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Memoir of the LANGUAGE, MANNERS flwrt' CUSTOMS 

 of an Anglo-Saxon Colony fettled in the Baronies of FORTH 

 and B A R G I E, in the County o/'WEXFORD, IRELAND, 

 in 1 167, 1168 and 1169. By CHARLES VALLANCEY, 

 L. L. D. Member of the Royal Societies of London, Dublin and 

 Edinburgh ; of the Academy of Cor ton a, and of Belles Lettres, of the 

 Antiquarian Society of Perth, and of the Philofophical Society of 

 Philadelphicu Communicated by the Right Honourable the Earl of 

 CHARLEMONT, P.R.LA. 



A HE baronies of Bargie and Forth are fiuiated at the fouthern Read Dec. 

 extremity of the county of Wexford, and, together, contain 

 about fixty fquare Irifh miles. They lie due eafl from Cardigan- 

 fhire, in Wales ; the fhortnefs of the paflage caufed a frequent 

 intercourfe between the Irifli and the Britons from the earlieft 

 account of their hiftory. 



In the year 1167 Dermod, King of Leinfter, was a powerful 

 prince ; the errors of his civil government, the oppreffion of his 



fubje(fts, 



