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SCANDINAVIAN ANTIQUITIES OF DUBLIN. 147
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were held by Dowcra. Brooke, and others as heirs to
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Lord Dowcra.
We further find that the Decrees of Innocence in The taking in
of the strand
1663 adjudged to Lord Dungan, of Clane, nineteen adjoining the
acres of ground " commonly called Staine, being
upon the strand side of the College ;" for previously
to 1607 the whole of the north side of the Townsend-
street, now covered with streets and quays, was the
tidal strand of the Liffey, and, as such, was granted
in that year to Sir William Carroll, under the
description of " the strand overflown by the sea
between the point of land joining the Staine, near
the College, and Bingsend ;" 2 and by him this
strand w r as partly reclaimed.
Another portion was taken in in 1663, when Mr. Hawkins' great
wall.
Hawkins built a great wall, carrying the shore
further towards the centre of the river. 3
The embankments raised by Sir William Carroll,
Mr. Hawkins, and Sir John Rogerson, together
with subsequent encroachments on the strand of
the river, have so greatly altered the outline of the ,
1
Inquis. Lageniae, '20 Car. I. Brief occurrences touching Ire-
Corn. Civit., Dublin. Record land, began 25th March, 1661
Commission Publication, folio, Carte Papers, Bodleian Library,
Dublin, 1826, and Registry of All vol. 64, p. 446.] The city, on
Hallows, p. 107. Acts of Assembly, 16th April, 1708, demise to
Midsummer, 1659. Corporation Thomas Singleton, all that ferry
Records. over the river Anna Lifiey, at
2 Acts of Assembly, Easter, A.D. Hawkins's wall, near Aston's quay;
1607, memb. 13, Corporation from the said Hawkins's wall to
Records. the new slip near the watch tower
3
[" July, 1663. This year and on the north side of the said river,
the precedent year the great wall and from thence [back again] to
was built to gain in the ground from the said Hawkins's wail. Register
the River Liffey, near the Long of City Leases "Ancient Revenue."
Stone, on the east side of the City Records.]
city of Dublin, by Mr. Hawkins."
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