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Castle Coning (C. S.P.I. ). 1261 It was destroyed by the Irish under 

 King Conor na Siudaine O'Brien. 1272 and 1274 The manor of 

 Castro Konyng, with C. Amory, Tristellaueran, &c., held by "Walter 

 de Burgo (Pipe R.). 1274 The King granted the C. to Theo le Butler. 

 1275 to T. declare. 1279 Butler was paid £100 for its loss (Close E.). 

 1285-7 de Burgo, the Earl of Ulster, and the men of Castroconyng 

 harboured Terdeluath O'Brien (Prince of Thomond) before his raid 

 on de Clare's lands at Cahirconlish and Grean (Plea R., and see 

 Wars of Torlough). "Walter de Burgo enlarged and strengthened it 

 before 1299. In 1315 Castrum Congher wasted by the Bruces. 

 (Wars of Torlough). 1317 Orders to Ric, Earl of Ulster, as to 

 Castroconyn, &c. (B. Mem., m. 14). 1355 Ric. Bourke of Castro 

 Conning licensed to treat with the Irish. Erom the Book of the 

 Ui Mhaoilchonaires we learn its owners during the usually blank 

 period of the later fourteenth and the fifteenth centuries. Walter Duff, 

 son of Richard, made a partition of his lands (about 1400-1410); to his 

 eldest son Richard, he gave Tiobraid Aronn (Tipperary), Caislean Ui 

 Chonaing, and Cathair-Cinnleis ; William, son of this Richard, held 

 it circa 1450 ; his son Edm., circa 1490, and grandson William. The 

 latter was knighted 1535. Pardon was granted to him in 1558 ; and, 

 with his son Tybott, 1564 (FiantsMary 274, Eliz, 902), he is described 

 as W. Bourke mac Edm. of Kislaneyconnell, and created Baron Bourke 

 of Castelconyll for his services against James of Desmond, 1580. Of 

 his sons, Theobald fell in battle, 1578 ; three others were Barons in 

 succession. In 1583 he held the ''Castel et vill de Castleconell 

 and fishing quarters" (Inq. Exch. Eliz. 9), called " Castel et vill de 

 Ekonnell in Peroch. de H^estermoy " (Des. R., 37). The Lords of 

 Castleconnell play a large part in the local history thenceforward. 

 William fought in the civil war, sat in the Parliament of Kilkenny, 

 and went over sea to Charles II. in the IS'etherlands, " trailing a pike 

 in the Duke of York's Regiment." The C. surrendered to the 

 Commonwealth, 1651 ; for it and the weu' and courts see C.S. xxi,, 

 p. 4, &, B. D., 107. In 1690 it was surrendered by Captain Barnwell 



1 It is cited in a valuable, but scarcely known, Eental of the Burkes (T.C.D. 

 H. I. 18), to which Mr. Standish Hayes O'Grady, and at a later date Mr. Hubert 

 Knox, called my attention. The Rental deals with persons living about 1540. 

 It has a quatrain in honour of Eichard Saxonagh, apparently before his succession 

 to the Earldom of Clanrickard in 1544. The present copy was made and possibly 

 recast about 1617, as alluding to Tibot, son of Tibot, and Baron of Caislean, an 

 I chonaing, i.e. to the first Baron of Brittas. It seems to have been compiled 

 by David O'Bruadar from *' Maoilehonaire's sons' Book." 



