Original Delineations,
TOPOGRAPHICAL, HISTORICAL, AND BIOGRAPHICAL,

OF EACH COUNTY.

BY J. N. BREWER, ESQ."

Author of the Introductory Volume to the Beauties of England and Wales; Delineations

of Gloucestershire, &c. &e.

ILLUSTRATED
WITH ENGRAVINGS, BY J. & H. S. STORER,
AFTER ORIGINAL DRAWINGS, CHIEFLY BY MR. PETRIE, OF DUBLIN.

" It was a chosen plott of fertile land,
Amongst wide waves sett, like a little nest,
As if it had by Nature's cunning hand
Bene choycely picked out from all the rest."

Spenser's Faerie Queen.

VOL. II. V

London :
PRINTED FOR SHERWOOD, GILBERT, & PIPER,

PATERNOSTER ROW :
30LD ALSO BY R. MILLIK EN, J. CUMMING, M. KEENE, c, P. ARCHER, M. N.
MAHON, R. M. TIMS, B. DUGDALE, D. LAWRENCE, HODGES AND M'ARTHUR,
WESTLEY AND TYRRELL, AND THE OTHER BOOKSELLERS IN DUBLIN ; ALSO
BY THE BOOKSELLERS IN WATERFORD, CORK, LIMERICK, CLONMELL, COLE-
RAINE, NEWRY, AND BELFAST.

1826. i,

TO HIS GRACE

RICHARD-GRENVILLE-BRYDGES-CHANDOS TEMPLE,

DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM AND CHANDOS, K. G. &c. &c.

A Nobleman

WHOSE PATRONAGE OF THE LITERARY INTERESTS OF IRELAND

18 SPLENDIDLY EVINCED BY

THE COLLECTION OF MANUSCRIPTS, RELATING TO THE

ANTIENT HISTORY OF THAT ISLAND,

PRESERVED

AS THE MOST ESTEEMED TREASURES EVEN IN THE

PRINCELY LIBRARY OF STOWE,

THIS VOLUME

IS, WITH PERMISSION OF HIS GRACE,

MOST RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED

AS A SMALL TRIBUTE TO HIS PUBLIC AND PRIVATE VIRTUES,

BY HIS GRACE'S MOST OBEDIENT SERVANT,

J. N. BREWER.