entries, viz., 775, the death of the Abbot of Inis-doimhle: the plunder of Inisdoimhle 821, 823, 951: the death of Dunalong Mac Donnogain, Abbot of Inis-doimhle and Teach-Munna, 953: the Danes plunder Inisdoimhle and Ui Liathain and robbed Lismore and Cork, 960."

This island was also called Inis-Temhni, e.g., the Wars of the Gaul and Gaill, record 821:"Corcach and Inis-Temhni plundered." There can, I think, be no doubt that Inis-doimhly was not Cape Clear. The Martyrology of Donegal (sub. July 4th, p. 187) describes Inis-Doimhle as situated between Hy Cennseleigh (in Wexford) and the Deisi (in Co. Waterford). Hence I think Dr. John O'Donovan is right in identifying it with the Little Island in the river Suir (see note, Annals Four Masters, anno 960).

J. M. B.

Andrew Hennessy's Life Boat.-Andrew Hennessy, of Passage, figures in our local annals as the builder of the first river steamer that ran on the Lee from Cork to Cove; but that he had other constructive abilities is evident from what follows:-Andrew Hennessy, of Passage, Cork (records the "Gentleman's Magazine" for November, 1825, page 454) has constructed a life or safety boat, from models submitted to the Lords of the Admiralty and Trinity Board in London. It is 36 feet keel, 7% feet beam, and 5% feet deep, capable of saving 50 or 60 persons from wreck in addition to her full crew. The timbers, which are very slight, are of oak, tarred and parcelled with light strong canvas, over which there is a casing of thin whalebone, then served like a rope with a marline. The covering or skin of the boat, instead of a plank, is a particular kind of canvas, of great strength and durability, and perfectly waterproof. The materials of this canvas have been saturated with a chemical process in the loom which preserves it from wet and the action of the atmosphere. It always preserves its pliability, and will not heat, mildew or rot. The boat is decked or covered with the same cloth. The deck is laced through the centre fore and aft from stem to stern post, and covered with laps to prevent the water getting in. The oarsmen sit on their thwarts, which are of the canvas already described, through the deck, from which coats are erected, fitted by plaits to their bodies, and buckling below the breast. The use of planks for coating or for the deck is altogether avoided. [This Passage lifeboat seems to have anticipated in a way the Berthon boats, now in such general use, invented by the late Vicar of Romsey, near Southampton.]

Limerick's Claim to Municipal Precedence of Cork Disposed of.— In a letter from the Town Clerk's office, 13 South Mall, Cork, April 18th, 1890, addressed to the Mayor of that day, the late Mr. Alexander McCarthy, Town Clerk, wrote as follows:-"The 'Cork Examiner' in an article on the ridiculous claim put forward by the Mayor of Limerick to precedence over the Mayor of Cork, suggests, would it not be well if the Corporations of the two cities voted a joint sum for the purpose of getting the very highest and most authentic decision on this troubled question. I desire to state that, in 1872, that suggestion was acted upon. I prepared a case to establish the claim of Cork. Limerick had a similar case prepared. Both cases were simultaneously sent to Sir Bernard Burke, Ulster King-of-Arms. I then made objections to the case for Limerick; and Limerick made objections to the Cork case. Limerick's claim depended solely upon having, as alleged, an earlier English charter of incorporation.

(The Limerick title rested on an assertion that its charter was of the year 1199, and Cork, they asserted, was not incorporated until 1242). I send you a copy of the Cork case and objections. Sir Bernard Burke was paid a fee of fifty guineas (half by each Corporation). He gave a long written opinion, winding up with the following paragraph:-"Reviewing the claims of the two Corporations, and giving full weight to the evidence in support of them, I have come to the conclusion that nothing has been established by Cork or Limerick to entitle either city to claim precedence of the other." J. Bernard Burke, Ulster Office of Arms, Dublin Castle, 28th of January, 1873. "You will thus see, concludes Mr. McCarthy, "that the question of precedence has no existence in fact; and as a matter of right no mayor, outside his own city, has any right of precedence."

