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Journey to Connaught, April 1709 (Author: Samuel Molyneux)

entry 9

Thursday, 22nd— Walk'd about the town and view'd it further. The inhabitants, I find, are all what they call English Irish, i. e. familys that came over at or soon after the Conquest, and were here settled in this strong town as a Colony against the naturall Irish of these parts, and whose posterity still live here, and with their old religion enjoy also their old possessions32.