PARLIAMENTARY GAZETTEER OF IRELAND, ADAPTED TO THE NEW POOR-LAW, FRANCHISE, MUNICIPAL AND 1844-45; ILLUSTRATED BY A SERIES OF MAPS, AND OTHER PLATES; AND PRESENTING THE RESULTS, IN DETAIL, OF THE CENSUS OF 1841, THE PARLIAMENTARY GAZETTEER OF IRELAND. DAL DALARADIA. See DALRIADA. DALE (THE), a rivulet of the barony of Raphoe, co. Donegal, Ulster. It issues from a small mountain lake of its own name, on the western border of the barony; and runs about 14 miles eastward to the "oyle, at a point about three-fourths of a mile below ford. DAL on a ledge of the precipitous coast of the common,its front-door opening within a few feet of a mural cliff, and its rear hanging wildly over a dreadful rocky steep, washed by the boisterous sea.-This parish is a perpetual curacy, and part of the benefice of MONKSTOWN [which see], in the dio. of Dublin. Tithe composition, belonging to the incumbent, £7 3s. 2 d.; glebe, £79 19s. The rectorial tithes are compounded for £14 6s. 5d., and are appropriated to the dean of Christ's-church cathedral. In 1834, the parishioners consisted of 104 Churchmen, 8 Presbyterians, and 1,290 Roman Catholics; and 3 daily schools-all of which were aided from subscription, and each of two salaried with £28 from the National Board-had on their books 189 boys and 152 girls. Dalkey has very recently become celebrated for its atmospheric railway, the first work of its class ever constructed; but we reserve a notice of it for the article KINGSTOWN: which see. DALKEY, a fishing village in the above parish, is picturesquely situated at the base of the rocky hill of Dalkey, and looks out upon the magnificent sea-view beheld from the summit of that eminence. This place was, for a considerable period, a town and port of some consequence. In the reign of Edward IV. it acquired the privilege of holding fairs and markets; and in the early periods of the connection between Ireland and England, and even down to the 17th century, its harbour was a well-frequented resort of shipping engaged in the international commerce of the two countries. The Lord-deputy, Philip de Courtney, landed here in 1386; Sir John Stanley landed here in 1387; the Viceroy, Lord Furnival, afterwards the celebrated Earl of Shrewsbury, DALKEY, a parish, formerly in the barony of Ippercross, but now in that of Rathdown, 74 miles south-east of Dublin, co. Dublin, Leinster. It contans a village of its own name, and is situated on the Irish sea, immediately outside of Dublin bay. Length and breadth, each half-a-mile; area, 467 arres. Pop., in 1831, 1,402; in 1841, 1,449. Houses 254 Pop. of the rural portion, in 1831, 858; in 1841, 1,145. Houses 207. The arable land is good. Dey-Hill, a rocky and terminating height of a series of considerably bold natural tumulations, is a signal station, and commands a superb coast-view, dung Dublin bay. Dalkey common, which extends westward from the village, and comes down to the beach opposite Dalkey island figures, in a convivial song, called the Kilruddery Hunt, and written, in 1774, by the Roman Catholic clergyman, Fleming, of Adam and Eve chapel; and was the scene of the great concourses which assembled to witness te bufooneries connected with the mock coronations of the king of Dalkey: see DALKEY (ISLAND). A crotalech, called the Dalkey Stone, and a Druidical c.rcle, formerly stood on the common; but were unCeremoniously blasted and quarried as building matemal for the nearest of the chain of martello towers. Lead ore, containing a considerable proportion of Silver, was, at one time, mined on the common; and & tract of mining ground was leased from the Arch-landed here in 1414; Sir Richard Edgecomb emhop of Dublin by the Mining Company of Ireland. The government quarries on the common have furisted the enormous amount of material for the construction of Kingstown Harbour; and occasioned e bills to be somewhat abundantly peopled. By taid of a simple combination of the mechanical powers-principally a series of three inclined planes, and three large metal wheels, each with a strong eatless chain over a groove-a single man is enabled to set in motion and control six carriages aggregately bearing about 20 tons of granite,-a task which, on car mon roads, and in the ordinary mode of draught, d not be accomplished by fewer than 27 horses. elling-house of two stories was recently built barked here, in 1488, for England; the Viceroy, Sir Edward Bellingham, landed here in 1548; the Earl of Sussex embarked here in 1558; and the Viceroy, Sir John Perrot, landed here in 1584. Seven castles or strong fortified houses, were erected for the protection of the harbour; and three of these, though dismantled and applied to humble uses, are still in tolerable preservation. But after the harbour became superseded by others nearer the metropolis, the town permanently sank into a poor and neglected fishing village. It is a coast-guard station; and a few years ago, it had only 3 fishing boats and 18 fishermen. In Dalkey Sound, which separates Dalkey-Island from the mainland, ships have safe anchor. age in 8 fathoms of water, and are sheltered from the north-east wind, which sweeps every part of Dublin bay. Area of the village, 16 acres. Pop., in 1831, 544; in 1841, 304. Houses 47. DALKEY, an island in the Irish sea, lying about 3 furlongs east of the mainland at the parish of Dalkey. Area, 22 acres. Its surface, though every where rocky, affords excellent pasturage; and black cattle are conveyed to it by having a rope fastened round their horns, and being compelled to swim in the wake of a row-boat across Dalkey Sound. A battery on the island mounts three 24 pounders, and sends up from its highest ground a martello tower, whose entrance is at the top! A small old ruin on the island is usually regarded as having been a church, dedicated to St. Benedict; but, though possessing a belfry, it exhibits very distinct marks of simple domestic or dwelling-house structure. Kistvaens, enclosing human bones, are said to have been found upon the island; and are regarded as vestiges of Celtic