Westropp — Early Italian Maps of Ireland from 1300-1600. 397 



Wexford. — The mythical account of the bursting of the loch from 

 Garman's grave^ calls it a " branching broad haven of ships, assembly plain 

 of the light boats." The foreigners of Loch Garmain were grievously 

 defeated by the Irish in 1088. Its fleet joined that of Dublin to relieve 

 "Waterford in 1137. Weiseford was granted by Dermot, King of Leinster, 

 to Eobert FitzStephen in 1169, and the latter was besieged in the 

 promontory fort of Carrick near it, and deceived into a surrender to the 

 Danes. Giraldus says that the place imported wine from Brittany in 1183 ; 

 herrings were bought there for the king's army in 1234 ; and fishermen from 

 it were slain in the Isle of Man in 1217." In 1283 the "Oustmen of 

 Weiseford " had dwindled to some fifty-two men. Its customs, 1292-3, include 

 dues on 41 hogsheads from St. Emilian. Gerard Chymbard of Lucca held 

 the new custom there in 1295. The Pipe Eolls often record prise of wines 

 down to the reign of Edward III. It imported spices, and the prior paid a 

 pound of pepper or its value, 3 pence, in 1323. The name is said to be 

 Waesfiordr, "Wash-fiord like the Wash in Lincobishire or in Cambridgeshire.' 



Eoss. — Near the monastery, founded by St. Abban, who died 630, a place 

 Bos mic triun, " washed by the tide," is named in his " Lives." The later 

 English absurdly derived its name from " Grume, King of Denmark," and 

 " Lady Eose Mac Grume,"* whom some alleged to have been a sister of 

 Strongbow, 1170, who had walled it in 1265, or even in ISl'S ! Earl 

 "William, the Marshal of England (son-in-law of " Strongbow "), made an 

 oaken bridge there, whence the name Bosponte, as distinct from Old Boss, 

 the monastery. A small town at once sprang up at it, where King John 

 stayed in 1210, dating several letters from " Eoss de Novo Ponte. ' 

 Henry III was hostile to it, and strove to divert its trade to "Waterford in 

 1222 ; and a foreign ship was arrested there in 1235. Eichard, Earl Marshal, 

 granted a charter of deforestation to Old Eoss (Eosberchon), near the New 

 Bridge, in 1232. A remarkable contemporary poem* describes the walling of 

 New Eoss in 1265 : among the various sections working on its walls are the 



' Dind Seanchus, Journal Eoy. Soc. Antt. Ir. (1S72), vol. ii, ser. iv, p. 29. 



- Annals Loch Ce. The Isle of Man was only gradually drifting from Norse to English 

 allegiance. The Iiish Government sent com and wine to the King of Man, 1220. In 1235 the 

 King guarded the sea towards Ireland (Close Eolls, xis Hen. Ill, i, m. 7). In the former year the 

 King of Xorway threatened him for doing homage to Henry III (ib.). There was also a slaughter of 

 Irishmen in Anglesea in 1248 (C. D. I., No. 2952 and 2962). 



'Besides general authorities, "County and City of Wexford," Herbert Hore, one of a series 

 of works containing a mine of helpful material for Irish history. 



* Comparable to the English derivations of Dublin from "Double Inn," Fethard from 

 "Eighthard," Smerwick from "St. Mary's Wick," Teelin from " St. Helen," and Owney from 

 " St. Anthony" I 



^ See "National Manuscripts of Ireland," iii, Appendix ii. 



