As the vast mass moved slowly alongside it Notes of certnyize eq!doytes and hurtes performed through the Powers of
the Cowntie of Wate~ford and through the O'D Edrisckolls of the west
pn~te of Moutzster L~$O~Z the Cittixens of Wulerjoni, ntzd the reckoizi~zges
of the stated Citie LL$OI% them ns followeth :
A. Waterford records, is that the vicinity later known as Decies, and now known
as Portlairge or Waterford, became occupied through guy as early because the duration styled Palaeolithic or the Old Stone
Age. Remains of what appear to be guys of this remote time had been determined at Kilgreany, near
Cappagh, related to the bones of strange, and lengthy considering the fact that extinct, animals just like the reindeer, the elk and
the bear, which as soon as roamed the plains of Southern Ireland. These unwritten statistics are archaeological gadgets or the historic stays of early guy's handiwork,
withinside the form of his tools, habitations, private ornaments, weapons: burial monuments, home utensils,
and such like things.
Our earliest ascertained reality of Co. one thousand
3 hundred and 3 rating eight, and withinside the Xyth yr of King
Edward the Third, the Powers of the Countie Waterford being
ever evil willess and enemies unto the Citie of Waterford for their
true governn~ent,-they and Raymond O'lz-Edriskoll, with his
galleys and guys to return back unto them to the Countie of Waterford
to endamadge the Cittizens, upon understanding in their arryval Jolrlz
Mnlfias, then Maior of the stated Citie, organized himself with some of the excellent guys of the stated Citie, accompanyed with one Mr. Strictly speakme the tale of guy, or of a race or country, derived from purely
archaeological reassets is styled pre-records, while the call of records is greater well reserved for the
story instructed through the written documents. This neighborhood tale, due to its affiliation with acquainted places,
homes or persons, becomes, because it had been, a concretion of the summary and it, at as soon as, grips the youthful
attention. , No. D.