O'Clerkin and O'Flannery, chiefs of Dal Cairbre Eva, in the barony of Kenry, county Limerick.
		O'Hallinan and MacSheehy, chiefs of Ballyhallinan, in the barony of Pubblebrien, county Limerick.
	www.obrienclan.com /pedigree/territories-1.htm (1329 words)

	County Clare - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		County Clare (Contae an Chláir in Irish) is in the Irish province of Munster.
		County Clare succeeded the district of Thomond (which was part of Connacht), and when first created it was sometimes called County Thomond.
		County Clare contains The Burren, a unique karst landscape area of limestone hills and fields, Bunratty Castle, and is considered to be a major centre of traditional Irish music today.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/County_Clare (321 words)

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		O'Duibhgin, O'Dugan, (or O'Deegan), chief of Muintir Con-lochta, a district in the parish of Tomgraney, in the barony of Tullagh, county Clare.
		O'Neill, chief of Clan Dalvy and of Tradree, a district in the barony of Inchiquinn, county Clare.
		O'Casey, chiefs of Rathconan, in the barony of Pubblebrien, county Limerick.
	www.angelfire.com /my/tray/Page-2.htm (3490 words)

	Lewis: Co. Clare
		Few counties present a greater deficiency of wood, yet few afford more favourable situations for the growth of timber where sheltered from the cold winds of the Atlantic: the practice of planting, however, is gaining ground, but the general surface of the county is still comparatively bare.
		The title of Earl of Thomond, derived from this county, was raised to a Marquesate in 1800, in favour of the family of O'Biren, which also derives from the extensive territory of Inchiquin the titles of Earl and Baron, and from the district of BUrren also that of Baron.
		The County Infirmary, situated on the north side of the town, is a substantial building, containing four wards for male and two for female patients, with a dispensary, and accommodations for a resident surgeon and apothecary.
	www.trainweb.org /i3/lewis_cla.htm (10069 words)

	Limerick City, Lewis, 1837 description ©Jane Lyons
		In 1821, symptoms of insubordination in the liberties led to a proclamation declaring the county of the city to be in a state of disturbance, and to require an extraordinary establishment of police, which was accordingly sent and is still maintained.
		The county of the city has an exclusive criminal jurisdiction exercised by its magistrates at the court of quarter sessions and at petty sessions; assizes are held for it twice a year by the mayor and the judges travelling the Munster circuit.
		The new county gaol, which occupies a remarkably favourable situation on the south-east side of the city, was completed in 1821, at an expense of £23, 000, and £2000 more was afterwards expended on additions: it has a noble castellated appearance, and its internal construction and arrangement are exceedingly well contrived.
	www.from-ireland.net /lewis/lim/citylimerick.htm (8632 words)

	County Clare - A description in 1837 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		III., a grant of the kingdom of Thomond, as it was called, to be held of the king during his minority, at a yearly rent of £100, and a fine of 1000 marks.
		A large portion of the tillage is executed with the spade, especially on the sides of the mountains and on rocky ground, partly owing to the unevenness of the surface and partly to the poverty of the cultivators.
		The title of Earl of Thomond, derived from this county, was raised to a Marquesate in 1800, in favour of the family of O’Brien, which also derives from the extensive territory of Inchiquin the titles of Earl and Baron, and from the district of Burren also that of Baron.
	www.clarelibrary.ie /eolas/coclare/history/lewclare.htm (5009 words)

	Ireland's History in Maps - Tuadmumu, Kingdom of Thomond
		MacBruodin, in the barony of Inchiquin: all in the county Clare.
		O'Breslen was chief of Fanad in county Donegal.
		This territory was situated partly in the barony of Owney and Arra, in Tipperary, and partly in the barony of Coonagh, county Limerick.
	www.rootsweb.com /~irlkik/ihm/thomond.htm (11539 words)

