Preface

Robert E. Matheson
1909
Preface

The following Special Report was originally prepared by me and issued as an Appendix to the Twenty-ninth Annual Report of the Registrar-General for Ireland. It has been for some years out of print, but a motion having been made in the House of Commons by Mr. Jeremiah MacVeagh, M.P., for its reprinting, the Government have now sanctioned its issue as a Stationery Office Publication.

In re-issuing the Report, I have inserted, as an Addendum, the List of the Names of Irish Septs given in the Book of Arms, compiled by Sir James Terry, Athlone Herald (1690), now preserved in the British Museum.

ROBERT E. MATHESON.

General Register Office,

Charlemont House,

Dublin, November, 1909.