Note 275 — Chapter LV · SOCIAL IRELAND FROM RESTORATION TO REVOLUTION

Rawdon’s letters among the Conway papers are calendared with the Irish and Domestic State Papers. Some of Conway’s are in Berwick’s Rawdon Papers. The great Lisburn estate came later to the Marquis of Hertford, and that of Moira to the Marquis of Hastings. Archbishop Boyle to Conway, July 29, 1665. Dobbs’s description of Antrim in Hill’s Macdonnells of Antrim, appx. 385. Ulster Journal of Archæology, i. 250. Miss Masson’s Robert Boyle, p. 264. Gosse’s Jeremy Taylor. The great house at Portmore was entirely demolished in the eighteenth century. Some idea of its magnificence may be formed from the number of painted tiles—from Holland, no doubt. The bulk were broken through bad packing, but 7000 were saved.