The Royal Visitation of 1622

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The Royal Visitation of 1622Author(s): Thomas FitzpatrickSource: Journal of the County Louth Archaeological Society, Vol. 6, No. 1 (Dec., 1925), pp. 4-11Published by: County Louth Archaeological and History SocietyStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/27728209 .

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f)e &opal ^t?ttatton of 1622.

T.C.D. MS. E.36.

Transcribed by the late Thomas Fitzpatrick, LL.D.

[All paragraphs and footnotes in square brackets except those marked T. F. are the Editor's. Notes in curved brackets and in italics and footnotes T. F. are Dr. Fitzpatrick's].

The State of the Dioceses in the Province of Ulster, Anno Domini 1622.

Certified under the hands of the then Bishops of each Diocese.

Armagh,

Meath,

Clonmacnoise, Kilmore and Ardagh, Clogher Deny Raphoe Downe and Connor

Then follow :

page 49

128

135 171 188 212

237

Dr. Christopher Hampton Dr. James Usher

The same

then

Bishops

Temporalities of Armagh Archbp.

[Compare with the Taxation Lists of A.D. 1431 in Journal 1922, p. 116.] Viz.

The Houses within the City of Armagh. Land about the City for Plantation.

[From which I take the following items as specimens :?]

(Houses within the City.) " Builded by Mr. Richard Chappell a fayre house wch. cost him \oole. (?100)

to which house he hath a lease for 6otie years 20 acres of land and payes lile. 6s.

(?2 6s. od.).



THE ROYAL VISITATION OF T?22 5

Cottages in the City. " Item, let yearly to the Natives which are reserved for English that will build.

Yielded to the Bprick. LXXXle. {?80). Mensall Land in the territorie of Clanall.

[All Irish Names, e.g., Hugh O Donallee, Cormuck O Lappan, Evan O Lappan, Tool O Conree, Cullo O Hahy, Phelomy McTurlogh, Blassett O Neal. All English planters names in all other territories, e.g., Tynan, Clonkonkie, &c. "

towns "

? townlands ; each tenant holds at least one "

town," average rent

?6 a town and less.] [ This is a specimen : ]

" Thomas Dawson, Gent., holdeth one towne for 60 years, to pay 30s. for a

herriot,1 to build one English-like house, to find one light horse and a man for his Maties. service. The rent Vile/'

[ The (planter) tenants are chiefly "

Gent.," some esquires and "

yeomen." ]

Clanfekill. "

John Jeeve holdeth for 60 years 4 Towns of the above territory paying 16U.

yearly and a carew2 of land within the County of Lowth, paying $li. yearely. .... holdeth six Towns and 2 sessioghs."

Mannor of Donaghmore.

(" Not clear whether in Co. Down or Co. Louth, or whether in Manor of Donagh" more or

not.")

Sir Robert Newcomen, Knt., holdeth for 60 years 10 Towns to pay VU. (?5) Irish for a herriot to build one strong sufficient house. The rent is XXIHi. (?22).

Mannor of Dromsken.

Item, Sr. Moyses Hill, Knt., holdeth the above Mannor leased by Primate Long. He payes XXli. (?20).

The Mannor of Termonfeckin.

[Compare with A.D. 1431 Taxation, Journal 1922, p. 116.]

Item, one great Castle and a 'great

carew of lande in the Tenure of the now Lo

Primate, unleased, worth yearly LXli.

Item, John Jeeves holdeth for 60 yeares h?lfe a carew of lande called Colvers ton, the rent is 5//. a yeare and set down in the Territory of Clonfekill in the County

of Armagh.

Item, Robert Ball holdeth for 60 yeares a parcell of land called Betaghton, contayning LX acres and a watermill within the town of Termonfeighan to pay

XXs. for a herriot, the rent is VU.

1 Heriot = a fine due to the lord of a manor on the death of anyone who held land of the

manor, and consisted of the best beast, jewel, or chattel of the deceased. 2 Carew =carucate or ploughland, a variable measure of land, but according to most entries

and to Book of Howth, p. 27-8, it was 120 Irish acres. In County Louth the ploughland is stated in his deposition (1642) by Gerard Colley to have been 240 acres, which must be an error. See Journal 1912, p. 78, and 1915, p. 395.



6 COUNTY LOUTH ARCHAEOLOGICAL JOURNAL

Item, Robert Ball, Gent., holdeth for 60 yeares the towne of Baltray and a

parcell of lande called the Mayne, als. the Mayes, contayning LX acres, to pay XXs. for a herriot, the rent is Yllli.

