The Scientific Tourist through Ireland: in which the traveller is directed to the principal objects of antiquity, art, science & the picturesqueWalford, Thomas
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The Scientific Tourist through Ireland: in which the traveller is directed to the principal objects of antiquity, art, science & the picturesque
Walford, Thomas
Ireland -- Description and travel
_Rubia peregrina_, Wild Madder:--in the Island of Innisfallen.
_Rubus idæus_, Raspberry Bush or Framboise:--near Lough Lane,
plentifully.
_Salsola Kali_, Prickly Glasswort:--on the sea shore at the bottom of
Ballyheigh Bay.
_Santolina maritima_, Sea Cudweed:--on the shores of Ballyheigh strand.
_Saxifraga oppositifolia_, Mountain Heath-like Sengreen; among the
rocks near Blackstones.
_Saxifraga umbrosa_, London Pride, or None-so-pretty:--on Mangerton
mountain.
_Scrophularia Scorodonia_, Balm-leaved Figwort:--on the sea coast near
the Magherie Islands in Tralee bay.
_Smyrnium Olusatrum_, Alexanders:--on a small bushy hillock near
Crumlin Ch., about the shore near Dunkerton, the head of the river
Kenmare, and elsewhere.
_Sorbus domestica_, True Service or Sorb; on several rocks about
Killarney Lake.
_Solidago cambrica_, Welch Golden Rod:--near the Devil's Punch-bowl, on
the west side of Mangerton mountain.
_Tragopogon porrifolius_, Purple Goat's-beard:--on the banks of the
river Brick near Lixnaw.
KILDARE
Is an inland and small-sized county, soon traversed, and, with the
exception of numerous Danish mounts, containing very little to interest
the general tourist. It is, in short, little more than an extent of
bog; and the famous Curragh of Kildare, so celebrated in the annals
of sporting, is literally nothing more than a boggy down of about
3000 acres. Mr. Wakefield observes that the habitations of the poor
are so extremely wretched that they add the appearance of misery and
desolation to the general dulness exhibited by the face of the country.
Unfortunately there is scarcely any thing to contrast with this; for
the seats of the gentry, though much admired, are far from being
numerous. Bounded by Meath on the N.; Dublin and Wicklow, E., Carlow
S.; and W. by King's and Queen's Counties.
ATHY, 10 m. S.W. of Kildare, celebrated as the scene of battles in
early history.--See ruins of two Monasteries. At Ardee, 1 m., Danish
Rath. At Carmen, 5 m. E., Rath on conical hill, with extensive
prospect. See Kilberry Abbey, and Kildangon Castle, in ruins. At
Maistean, field of battle where bones are still dug up, of great
antiquity. Rheban, 2 m. N., has a quadrangular entrenchment, the
remains of an ancient city.
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