illustrating the attempt made to trace the growth of the Irish counties, has been most kindly revised for this volume by the author, Mr. Robert Dunlop, whose minute and exact knowledge of the period is so apparent in many Irish articles in the 'Dictionary of National Biography.' The map of Dublin in the Seventeenth Century' has been specially drawn for this volume by my friend Mr. Leonard R. Strangways, M.R.I.A. It is primarily, as stated on the face of it, an attempt to identify the streets of Dublin as depicted in the map drawn by Thomas Phillips in 1685,1 which is in the collection of the Marquess of Ormonde and has been reproduced by Sir John Gilbert in the 'Calendar of Dublin Records,' vol. v. The map of The Walls of Dublin,' also by Mr. Strangways, though not originally designed for this volume, has been redrawn and revised for it. Maps such as these, which seek to reconstruct from imperfect records and traditions an obliterated past, cannot profess to represent all the details more than approximately. But those who are interested in Dublin topography will be no less grateful than I am to Mr. Strangways for placing the results of his patient investigations and special knowledge at the disposal of readers of this volume. Mr. Strangways desires me to express his indebtedness for much kind assistance in identifying localities to the Rev. C. T. McCready, D.D., whose 'Dublin Street Names Dated and Explained' contains so much information in so small a compass. My manifest obligations to previous writers on the same subjects are acknowledged as far as possible in the references to authorities which are given in the notes. But no one working in the field of Irish local history, and more particularly of Dublin history, can omit a tribute to the value of the life-long labours of two distinguished students of our history and topography. The indefatigable industry of the late Sir John Gilbert has immensely enlarged See the Ormonde Papers, vol. ii. pp. 309-313. the materials at the command of every student; and Dr. P. W. Joyce, dealing with a remoter past, has made contributions to the antiquarian side of Irish history which are quite indispensable to all who follow him. Finally I desire to acknowledge the assistance so freely accorded to me at all times by the Deputy-Keeper and the officials of the Irish Record Office, whose courtesy and learning have so often mitigated the labour of research in connection with more than one of the papers in Part I. The kindness of Mr. F. Elrington Ball in reading the proof-sheets is only the last, and perhaps the smallest, item in a series of obligations too numerous for acknowledgment at the end of a preface already lengthy. KILLINEY, CO. DUBLIN: August 1904. C. LITTON FALKINER. a |