HOGAN, Edmund. S.J. The Description of Ireland, and The State thereof as it is at this present in anno 1598. Now for the first time published, from a manuscript preserved in Clongowes-Wood College. With copious notes and illustrations.

Dublin: M.H. Gill, 1878. pp. xii, 382. Quarto. Modern brown cloth with original backstrip and upper cover laid on. Occasional mild foxing to prelims. A very good copy.
The manuscript book, from which this description of Ireland has been printed, is a royal quarto, bound in vellum, containing ninety-two pages of “The Description of Ireland as it is in hoc anno 1598,” and fifty-four pages of “Haynes’ Observations on the State of Ireland in 1600” - both specimens of the same exquisite penmanship. It bears on the first page the autograph of the celebrated Father Betagh, S. J., after whose death, in 1811, it passed, with his other MSS., to his distinguished pupil, Father Kenny, S. J., by whom it was deposited in Clongowes Wood College in the year 1814. It is said by competent judges to be about one hundred years old, and it is proved by the Betagh autograph and the Blauwa watermark to have been written between the years 1756 and 1811. - Preface.

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