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Journey to Connaught, April 1709

Author: Samuel Molyneux

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Aquilla Smith

Electronic edition compiled and proof-read by Beatrix Färber

Funded by University College, Cork

2. Second draft.

Extent of text: 7970 words

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(2013)

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Text ID Number: E700002-001

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Sources

    Manuscript Source
  1. Dublin, Trinity College Library, I .iv. 12. Aquilla Smith notes: 'at the beginning of the little volume there are a few pages which appear to have been the original notes of the 'Journey,' as it is now printed, from a fair copy made by the author.' Aquilla Smith ascribes the text to Dr Thomas Molyneux; however it has been pointed out by Hoppen that it was his nephew Samuel Molyneux (who grew up in Thomas's charge after the death of his father) who visited O'Flaherty. There are also letters between O'Flaherty and Samuel Molyneux, published in 2013 by Richard Sharpe. We are grateful to Christopher Woods for bringing this text to our attention.
    Further reading
  1. Gerard Boate, Ireland's Naturall History (London 1652. Reprinted as 'Gerard Boate's natural history of Ireland', edited, with an introduction, by Thomas E. Jordan, New York 2006). [Available on CELT.]
  2. Roderic O'Flaherty, A chorographical description of West or h-Iar Connaught, written A.D. 1684; ed. J. Hardiman (Dublin 1846).
  3. Thomas Dinely, Observations on a Tour through the Kingdom of Ireland in 1681 (Dublin 1858, reprinted in Kilkenny Archaeological Society's Journal, Second Series, 4 (1856–57) 143–46, 170–88; 5 (1858–59) 22–32, 55–56; 7 (1862–63) 38–52, 103–109, 320–38; 8 (1864–66) 40–48, 268–90; 425–46; 9 (1867) 73–91, 176–204).
  4. Roderic O'Flaherty, Ogygia seu, Rerum Hibernicarum chronologia: Ex pervetustis monumentis fideliter inter se collatis eruta, atque e sacris ac prophanis literis primarum orbis gentium tam genealogicis, quam chronologicis sufflaminata praesidiis. (...) (London 1685). (An English translation by the Reverend James Hely was published in Dublin 1793).
  5. James Ware, The antiquities and history of Ireland (Dublin 1705).
  6. Thomas [recte Samuel?] Molyneux, 'Journey to the North', Robert M. Young (ed), Historical notices of old Belfast and its vicinity (Belfast 1895) 152–160. [See also editor's notes pp 265–66]. [Available on CELT.]
  7. Thomas Molyneux, A Discourse concerning the Danish Mounts, Forts, and Towers in Ireland (Dublin 1725).
  8. William Petty, A geographical description of the kingdom of Ireland, newly corrected & improv'd by actual observations. Containing one general map of the whole kingdom with 4 provincial and 32 county maps, (. . .) The whole being laid down from the best maps vizt. Sr. Wm. Petty's, Mr. Pratt's, &c. with a description of each county collected from the best accounts extant (London 1728).
  9. Sir Henry Piers, 'A Chorographical description of the County of Westmeath, written A.D. 1682 by Sir Henry Piers, of Tristernaght, Baronet,' in: Charles Vallancy, Collectanea de rebus Hibernicis, vol. 1. (Dublin: Thomas Ewing) 1770.
  10. Thomas Wright, Louthiana: or, an introduction to the antiquities of Ireland: In upwards of ninety views and plans: representing, with proper explanations, the principal ruins, curiosities, and antient dwellings, in the county of Louth. Divided into three books. Taken upon the spot by Thomas Wright (. . .) Engraved by Paul Foudrinier (London 1758).
  11. John Mitchell, The present state of Great Britain and North America, with regard to agriculture, population, trade, and manufactures, impartially considered (. . .) (London: printed for T. Becket and P.A. De Hondt, 1767).
  12. George Faulkner (ed)., The works of D. Jonathan Swift, 20 vols. (Dublin 1738–1772).
  13. Thomas Park (ed.), Nugæ Antiquæ: Being a Miscellaneous Collection of Original Papers, in Prose and Verse; Written during the Reigns of Henry VIII., Edward VI., Queen Mary, Elizabeth, and King James, selected by Henry Harington, 2 vols. (London 1804).
  14. Sir Richard Colt Hoare, Journal of a Tour in Ireland, AD 1806 (Dublin and London 1807).
  15. Capel Molyneux, An account of the family and descendants of Sir Thomas Molyneux, ed. T. Phillips (Evesham 1820).
  16. Isaac Weld, A Statistical Survey of the County Roscommon (Dublin 1832) [This survey is available online at http://www.askaboutireland.ie/reading-room/digital-book-collection/digital-books-by-county/roscommon/roscommon-statistical-survey/].
  17. Caesar Otway, A Tour in Connaught (Dublin 1839).
  18. John O'Donovan (ed.), The Tribes and Customs of Hy-Many, commonly called O'Kelly's Country (Dublin 1843). [Irish version available online at CELT.]
  19. James Grace of Kilkenny, Annales Hiberniae, ed. Richard Butler. (Dublin 1842.) [Also known as Grace's Annals; available online at CELT.]
  20. Reverend Mervyn Archdall, Monasticum Hibernicum; or an History of the Abbies, Priories, and other Religious Houses in Ireland, 2 volumes (London 1786).
  21. Samuel Lewis, Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (London 1837) (available online at ttp://www.libraryireland.com/topog/index.php).
  22. K. T. Hoppen, The common scientist in the seventeenth century: a study of the Dublin Philosophical Society, 1683–1708 (1970) 272.
  23. A. M. Fraser, 'The Molyneux family', Dublin Historical Record, 16/1 (1960–61) 9–15.
  24. K. T. Hoppen and Pádraic de Brún, 'Samuel Molyneux's tour of Kerry, 1709' Journal of the Kerry Archaeological and Historical Society 3 (1970) 59–80.
  25. An entry on the physisican and natural Sir Thomas Molyneux (1661–1733) in the Oxford DNB (http://www.oxforddnb.com) mentions K. T. Hoppen's article which ascribes authorship of the travel diary to Thomas's nephew Samuel (1689–1728).
  26. Anne Saunders, The London Letters of Samuel Molyneux, 1712–13 (London 2011).
  27. Bernadette Cunningham and Raymond Gillespie, 'The circulation of manuscripts in Ireland, 1625–1725', in: James Kelly and Ciarán Mac Murchaidh (eds), Irish and English: essays on the Irish linguistic and cultural frontier, 1600–1900 (Dublin 2012).
  28. Richard Sharpe, Roderick O'Flaherty's Letters to William Molyneux, Edward Lhwyd, and Samuel Molyneux, 1696–1709 (Dublin 2013).
    The edition used in the digital edition
  1. Aquilla Smith, Journey to Connaught, April 1709 in The Miscellany of the Irish Archaeological Society. Volume 1, Dublin, Irish Archaeological Society (1846) page 161–178

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Created: By Samuel Molyneux (1689–1728) Date range: 5 April to 3 May 1709.

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Language: [EN] The text is in English.
Language: [LA] Some words and phrases are in Latin.
Language: [GA] Some words and phrases are in Irish.

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