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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
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Publisher: Dublin, Ireland : The Society
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center

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amongst tlie lands of whicli he was possessed when he was attainted.> Calendar of Carew Papers, 1575-88, p. 370. CLONDALKIN, TALLAGHT, ETC., WEST CO. DUBLIN. 107 Sir Henry Wallop, Vice-Treasurer and Treasurer at War, desired, in theyears 1581-82, to obtain a lease of it from the Crown, and it is probablethat it was then Loftus became possessed of it, for in 1585 we find himdating a letter from Rathfarnliam. The Brets, however, had still someinterest in the place, which the Archbishop purchased in 1593 from theirrepresentative, Viscount Buttevant. It is not known whether a castle existed at Rathfarnham beforeLoftus built the one which still stands there. The present learnedowner, in a most valuable and interesting history of the castle which hehas compiled, and which it is much to be desired he would put in print,argues with great legal subtlety on circumstantial evidence that one musthave existed there, and thinks portion of the present structure is olderthan the sixteenth ceuturv.
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Eathfarnham Castle.(From a Photograph by Mr. T. Mason.) In the troubled times, about 1641, the Archbishops grandson. SirAdam Loftus, had a garrison in the castle to protect Dublin from the in-cursions of the rebels, and an explosion of gunpowder then took placethere, which nearly terminated the career of an extraordinary geniuscalled ,Tohn Ogilby,- who was at that time Master of the Revels, and owner ^ Calendar of State Papers, Ireland, passim. • See notice in Dictionary of National Biography. 108 ROYAL SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES OF IRELAND. of a theatre in Dublin, and who subsequently published the first road-book to England, in a noble folio volume. Before the battle of llath-mines the castle, which was then occupied by the forces of the Parliament,was stormed and taken by the Duke of Ormonde. In 1723 the castle was sold by Philip, Duke of Wharton, whosemother was the only child and heiress of Adam Loftus, created Baron ofEathfarnham and Viscount Lisburn, to Speaker Conolly, From Cono

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