In a letter dated 14th July 1635
Thomas Earl of Strafford wrote "....howbeit there is so much muttering that we shall meet with opposition in the county
Galway as as if the earl of Clanricard, or at least his servants, were very averse from the the Plantation. Indeed whether
it be so or no, I know not, for I am well assured that it shall turn to his Majesty's advantage if they do. for
certain it is country which lies out at a corner by itself, and all the inhabitants wholly native and papists, hardly an Englishman
amongst them, whom they kept out with all the industry in the world; and therefore it would be of great security that they
were thoroughly lined with English indeed..."
Straffords survey expressed the bounds, meares, names and 'bynames' of
the quarters, plowlands, cartrons and other denominations of land, including 'trines' in the respective baronies and parishes
The surveys also consisted of the barony of the proposed plantation; likewise the names of the owners
or proprietors supplemented by a microscopic description of the soil of each denomination of land. jurers testified
parish, to the veracity of the particulars .
The survey also consisted of barony and parish maps described as entire and perfect, these expressing also
the qualities of the land whether arable, pasture, meadow, wood or bog.
From the book of Distribution and Survey
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