	Of the tribes mentioned by Ptolemy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The county is in the Munster circuit: the assizes are held in the county town, where the court-house, county gaol, and house of correction are situated.
		The lunatic district asylum for this county and those of Clare and Kerry is in the city of Limerick: there are four fever hospitals, besides that of Limerick, and 24 dispensaries, supported by county presentments and private subscriptions in equal portions.
		The Ballingarry hills, lying near the centre of the county, and rising abruptly from a fertile plain, are very conspicuous ; the principal elevation is Knockferine, a conical mountain, said to be one of the highest in the county.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /enda.l/counties/limerickco.htm (12605 words)

	Atlantic Sunset Bed and Breakfast, B&B Holiday Accommodation / Lodgings in Doolin, Co. Clare, West Coast Ireland.
		County Clare was formerly part of the kingdom of Thomond (north Munster) which comprised, in addition to Clare, portions of Limerick, Offaly and Tipperary.
		Clare formed, however, the central or core territory of the old kingdom and by the time the earldom of Thomond was created in the 16th century, its extent was limited, more or less, to the present county.
		The county, as part of Connaught, became a refuge for the disposessed Irish from the rest of the island.
	homepage.eircom.net /~atlanticsunsetdoolin/history.html (862 words)

	Ireland Now County Clare, Munster
		Clare is a maritime county in the province of Munster, bounded on the west by the Atlantic, on the north-west by Galway Bay and on the east and south by the river Shannon.
		The abundance of antiquities and archaeological remains which are scattered throughout the county are a legacy to the lives of its historic and pre-historic inhabitants.
		County Clare has at least 2,300 earthen and stone forts, 130 megalithic tombs, 190 castles, 150 ancient churches, 3 cathedrals, 8 monasteries, 10 stone crosses, 5 round towers, besides numerous lesser monuments.
	www.ireland-now.com /clare.html (605 words)

	The History and Topography of the County of Clare by James Frost: Chapter 1 - Division of Thomond before the English ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		For many ages before the territory of Thomond was formed into a county by the English, it was divided into distinct districts by the native inhabitants.
		Although in ancient times much larger, in the sixteenth century Thomond was only co-extensive with the present county of Clare, except that it had, in addition, the parishes of Iniscaltra and Clonrush, now joined to the county of Galway, and the parish of Castleconnell, now forming part of the county of Limerick.
		Long before the settlement of these tribes in Thomond, however, other races existed, but the history of these is involved in so much obscurity that we must content ourselves with simply referring to them in the general account of the county.
	www.clarelibrary.ie /eolas/coclare/history/frost/chap1_division.htm (304 words)

	Cullen Surname History: Part III
		The sept was displaced late in the 12'th century by the O'Mulryans, one of the chief septs of the Feara Cualann of south County Dublin.
		The O'Cuillens or O'Cullens of County Tipperary, as chiefs of Eoghanacht Aradh in the barony of Owney & Arra, are identified as one of the Four Tribes of Owney (known anciently as Uaithne).
		In modern County Clare, in the barony of Clonderlaw, was the clan of Chuileainn or Chuilean, sometimes anglicized as Clan Cullin or Clancullen.
	www.lrbcg.com /jtCullen/CullHis3.htm (5581 words)

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		Antrim was formed into a county in the reign of King Edward the Second: and took its name from the chief town, in Irish Aendruim, which is said to signify the "Handsome Hill:" from "Aen" or "Aon," excellent, and "druim," a hill.
		The territory which now forms the county Derry was part of Tir-Eoghain or Tirowen; and O'Cahan being the head chief it was called "O'Cahan's Country." Derry is Latinized "Derria." The following noble families derive their titles from this county: The family of Pitt, formerly marquises of Londonderry, a title now possessed by the Stewarts.
		The castle of Dearmagh or "Durrow," In the King's County, was erected by De Lacy on the site of a famous monastery of St. Columkille, which he had thrown down; and his death was attributed by the uneducated Irish to that circumstance as a judgment from Heaven.
	www.angelfire.com /my/tray/Page-7.htm (2628 words)

