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abbey Arklow barrack Barrow beautiful beautifully Blackwater Bray breadth bridge Carnew cars Castle Castlecomer church Clonmel coast considerable contains Cork country lying cross demesne distance district Dublin Dungarvan Earl east elevation Enniscorthy Enniskerry erected estuary feet Fermoy fertile five miles flat four miles Freshford Galway glen Glendalough grounds half miles hamlet handsome harbour height hills Ireland Kenmare Kilkenny Killarney lake land Laragh latter left bank Liffey Limerick Lord Lough Luggala mansion moun Mount Mount Leinster mountains Nore noticed numerous occupies Park pass picturesque plain plantations principal Rathdrum reach remarkable residence rich right bank rising river road leading rock Roman Catholic chapel Roscrea Ross ruins runs scenery seat Shannon shores side situated six miles Slaney Slieve Statute Miles stream Suir summit tains Thomastown three miles tion tract Tralee traveller valley vicinity village Waterford waters Wexford Wicklow wood Youghal
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425 페이지 - miles from existing navigation. There are upwards of twenty safe and capacious harbours, fit for vessels of any burthen ; about twenty-five navigable lakes in the interior, of a mile or more in length, besides hundreds smaller : the sea coast and all these lakes abound with fish. The district, with its islands, possesses no less than
429 페이지 - itself under every possible combination of heathy moor, bog, lake and mountain. Extensive mossy plains and wild pastoral valleys abounding in loughs and streams, lie embosomed among: the mountains, and support numerous herds of cattle and horses, for which the district
448 페이지 - and Larganacallagh mountains, close to the base of the former. The source or spring is of a circular form, about 50 feet in diameter, called the Shannon Pot, or more generally Leigmonshena. It boils up in the centre, and a continued stream flows from it, about eight feet wide and two feet deep, in the
389 페이지 - bleak, but good pastoral district which occupies so large a portion of the limestone district of the county of Clare. The interesting ruins of Clare Abbey, erected by Donald O'Brien, King of Munster, in 1194, stand near the Fergus river, about
425 페이지 - is very destitute of wood, a few scrubby patches only being thinly scattered through it. The country, however, possesses an extensive stool of timber, for in almost every dry knoll or cliff, the oak, birch, and hazel appear shooting in abundance, and require only a little care to rise into
275 페이지 - and offers not only an unusual scene, but a spectacle approaching much nearer to the sublime, than any moderatesized stream can offer even in its highest cascade. None of the Welsh waterfalls, nor the Geisbach in Switzerland, can compare for a moment in grandeur and effect with the rapids of the Shannon. Nor is the river the only attractive object at
425 페이지 - Although Connemara be mountainous, it is by no means an upland country like Wicklow ; at least threefourths of the western portion of it is not one hundred feet above the level of the sea. Great part of the southern portion rises from the shore of |Galway-bay, in a gentle sloping
429 페이지 - held by a hardy and ancient race of grazing farmers, who live In a very primitive state, and, generally speaking, till little beyond what supplies their immediate wants. For the first
349 페이지 - scenery in the British empire. Mr. Inglis, describing this road states, that " in the magnificence of its mountain and sea views it is little inferior to any of the celebrated roads along the shores of the Mediterranean, and is every way superior to the road from Bangor to
34 페이지 - with the Custom House, the Grand Canal Dock, and the Bingsend Dock. PUBLIC STATUES AND MONUMENTS. The Equestrian Statue of William III. College-green, was erected in 1701, by the citizens of Dublin, to commemorate the Revolution of 1688. It is well executed in bronze, and stands on an elevated marble pedestal,