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Title: Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland
Year: 1849 (1840s)
Authors: Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland. Transactions Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland. Proceedings and transactions Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland. Proceedings and papers
Subjects: Ireland -- Genealogy Ireland -- History Societies, etc Ireland -- Antiquities Societies, etc
Publisher: Dublin, Ireland : The Society
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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trated intohis camp, and returned with a report. A huge fire was kept burningin the middle of the camp before the tent of ONeills son, that is,Shane ; near the fire an enormous torch, thicker than a mans body,was kept blazing constantly, and by it there always stood on guard60 galloglasses with gleaming axes, and 60 Scots with nakedswords. Nothing dismayed by this report, the Calbhach with 30horse and two companies of galloglasses surprised the camp, andcut his way right up to the body-guard. Shane ONeill, on hearingthe uproar, fled through the back of the tent, and never stoppeduntil he reached Errigal Keerogue in the south of Co. Tyrone. Hismen were completely defeated, and his famous horse, Mac-an-iolair,son of the eagle, fell to the victor.^ Four Masters, Ad ann. ( 232 ) FRIDAY, 9th JULY 1915. BRACKFIELD BAWN. At Brackfield, about eight miles from Derry on the roadto Dungiven, is one of the smaller bawns of the Plantationperiod. Undertakers in the Plantation were required to erect
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defensive buildings, proportioned to the extent of their grants,within two years of the date of their letters patent ; for 2,000 acres,a castle with a strong bawn ; for 1,500 acres, a house of stone orbrick with a strong bawn ; for 1,000 acres, a strong bawn at least.The bawn at Brackfield is an enclosure about 70 feet square ; the PROCEEDINGS 233 southern side was closed by a house running the full length of theside and about 17 feet wide internally ; of the house only the outerTvall and gables remain, none of them to the original height. Officel)uildings probably ran along the western side, so that an open•court, about 42 feet square, lay in the north-east quarter of the bawn.The gate was in the middle of the northern side of this court. Theexterior of the enclosing walls was defended by two circular flankers,one at each extremity of the diagonal running approximately north-west and south-east. BANAGHER The ruins of the old church of Banagher stand on the top of asteep knoll overl

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