Item, Olyver Plunket, Gent., holdeth for 60 yeares a parcell of lande called

by the name of the Primate's Parke, the rent is lili.

Item, Patrick Dowdall, Gent., holdeth for 60 yeares the fields and dalles1 of

Killclogher [Clogher Head] and the custome fish of the said Kill Clogher and an orchard within the town of Drogheda, to pay lili, for a herriot, the rent is Vlllli.

Item, Robert Holbroke, yeoman, holdeth during his natural life the h?lfe towne of Almonton, to pay the best liveing beast for a herriot, the rent is lilt. Is.

Item, Mr. Luke Usher holdeth by Lease a p'cell of lande contagning LX acres called by the name of Gannderstown, leased by Primate Usher2, the rent is lilt.

Item, Amberose Aphugh, Esquire, holdeth a parcell of land called by the name

of Newtowne Monastery Boyse and five acres of Meadow leased by Primate Long, the rent is VIZ*. XVs.

Item, Christopher Barnewell, Gent., holdeth for 60 yeares a precinct of lande called by the name of Rathcoole, contagning four score acres of land, to pay yearly at Christmas a fat oxe, the rent is ?\li., to pay lili, for a herriot.

The Chief Rentes of the Mannor of Termonfeckin.

Item, the towne of Termonfeckin payes yearly Ulli.

Item, James Dowdall, Gent., holdeth of the said Mannor a capitall Messuage and one carew of land in Glaspitle in the Tenure of Wallop Brabazan, Esquire, payes yearly XVs.

Item, Christopher Dowdall, Gent., holdeth of the said Mannor one Messuage and LX acres of arable lands in the Newtowne in the Tenure of the Widow Monke,

yearely payes XVs.

Item, Christopher Vardige3 holdeth of the said Manor a capital! Mancon house and one carew of lande in Castlerath in the tenure of the said Christopher, payes yearly XIIIs. Vld.

Item, the right hoble, the lo. Viscount Drogheda holdeth two carews of land in ffogher [Faughard or Togher ?] wch. his lop. wth. holdes, the rent is 5s. the yeare.

Item, the free Tenanntes, of Kilpatricke4, hold of the said Mannor, contagning CXXtie acres of land in the tenure of Sr. William Taaffe, Knt., or his assignes, the rent is Hi. gs. 4a.5 the year.

Rectories in the Countie of Lowth.

Item, Edmond Morgan, Gent., holdeth for 60 [years] the Rectory of Bally McKenny, to pay Vis. VII Id. Irish for a herriot or farline (?). The said Edmond

is to repayre and magnteyne the edifices and buildings of the said Rectory, and

1 "The Dales" is the present name of a townland near Clogher Head, apparently preserving this inappropriate description, for there is no valley to suggest the name.?Ed.

2 i.e., Henry Usher (T.F.).

3 Or Vardigo [probably Verd?n].

4[ ? Kilpatrick, 2 miles south of Ardee, beside Smarmore, residence of Sir W. Taaffe ?] 5 The figures not clear (T.F.).



THE ROYAL VISITATION OF I?22 7

alsoe that part or portion of the parish church of Bally McKenny as the parson, minister or rector of the said parish ought to doe, the rent is llllli. Xs.

Item, Stephen Neale, Gent., holdeth for 60 yeares a parcell of land called Rustagh lying in Rustath in the County of Lowth1 contagning XX acres and the third pte. of Tythes belonging to the rectory of the p'ish. church of Carlingford and Cooly next adiogning, to pay Xs. Irish for. a herriot ; to pay yearly two barrells of herrings and a thousand of Oysters.2 The rent is Xlllli. Vis. Vllld.

Item, Richard Parkym, Esquire, holdeth for LXtie yeares the p'sonage of Set. James of Athboye. He is to pay Ulli. Vis. Vllld. for a herriot, the rent is

Ui. (fifty). Item, Edward Dowdall, Esquire, holdeth for 60 yeares the p'sonage house of

Athboye,3 called Dawscn's Court, an orchard adjoining to the said house, three

small parkes and the Castle and lands of Cancestown contayning CX acres. He

is to pay lili, for a herriot, to mayntagne and keepe up the p'sonage house. The rent is Vllli.

In the Town of Drogheda.

