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Title: A history of the County Dublin; the people, parishes and antiquities from the earliest times to the close of the eighteenth century
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Ball, F. Erlington (Francis Elrington), d. 1928
Subjects: Dublin (Ireland : County) -- History
Publisher: Dublin : Alex. Thom
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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name to the adjoining lands of Edmondstown, on which, in 1582,
he was residing (²).

After the dissolution of St. Mary's Abbey the lands then known
as Harold's Grange, on which there were a small castle and a water-
mill, were granted by Henry VIII. to Barnaby Fitzpatrick, Baron
of Upper Ossory, whose son occupied the unenviable position of
companion for correction, or whipping-boy, to Edward VI.
Lord Upper Ossory's residence was far from Dublin, and it was,
we are told, for the relief of his horses on his repair to Dublin
from the country that the possession of Harold's Grange was
desired by him. At the close of the sixteenth century, owing to

(¹) Christ Church Deeds; Calendar of Irish State Papers; Calendar of Liber
Niger, by Professor Stokes, in Journal R.S.A.I. , vol. xxiii., p. 311 ; "Rathfarnham
Castle, its Site and History," by ohn P. Prendergast in The Irish Times, May 19,
1891 ; Plea Rolls, 11 Edw. II., m. 17 ; 13 Kilw. II., nr. 20.

(^-2) Christ Church Deeds; Fiants Eliz., No. 4027.


MARLAY AND THE WHITECHURCH NEIGHBOURHOOD. 59
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View of the Mountains near Kilmashogue in 1795.
From a Plate drawn by F. Jukes.


60 PARISH OF WHITECHURCH.
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the absence of the owner, the tenants of Harold's Grange suffered
severely from the visits of soldiers, who rifled their houses beyond
mercy. This treatment was due to the non-payment of county
charges, for which Lord Upper Ossory claimed that the lands, as
originally monastic property, should be free, and in 1599 the third
Baron sent a petition to Lord Burghley's son, afterwards the first
Lord Salisbury, praying redress. This petition was recommended
to Burghley's son by a gift of fifteen marten skins, all Lord Upper
Ossory could afford at the time, owing to the calamity of this
woeful kingdom, and was supported by a letter from the notorious
Archbishop Miler Magrath, whom the messenger, one of the
Harold's Grange tenants, met when on his way to London (i¹).
The chief of the Harold clan, then a boy—Lawrence, son of Walter
Harold—is mentioned by Lord Upper Ossory as being his principal
tenant at Harold's Grange; he appears amongst the men of name
in the county, and is said by Lord Upper Ossory to have been
allied to many residents in the Pale. But his clan gave frequently
much trouble to the Government; in 1566, as we have seen,

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