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‘Maps of the escheated counties of Ireland: A Generalle Description of Vlster’ by Richard Bartlett, c.1602/03.
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Image reproduced by kind permission of the Special Collections & Archives, Queen’s University Belfast.
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Detail of Clanbrasil from ‘Maps of the escheated counties of Ireland: A Generalle Description of Vlster’ by Richard Bartlett, c.1602/03. Image reproduced by kind permission of the Special Collection & Archives, Queen’s University Belfast. The town of Lurgan can trace its origins back to 1610 when John and William Brownlow, a father-son partnership from Nottingham were granted land in the territory of Clann Bhreasail (Clanbrasil). The land was granted to them by King James I as part of his Plantation of Ulster scheme, which aimed to pacify the province by planting loyal English and Scottish settlers on land confiscated from the rebellious Gaelic and Old English lords. Pre-plantation sources about Clann Bhreasail are scarce but in Edmund Hogan’s The Description of Ireland, published in 1598, it is noted that ‘CLONBRASSELL is a verie Woody and Boggie Countrie upon the great Lough side, called Oaghe or Sidney’.
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