INTRODUCTION. ino- of divers by contagion,^ do abound among us, do willingly resolve to bestow the building of a place for a Bridewell or House of Labour and Correction, for the redressing of this enor- mity." From this statement of the object of the Petitioners, it will be seen, that this project was not at first directly connected in any way with the University, or with an educational College. The City received the proposal favourably, and on 27th Jan. i6of agreed (William Gough, Mayor,) to grant an estate in fee simple under their seal, to six persons (three to be named by the Mayor in the behalf of the City, and three by the Petitioners), ratus Omnium 88., p. 21, No. xlii.), which gives a clue to the true meaning of the name, for we can only regard the popular appellation of " Hoggen Green," given to what is now College Green, as a corruption. Archdall is o^ oymion (Monast. Hibern., p. 172), that the name Hogges is from the Irish word Og, a virgin, and so was later than the foundation of the abbey; but there are many objections to this etymology. There can be little doubt that Mr. Gilbert {loc. cit.) has given the true origin of the word, when he derives it from Hoga (German hoch, Engl, high), a hill, a mound, a grave, or sepulchre, and this is confirmed by the word being commonly used in the plural. These mounds, or bar- rows, were evidently pagan (Gilbert, loc cz7., pp. I, 2),andthegreatTAewg'- mote, or mound of meeting of the Norsemen, was in the neighbour- hood. St. Andrew's Church was called S. Andreas de Thengmote (Butler, JRegistr. Omnium Sanctorum, pp. 26, 118). Comp. Haliday, On the name of Dublin, (Trans, of R. I. Acad., vol. xxii.). See an account of the position of Hoggin Green, in reference to the Priory of All Saints, in the " Charter of the Citty to the Colledge (34 Eliz.)."— Butler, Re- gistr., p. 94, No. vii. In the Book of Obits of Chr. Church, p. 16, we have the obit of " Domina Matylda, abbettissa de Hoggys," and p. 54, of " Domina Alicia Bron, monialis de Hoggys." The last local vestige that survived of the ancient Hogges was Hog Hill, now St. Andrew's-street. It continued to be known as Hog's Hill to about 1772, (Gilbert, Hist, of Dublin, vol. iii., pp. 318, 19), and was the residence of the celebrat- ed John Philpott Curran, " during the early gloomy days of his professional career" (Gilbert, ibid.).
- The beginning of the reign of
James I. was remarkable for the prevalence of famines and pestilence in various districts throughout the country See Census of Ireland, (Table of Cosmical Phenomena, p. 106, by Sir W. R. Wilde).
