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possessethe likewise another pece of a countrey of Tyron side upon the 
Band, for which he doth contribute to Onele, and for his landes on the 
North side to them of Clandeboye; by reason of the fastnes and 
strengthe of his countrey, havinge succour and frendes on each side the 
Band, it is very hard to harme him, which maketh him so obstinate and 
careles as he never yet wolde appeare before any Deputie, but yeldethe 
still what relife he can to the Scottes. His force in people is very smale ; 
he standethe onelie upon the strength of his countrey, which in dede is 
the fastest grownde of Ireland.”* The substance of this statement is 
transferred by John Dymmok into his ‘‘Treatice of Ireland,” cire. 
1600, who corrupts the chieftain’s name to Bryan Mae Carvugh.t In 
his ‘‘ Particuler of the Rebells Forces,’ April 28, 1599, we find under 
Ulster, ‘‘Shane mac Bryan Carragh, and his cuntry joynyng on the 
Bansyde—S0 foot, 10 horse.”{ In Francis Jobson’s Maps of Ulster, 
preserved among the manuscripts of Trinity College, Bryan Carrogh’s 
Country is laid down on either side of the Bann, and a little south-east 
on the Antrim side, somewhere in the parish of Ahoghill, Zemple Brian 
Carrogh is also marked.§ With these agree the engraved maps of Bap- 
tista Boazio,|| Speed,** Jannson,{} and Blaeu.t{{ John Norden’s map, 
prefixed to the printed State Papers of Ireland, places Brian Carogh only 
on the county of Londonderry side, north-west of Forte Tuom, now 
Toome Bridge.§§ Local tradition circumscribes: his territory still more, 
bounding it on the north by Wolf Island; north-west by Drumlane 
March ; on the east by Tyanee Burn; on the south-east by Cut of the 
Hill, near Bellaghy; and on the south by the Clady River. 
This Brian, who bore the common epithet of Carrach, or ‘‘Scabbed,”’ ||| 
was an‘O’Neill, and great-grandson of Domhnall Donn, or ‘“ Donnell 
* Printed from the original recordin the State Paper Office, dated December 20, 1586, 
by Herbert F. Hore, Esq., in the “‘ Ulster Journal of Archzology,” vol. ii., p. 154. The 
county of Antrim part of this document had previously been printed, with a few verbal 
inaccuracies, from a copy in Dean Dobbs’ collection, by the Rev. John Dubourdieu, in his 
“‘ Statistical Survey of Antrim,” vol. ii., p. 620. 
ee relating to Ireland,” vol. ii., p. 23 (Irish Archzological Soc. Publications). 
Ibid., p. 29. 
§ The second map of Ulster in the Trin. Coll. collection of Irish maps and charts is a 
large coarsely coloured survey of Ulster, on vellum, by Francis Jobson, dated 1590. The 
third, which is smaller, and on paper, is also by Jobson, and marks Brian Carrugh on both 
sides of the Bann. Map 4 of Ulster, also by Jobson, on vellum, places Brian Caroth en- 
tirely on the east side of the river. 
|| This rudely executed and coloured map, which is extremely rare, was ‘“‘ graven by 
Renolde Elstrack,” and published in the latter part of Queen Elizabeth’s reign, and sold 
“in the Pope’s head alley by Mr. Sudbury.” It places Brian Caroch on the west side, 
but has his name to the south-east, lower down, near the Fevagh. 
** Speed’s Theatre; the Province of Ulster, between pp. 145, 146 (1614). 
ae Le Nouvel Atlas ou Theatre du Monde,” tom. iv., Irlande, between pp. 41, 42 
7). 
{i Blaeu, ‘‘ Geographia Hiberniz,” between pp. 27, 28 (1654). 
§§ With this agrees the copy of Norden’s map of Ulster, on vellum, in the Trin. Coll. 
collection, where it is No. 1 of Ulster. It is of the date 1609-1611. 
||| Capnach was in very common use. Thus, we find an earlier Brian Carrach 
O'Neill, in the‘ Annals of the Four Masters” at 1387; an Art Carrach at 1486; a 
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