An Essay on the Antient and Modern State of Ireland

Chapter 4: Footnotes

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The essay surveys the island's ancient origins and successive eras, arguing for an early western migration, the importance of the missionary credited with Christianizing the people, and the later transfer of sovereignty to an external monarch; it outlines an early elective system and the communal preservation of learning, traces the rise of military power and foreign incursions, and balances praise for religious, literary, and legal culture with criticism of political decay, concluding with reflections on the condition and legal circumstances of Roman Catholics and suggestions to correct misunderstandings and promote native prosperity.

Footnotes

1.: Dublin, 1753, M. Reilly, Editor.
2.: This Mac Con More Macnamara, Duke of Klan Cullane, founded, erected, and amply endowed the beautiful Abbey of Quin; as did other Chieftains of his Name and Family, several Parochial Churches, with a great Number of magnificent Castles.
3.: Seasonable Thoughts, &c. published by George Faulkner; the Case of the Roman Catholics, and the Principles of the Roman Catholics, the two last published by P. Lord, in Cook-street, Dublin.
4.: To all the above Productions of Ireland, may be justly added, our inestimable Fisheries, and plentiful Mines, which, under due national Encouragement, would raise immense Treasures.