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Indicated on the Down Survey (1655-6) barony map of Gowran in ‘Hyrath’ ((Hibernia Regnum, courtesy of Trinity College Dublin) and on the Down Survey parish map of Blackrath and St Martins within ‘Highrath’ (NLI MS720). The terrier accompanying the parish map lists ‘Peter Shortall’ as the proprietor in 1640 (ibid.). According to Carrigan (1905, vol. 3, 365), ‘Edmund Shortall of Highrath died Sept. 4th, 1602, being then seised of the castle and lands of Highrath…Edmund Jackson paid 4s. hearth-money for his house in Heighrath in 1664. The castle of Highrath still stands, but has lost the top storey and been otherwise modernized; it is occupied, as his dwelling house, by a respectable farmer named Ryan’.
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KK020-035----_01 extract from Down Survey (1655-6) barony map of Gowran (Hib. Reg., courtesy of Trinity College Dublin
KK020-035----_02 extract from Down Survey (1655-6) parish map of Blackrath and St Martins (NLI MS720)
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 7 December 2020
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