	GENUKI: Ennis
		ENNIS, a borough, and market-town, in the parish of Domcliffe, barony of Islands, county of Clare, (of which it is the chief town), and province of Munster, 18 miles (N.W.) from Limerick, on the mail road to Galway, and 111 3/4 (S.W.) from Dublin; containing 7711, and within the new electoral boundary, 9747 inhabitants.
		It was for a long period the place of scpulture of the princes of Thomond, and occasionally of the chiefs of the sept of MacNamara; and its prosperity appears to have been in these times dependent on this circumstance.
		In 1311, Donogh, King of Thomond, bestowed the whole revenue of his principality for the enlargement and support of this monastery, and some time after the refectory and sacristy were built by Mathew MacNamara.
	home.pacbell.net /nymets11/genuki/CLA/Ennis (2251 words)

	Clare, The Banner County - World Cultures European
		John Lloyd said of County Clare in 1780, "From its agreeable situation, the climate is remarkably wholesome, the air clear and temperate, and the prospect pure and delightful." Little has happened during the past two centuries to change this description.
		It is a maritime county in the province of Munster, bounded on the west by the Atlantic, on the north-west by Galway Bay and on the east and south by the river Shannon.
		To the north of the county, the rugged Atlantic coast rises nearly 700 feet above the sea in the shape of the Cliffs of Moher.
	www.irishcultureandcustoms.com /ACounty/Clare.html (3012 words)

	Irish Ancestors /Co. Limerick
		The city of Limerick was founded by the Vikings in the ninth century, because of its strategic position in controlling access to the Shannon waterways, and became the capital of the Norse kingdom of Limerick.
		The county at this time was divided between Thomond and the other Munster kingdom of Desmond.
		The Treaty of Limerick (1691) ended Irish resistance to William of Orange, and began the wholesale emigration of the Gaelic aristocracy and minor gentry to serve in the armies of the Catholic monarchs of Europe.
	scripts.ireland.com /ancestor/browse/counties/munster/index_li.htm (201 words)

	Introduction
		Murphy, Ignatius: Cholera epidemic in County Clare 1832-1833, 24-27.
		Ó Murchadha, Ciarán: The onset of famine: County Clare, 1845-1846, 46-52.
		Kearns, Mary: A circle carved on the limestone of the Burren, 42.
	www.xs4all.nl /~tbreen/Journals/Clare.html (4264 words)

	The Territories of the Ancient Irish Families in Limerick and Clare, the Ancient Thomond (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		THE following were the Irish chiefs and clans of ancient Thomond, or the counties of Limerick and Clare: 1.
		THE following were the chief families of early settlers, in the counties of Limerick and Clare: De Burgo, Fitzgerald, Fitzgibbon--a branch of the Fitzgeralds, De Clare, De Lacey, Brown Barrett, Roche, Russell, Sarsfield, Stritch, Purcell, Hussey, Harold, Tracey, Trant, Comyn, White, Walsh, Wolfe, Dongan, Rice, Aylmer, Nash, Monsell, Massy, etc.
		Limerick was formed into a county as early as the reign of King John, A.D. 1210; and Clare, in the reign of Elizabeth, A.D. 1565, by the Lord Deputy Sir Henry Sidney.
	www.libraryireland.com /Pedigrees1/Thomond.php (1565 words)

	IPA Region 4
		Clare is a county on the mid-western coast of Ireland and immediately north of County Limerick and the Shannon Estuary.
		While County Tipperary is the largest inland County in Ireland, it is divided for administrative purposes into two North and South Ridings, an old English land demarcation that has survived into the modern Republic System.
		The County was historically ruled from Cashel, the seat of the Kings of Munster.
	www.ipaireland.com /region_4.html (1400 words)

