Taken from "The Calendar of the Assembly Rolls of the Corporation of the City of Dublin"

Extracts from the Rolls of 1717

Roll xix m. 53
1717. Apri1 5.
[1.] Certain of the commons having set forth that the committee for taking in and setting out in lots and surveying the strand between Mabbotts mills and the sheds of Clantarffe, have made the following report:

'Pursuant to the order of last assembly, we, the committee, havee surveyed the Strand, and are of opinion that the Strand on the north side of Ballybough river, from the highest ground on the north end of Clantarffe Island to the next angle on the west side of Clantarffe house, on the road, containing seventy seven acres, be divided with the Strand on the south side of Ballybough river, containing in all four hundred forty one acres; that Ballybough river be carried on the south end of Clantarffe island in a straight line from the first angle on the east side of Ballybough Bridge in a new canal, the same canal to be eighty foot wide; that the front lots of the channel be divided into eighty eight lots, and the lots to the rear into forty four lots, which make one hundred thirty two lots, and that all the rest of the ground be divided into one hundred thirty four lots, two whereof to be reserved to the city, videlicet, number seventy seven, number ninety two, videlicet, seventy seven on the south side and ninety two on the north side of the canal, for such public use as shall be thought necessary; that that part of the Strand undivided be reserved in
common for raising of stones, for carrying on the whole work and improving the same, and accordingly there is a map drawn, which is hereunto annexed; the meares and bounds of the Strand mentioned in Mr. AMORYS lease are described in the map hereunto annexed; that each person whose name is in a list hereunto annexed have two lots.

For the better and more effectual carrying on of the said work, we, the committee, are of opinion that a committee of directors be chosen, consist ing of four aldermen and eight commons, adding thereto the Lord Mayor and Sherriffs for the time being, the aldermen to be chosen by the Mayor and aldermen that are proprietors, and the commons to be chosen by their respective classes of proprietors:
[i.] That five be a quorum, of which the Lord Mayor, one Sheriff, one alderman and two of the commons that are proprietors be present; that the said committee of directors be invested with full power of contracting with workmen, to buy materials, and for carrying on the said work.
[ii.] That any of the said committee may, by the majority of votes by his proper class, be removed, and another chosen in his place, and likewise, on the death of any of the said committee, the said proprietors in like manner to make choice of another in his place from time to time.
[iii.] That every quarter the committee do lay before (Roll xix. M. 53b) the body of proprietors their proceedings, which body shall consist of twenty one proprietors at least.
[iv.] That every person intituled to draw the said lots do, before the said lots are drawn, give their note for five pounds, sterling, value received, to such person as shall be appointed treasurer by the assembly to take the same, and the money to be applied towards fencing out the sea and carrying on the work, and so to be mentioned in the said note.
[ v.] That any person refusing, or on his behalf a sufficient person neglecting, to give such note, he shall not be intituled to draw any lot.
[ vi.] That every proprietor shall perfect his deed in three months after the said lots are drawn, or his grant to be void, and the five pounds to be lost to him, but applied to the publick work.
[ vii. ] That a wall shall be built to keep out the sea ; that the canal be made and walled in.
[ viii]. That the whole ground fronting to the channel containing the 132 lots be taken in at the publick charge, and likewise all the streets in the said 132 lots be walled
foundation high, and filled up at the publick charge, and also a key, to be continued, from the northeast corner of the 132 lots to Clantarfe Island, and from thence to the shore on the angle on the west of Clantarfe house, be built at publick charge.
[ix. ] That there be a clause in every deed that the proprietors shall pay quarterly till all aforesaid work be finished, two pounds ten shillings per quarter, the first payment to be made next Michaelmas.
[ x. ] That a fee farm be granted to each proprietor at a pepper corn per annum, if demanded.
[ xi]. That the fees of the city seal be remitted. Mr. Recorder and the Town Clerk are willing to remit their fees; and nothing to be paid but to the clerk for ingrossing.
[xii.] That the committee of directors, or the quorum at least, have power to draw from time to time out of the treasurers hands what sums they shall think fit for
carrying on the work.
[xiii. ] That this committee be continued, or a new one appointed, to see what is further to be done, and report their proceedings to the next assembly.
[xiv.] That there be inserted in the fee farm deed Deed. such other clauses as the Recorder and such other council as he shall think fit to advise with [sic].
[ xv.] That the road or strand leading from the Abbotts wall towards Ballybough Bridge, from thence to Clantarfe, be all eighty foot wide, and that the key fronting the channel and also the key continued to Clantarfe Island, and from thence to the angle on the road to the west of Clantarfe house, be all sixty foot wide.
(m. 52. )[ xvi.] That the streets, videlicet, the middle street, back street and all the cross streets, as described in the map containing the eighty eighth and forty fourth lots, be all fifty foot wide, and that the three roads running through the other lots all to be left two perch wide :

All which is humbly submitted to the honorable assembly, this 20th March, 1717: ,
Ordered that the annexed report with the following amendments be confirmed, videlicet :
That the canal be eighty foot wide at the west end of the canal, and to be enlarged from thence so that the mouth of the canal in the east be 120 foot, the enlargement to be taken out of the lots equally of each side of the canal.
That if the Lord Mayor and Sherriffs be not proprietors, then any five of the committee of directors be Sheriffs a quorum.
That if any proprietor shall fail to take out his deed in the time appointed by this report, the committee of directors may give further time to perfect such deed not exceeding three months further time than appointed (Roll xix. M. 52) and by the said report.

That the within committee be continued to consider further, and report to the next assembly what is proper to be done.

That the little brook near Hollybrook be conveyed into the sea at public charge.

That Mr. COGGIN, one of the numbers in the place of Adam REA, deceased, have REA's lot.
That John NICHOLSON, dyer, being dead, be left out of the list of proprietors.

That the committee of directors do account quarterly, and swear to their accounts once a year.
That the note to be given for the five pounds mentioned in the within report, be made payable within fifteen days after the giving the same.
That alderman BURTON be appointed treasurer, and Mr. Lewis JONES, clerk; that Friday in Easter week be appointed for signing the notes and drawing the lots, and the said committee that is now continued take care that notes be given and the lots drawn in such manner as they shall think proper.

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