The Early Norman Castles of the British Isles.

by Ella Sophia Armitage

[1084] Annals of Ulster. See Orpen, Eng. Hist. Rev., xxii., 443.

[1085] Annals of Ulster.

[1086] Annals of the Four Masters, vol. iii. See Orpen, Journ. R. S. A. I., vol. xxxix., 1909.

[1087] Orpen, Eng. Hist. Rev., xxii., 448. A place called Graffan is mentioned in the Book of Rights, and on the strength of this mere mention it has been argued that the motte is a prehistoric work. Trans. R. I. A., vol. xxxi., 1902.

[1088] Mr Orpen.

[1089] Giraldus’ words are: “Castrum Lechliniæ, super nobilem Beruæ fluvium, a latere Ossiriæ, trans Odronam in loco natura munito.” V., 352. See Eng. Hist. Rev., xxii., 245.

[1090] See Orpen, Eng. Hist. Rev., xxii., 456, and Journ. R. S. A. I., xxxvii., 140.

[1091] Orpen, “Motes and Norman Castles in County Louth,” Journ. R. S. A. I., xxxviii., 241, from which paper the notice above is largely taken.

[1092] Eng. Hist. Rev., xxii., 242.

[1093] The castle is casually mentioned by Giraldus, v., 100, and the date of its erection is not given.