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Excerpt from The History of Ireland, Ancient and Modern: Derived From Our Native Annals, From the Most Recent Researches of Eminent Irish Scholars and Antiquaries, From the State Papers, and From All the Resources of Irish History Now Available; With Copious Topographical and General Notes
To identify the ancient topography of the country with the events of its history is important and interesting; and the invaluable information accumulated by. Dr, o'donovan in his annotations to the Annals of the Four Masters, and collected'by him for the Ordnance Survey, has been freely employed for that purpose in these pages. The map of ancient Ireland, prefixed to the present volume, has been compiled with much care, and defines the boundaries of the territories with more minuteness than has hitherto been attempted; but as these boundaries varied confida ably at different periods, it was impossible to exhibit at one view the changes which they underwent. They are represented for the most part as they existed about the time of the Anglo Norman invasion but the frontiers of Tirone and Tirconnel are drawn as they stood at an earlier date, before the warlike chiefs of the latter territory extended their bounds to the east and south. Finally, the narrative has been interrupted as little as possible with discussions of controverted points, and the space has not been unnecessarily encumbered with extraneous matter. The authori ties relied ou have been sufficiently indicated in the marginal references, but the Author here desires to express his deep obliga tions to Dr. O'douovan, Professor Eugene Curry, the Rev. C.. P. Meehan, Dr. Wilde, Dr. R. R. Madden, and J. T. Gilbert, Esq., for the invaluable information they have kindly afl'orded him, in addition to that which he derived from their published works. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
