Excursions Through Ireland: Province of LeinsterLongman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1820 |
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Abbey acres afforded ancient antiquity appears arch Archdall Ardee Athboy Athlone Balbriggan banks beautiful Boyne building built called Canal Castle celebrated century chapel church church-yard Clondalkin Co.oF considerable cross demesne Drawing by Geo Drogheda Dublin Dundalk Earl EASTMEATH edifice eminence English erected Excursions through Ireland extensive feet former formerly founded Friary garden Geo Petrie handsome hill Hugh de Lacy Irish island Kells king labour land latter Ledwich Leinster Engraved Leixlip Liffey Liscarton Longman & Paternoster Lord Lough Lough Lene Louth mansion monastery monastic Mullingar native Navan neighbourhood observed parish Paternoster Row Patrick picturesque possessed present Priory Province of Leinster Raheny remains remarkable residence river road rock Round Tower Royal Canal ruins seat Shannon side Sir Richard Hoare situated Skryne steeple stone style supposed tion tourist town traveller Trim TRIM CASTLE tumulus vicinity village walls Westmeath
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175 페이지 - I have been about my Dioceses, and can set down, out of my knowledge and view, what I shall relate : and shortly, to speak much ill matter in a few words, it is very miserable.
181 페이지 - Augustin, was peculiarly and universally esteemed, it was uncommonly extensive, and amazingly enriched by various kings and princes ; its landed property was so great, and the number of cells and monasteries subjected to it so numerous, that almost half of Ireland was said to be within the bounds of Clonmacnoise.
105 페이지 - I found it perfectly practicable to travel upon wheels by a map; I will go here, I will go there; I could trace a route upon paper as wild as fancy could dictate, and every where I found beautiful roads without break or hindrance, to enable me to realize my design.
46 페이지 - I could discover nothing except a stately hollow pillar, without a staircase, so that when I entered within, and looked upward, I could scarce forbear imagining myself at the bottom of a deep draw-well.
99 페이지 - O'Donnell, it is asserted that in the year 544, being a prince of the royal family, he was offered the crown of Ireland, and that Dermod M'Cerball, his competitor, succeeded only because our holy abbot preferred the cowl to the diadem, an evident proof of the sincerity of his devotion, and the humility of his mind. He died in the...
94 페이지 - ... any ill consequence. His intemperance however in this respect, at length brought on an incurable disorder, and when just at the point of death, he called for a cup of his beloved liquor. Those who were standing round him, surprised at the demand, endeavoured to persuade him to the contrary; but he persisted, and, when the bowl was brought him, attempted to drink, but could not; wherefore, giving away the bowl, he observed with a srnile, that it would be hard if two such friends as he and the...
74 페이지 - This great improver, a title more deserving estimation than that of a great general or a great minister, lives now to overlook a country flourishing only from his exertions. He has made a barren wilderness smile with cultivation, planted it with people, and made these people happy. Such are the men to whom monarchs should decree their honours, and nations erect their statues.
105 페이지 - FOURE, an ancierft corporation, sending two members to parliament, is seated on the north side of the hill, which interposeth between it and LOUGH LENE. This town is said to have been anciently a town or university of literature, and its name, signifying in the Irish language, the town of books, and LOUGH LENE, the lake of learning...
68 페이지 - Grimvald, mayor of the palace, and, by his direction, was shorn as a monk, rendered unfit to hold the reins of government, and banished into Ireland : he was received into this Abbey, where he obtained an education proper for the enjoyment of a throne. He continued here twenty years, when he was recalled into France and replaced in his government.
65 페이지 - At the entrance, this gallery is three feet wide and two feet high ; at thirteen feet from the entrance it is but two feet two inches wide ; the length of the gallery, from its mouth to the beginning of the dome, is sixty-two feet; from thence to the upper part of the dome, eleven feet six inches ; the whole length being seventy-three feet and a half.