Item, in Drogheda a fayre house now built by the now lo. Primate [Dr. Hampton] wch. hath cost his lop. allreadie 2064U. is. A?d. and more

buildings his lop. intends

to add unto the said house to wch. house there is a large garden walled with stone at the charge of the now

Archbp.4

In Drogheda.

Item, a large orchard lying on the North side of Set. Peter's Church in Drogheda leased to Patrick Dowdall, Gent., for 60 years. The rent is set downe in the Mannor

of Termonfeckin.

Some Totall of the Yearly Rentes amounteth to 1935/26. gsh. gd. English.

5 The State of the Church of Armagh.

12 Aprill, 1622.

Dignities of the Cathedral of Armagh.

Deanery : Valew 120U.

Then follows a list of Parishes with their incumbents, e.g. :

Loughgilly : John Mather, Mr. of Artes Incum.. Valew Soli. ; resident ; Church in building.

[Others in Co. Armagh and Tyrone are :?] John Harte . . . 50&.. Resident. Church not wholly built, but the

materials ready.

John Symonds, Mr. of Arts, looli. Resident, but keepeth a Curate.

James Matchet, looli.. Resident, but keepeth a Curate.

A faire Church now built. Church well repayred.

1 Roosky, a monastery site south of Carlingford.

" Rusgach in Cuailgne

" in Martyrology

of Donegal. - Evidently Carlingford oysters were esteemed 300 years ago.

3 Co. Meath.

*The Palace in Palace Street, Drogheda. illustrated in the 1749 map of Drogheda, Louth Arch. Journal, Vol. I., No. 4, 1907, p. 42. Removed in early part of nineteenth century.

5 This is the title or contents at end of document. (T.F.)




. . . 8oli. Church now built. A parsonage house now built upon the Gleabe.

Thomas Crant, a preacher, ioo markes. Non-resident, but he keepeth a Curate, Robert Berry, as

preacher, and giveth him 20 marks

per annum.

. . . Dungannon. John Mony, 20U.. Resident. Church now built

by the lo. Treasurer. The place for a parsonage house lately set out.

Termonmagoork : Roger Blyth, M.A., 6oli. Non-resident, but goeth every third

Sunday himself, and keepeth a Curate, Danyell Hickes, brought up in the Colledge and readeth Irish and English, to whom he giveth 10U. per annum.

Co. Louth.

Clonmore : Lucas Usher, M.A., valew 16U. Non-resident. Church and Chancel

rep ay red.

Heynstown : Lucas Usher aforesaid, 26U. Non-res. Church and Chancel downe ;

p'son's house ruynous.

Bewley : Henry Leisley, M.A., 15/i. Non-res. Church and Chancell repayred. p'son.s house decayed.

Rath Dromnure : [sic Rathdrumin] Mathew Quyn, B.A. (written above in a different hand: 'now George Thomas'), 6U.1 Resident. Church decayed. Chancell repayred ; p'son's house repayred.

Carrick : Mathew Quyn aforesaid (' now George Thomas '), 24U. Resident. Church and Chancell repayred. P'son's house repayred.

Monfeldston : George Sing, M.A., 20U. Non-resident. Church and Chancell re

payred. Buildings ruynous. Derver : George Sing aforesaid, 20U. Non-resident. Church and Chancell re

payred. Buildings ruynous. Donben [Dunbin] Kilkerly : Lewis Jones, 6li. [' 24

' under the

' 6 ']. Non-resident.

Church and Chancell ruynous. Noe house.

Dromyn : Willm. Clyburne, B.D., and household chaplen to the lo. Primate ; 20U. Non-res. Hugh Griffin Curate, to whom he giveth 6li. 35. 4^.

p. annm., who readeth Irish and English. Killincoole : Mathew Quyn aforesaid, i$li. Non-resident, but giveth to a Curate

5U. p. annm. Church and Chancell repayred. Noe house. Baronston Kean : Meredith Gwillin, M.A., oli. os. od. Non-resident. Noe churches.

Noe houses nor Gleabe.

Drogheda : Henry Lesley, M.A., y It. 10s. Resident (Ld. Moore appt.). Church and Chauncell repayred ; vicarage house.

Termonfeakyn : Luke Usher aforesaid, 13I?. Resident. Church and Chauncell

repayred ; vicarage house.

Dondalke : Michaeli Matchet, M.A., 20U. Resident. Church and Chauncell re

payred. Vicarage house leased for 100 years for 20s. p. annm.,

and the Vicar is forced to heyre an house. James Dowdall is lessee.