	The Territories of the Ancient Irish Families in Cork and Kerry, the Ancient Desmond
		After that period the O'Briens alone were kings of Munster and kings of Thomond; and the MacCarthys, who were the head of the Eugenian race, were kings and princes of Desmond.
		Another branch of the family, called O'Sullivan Mor, were lords of Dunkerron, and possessed the barony of Dunkerron, in the county Kerry; and their chief seat was the castle of Dunkerron, near the river Kenmare.
		The MacSheehys and O'Hallinans were chiefs of Ballyhallinan, in the parish of Poblebrien, county Limerick; and the O'Hallorans were chiefs of Faith-Ui Hallurain, a district between Tulla and Clare, in the county Clare.
	www.libraryireland.com /Pedigrees1/Desmond.php (2641 words)

	ROAN Genealogy: Historical Resources
		Birth registration statistics of a much later date show nearly 80 percent of Ruanes to be in County Mayo and the remainder in County Galway, whereas the Rowans were scattered throughout the four provinces.
		This small sept was never very prominent, but they are recorded as accompanying the O’ Gradys in the unsuccessful attack on Ballyalla Castle in 1642, when all but one of their number were killed: they were the heredtary stewards to the O’ Gradys.
		In the 16th and 17th centuries, it was not uncommon in County Clare, where members of the family appear to have been stewards to the O’ Gradys.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Delphi/4658/Roan.04.html (1050 words)

	TOOMEYS AND RELATIONS · Listowel Ireland and beyond
		The story of the Adams County group is that they emigrated from Ireland probably through the port near Tralee and landed in Boston around 1851 with several related families including the Shahan, Bresnahan, Tangney, Prindable, Costellos, and Sullivans.
		Patrick was born in County Cork Ireland in 1802 the son of Daniel O?Connell.
		Although he was born in County Cork, I believe him to be a brother to Timothy O?Connell (b.1826) born in County Kerry.
	www.freewebs.com /toomey/oconnellhistory.htm (15417 words)

	Local Authority Chat Room - Archiseek Architecture Planning Discussion
		Kildare County Council appear to have opened an online discussion forum in the planning section of their website in late November 2002.
		What better way for the County Council to learn about all these niggly little issues which may not seem big but can affect the quality of life in the area.
		County council meetings, and quite a number of committee meetings are open to the public, and that's another way you can get information about what happens at them.
	www.archiseek.com /content/showthread.php?p=37963 (1075 words)

	GENUKI: County Kerry
		Before the reformation, nearly the whole of the county was part of the Diocese of Ardfert and Aghadoe, with the cathedral at Ardfert.
		The modern County of Kerry was created in 1606, from the merger of the former County Palatine of Kerry with part of the County of Desmond, which was then extinguished.
		The baronies were superceded as administrative units in the first half of the nineteenth century, but are still used in some official documents and in popular use, to this day.
	homepage.eircom.net /~dinglemaps/genuki/KER (820 words)

	Laois Blanket Rezonings - Archiseek Architecture Planning Discussion
		And all of proposed amendments to the draft county plan were hatched at closed-door committee meetings in recent weeks.
		Meanwhile, Offaly County Council is preparing local development plans for the villages of Rhode, Clara, Daingean and Edenderry all of which are expected to come under development pressure for commuter housing.
		Offaly County Council is to become the latest midland local authority to propose allowing development in villages, just two weeks after Laois councillors voted to rezone 1,000 acres in 29 villages.
	www.archiseek.com /content/showthread.php?p=30748 (2776 words)

	NORTH MUNSTER JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGY
		Gwynn, Aubrey: Richard II and the chieftains of Thomond, 1-8.
		Ó Danachair, Caoimhín: Emigration from County Clare, 69-76.
		O’Ferrall, Fergus: The population of a rural pre-Famine parish: Templebredin, counties Limerick and Tipperary, in 1834, 91-101.
	www.xs4all.nl /~tbreen/Journals/NMAJ.html (6444 words)

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