THE

IRISH CHIEFTAINS;

OR,

A STRUGGLE FOR THE CROWN.

BY THE SAME AUTHOR.

THE ANNALS OF GALWAY: with copies of original Charters and Deeds, Notes, &c.

A TOPOGRAPHICAL DESCRIPTION OF THE COUNTY OF CLARE, its CASTLES, ABBEYS, AND ROUND TOWERS,

GENERAL FORSTER'S Rebellion, or the Rising of 1715.

THE LADY ADELIZA DILLON: a Story of the Penal Laws.

THE GENEALOGIES OF THE PRINCIPAL FAMILIES IN THE COUNTIES OF GALWAY AND CLARE.

A COLLECTION OF THE OLDEST AND MOST POPULAR LEGends of THE PEASANTRY OF CLARE AND GALWAY.

THE

IRISH CHIEFTAINS;

OR,

A STRUGGLE FOR THE CROWN:

WITH

Numerous Notes and a copious Appendix.

BY

CHARLES FFRENCH BLAKE-FORSTER,

AUTHOR OF A HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF MAJOR-GENERAL DON HUGH
BALLDEARG O'DONNELL;

A HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE DE BERMINGHAMS, LORDS OF ATHENRY;

THE ANNALS OF ATHENRY, OR, YE CITIE OF THE BARONS;

THE ANNALS OF CORCOMROE ABBEY; LEMENAGH CASTLE, OR A LEGEND OF THE WILD HORSE;
THE ANNALS OF KILFENORA; THE ANNALS OF KNOCKMOY ABBEY;
AND A HISTORIC ENTITLED WHAT ARE THE ARMS OF GALWAY?
ETC. ETC.

doul from death but recover
Those hearts, as they bounded before,
In the face of high Heaven to fight over
That combat for freedom once more;

Could the chain for an instant be riven
Which Tyranny flung round us then,
Oh! 't is not in Man nor in Heaven
To let Tyranny bind it again!

MOORE.

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THE DESCENDANTS OF THOSE DISINTERESTED PATRIOTS

WHO FOUGHT

AT THE BOYNE, AUGHRIM, ATHLONE, GALWAY, LIMERICK,

AND

ON THE CONTINENT,

IN THE SERVICE OF THEIR RELIGION AND COUNTRY,

This Record

OF

THE VALOUR AND PATRIOTISM OF THEIR HEROIC ANCESTORS

IS INSCRIBED,

BY

THE AUTHOR.