The Irish Penny Journal, Vol. 1 No. 30, January 23, 1841

The Irish Penny Journal, Vol. 1 No. 30, January 23, 1841

The Castle of Monea or Castletown-Moneaproperly Magh an fhiaidh, i.e. the plain of the deeris situated in the parish of Devinish, county of Fermanagh, and about five miles north-west of Enniskillen. Like the Castle of Tully, in the same county, of which we gave a view in a recent number, this castle affords a good example of the class of castellated residences erected on the great plantation of Ulster by the British and Scottish undertakers, in obedience to the fourth article concerning the English and Scottish undertakers, who are to plant their portions with English and inland-Scottish tenants, which was imposed upon them by the orders and conditions to be observed by the undertakers upon the distribution and plantation of the escheated lands in Ulster, in 1608. By this article it was provided that every undertaker of the greatest proportion of two thousand acres shall, within two years after the date of his letters patent, build thereupon a castle, with a strong court or bawn about it; and every undertaker of the second or middle proportion of fifteen hundred acres shall within the same time build a stone or brick house thereupon, with a strong court or bawn about it. And every undertaker of the least proportion of one thousand acres shall within the same time make thereupon a strong court or bawn at least; and all the said undertakers shall cause their tenants to build houses for themselves and their families, near the principal castle, house, or bawn, for their mutual defence or strength, &c. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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