austless is her Store
Of veiny Silver, and of Golden Ore:
Her fruitful Soil for ever teams with Wealth,
With Gems her Waters, and her Air with Health:
Her verdant Fields with Milk and Honey flow;
Her woolly Fleeces vie with Virgin Snow:
Her waving Furrows float with bearded Corn,
And Arms and Arts her envy'd Sons adorn.
No savage Bear, with lawless Fury, roves;
No rav'nous Lion, thro' her peaceful Groves;
No Poison there infects; no scaly Snake
Creeps thro' the Grass, nor Frog annoys the Lake:
An Island worthy of its pious Race,
In War triumphant, and unmatch'd in Peace."

This _Donat_, Bishop of _Fesula_, was an _Irishman_, of the antient and
hospitable Family, afterwards _O Hogan_; a Family which held ample and
fair Possessions in the Province of _Munster_, and which, in former Times,
adorned the See of _Killaloe_, with four very learned and exemplary
Prelates; namely, with _Matthew O Hogan_, who succeeded to this
Bishoprick, in the Reign of _Henry_ the IIId, and in the Year of our Lord
1267; and who, having much enlarged his Diocese, and done many signal Acts
of popular Charity, died in the Year, 1281, and was buried in _Limerick_,
in a Convent of _Dominican_ Friars. To this Bishop succeeded _Maurice O
Hogan_, who governed this See with peculiar Zeal and Charity, upwards of
sixteen Years, and died in 1298, or the Year following, and was buried in
his own Church. _Thomas O Hogan_, Canon of _Killaloe_, was consecrated in
1343, and died on the 30th of _October_, 1354; five Days after which, he
was buried among his worthy Ancestors at _Nenagh_; as may be seen in the
Annals of that Place.

_Richard O Hogan_ succeeded to the See of _Killaloe_, in 1525, and was in
1539 translated to _Clon Mac Nois_: He was a Prelate of great Learning and
Capacity, in all spiritual and ecclesiastical Matters.

This antient Family is, at this Time, represented by _Edmund O Hogan_,
Esq; High Sheriff of the County of _Clare_, a Gentleman, who, by the whole
Tenor of his Life, hath proved Generosity of Heart, Charity, and
Hospitality, to be Qualities inherent.

_Dermod Mac Murchad_, sovereign Prince of _Hy-Kinsellagh_, banished by
_Roderick O Connor_, King of _Ireland_, for his various and high State
Crimes, sought Sanctuary and Redress in the Court of _England_; where, in
the Absence of _Henry_, then in _Normandy_, diverse adventurous _Normans_,
_Flemings_, _Saxons_, and old _Britons_, (being themselves unsettled, and
unestablished) acce