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the prevention of similar calamities,
and which would
also form a commodious harbour
for the boats employed
in the Nymph bank fisheries.
The market is on Saturday,
and is well supplied with meat, fish, and vegetables:
it is held in a large walled square, along one side
of which are sheds, erected by
Lord Doneraile. A chief
constabulary police force is stationed here, and petty
sessions are held on alternate
Tuesdays. The parish
church of Drumcannon is situated
in the town, and in
the churchyard is a monument
raised by the surviving
officers of the 59th to the memory
of the shipwrecked
soldiers of that regiment; they
also ordered a monument
to be erected in the cemetery of the old church
at Drumcannon, over the remains of those who were
interred there, which has been executed but not yet
put up. The town is the head of a R. C. union or
district, comprising the parishes of Drumcannon and
Corbally, in each of which is a chapel, that of Drumcannon
being in the town of Tramore. An almshouse
founded for 12 men and 12 women, by Mrs. Catherine
Walsh, and a dispensary maintained in the customary
manner are also situated in the town; near which are
the ruins of the castle of Cullen, formerly a place of
great strength.
TREADINGSTGWN, or BALLYREDDIN, a parish,
in the barony of GOWRAN, county of KILKENNY,
and province of LEINSTER, 5 miles (W. S. W.) from
Gowran, on the river Nore: the population is returned
with the parish of Killarney. This small parish, comprises
only 704 statute acres: it is a rectory, in the
diocese of Ossory, entirely appropriate to the economy
estate of the cathedral of St. Canice, Kilkenny; the
tithes amount to £78. 11. In the Roman Catholic
divisions it forms part of the union or district of
Danesfort.
TREVET.—See TRYVETT.
TRILLICK, a market-town, in the parish of KIL-
SKERRY, barony of OMAGH, county of TYRONE, and
province of ULSTER, 9 miles (N. by E.) from Enniskillen,
on the road to Omagh, to both which places it
has a penny post: the population is returned with the
parish. It owes its origin to the family of Mervyn,
who settled at the neighbouring castle of Mervyn hi the
reign of Jas. I., and is a small but very improving town,
being a convenient stage from Enniskillen, and having
an excellent hotel. The surrounding district is undulating
and hilly and is embellished with several lakes:
the land in cultivation is generally fertile, and a large
tract of waste land has lately been reclaimed. Here
is a good market-house, recently repaired by Gen.
Mervyn Archdall, of Trillick Lodge, the proprietor
of the town and adjacent lands, in which a market
is held every Tuesday, chiefly for butter and provisions;
and there is a fair on the 14th of every month.
This is a constabulary police station; petty sessions
are held on alternate Mondays; and courts leet and
baron every three weeks, for the recovery of debts
under 50s. Here are meeting-houses for Wesleyan and
Primitive Methodists, in the former of which also
divine service is performed by the clergyman of the
Established Church, monthly in winter and once a
fortnight in summer. No vestiges are discernible of
the abbey said to have been founded here in the 7th
century; but near the town are the ruins of Castle
Mervyn.
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TRIM, an. incorporated
market, assize, and posttown,
(formerly a parliamentary
borough), and a
parish, partly in the barony
of UPPER NAVAN, but chiefly
in that of LOWER MOYFEN-
RAGH, county of MEATH,
and province of LEINSTER,
10½
miles (N. W.) from Kilcock,
and 25 (N. W. by W.)
from
Dublin; containing
5926
inhabitants, of which number, 3282 are in the
town. This place, formerly called Ath- Tnjm, is of very
remote antiquity, and was celebrated for its abbey of
Canons Regular, dedicated to the Blessed Virgin. The
establishment became the seat of a small bishoprick,
of which St. Loman, nephew of St. Patrick, was made
the first bishop; of his successors, who were indifferently
styled abbots or bishops, no regular notice is
preserved till the year 1152, when the diocese was
united with several others to form the see of Meath.
In 1108 the town and monastery were burned by Conor
O’Melaghlin, and more than 200 persons who had taken
refuge in the church perished in the flames; in 1143
and 1155 also the town suffered from conflagration.
After the English invasion it was, with the whole of the
territory of Meath, given by Hen. II. to Hugh de Lacy,
who made it a free borough; and his son and successor,
Walter de Lacy, in the reign of Rich. I., gave th’burgesses
a charter of incorporation, conferring privileges
equal to those enjoyed by the citizens of Bristol.
As the head of the palatine lordship of the Lacys, the
town became a place of importance, and a strong castle
was erected here as a baronial residence for that family,
who also refounded the monastery. The defences of the
castle were destroyed by the constable, Hugh Tyrrell,
when Roderic O’Conor entered Meath during the
absence of De Lacy, to prevent them from becoming
serviceable to the enemy, but on his expulsion they
were quickly restored. In 1203 the town was again
destroyed by fire. The present castle was built in 1220,
and soon afterwards, during the sanguinary feuds which
then prevailed, it was attacked by William de Burgo,
but was obstinately defended by the garrison, and the
assailants repulsed. When the palatinate of Meath was
divided between the coheiresses of Walter de Lacy, the
town was still the capital of one-half, and in 1330 it
was invested with jurisdiction over the other. In the
reign of Edw. II., during Piers Gaveston’s vice-regency,
Richard, Earl of Ulster, held his court here with a
degree of ostentatious parade highly alarming to the
chief governor, to whom his collected followers appeared
as a well-appointed and formidable retinue. Edward
Bruce, in his retreat from Munster to the north of
Ireland, halted for some days at Trim; and in 1393,
Roger de Mortimer, Earl of March and Ulster, received
a grant of tolls for the purpose of improving and fortifying
the town, as the capital of all Meath. Rich. II.,
when last in Ireland, on receiving intelligence of the
Earl of Hereford’s landing in England, committed the
young lords Gloucester and Henry of Lancaster, afterwards
Hen. V., prisoners to the castle of this place;
and in 1407 a parliament convoked at Dublin was adjourned
hither, to deliberate on the best means of
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