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212 THE SCANDINAVIANS, AND
APPENDIX, harbour of St. Mary's Abbey, 1
where the Bradogue river 2
entered the Liffey. Nor should we feel much surprise at
Stanihurst, a citizen of Dublin, unacquainted with the Irish
language, and knowing nothing of Irish manuscripts, should
think that he had sufficient authority for his derivation of
the name of "Ath Cliath,' when he saw the houses around
him built on hurdles or frames of timber ;
neither should it
excite surprise if Harris, the biographer of King William III.,
knowing that the king's troops, like those of Cromwell under
1
This Pill was filled up, and Or- Pill laid out for Ormond market,
mond Market occupies the site, as and the city having lately taken in
appears from the following entries
on the Assembly Rolls :
" Michaelmas, 1617 The Eight
Corporations prayed for a lease for
99 years upon the Pill beyond the
water, at the yearly rent of ten
pounds. Midsummer, 1619 The
Commons petitioned that forasmuch
as the void ground called the
Pill is long void, and might yield
rent Ordered, that if the Eight
Corporations do not take a lease it
may be let to the best advantage.
It seems to have been afterwards
leased to James Barry and others.
20th June, 1657 Committee ap-
pointed to compromise a long suit
between the City and James Barry
(made Lord Santry in 1661), Sir
Robert Meredith, Alderman Charles
Forster, and others, for arrears of
rent due for the land called the
Pill, near St. Mary's Abbey. 22nd
January, 1674 Jonathan Amory,
merchant, to have a lease of that
part of the strand on the north side
of the Liffey, between the wall of
the Pill in the possession of Lord
Snntry, and the watermill lately
built by Gilbert Mabbot. Easter,
16S4 Sir John Davys being in-
terested in the ground lying on the
some ofthe bed ofthe river adjacent,
he prayed for a lease for 99 years
of the ground thus taken in ; but
the city resolved to have the new
ground fora quay, and considering
that the fish market there would
hinder the beautifying of the quay,
and ought to stay where it was,
would only grant the lease on c Au-
dition of Sir John keeping it as :i
quay, and further undertaking to
"
flag the market City By- Laws,
Haliday MSS. R. I. Academy.
2 "It rises in the suburban dis-
tricts and enters the city boundary
where Grangegorman-lane joins the
Circular-road, continues under
Upper Grangegorman-lane, under
the Penitentiary, the canal near the
terminus of the Midland Great
Western Railway, along the rear of
the houses at the west side of x
Dominick-street, and by Bolton-
strcet, South Halston-street, Boot-
lane, East Arran -street, to the
Lifley. A branch of the stream
also passes under the Richmond
Hospital, and joins the Red Cowlam-
sewer/' Neville's Report to
the Corporation of Dublin on the
Sewers, 1853.