Note 293 — Chapter VII · THE TRIBAL SYSTEM (continued).
Reading edition
That in many cases the quarters had become townlands as early as the year 1683, see Tribes and Customs of Hy Many, Introd. p. 454. See also Dr. Reeve's paper 'On the Townland Distribution of Ireland,' Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, 1861, vol. vii. p. 483.