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Francis Lord Lovel who rebelled against Henry VII., disappeared at the battle of Stoke, and was duly attainted. His lands thus came to the Crown. Queen Elizabeth afterwards granted the manor of Dipps to the Earl of Ormond (really Dipps seems to have been Kildare property) and that of Shilelagh to Sir H. Harrington; the remaining five, lying between the Slaney on the south, the Blackwater of Arklow on the north, the sea on the east, and the Counties of Kildare and Carlow on the west were still in the King's hands, and the actual occupiers were only intruders.[1]
The next step was that in May, 1611, the King authorized Chichester to accept surrenders, and mentions a plantation. It would appear that the
- ↑ This title is set out in the report of the Commission of 1613. Cal. St. Paps., p. 439.The seven manors were Fernegenall, O'Felmigh, Shelmalier, Lymalagoughe (or Kynelaghowe?), Shelelagh, Gory and Dipps. It is curious that we are not very certain as to why no such scheme was planned for parts of Carlow and Wicklow which had also been subject to Art MacMurrough.Of the manors mentioned above we know that Fernegenall and O'Felimy lay along the sea, north of Wexford harbour. (Orpen. Ireland under the Normans, Vol. I., p. 390). Gory is all or part of the modern Barony of Gorey, Shelelagh is obviously Shilelagh now in Co. Wicklow, which seems to nave been inhabited by O'Byrnes. There are two modern baronies of Shelmalier. Shelmalier east seems identical with Fernegenall: it is not clear how much if any of Shelmalier west was occupied by the Irish. The barony of Bantry was for the most part in Irish hands in the early days of Henry VIII.: some of it had since been seized by the Butlers and others, who had got grants of what they had conquered. It was not included in the area now in dispute. The "Duffry," between Enniscorthy and Mt. Leinster, also lay outside the area. The Statute of Absentees had vested Carlow and the feudal rights over English Wexford in the Crown.Other names mentioned are Farrenhamon, Farren Neale, Clanhanrick. Kilcooleneleyer, Kilhobuck. (Bagwell: Ireland under the Stuarts, Vol. I., p. 154).The boundaries were the Slaney, the sea, and the modern Co. Wicklow.See also Hore. History of Wexford.