Dromyskyn : Michael Matchet aforesaid, 16U. Dischargeth the cure some tymes by himselfe, and keepeth a reader, Robt. Gardner, and giveth him

50s. p. annm. Church and Vicarage house repayred. The Chaun

cell ruynous.

Tynan :

Aghalow :

1 ' 20

' written under the

' 6.'?(T.F.).



1. The "

Butter M

Gate, Drogheda, so called from being then the site of the butter market. Originally St. John's Gate, from the adjoining monastery without the walls, on site of Ball's Grove.

2. Moiry Castle, or "The Moyry "

on the road from Dundalk to Newry, Frequently referred to in

the wars of the O'Neills and Elizabeth.

3. Carved Sheila na gig stone (Si?le tiA 5?05 Castletown Castle, Dundalk.

-Giggling Sheila) in modern wall of tennis court at



THE ROYAL VISITATION OF I?22 9

Carlingford : Randall Holland, loli. Resident. Church repayred. The Chauncell

ruynous ; a house place. Monfeldston : George Sing aforesaid, 12I?. Non-resident. Church and Chauncell

repayred. A house in repayre. Ardee : Robert Goodlad, M.A., loli. 10s. No corne but offerings and p'sonall

duties. Only the stipend yli. 10s. stipendiary. Resident. Church

ruynous, Chancell down, Vicarage house ruynous. Stabannon : Hugh Griffith, who readeth the Irish service booke, 20??. Resident.

Church and Chauncell in repayre. Vicarage house built newly by the Incumbent.

Maylary1 : Edward Farran (no corne but offerings and p'sonall dutyes), 3U. Now resident. Church repayred. Chancell ruynous?a poore house.

Donlere, Co. Lowth : John Clerke, 3U. (2U under the 3U.). Resident. Church re

payred, Chauncell ruynous. A poor house.

Donany : John Clerke aforesaid, 3I? (15ft. under the 3U.). Non-resident. Dis

charge th the cure according to the means. Church and Chauncell

ruynous. House ruynous. Dromcarr (Barth Dillon) : Hugh Griffith aforesaid, 5I1. (' 20

' under the

' 5 '). Dis

charge th the cure himself. Church repayred. Chauncell ruynous? a poore house.

Clonkeyne, Co. Louth : Robert Harper, zli. (' 20 ' sh. under the

' 2 '). Resident.

Church and Chauncell ruyned. The Vicarage house new built by the now Incumbent.

Kildymock, Co. Louth : Robert Goodlad, 2li. Dischargeth the cure according to the means. Church and Chauncell ruynous?a poore house.

Co. Louth Curateships :

(Mellyfont and the 5 next following are appropriate to the Abbey in the survey and Desima granorii are only for the proprietaryes found [impropriator s fund ?} So as the Vicars or Curates had other tythes and certayne stipends paied them in

money in augmentacon.)

Mellyfont : (Appropriator Lo. Moore) Edward Anton, ili. Resident. Church

repayred. No Curate's house.

Tullaghallen : (Appropriator Lo. Moore) Edw. Anton (now Roger Bickoe) [Briscoe ?], $li. Dischargeth the cure himself. Church repayred.

Callan [Coll?n] : (Appropriator Lo. Moore) Edw. Anton, 4U. (The duties of his cure are leased to Mr. Townly, who payeth the 4^'., but are worth

loli.). Dischargeth the cure sometymes. Church repayred. No Curate's house.

Newton Stalaban (Appropriator Lo. Moore) Edward Anton (Roger Bickoe), 10s. The cure served to the means. Church and Chancell ruynous.

Salthouse [Salterstown] (Appropriator Lo. Moore) John Clerke, 15s. Sometymes serveth the cure. Church and Chancell ruynous.

Personstown (Appropriator Lo. Moore) John Clerke, 5s. Church and Chauncell

ruynous.

(The Approprietaryes have all Tythes small and great and the Curate

only Easter offerings and p'sonall dutyes of Marriages, Christenings and Buryalls.)

Marlynstowne (Appropriator Lo. Moore) Jo. Clerke, 10s. Church and Chauncell

ruynous. 1 Maylary, Co. Louth, under the heading

" Appropr."? (T.F.).




