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Pococke's Tour in Ireland in 1752

Author: Richard Pococke

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George T. Stokes

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Sources

    Manuscript Source
  1. Dublin, Trinity College Library, MS 887. According to Macalister (see below) this is not the autograph: 'it seems to be a transcript made by some scribe, neat-fingered but not over-intelligent, as is indicated by his writing Dunfany for the familiar name Dunsany (misreading the long s) a few lines before the passage which specially interests us. This, as well as the overwhelming probability that the bishop is writing entirely from memory, must be borne in mind characterising the description, which is not a little puzzling.'
    Writings by Richard Pococke
  1. Richard Pococke, A Description of the East and of some other Countries, Vol. I, Observations on Egypt (London 1743).
  2. Richard Pococke, A Description of the East and of some other Countries, Vol. II.1 Observations on Palaestina or the Holy Land, Syria, Mesopotamia, Cyprus and Candia; Vol. II. 2: Observations on the islands of the Archipelago, Asia Minor, Thrace, Greece, and some other parts of Europe (London 1745).
  3. Richard Pococke, "An Account of the Giants Causeway in Ireland, in a Letter to the President from the Rev. Richard Pococke, LL. D. Archdeacon of Dublin, and F. R. S.", Royal Society, Philosophical Transactions, vol. 45 (January 1748).
  4. Daniel William Kemp (ed.), Richard Pococke, Tours in Scotland, 1747, 1750, 1760 (Edinburgh, Publications of the Scottish History Society 1, 1887; reprinted Maryland 2003).
  5. James Joel Cartwright (ed.), The travels through England of Dr. Richard Pococke, successively Bishop of Meath and of Ossory during 1750, 1751, and later years (London: Camden Society 1888).
  6. John McVeigh [=McVeagh] (ed.), Richard Pococke's Irish tours (Dublin 1995). [Edition of all his tours in Ireland, including the previously unedited one through Connaught and Munster 1749].
  7. J. C. Hodgson (ed.), 'Northern Journeys of Bishop Richard Pococke', in: North Country Diaries (Second Series), Surtees Society 124 199–252 (Durham, London and Ediburgh 1914).
  8. Richard Pococke, An Account of some Antiquities found in Ireland, communicated by the Right Reverend Richard Pococke, late Lord Bishop of Meath, Archaeologia 2 (1773) 32–41.
  9. Lilian Dickens and Mary Stanton (eds.), An Eighteenth Century Correspondence (London 1910) [Pococke's correspondence with Sanderson Miller].
  10. G. T. Stokes' edition of Richard Pococke's Tour in Ireland is available in PDF format at www.archive.org (with illustrations not reproduced in this edition).
    Other descriptions of Ireland;,and books mentioned by Stokes
  1. Sir William Brereton, 'Carrickfergus visited in 1635'; edited by E. Hawkins. Carrickfergus & District Historical Journal, 4 (1988–89) 11–16. [Available on CELT.]
  2. Thomas Crofton Croker (ed.), The tour of the French traveller M. de La Boullaye Le Gouz in Ireland, A.D. 1644, ed. by T. Crofton Croker, with notes, and illustrative extracts, contributed by James Roche, Francis Mahony, Thomas Wright, and the editor. (London 1837). [=A translation of portions of 'Les voyages et observations du sieur de la Boullaye Le Gouz (. . .)' Paris 1653.] [Available on CELT.]
  3. Roderic O'Flaherty, A chorographical description of West or h-Iar Connaught, written A.D. 1684; ed. J. Hardiman (Dublin 1846).
  4. 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).
  5. Samuel Molyneux, 'Journey to Connaught, April 1709', ed. Aquilla Smith, The Miscellany of the Irish Archaeological Society (Dublin 1846), 161–178. [Available on CELT.]
  6. 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).
  7. Charles Smith (formerly attributed to Walter Harris), The antient and present state of the county of Down. Containing a chorographical description, with the natural and civil history of the same. (. . .) (Dublin 1744).
  8. Charles Smith, The antient and present state of the county and city of Waterford (Dublin 1746. Reprinted Cork 1969.)
  9. [William Rufus Chetwood and Philip Luckombe], A tour through Ireland in several entertaining letters: wherein the present state of that kingdom is consider'd ... interspersed with observations on the manners, customs, antiquities, curiosities, and natural history of that country ... by two English gentlemen, London 1748.
