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1 Da n i n e l O Mu l c O n n e r y’s Pe t i t i O n, 1638
(PHA Ms 5402)
The humble petition of Daninel oge O Mulconnery
To the Right Honourable the Lord Deputy and the rest of his Majesties
Commissioners of Plantation
Showing to your honours that about 24 years since Morish O Mulconery
your petitioner’s father for the natural love and affection he did bear to your
petitioner and for other valuable causes and considerations him moving
did by his deed dated the 4th day of April Anno Domini 1614 give and grant
to Teige Mac Mohona Mac Conmara and Teige O Brien Mac Donnogh
their heirs and assigns the town and lands of Ardkeile being in the estimation
one ploughland or thereabouts, the town and lands of Carhowlegane
containing one ploughland and the town and lands of Crevagh being one
ploughland all lying in the county of Clare and barony of Bunratty to the
sole and immediate use of your petitioner and the heirs male of his body
in remainder as by the said deed dated as aforesaid may appear by virtue
of which feoffment the said feofees became seised of the premises to the
use of your petitioner as aforesaid and to other uses in remainder in the
said deed contained.
Be that so it is, may it please your honours that the right honourable
Donat, late earl of Thomond, having a great desire to gain and acquire the
said lands from your petitioner’s said father in regard [that] they lay convenient
and near to the lands of his manor of Bunratty [and] having several
times treated with your petitioner’s father for purchasing the said lands and
could not compass his intent, at last in a compulsory manner and as your
petitioner is given to understand, by restraining your petitioner’s said father
from his liberty, your petitioner’s said father long after the said ffeement made
viz: in the year 1618 was forced to give the possession of the premises, so
conveyed to the use of your petitioner as aforesaid, to the said Donat, late earl
of Thomond in exchange of the lands of Shandangane. Shandangane, the land
of Craganeowen and two quartermeers of land in Culleane, all being [tear]
ploughlands or thereabouts and lying in the county of Clare; your petitioner
sayeth that the said lands given by his said father and estated upon your petitioner
as aforesaid are worth £200 per annum and the said lands given by the
said earl not worth above £60.
The premises considered for as much as his majesties as the grand office
lately taken entitled to all the said county of Clare to the end that your supplicant
may upon settlement of the plantation in those parts partake of the
benefit of his majesties grace and have his proportion out of his own land
estated to him as aforesaid to the end he may not be concluded or loose his
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