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Livery of Manor of Tuoghesigreene to Murtagh, son of Tirlagh 

 Maclbrien Arra^ (Pat. E.)- 1653 Collins allowed £3 4:S.2d, for 

 repair of Tough Garrison (Acct. R., 14). 1655 Teauragh, Tough, 

 and Tometerriff shown with two towers (D.S.A., 30). Tough and 

 Pallisbeg C. in repair, bawen, orchards, and two mill seats on the 

 river Glydagh held by Teige O'Brien (C.S.,xxx., p. 8, B.D., p. 115). 

 1666 Eoger, Earl of Orrery, confirmed in Manor of Twagh, with 

 Tometarriff and Tearaffe or Teauragh (Act Sett.). It was in later 

 days the residence of the Lloyd family. 



COONAGH. 



The ancient tribe of TJi Cuanach gave their name to the district 

 which appears nnder their name in our earliest records. The Hui 

 Cuanach were visited by St. Patrick, about 437, according to the 

 Tripartite Life. The district plays no prominent part in the Danish 

 wars or in the history of the jS'orman settlement. It was in later 

 limes in the almost exclusive possession of a branch of the O'Briens. 

 The present barony includes much of the more historic Aes Grian with 

 its interesting centre, Pallas. Esgrene was during the thirteenth and 

 fourteenth centuries an important N"orman manor, usually held with 

 the manors of Adare and Croom. It was owned successively by the de 

 •Clares, de Cogans, and the Earls of Kildare. 



87. CooNAGH. Site unknown,^ possibly Cullen or Castletown. 

 Sweetman, without any known authority, identifies Occonagh as Old 

 Connaught, near Bray, in County "Wicklow. In 1215 King John 

 granted to Henry de Londi'es, Archbishop of Dublin, the cantred of 

 -O'Conath with the vill of Tibrary. 1227 circa, W. de Mariscis 

 held it, in right of his wife Matilda, to whom it had been granted 

 before her marriage by the Archbishop. In 1236 de Mariscis killed 

 Henry Clement, and the Crown seized his lands ; but finding in 1245 

 that Okonach could not be taken, being Matilda's portion, they 

 gave her seizin. In 1250 The chapters of Holy Trinity and St. 

 Patrick's, Dublin, prayed to be indemnified about the grant ; but 

 the King, "knowing that the lands and Castle were wrongly 

 alienated," retained them, granting instead 30 librates, and Baliscadan 

 instead of the cantred and C. granted by King John. 1260 Granted 



^ Tirlagh was created a baronet, xxi Jas. I., Pat. R., xxiii., 1623. 

 - It has been suggested that it is Carriguonagh ; but in frequent mention of 

 that place there is no mention of a C. known lo me. 



