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The Montgomery Manuscripts.
and Ardes, were found to be in the King; it bearing a reference (as to spiritual possessions) for
more certainty unto the office taken concerning them, primo Jac. Ao. i6o3, i s and also it was shuffled
into it that Killough 16 was usually held to lye in the county of Down; this office being returned and
inrolled in September then next following, it was (by inspection thereof) found to vary from the
jurors' briefs and notes, and from many particulars in the office taken ist Jac. and the matter of
Killulta was amiss. 1 ?
About this time, the inquisition found against Con and his followers for the feats at Belfast
aforesaid, being vacated and taken off the file in the King's Bench Court, and the pardon for himself
and all his followers, for all their other crimes and trespasses against law being passed under the
great seal, and the deed of the 6th Nov., 1605, lS from Mr. Hamilton of Con's lands, being made to
himself; Con then returned home in triumph over his enemies (who thought to have had his life
Kellies is laid down in the situs of Comber, and Slut Kdlics
a little W.S.W. of Drumboe. Jobson's Map places the
Kelles between Castlereagh and Dufferin on the east and
south, and Slut M 'O'Neale and Kinelartyon the west. The
family was originally settled near Drumbo. 7. Slut Hugh
Bricks. That is Sliocht Aodh breac, ' the family of freckled
Hugh.' Their territory contained the N.E. portion of
Comber, S.W. of Newtownards, and S.E. part of Dundon-
ald, lying principally between Scrabo and the town of
Comber. 8. Slut Bryan Boye. Occupied five townlands
in the N. E. of Holywood parish. 9. Slut Durnings, and
Slut Chueu MacQuin. These families occupied some town-
lands in Holywood, in Dundonald, and in the adjacent
part of Newtownards. The five districts last named are
comprised in the barony of Lower Castlereagh. On the
establishment of the baronial names the ancient territorial
ones gradually sank into disuse : even the generic name
Clanneboy, having forsaken the family in whom it origin-
ated, and the territory to which it belonged, is now only
known as a joint-title with Dufferin, in the Baronage of
Ireland."
IS Ao. 1603. — This Inquisition, of 5th November, 1603,
is largely quoted by Archdall, in his Monasticon Hiberni-
cum, pp. 109, no, 121. He refers to it as being then
preserved in the Chief Remembrancer's Office. The list
of the Inquisitions formerly kept in that office, is to be
found, for county Down, in Supplement to the Eighth
Report of Irish Record Commission. (Reports, vol. ii.,
P' 593') There the Inquisition of 1603 appears under Jac.
I., No. 2, as Abbalia de Leigh [i.e., Gray Abbey] cV aV.
' 6 Killough. — Killough is a misprint for Killultagh or
Killulta. This territory was anciently known as Coill-
Ulltaeh, "Wood of Ulster." It was not, strictly speaking,
a part of Clannaboy, north or south, but was generally
regarded as a territory or district per se. It is now in-
cluded in the county of Antrim, and (with the small addi-
tions of the parish of Tullyrusk, three townlands of Der-
riaghy, and the east portion of the parish of Camlin)
constitutes the present barony of Upper Massereene. Dr.
Reeves defines Killulta as containing the present parishes
of Ballinderry, Aghalee, Aghagallon, Magheramesk,
Magheragall, and the portion of Blaris north of the river
Lagan. — Eccles. Antiquities, pp. 234, 347. The reader
will find an account of the boundaries of Killulta and a
list of its townlands in the Inquisition of 1623 ; also,
Calend. of Pat. Rolls, Jac. I., p. 73.
I7 1 Killulta was amiss. — In other words, this territory
had been reckoned as a part of the county of Down, in the
Inquisition of 1605, whereas it should not have been so
included, or misplaced.
18 6thA r ot'., 1605. — Bylndentureof this date, James Ha-
milton conveyed to Con O'Neale the lands of Ballynag-
nockan, Ballynaghabricke, Ballybrinan, Ballycowan, Bally-
carney, Ballyclogher, Ballycrossan, Ballycarrycroegh, Bal-
lycreweh, Ballycargie, Ballicardganan, Ballidulloghane,
Ballydromboe, Ballidulloghmucke, Balliderimore, Balli-
gromebegg, Ballineganwye, Balliholliwood, Ballihawne-
newde, Ballylimebrenye, Ballylemoghan, Ballylary, Bally-
lisnerean, Ballycloghany, Ballyliscowneganagh or Ballylis-
gan, Ballyliscromelaghan, Ballyloghgar, Ballylistoodry,
Uallymmylagh, Ballymaltane, Ballinemoney, Ballymo-
lagh, Ballyomulvalegh, Ballyogheli, Ballyskeghan, Bally-
templedrome, Ballytempleblarisse, Ballytulloghmistikine-
oll, Ballynechallen, Ballytullowre, Ballylischahan, Bally-
carrowneveigh, Ballitulloghbreckan, Ballycreigenasassa-
nagh, Ballycargeeneveigh, Ballicarrid, Ballycloinemore,
Ballydrumhock, Ballimagroven, Ballilonbegg, Balliha-
liske, Ballarecrumen, Ballydeyan, Ballydromveyne, and
Ballygonemagh, all lying in the territory of Slut O'Neales;
and also the towns of Negassane and Ballylaggegowan,
in Slut Kellies; also Ballynebredagh, Ballinefeigh, Bally-
knockcolumkill, Ballilisnebroyne, Ballimaekerit, Balli-.
crevine, Ballirosboy, Balligalvalley, Ballicregogie, and
Ballicastlereagh, with their appurtenances, privileges,
&c. ; also one market to be held at Castlereaghe every
Thursday, weekly, for ever; and one fair to be held
at Castlereaghe on the Feast of St. John the Baptist,
yearly, for ever, with court of pie powder, court leet,
and court baron — to be held for ever of the king, at
the rent of ,£23 l6s. Irish. Con O'Neale to furnish, in
addition, two horsemen and four footmen, well equipped,
to attend the hostings of the chief governor in Ulster.
O'Neale was prohibited by the terms of this indenture
from granting any estate of freehold or inheritance out
of said lands to any of the mere Irish. He was also
bound to release James Hamilton from all covenants con-
tained in one pair of the tripartite indentures made between
him of the first part, Hugh Montgomery, Esq., of the
second part, and James Hamilton, of the third part, dated
30th April last. — Inquisition of 1623. This indenture is
described as not in the MS. Inquisition, but supplied from
the papers of Dean Dobbs.