^{page v note a} Or Gill Abbey Castle, according to a family memorandum. Fitzgerald's Cork Remembrancer records as follows: “1738. Gill Abbey Castle fell down after 980 years standing.” It was probably the tower of the abbey, to which a house may have been attached, as is now the case with respect to the tower of the Red Abbey in Cork.

^{page viii note a} Cotton's Fasti.

^{page ix note a} Ware (Harris), Irish Writers.

^{page ix note b} The divine here mentioned was the Rev. Dr. Timothy O'Brien. He was born in the county of Cork; went to France in his youth, an. 1691, immediately after the capitulation of Limerick, where he pursued his studies in the Irish College of Toulouse, and there took his degree of doctor of divinity. In 1706 he was made superior of that college, which he governed laudably during the space of nine years. He returned to Ireland in the year 1715, and was made parish priest of Castlelions, co. Cork.—Harris (Ware), Irish Writers.

^{page ix note c} The friend here mentioned was one Mr. Turner, Recorder of Limerick, who became a Roman Catholic in King James's reign.—Ibid.

^{page x note a} Bandle cloth was coarse unbleached linen. There was some years ago in Fishshamble lane, Cork, “the bandle market,” a wooden building.

^{page x note b} Archdeacon of Cloyne. He died June 1779, aged 85, and was buried at the Cathedral of Cork. He published “A Sermon preached in the parish church of Gortroe, on the occasion of the late Earthquakes.”—Cotton's Fasti.

^{page x note c} i. e. the eldest son and executor.

^{page xi note a} Sic.

^{page xii note a} This is partly in the handwriting of the Rev. Simon Davies, and partly in that of the Rev. Thomas Davies.