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 Incidentally we may remark, as illustrating the confusion as to rights of property, that three distinct claims were set up, namely, that the district in dispute, the lands of Ranelagh and Cosha—the modern Glenmalure and the country around Aughrim and Tinahely—(a) belonged to Phelim Mac Pheagh O'Byrne, (b) belonged to the freeholders, i.e., the O'Byrne clansmen, (c) belonged to the King.

However, projects for the plantation of that part of Wicklow known as Crioch Brannach or Byrnes' Country were put forward from time to time. Lord Carlisle was one of the movers in