Life
1772-1852; b. Co. Waterford; ed. TCD, BA 1796; curate of Finglas; ; complete
Warburton’s and Whitelaw’s History of Dublin, 2 vols.
(1815-1818); appt. chaplain to British Ambassador in Constantinople, 1820
and 1831-35; Hon. MD, Aberdeen and LLD Dublin; chaplain at St Petersburg
and Rio de Janeiro, 1828-31; issued An Essay on Ancient Coins, Medals,
and Gems (1828) and Residence at Constantinople during the Greek
and Turkish Revolutions, 2 vols. (1836); Notices of Brazil in 1928-29
(London 1830; US 1831); rector of Kilbride, Co. Wicklow, 1835-59; rector
of Finglas, 1839-52. DNB DIW
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Notes
George A. Little, Dublin Before the Vikings (1957),
Warburton, Whitelaw, and Walsh, History of Dublin gives an account
of the excavation of Whitworth (now Mathew Talbot) Bridge, ‘In sinking
the foundation for the south abutment ... [in 1816], it was found that
the foundation of the Old Bridge, which occupied the site, stood upon
the ruins of another still more ancient. The stones of which it was formed
rather resembled Portland stone than any other sorts found in Ireland.
These were regularly laid, connected by laid cramps, on a platform of
oak timber, supported by small piles shod with iron which was completely
oxidised, and being encrusted with sandy matter, the lower ends of the
piles were are hard as stone, as if entirely petrified. It is supposed
that the Old Bridge was first constructed as early as the reign of King
John, but these ruins indicate that a bridge of better and more artificial
construction had, at a remote period, preoccupied the situation.’
(p.1096) Little infers that the bridge was likely to be not of Viking
but of pre-Scandinavian origin, and his fencing with the term Droicead
Dubhghall as refering not the Danes, but the older ‘Doyles’
or dark Gaels. [vide 68]
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