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 a return made finding the King's title to Byrnes' country, that is, to the whole barony of Newcastle and parts of the baronies of Arklow and Ballinacor. It gives as boundaries the sea on the east, Killincargie and Delgnie and Glancapp on the north, Fartir, Sangheine, Imaal and Clonmore in Co. Carlow on the west, and on the south Shilelagh, Co. Wexford, and "the shires of Arklow."

Thus both Ranelagh and Cosha were included in the area dealt with. The jurors found that Richard II. was seized of these territories, and so they had come to the King. This finding of course invalidated all previous grants, either to Englishmen based on the attainder and forfeiture of the freeholders, or to such of the freeholders themselves as had survived and had surrendered their lands and obtained regrants of them either under James or Charles. The lands thus declared to be in the King's hands were in or about 1640 vested in trustees who were to make grants to the Protestants of the lands of which they were possessed, no doubt on payment of certain fines. The Irish freeholders were probably to be treated as in other plantations, i.e., they were to lose one-fourth or one-third of their lands, and receive good titles for the rest.