HORE, Philip Herbert. History of the Town and County of Wexford (Rare first edition set)

Dunbrody Abbey, The Great Island, Ballyhack; Tintern Abbey, Rosegarland and Clonmines; Duncannon Fort, Kilclogan or Templetown, Fethard, Houseland, Porters Gate, Loftus Hall, Galgystown, Hook (including Churchtown), Slade, Baginbun, and Bannow; The Town of Wexford, with a chapter on Taghmon, and a short Notice of Harperstown, the ancient seat of the Hore family; The Town, Castle, and Cathedral Church of Ferns, Enniscorthy, Gorey and Newtownbarry, and the Northern Part of the County; Old and New Ross. From Ancient Records and State Papers in the British Museum and the Public Record Offices of London and Dublin, with translations of the Rawlinson Ms. in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, as regards Dunbrody. With map and illustrations. Six volumes. London: Eliot Stock, 1901/1911. Quarto. Modern green cloth, title in gilt on green morocco label on spines. Ex libris with neat circular stamps. A very good set of the rare first edition.
Herbert F. Hore collected a lot of materials relating to the history of Ireland, and the history of Co. Wexford in particular. His son Philip Herbert Hore later published much of Herbert F. Hore’s work and these materials between 1900 and 1911 in the six-volume History of the Town and County of Wexford.

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