Excerpt from Bibliotheca Hibernicana: Or a Descriptive Catalogue, of a Select Irish Library, Collected for the Right Hon. Robert Peel Commenced by Grose, the celebrated antiquary, and continued by his nephew, Lieutenant Grose. It is principally valuable for its engravings, mostly executed from drawings collected by the late Right Honorable William Burton Conyngham. The historical and descriptive parts were written by Dr. Ledwich, the Irish antiquary, who has also enriched it by an introduction to the pagan, monastic, and military antiquities of Ireland. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.