Westrupp — Forests of the Ooimties of the Lower Shannon Valley. 297 



take the Civil Survey^ as more authoritative than the Down Survey, using 

 the latter as we used the Desmond Eoll and Inquisition on the former 

 occasion as a side-light on the chosen survey. We, however, can only 

 give a most condensed abstract from the Civil Survey to close our paper, 

 for its record is, of course, a small one compared with that of 1586 before 

 the woods suffered from the energy of the new colony, and the great 

 Slieve Luachra forest had virtually disappeared in the interim. The result 

 shows that there were 4,500 acres of timber, 8,100 of shrubs, and about 

 960 of underwood subsisting in 1655, or 12,586 acres in all. 



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Diagram of County Limerick. 



Obchaeds. — Before tabulating the results, we may give a list of the 

 orchards then subsisting, of which elsewhere we get, for both Clare and 

 Limerick, only most scattered details. They usually lay near the castles. 

 The following are named : — 



CoSMAY. — Eathcannan, Bruff, Ballygrennane, Craggane, Croom, Caher- 

 Assey, Tullyovyne, Fanningstown, Tworin (Castle levers), Monasteranenye. 

 PuBBLEBRiEN. — Ballinvcalla, Graige, Millick. Liberties.— Garran Ikey, 



1 Vols. XX i. to xxxii. 