  10. Charles Smith, The antient and present state of the county and city of Cork: in four books. I. Containing, the antient names of the territories and inhabitants, with the civil and ecclesiastiscal division thereof. II. The topography of the county and city of Cork. III. The civil history of the county. IV. The natural history of the same (. . .) (Dublin 1750. Reprinted Dublin 1774. Reprinted by the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society, with the addition of numerous original notes, etc., from the MSS. of the late Thomas Crofton Croker, F.S.A., and Richard Caulfield, LL.D. Edited by Robert Day and W.A. Copinger. Cork 1893–1894).
  11. John Lodge, The Peerage of Ireland, 4 volumes (London 1754).
  12. Charles Smith, The ancient and present state of the county of Kerry (Dublin 1756).
  13. 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).
  14. James Kelly (ed), The letters of Lord Chief Baron Edward Willes to the earl of Warwick, 1757–62: an account of Ireland in the mid-eighteenth century (Aberystwyth 1990).
  15. 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).
  16. Charles Smith, The ancient and present state of the county and city of Waterford: containing a natural, civil, ecclesiastical, historical and topographical description thereof. (Dublin 1773; 1774).
  17. Charles Smith, The ancient and present state of the county of Kerry. Containing a natural, civil, ecclesiastical, historical and topographical description thereof. (Dublin 1774. Reprinted Dublin/Cork: Mercier Press 1979).
  18. [Thomas Campbell,] A Philosophical Survey of the South of Ireland, in a series of letters to John Watkinson (Dublin 1778). [Available on CELT.]
  19. Arthur Young, A Tour in Ireland, with general observations on the present state of that kingdom: made in the years 1776, 1777, and 1778. And brought down to the end of 1779. London, printed by H. Goldney, for T. Cadell and J. Dodsley, 1780; Dublin, printed by George Bonham, for Messrs. Whitestone, Sleater, Sheppard, Williams, Burnet, Wilson Jenkin, Wogan, Vallance, White, Beatty, Byrn, and Burton, 1780; repr. London [etc.] 1887. [Available on CELT.]
  20. William Hamilton, Letters concerning the northern coast of the county of Antrim, containing observations on the antiquities, manners, and customs of that country (. . .) illustrated by an accurate map of the County of Antrim, and views of the most interesting objects on the coast (Dublin 1786; various reprints 1790, 1822).
  21. George Taylor and Andrew Skinner, Maps of the roads of Ireland surveyed (London 1777; 2nd edition with one extra plate 1782).
  22. Charles Vallancey, Collectanea de rebus Hibernicis. (. . .) Published from the MSS, vol ii, Antiquities of Irishtown and Kilkenny (Dublin 1786).
  23. George Holmes, Sketches of some of the southern counties of Ireland, collected during a tour in the autumn of 1797 in a series of letters (London 1797). New edition, introduced by Hugh Weir (Whitegate: Ballinakella Press, 1987).
  24. Johann Friedrich Hering's description of Connacht, in: Select Documents XLI: Johann Friedrich Hering's description of Connacht, 1806–7, Irish Historical Studies 25/99 (May 1987) 311–321: 315–321. [Available on CELT.]
  25. Sir Richard Colt Hoare, Journal of a Tour in Ireland, AD 1806 (Dublin and London 1807).
  26. Richard Cumberland, Memoirs of Richard Cumberland, written by himself. Containing an account of his life and writings, interspersed with anecdotes and characters of several of the most distinguished persons of his time, with whom he has had intercourse and connexion. Two volumes (London 1807).
  27. Anne Plumptre, Narrative of a residence in Ireland during the Summer of 1814, and that of 1815 (London 1817). [Available on CELT.]
  28. John Christian Curwen, Observations on the state of Ireland, principally directed to its agriculture and rural population; in a series of letters, written on a tour through that country. Printed for Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy. 2 vols. (London 1818).
  29. James Hardiman, The history of the town and county of the town of Galway (Dublin 1820). Available online at: http://www.askaboutireland.ie/reading-room/
  30. George Newenham Wright, A Guide to the county of Wicklow (London 1822).
  31. James Norris Brewer, The Beauties of Ireland (London 1825–26).
  32. Caesar Otway, Sketches in Ireland: descriptive of interesting, and hitherto unnoticed districts, in the north and south (Dublin 1827).
