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SOME NOTICE OF TDK
there would be seen the Long Stone, standing on the green
sw.-ird of the Steyne, near the bank of the Liffey. For it
in the Down
appears by the transcript of Petty 's map
Survey, made in IGo-t, that even at that late period there
were few buildings on the riverside between Dublin and
Ringsend. And there was a covenant, it may be remembered,
in the lease of the Corporation in 1607 to Sir James Carrol,
of the strand overflown by the sea from the Stain to Rings-
end, in order to its being taken in, that he should not erect
any building for habitation on the premises. 1
In this transcript of the Down Survey, if I am not deceived,
the Long Stone will be found represented. The scale is
unfortunately very small, but the map has been given in
facsimile instead of on an enlarged scale (which would have
made the stone more conspicuous), that it may be more true
and authentic. Mr. Haliday considered it as a memorial of
possession taken of the land by the Ostmen at their first
landing, just as we now set up an English flag and flagstaff,
or perhaps a monument to King Ivar, the first Ostman king
The port of f Dublin. For this was a well known landing place, and
Stayne. jn ear jy times a port, as appears by a regulation of the
reign of King Henry IV., entered on the Exchequer Memorandum
Rolls, concerning goods exported from the ports of
Clontarf, Dalkey, Stayne, Dodder, and le Kay de Dy velyne.
And in Speed's map of 1610, is shown a pill
or small harbour
at this spot ; which it must be remembered, though now
surrounded by streets, was then nearly half a mile east of
the walls of Dublin, and has since been obliterated by the
building of Hawkins's Wall so far into the river beyond it.
It is at this port that Hasculf and his tierce bersaker (or
champion) from Norway, are described as landing to attempt
the recovery of Dyveline from the English.
" A Steine etoit arrive
Hescul et Johan le deve."
And here therefore the Ostmen probably first landed, and
set up the Long Stone as the mark of possession taken.
1 B. I1L, chap. L, p. 145, n.\ infra