Dr. Warburton, Bishop of Cloyne.-"Died August 9th, 1826, aged 71, the Right Rev. Charles Mongan, D.D., Lord Bishop of Cloyne. Dr. Warburton's paternal name was Mongan; and he was, it is said, the son of a poor roadway piper in the North of Ireland. He was a Roman Catholic, and intended for that Church. On the Continent, whither he had been sent to study in one of the institutions endowed for the education of priests before the building of Maynooth College, he was thrown by accident into the society of the Earl of Moira, and having won his favour was induced by him to change his destination to the Protestant Church. After taking orders, he was appointed chaplain to a regiment in America, and there he married his first wife, a lady said to have been particularly recommended by Lord Moira. That lady dying soon after, he married his second wife, now his widow. With her he changed his name to Warburton; with her he pursued the way to wealth and fortune, becoming Dean of Ardagh, Bishop of Limerick in 1806, and Bishop of Cloyne in 1820. When at Limerick Dr. Warburton was much esteemed for his courteous manners. His family led the van of society, and his translation to Cloyne, though an increase of £3,000 to the Bishop, was much regretted by the inhabitants. In the poor town of Cloyne he lived much retired; and it is rumoured that he amassed £120,000. He bore an excellent private character, was exemplary in the duties of a husband and father, and strict in his religious observances, but his Catholic neighbours discovered too close a hand, and were offended at the rapid accumulation of his fortune. This is divided among his four children, one son a colonel, one a major, and one in the Church, and his daughter, married to Archdeacon Maunsell at Limerick. The Bishop's daughter, Miss Selena Warburton, was one of the most charming and amiable young ladies in the world, whose life was spent in acts of goodness and charity. Her father allowed her the interest of £25,000, her promised fortune, and she expended almost every shilling of it in relieving the wants of the distressed. She died about a year since of a decline brought on, it was reported, by a misplaced affection. Her remains were carried to the grave amidst the lamentations of the many objects of her bounty. The whole parish mourned for her as a public benefactress. Dr. Warburton was most fondly attached to her, and from the day of her death he broke in health and spirits. His frequent practice was to visit the grave where she rested, and his last instructions were that he should be laid by her. About a week before his death he came into the church, and stood for some moments in painful silence over the place, marked out the spot where he was soon to lie, pointing to it with his finger, and said, “There, there. That day his disorder increased; he went to his bed of death; and in one week he was borne to his last home. "-"Gentleman's Magazine" for Oct., 1826, p. 370.

Captain Jackson Pigott, Manor House, Dundrum, Co. Down, is greatly desirous of receiving information as to the Richard Heacock and Hester Davis, below-named:

Curious Incidents connected with a Co. Cork Baronetcy.- In the Cork baronetcy which began with the famous Sir Richard Cox, of Dunmanway, whose name and story have been so frequently mentioned in the pages of this "Journal," it is a singular fact that it only twice descended to a son, and never to the eldest son. "Dod's Peerage," etc., for 1900 states that it is believed to have become extinct on the death of the 12th baronet in 1873. It was, however, assumed by the uncle of the Rev. Sir George Cox, a Church of England clergyman, and a most voluminous writer, who was himself presented to his living by the crown as a baronet. This Rev. Sir George Cox, who claimed to be the fourteenth baronet, died some time ago; but in his lifetime the title was also assumed by Captain Sir Hawtrey Cox as eleventh baronet, by descent from the issue of a first marriage of the Most Rev. Michael Cox, who would take priority to the issue of a second marriage, through whom the above-named Sir George traced his claim. J. C.

Reviews and Notes of Books, etc.

