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hill at Rathfryland. Another and a very fatisfaftory 

 reafon might 1 be adduced for the frequency of the 

 Englifh, caftles, when compared with the Irifh; the 

 former came in as invaders, and confcquently were 

 obliged to fecure themfelves againfl the inhabitants j 

 whilft the latter relying on the fidelity of their coun- 

 trymen thought they had a fufficient fecurity in their 

 numbers and attachment, and probably looked forward 

 to the time they fhould expel them, and take pofleffion 

 of their labours. 



A note upon the following paflage from page 279 

 of Lyttleton's Hiftory of Henry II. book V. will in 

 fome degree account for the few buildings creeled by 

 the Irifh chiefs, after the invafions of the Englifh : 

 The caufe of this was a fixed opinion in the Irifti, 

 that walled towns and forts were dangerous to their 

 freedom, and that to them it would always be more 

 advantageous to deftroy than to pofTefs them." The 

 note fays, this opinion prevailed fo long among them, 

 that Con O'Neil, whom king Henry VIII. created Earl 

 of Tyrone, curfed all his pofterity, who fhould .build 

 any houfes, faying " that by building they would but 

 do as the crow doth make her nefl to be beaten out by 

 the hawks." The word boufes here meant houfes of 

 brick or flone, -fuch as the Englifh built in Ireland, 

 which were generally caftles or edifices in walled 

 towns ; whereas the Irifh dwelt in huts, readily raifed 

 or pulled down, like the ancient Britons and Germans, 



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