Identifier: historyofcountyd05ball (find matches)
Title: A history of the County Dublin; the people, parishes and antiquities from the earliest times to the close of the eighteenth century
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Ball, F. Erlington (Francis Elrington), d. 1928
Subjects: Dublin (Ireland : County) -- History
Publisher: Dublin : Alex. Thom
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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heonly one mentioned, besides Corr Castle, which had been enlargedby an annex with a thatched roof, is a house on the lands ofSutton. It is described as a good English-like stone house. Itwas roofed with slates; and as it was rated as containing sixchimneys, half the number in Howth Castle, it must have beenof considerable size. Its out-otfices were roofed with tiles, andits courtyard, or bawn, was surrounded with a stone wall. Aswill be seen in the next chapter, the site of this house is nowoccupied by the modern Sutton House. During the seventeenth century Howth was less used as aport, owing to ships being larger and facilities for embarkationand disembarkation being greater elsewhere; but the fisheryretained its importance, and the fishermen proved their skill andfearlessness in the conveyance to England of letters in open row-boats, when all other means of communication failed. It hadbeen long recognized that, when the saving of time was of supreme The Legion Club. - Civil Survey.
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o 03 IN JACOBEAN TIMES. 89 importance, Howth had the advantage over other ports, and inthe reign of James the First one Captain Pepper was wont toresort there from Holyhead with a packet-boat, which passed toand fro, like a light horseman, before all others, but whichenvious people said was only a baggage-boat. But sometimesthe winds proved too contrary for ships like it, or other obstaclesintervened, and then the Howth fishermen proved their worth.In the opening years of Charles the Firsts reign their bravery was■severely put to the test, as pirates infested the Channel, andinflicted much loss and damage upon shipping. Writing in hisdiary on July 20, 1630, the Great Earl of Cork says-:— Whiteof Howth, being by me employed in his open boat from Howth toHolyhead to carry my letters to the Earl of Kildare and my son(expressing they should be very careful how they took theirpassage hither, for that the pirates were in the channel), deliveredmy letters there, brought me a certificate,

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