or Belgic tribes of a very remote era. Dalkey island is asserted by tradition to have been used by the inhabitants of Dublin as an asylum from the desolating visitations of the plague. A club of Dublin convivialists, in the course of last century, made this island the seat of a mock kingdom; and, annually in June, down to 1797, they performed such antics upon it in burlesque imitation of the forms and pomps of royalty, as strongly gratified the taste of the middle classes for broad farce, and drew thousands of idlers from the metropolis as delighted spectators. DALL (THE), a rivulet which enters the North Channel at Cushendall, co. Antrim, Ulster. See CUSHENDALL. DALLYGAN (THE), a rivulet in the barony of Decies-without-Drum, co. Waterford, Munster. It has a south-south-easterly course of about 6 miles to Clonea bay. A rude figure of a human body, cut out of the solid rock, in the vale of this rivulet, was formerly venerated by the neighbouring hagiolatrists, but was eventually torn from its place and thrown into the sea. DALRIADA, an ancient principality on the east coast of what afterwards became the province of Ulster. As it existed in barbarous times, and while the island was divided into toparchies and petty states and kingdoms, it almost necessarily fluctuated in its extent; and, in consequence, is represented by some documents as occupying only about one-third of the east of Antrim, and by others as comprehending all the county of Down and most of the county of Antrim, or as extending from Newry to the mountain "Mis," in the barony of Antrim. In its later history, it probably occupied the greater part of both the northern and the eastern coast of Antrim, but without impinging upon Belfast Lough; or it extended 30 Irish miles from the mouth of the river Bush, to the valley anciently called Glenfinneaght, in which now stands the village of Glynn, and in which formerly stood the cross of Glenfinneaght.' Randal, Earl of Antrim, who died in 1639, assigns these limits to Dalriada, in a letter to Archbishop Usher; and gives, in confirmation of his statement, an old Irish distich, which has been thus translated: "From the Bush, which flocks fly over, The history of Dalriada, especially in its earlier portions, is exceedingly obscure, and furnishes themes of endless disputation to antiquaries and philologists. The original Dalriads appear to have been a very different people from either the Milesian tribes of the south-west of Ireland, or the Celtic tribes of the 1 other districts; yet they probably were so far allied to the latter as to have been derived from the same continental stock through the medium of the tribes of North Britain. They seem to have very long maintained their distinctness from the rest of the population of Ireland, and, at the same time, to have very freely maintained the intercommunication of conationality across the North Channel with the tribes of the Hebrides. An early colony from them to Kintyre became extinct; a second colony from them in 503, to the west coast of Argyleshire, laid the foundation of the Scottish monarchy, and formed the source of the most direct line of descent down to the existing monarchy of the three kingdoms; and a third colony, or rather series of small emigrations to the east coast of the frith of Clyde, overthrew the power of the Romanized Britons of the south-western part of Cambria, and formed the principality of Galway. The Scottish offshoots of the Dalriads thus became much more signalized than the Dalriads themselves; and great confusion arises from an almost constant mixation of the two in the narratives of ancient story. Most of what the Irish records relate concerning Dalriada really refers to the Dalriada of Scotland; and the remainder is so knotty, and at the same time so comparatively unimportant, that to untie it would require far more space in our work than it is worth. DALY'S-BRIDGE, a village on the eastern border of the barony of Clonmahon, co. Cavan, Ulster. It stands near the mouth of a rivulet which runs into Lough Sheelan, and 4 miles north-west of Oldcastle, on the road thence to Killeshandra. DALYSTOWN, a village in the parish of Trim, barony of Lower Moyfenragh, co. Meath, Leinster. Pop., in 1831, 118; in 1841, not specially returned. DAN, a lake in the barony of Ballinacor, 7 miles north by west of Rathdrum, co. Wicklow, Leinster. It covers about 160 acres in dry summer weather, but a much larger area in winter or during rains. The land at one end is constantly subject to inundation, and might easily be reclaimed; but any drainage of the lake would be exceedingly detrimental to the scenery, both of its own shores and of those of Lough Tay. "The form of the lake," says the Guide to Wicklow, "resembles a right angle, one of whose legs runs toward the face of Tonalegee, and at right angles with the direction of the military road in Glenmacanass, while the other runs nearly in a southern direction between Sliebh Buck and Carrigroe on the east, and Carrigeenduff and Carignathanaugh on the west. From Sliebh Buck there is a very sublime, wild, and desolate prospect; the mountains around are black, dark, and lofty; the abrupt and precipitous manner in which they appear to start from the water, throws an eternal gloom over its surface, and presents an awful character of melancholy." In the lake are the common large bog trout, a small greyish mountain trout, and the gilt char,-the last equal in size and flavour to the char of Westmoreland. Lough Dan is formed by an expansion of one of the head-streams of the Avonmore, in the course of its slow descent among the mountains from Lough Tay. DAN, a lake in co. Mayo, Connaught. See Cas TLEBAR. DANE'S CASTLE, a village in the parish of Carrig, barony of Bargy, co. Wexford, Leinster. Pop., in 1831, 123; in 1841, not specially returned. DANESFORT, co. Cavan. See KILMORE. DANESFORT, DUNFERT, or DUNSERT, a parish in the barony of Shillelogher, 4 miles south of Kilkenny, co. Kilkenny, Leinster. It contains part of the town of BENNET'S-BRIDGE: which see. |