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
ENNISCORTHY, 8 m. N.W. of Wexford, stands agreeably on the Slaney.
Ancient Castle fitted up as military depôt. Handsome bridge, six
arches. Close to it is Vinegar Hill! A few miles to the E. is
Courtown, remarkable for its evergreens, which grow to an immense size
with a marine aspect. Near this also are the pleasing seats of Kyle
and Bellevue, places of extraordinary beauty, and affirmed by Mr.
Wakefield to be inferior to none in the British empire, abounding in
magnificent scenery, richly planted, undulating and varied in their
surfaces, and animated by the Slaney flowing between them, which often
assumes all the grandeur of an expansive lake.
FETHARD, 15 m. S.W. of Wexford.--Ancient Castle, once in ruins, lately
altered and modernized. Principal tower is an elegant specimen of
the ancient military architecture, with its crown and battlements
supported by brackets or consoles, and fantastic embrasures from
whence the enemy could be annoyed in the old system of defence. Visit
Dunbrody Abbey, on the Barrow; ruins magnificent; fine sculpture in W.
window. Several ruins of Castles and Danish raths. Duncannon Fort is
a good specimen of modern fortification, though of early foundation,
having been erected for the defence of the river against the
threatened attacks of the Spanish Armada, in the reign of Elizabeth.
It stands on the flat surface of a lofty rock which overlooks the bay
forming the entrance of the river. See the Hook Tower. At a distance
of about 3 m. from the fort stands one of the most noble religious
ruins in the island, Tintern Abbey, in consequence of its first
monks being brought from that abbey in Monmouthshire by the founder,
William earl of Pembroke, whose piety was prompted to a vow during a
threatened shipwreck.
FERNS, 13 m. N. of Wexford.--On an eminence in the town see the ruins
of the ancient Castle, one of whose fine circular towers is almost
entire, containing amongst other apartments a beautiful chapel, the
groining of which springs from consoles in the wall, but the flooring
is gone. Over it is an arched room with embrasures or loop-holes. See
ruins of Abbey; elegant Episcopal Palace; modernized Cathedral, with
ancient tomb of St. Meoloch. Camolin is the seat of Earl Mountnorris.
GOREY, 21 m. N.E. of Wexford, exhibits the effects of rebellion in
the destruction of several elegant seats in its vicinity. Here were
horrible scenes of massacre.
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