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 Macgoghigan, the Fox. This whole part, and the veyne of Finegale in Leinster, are best imployed with husbandry, and taken to be the richest soyles in Ireland.

Connaght hath as yet but the county Clare, the town of Athenry: & Galway, a proper neat city at the sea side. Herein Turlogh More Oconner was a peere, & parted the whole betwixt his two Sonnes, Cahal, and Bryen Oconnor. In it are now cheife Irish, Breni Oreli, Breni Oruarke, Oconnor Sligo, Odoade, Ohara, Macphilippin, Mac-dermot, Oconnordonn, Oconnor-Roe, the O-kellies, Mac-glomore, of Langues, L. Birmingham, Omaty, Mac-william Euter, Oflaherty. Clanricarde.

Vlster wherein Oneale & Odonil are cheife Irish, contayneth the counties, Louth, Down, Antrim, one moity of Droghdah (for the rest is in Meath) cheife town of liouth Dundalk, of Down, Down, & Carlingford, of Droghdagh, Droghdaghe, of Antrim, Cnockfergus, called also Cragfergus.

This part is dissevered from Meath and Leinster by the river Boandus, which breaketh out beside Loghfoyle, a bogg bctweene Ardmagh, and S. Patrickes Purgatorie. Cambrensis reputeth the bogge at 30. miles in length, and halfe so much in breadth, and the same once firme Land, to have beene suddenly ouerflowen, for the bestiall incest committed there, unfit to be told.