Several Welsh families, associates in the invasion of Strongbow, settled
in the West of Ireland. Of these, the principal, whose names have been
preserved by the Irish antiquarians, were the Walshes, Joyces, Heils (_a
quibus_ MacHale), Lawlesses, Tolmyns, Lynotts, and Barretts, which last
draw their pedigree from Walynes, son of Guyndally, the _Ard Maor_, or
High Steward of the Lordship of Camelot, and had their chief seats in
the territory of the two Bacs, in the barony of Tirawley, and county of
Mayo. _Clochan-na-n'all_, i. e. 'The Blind Men's Stepping-stones,' are
still pointed out on the Duvowen river, about four miles north of
Crossmolina, in the townland of Garranard; and _Tubber-na-Scorney_, or
'Scrags Well,' in the opposite townland of Carns, in the same barony.
For a curious _terrier_ or applotment of the Mac William's revenue, as
acquired under the circumstances stated in the legend preserved by Mac
Firbis, see Dr. O'Donovan's highly-learned and interesting 'Genealogies,
&c. of Hy. Fiachrach,' in the publications of the _Irish Archaeological
Society_--a great monument of antiquarian and topographical erudition.
Page 90, line 6. 'William Conquer' was William Fitzadelm De Burgh, the
Conqueror of Connaught.