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 CAMPIONS HSTORIE OF IRELAND. THE FIRST BOOKE CAP. I.

The Site and speciall parts of Jreland.

lieth a-loofe in the West Ocean, and is deemed by the later Survey, to he in length well-nigh three hundred miles north & south : broad from East to West one hundred and twentie. In proportion it resembleth an egge, blunt and plaine on the sides, not reaching forth to Sea, in nookes and elbowes of Land, as Brittaine doth.

Long since, it was devided into foure regions, Leinster East, Connaght West, Vlster North, Mounster South, and into a fift plot defalked from every fourth part, lying together in the heart of the Realme, called thereof Media, Meath.