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Excerpt from The History of the County of Mayo: To the Close of the Sixteenth Century In this first History of the County some errors must be expected, but I trust that they will be found to be very few as to matters of fact. Some opinions are new, for which general acceptance cannot be expected at once, but it is my hope that such readers as study the evidence for themselves will agree with me, if not wholly, to a great extent. The fulness of the parts dealing with the thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries, and again of those dealing with the latter half of the sixteenth century, as compared with the part relating to the intervening two hundred years, is due to the want of full English Records after the King ceased to govern in Connaught. Ecclesiastical affairs are passed over lightly, because they have been dealt with already in my "Notes on the Dioceses of Tuam and Killala and Achonry," published when I did not expect to finish this history, for which they were prepared. If the Genealogical Tables seem unnecessary in number, and inclusive of names not wanted for this book, it is because it is impossible to understand fully the alliances of clans and tribes and their quarrels, external and internal, without a knowledge of the family relationships in which they usually originated. These tables are, generally, not accessible in print, and they will be necessary to those who carry on the history of the Mayo families into the next century. 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.