Tallonstownc (Appropriator Lo. Moore) Robert Goodlad, ili. ios. Cure served

according to the means. Church and Chauncell ruynous. No

dwelling-house. Charleslowne (Appropriator Lo. Moore) Ro. Goodlad, ili. ios. Church and Chaun

cell ruynous. Stabellon [Stickillen] (Appropriator Lo. Moore) Ro. Goodlad, ili. Church and

Chauncell ruynous. Shonles (Appropriator Lo. Moore) Ro. Goodlad, 5s. Church and Chauncell ruynous. Richardstowne (Appropriator Lo. Moore) Ro. Harper, 105. Church and Chauncell

ruynous.

Ballymascallon (Appropriator Lo. Moore) [no name], $li. Church and Chauncell

repayred.

[Note opposite Ballymascallon (Sic) : This is named amongst the Curates for a stipend, but not found in the wardes of the Surveigh to be a

Chappell belonging to Mellyfont.]

Faghard (Appropriator Lo. Moore) [no name], 5s.. Church and Chauncell ruynous. Killaneire (Appropriator Lo. Moore, belonging to ye Vicar of St. Peter's), 5s. Church

and Chauncell ruynous.

Dysert (Appropriator Lo. Lowth) John Clerke, ili. Serveth the cure according to the means. Church and Chauncell ruynous.

Port (Appropriator Lo. Lowth) John Clerke, 10s. Church and Chauncell ruynous.. Garnonstowne (Appropriator Lo. Lowth) John Clerke, 10s. Church and Chauncell

ruynous.

Keppock (Appropriator Lo. Lowth) John Clerke, 6s. Church and Chauncell ruynous. Killsaran (Appropriator Lo. Lowth), 3U. Church ruynous, Edw. Farrant.

Monisterboys (Appropriator Lo. Lowth) Ambrose Hooke (now Henry Farran), ili. ios. Serveth the cure sometymes. Church ruynous.

Lowth : Ambrose Appiu [Ap Hugh], Robert Harper, 3U. 10s. Serveth the cure. Church ruynous.

Knock Lowth [Abbey of Knock, "

The Pinnacle," E. of road to Inniskeen?see Canon Leslie s

"

Armagh Parishes," p. 363] Ambr. Appen, Ro. Harper, 10s.

Church ruynous.

Castlering : Amber. Appiu [Ap Hugh], Ro. Harper, 155. Church ruynous. Rosmaka : Amber Appiu, Ro. Harper, 65. Church ruynous.

Philipston : Amber Appiu, Edw. Starrant, 3ft. Church ruynous. Killclogher, Amber Appiu, Lucas Usher, 3U. Ch. repayred. Haggardston (Appropriator Sr. John Draycot, Knt.) Michaeli Matchett, 10s. Ch.

repayred. Castleton (Appropriator Sr. John Draycot) Mich. Matchet, $li. Serveth the cure.

Ch. repayred.

Dondalgon (Appropriator Sr. John Draycot) Mich. Matchet, 10s. Ch. ruynous. Phillipstowne [Philipstown Nugent, Dundalk] : Christ Church in Dublin (vacat).

Church ruynous.

[In the survey this is found to be a Rectory leased now to Sr. John Bedlow, Knt., and Martyne Sing ; it is worth 20U. p. annm. Nothing left to the Curate, by means whereof the Church is demolished.]

Rotch : Downton (vacat). Ch. ruynous. Kilmore Cooly : Amber Appiu (vacat). Newtown Cooly [Newtown, Piedmont at Mount Bagnal], Mr. Bagnal. Vacat. Somermore : Sr. William Tath, Rob. Goodlad.



THE ROYAL VISITATION OF I?22 II

Ballypatrick [? Kilpatrick in Par. of Kildemock?see "Armagh Parishes" p. 343], William Bishop. Vacat.

Urney : George Gernen. Vacat.

Ballystuck [? There is a Carrickastuck not far from Urney.'] George Gernen. Vacat.

Co. Armagh.

Note.?Added in a different hand.

Dunshallo (?) [Drumshallon], omitted Mr. Thomas Curat. Ye (illeg.)

Ballymacknaye, Bishops Mensall let to Edward Morgan. No Curate.

Moyne [Donagh Moyne, Co. Monaghan] : Ambrose Ap Hugh impropriator. No Curate.

Note by Mr. Fitzpatrick :?The Return fills 48 large pages. Co. Lowth Recto ries and Curacies without omission except in some of the particulars which would be set out fully only on large sheets.



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