From Cashel the line went to Mullingar, from Mullingar to Longford, and from Longford to Cavan, skirted Lough Erne on the west, and met the ocean again at Ballyshannon.

[68] On the English side of this pale there was a rude and imperfect order.
Two Lords Justices, Coningsby and Porter, assisted by a Privy Council, represented King William at Dublin Castle.

Judges, Sheriffs and Justices of the Peace had been appointed; and assizes were, after a long interval, held in several county towns.

The colonists had meanwhile been formed into a strong militia, under the command of officers who had commissions from the Crown.

The trainbands of the capital consisted of two thousand five hundred foot, two troops of horse and two troops of dragoons, all Protestants and all well armed and clad.