  33. Patrick Knight, Erris in the Irish highlands and the Atlantic railway (Dublin and London 1836).
  34. Caesar Otway, Sketches in Ireland: descriptive of interesting portions of the counties of Donegal, Cork, and Kerry (Dublin 1839).
  35. Caesar Otway, A Tour in Connaught (Dublin 1839).
  36. Caesar Otway, Sketches in Erris and Tyrawly (Dublin and London 1845).
  37. William Reeves, Ecclesiastical Antiquities of Down, Connor, and Dromore, consisting of a taxation of those dioceses, (. . .) (Dublin 1847).
  38. Rev. James Graves and J. G. Prim, The History, architecture and antiquities of the cathedral church of St. Canice, Kilkenny (Dublin 1857).
  39. Sir Bernard Burke, Vicissitudes of Families: and other essays (London 1860).
  40. Mary Delany, The autobiography and correspondence of Mary Granville, Mrs. Delany: with interesting reminiscences of King George the Third and Queen Charlotte (London: Series 1 in 3 volumes, 1861; Series 2 in 3 volumes, 1862).
  41. Sir Bernard Burke, A genealogical History of the dormant, abeyant, forfeited and extinct peerages of the British empire. (New ed. London 1866).
  42. Sir William Wilde, Lough Corrib, its Shores and Islands (Dublin 1867).
  43. George T. Stokes, Ireland and the Celtic Church (Dublin 1886).
  44. George T. Stokes, Ireland and the Anglo-Norman Church. A History of Ireland and Irish Christianity from the Anglo-Norman Conquest to the Dawn of the Reformation (London 1889).
  45. George Benn, A History of the town of Belfast from the earliest times to the close of the eighteenth century, 2 vols. (London 1877).
  46. Reverend Mervyn Archdall, Monasticum Hibernicum; or an History of the Abbies, Priories, and other Religious Houses in Ireland, 2 volumes (London 1786).
    Further reading
  1. John Nichols, Literary anecdotes of the eighteenth century: comprizing biographical memoirs of William Bowyer, Printer, F. S. A. and many of his learned friends (. . .), 9 volumes (London 1812–1816).
  2. John Nichols, Illustrations of the literary history of the eighteenth century: consisting of authentic memoirs and original letters of eminent persons; and intended as a sequel to the Literary anecdotes, 8 volumes (London 1817–1858).
  3. R.A.S. Macalister, Temair Beg: a study of the remains and traditions of Tara. Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy (Dublin 1919) especially note p. 398–99.
  4. Michael Quane, 'Pococke School, Kilkenny', The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 80, no. 1 (January 1950) 36–72.
  5. Constantia Maxwell, The stranger in Ireland: from the reign of Elizabeth to the Great Famine (London 1954).
  6. Pádraig Ó Maidín, Pococke's tour of south and south-west Ireland in 1758, Journal of the Cork Historical & Archaeological Society, 2nd ser., 63 (1958) 73–94; 64 (1959) 35–56; 109-130; 65 (1960) 130–141.
  7. C. J. Woods, Pococke's journey through County Down in 1760, Ulster Journal od Archaeology, 3rd series 48 (1985), 113–115.
  8. Maureen Hegarty, Dr Richard Pococke's travels in Ireland, England and Wales. Old Kilkenny Review: Journal of the Kilkenny Archaeological Society 3 (1987) 388–398.
  9. John McVeagh, "Romantick" Ireland: Pococke's tour of Cork and Kerry, 1758. Éire-Ireland, 25:2 (1990) 69–95.
  10. James Kelly (ed), The letters of Lord Chief Baron Edward Willes to the earl of Warwick, 1757-62: an account of Ireland in the mid-eighteenth century (Aberystwth 1990).
  11. Andrew Hadfield; John McVeagh (eds.), Strangers to that land: British perceptions of Ireland from the Reformation to the famine (Gerards Cross 1994).
  12. John McVeagh (ed.), Irish Travel Writing. A Bibliography (Dublin 1996).
  13. Celestine Rafferty (ed), Richard Pococke's tour through County Wexford, 1752, Journal of the Wexford Historical Society 21 (2006) 57–69.
  14. Aideen Ireland, 'Richard Pococke (1704–65), antiquarian', Peritia 20 (2008) 353–378.
  15. C. J. Woods, Travellers' accounts as source material for Irish historians (Dublin 2009).
    The edition used in the digital edition
  1. Pococke's Tour in Ireland in 1752. Richard PocockeGeorge T. Stokes (ed), First edition [187 pages] Hodges, Figgis, and Co.; Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent, and Co. Dublin and London (1891)

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Created: By Richard Pococke (1752)

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