DINELEY, Thomas. Observations in a Voyage through the Kingdom of Ireland [1680]: Being a collection of several Monuments, Inscriptions, Draughts of Towns, Castles, &c.

Dublin: Printed at the University Press, by M.H. Gill, 1870. From the Journal of the Kilkenny and South-East of Ireland Archaeological Society. pp. [3], 180. Half purple morocco on marbled boards, titled in gilt direct on rebacked spine. Ex lib with neat stamps. Some foxing to prelims. A very good copy. Extremely rare.
COPAC locates 2 copies only. WorldCat 2.
Edited by James Graves with contributions by him and E.P. Shirley, John P. Prendergast, John O’Donovan, Robert Malcomson, Samuel Hayman, John Windele, Richard Caulfield, George Du Noyer, John Davis White, William, R. Le Fanu, Maurice Lenihan, Robert O’Brien and Herbert J. Hoare.
Thomas Dingley or Dineley (died 1695) was an English antiquary born about the middle of the seventeenth century. Dingley left in manuscript a journal of his travails. In 1680 he visited Ireland, perhaps in a military capacity, travelling from Dublin to Carlow, and from there to Limerick and Bunratty. Abbeys, church monuments and castles occupied by English settlers attracted his attention and were included in the journal of his travels. Dineley’s drawings, though very valuable, are not always accurate and need to be treated with caution.

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