This is a temporary working index of D'Alton's "History of the County Dublin." There are two main difficulties: -
(A) One third was photocopied from an 1838 original, the remainder from a 1977 reprint, and the page numbers don't match (reprint numbers now carry an "a" after them - i.e. [267a]).
(B) The reprint didn't  use the same area headings as the original so I'm going to have to choose one or the other (probably the reprint but this would divide the book into about eight very long and unwieldy chapters ("Excursions" in the original)). There's still a couple of weeks' work in finishing the scanning.
Everything from "Sword" to "Finglas" is from the original, "Oxmantown" from the reprint.

In 1613 William Blakeney and John Fitz Simons were the representatives for the borough of Swords, in the parliament that abolished the baneful distinction of English subjects and Irish enemies, which so long biassed the administration or justice, and fomented national disunion. The measure would have acted most beneficially, if the more unholy distinctions of recusant and loyalist, Catholic and Protestant, introduced in the time of James, were not upheld as substitutes for national animosities.

The regal visitation of 1615 values the vicarage of Swords at 100 marks, Christopher Hewetson being then its vicar, and prebendary of Howth; while it states the

For notices in 1540 and 1613, see at "Killsallaghan." In 1673 the rectories of Chapel-Midway and Killsallaghan were granted to the Archbishop of Dublin and his successors, in trust for the incumbent, subject to the annual rent of �10 7s.