The Antiquary, 1905. With the January number our valued contemporary commenced its second quarter of a century of existence and usefulness. The event has been marked by a new and enlarged series, a new section called "At the Sign of the Owl," and a new cover design. In addition to these changes, the list of interesting papers promised for the current year should ensure its success and widen the sphere of its influence. Amongst these latter we note an article on the "Round Towers of Ireland" by an occasional contributor to our own columns, the Rev. J. B. McGovern, which appeared in the January and March numbers. Antiquaries this side the mare Hibernicum must perforce welcome its appearance, though they will possibly not all accept its conclusions. But the suggested via media it contains bespeaks for itself an unbiassed consideration which we feel confident it will obtain. Other Irish antiquarian topics receive attention in the "Antiquarian News" section, such as notices of the proceedings of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland and reviews of Irish works. Thus the January number contained appreciative notices. of Mr. J. R. Garstin's paper on "Greek Inscriptions in Ireland," read on November 29th last, and Father Dineen's "Irish-English Dictionary. These facts should commend the new venture to Irish readers, and we heartily wish it ad multos annos. C. O. M.

A History of the County Dublin: Part Third. Dublin: Alexander Thom and Co., 1905. The author, a frequent contributor to the pages of this Journal, exhibits in this work a very extensive knowledge of Irish social life in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and repeoples the district, comprising the Southern side of the County, about which he writes, with many of its principal residents in those old days, few of whose names, in all probability, are now locally remembered. The district under notice is not a fertile one, and was too far removed from the metropolis in the days of slow and inconvenient modes of travelling to have been sought after as a residential locality, with the result that the families mentioned in connection with it are not as numerous as they otherwise might be

An amount of very curious information leading up to national history is nevertheless disclosed in connection with the rise and distinction of many a family, the population of the district at various times, and the condition of the castles and old houses there in days remote and modern. There is, too, a record of the pillar stones, cromlechs (of which there is an abundance), Celtic and Norman churches and other antiquities existing in the different parishes. The book is written in an agreeable style,and is very tastefully illustrated.

1904.

Caitrim Conġail Cláiringnis.-Martial Career of Conghal Claringhneagh, edited by Patrick M. MacSweeney, M.A. London: David Nutt, This is the fifth annual volume of the Irish Texts Society. The tale now published belongs to the Red Branch cycle, and has been edited from a manuscript in the Royal Irish Academy dating, approximately, from the middle of the seventeenth century. It would appear to possess some political significance, and probably owed its inception to the following circumstances. We quote from the editor's lucid introductory study: "The founding of Emania is to be taken as marking the rise of a tribal community in Ulster into a position of political importance. With the growth of tribal independence there also grew up a literary tradition based upon tribal myths and customs. Such must have been the beginning of the literature which set itself to glorify the Clann Rury and its heroes. The rise of Emania, the development of Ultonian power brought the northern clann into contact with the other tribal communities, and, above all, into contact with that one which claimed and exercised a hegemony over the rest, that of the Ardrigh at Tara. In this stress of competition between the early tribes, which has its counterpart in the early history of all races, as, for example, in the so-called Heptarchy in England, or, better still, in the early struggle of the Latin tribes against their neighbours, is to be found the political motive underlying the Early Irish Romances and Sagas." Several personages and places are mentioned in the tale, and the language of it is particularly forceful and descriptive; but it is only when much more of this old-world story, in whose publication the Irish Texts Society is actively engaged, has been carefully and intelligently edited that the true worth of this class of literature and its place in history can be, if at all, estimated. The editor, it may be mentioned, comes from a long line of Irish scribes and scholars-the O'Longans of County Cork-and it is interesting to know that this his first literary undertaking deals with the Irish language with very promising results.

Association for the Preservation of the Memorials of the Dead, Ireland. The Journal of this Association for the latter half of last year (vol vi. No. 1, part ii.) is well up to its wonted standard. It is well printed on good paper and is extensively illustrated with photographs, rubbings and drawings of ancient crosses, effigies, quaint inscriptions, remarkable tombs, church plate and so forth. Considering the very excellent and useful work that is being done by this Association, both in the preservation of decayed monuments and in the publication of vanishing inscriptions and other perishable records, one regrets that its efforts are not more widely supported and appreciated. A new and welcome feature, in the shape of a Notes and Queries department, has been introduced in the part of the Journal under notice. The Secretary of the Association