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Lieutenant of Ireland taking their official governmental materials with them when they left the country. Wood's guide gives an overview of the records that existed shortly before 1922. Through this publication we know that Chancery and Exchequer records; wills; parliament records; and plea, pipe and other rolls, among many other records, were destroyed in the fire (Wood, 1919 ). The Four Courts fire was not the only one of the 1920s affecting medieval documents, as the Custom House was also set alight, as were many Anglo-Irish Protestant country houses. The immolation of
Exchequer in 1313–14 that magnates could send hides from port to port without paying customs dues (O’Neill, 1987 ). At times even small trading points interacted with mariners from international locations. For example, in southwest Ireland much of the exchange of local tower house dwellers probably came from visiting fishing fleets (Breen, 2005 ). These fishermen travelled there from England and from continental Europe. As fishermen paid tolls to tower houses for the right to fish, to take shelter and for fish-processing facilities, in a