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
Trap; greenstone; hornblende; felspar; porphyry; and pyrites:--round
Arklow.
Copper, with some recent discoveries of gold; pyrites:--at Cronbane.
Lead ore; large blocks of pure quartz; blocks of mica slate; foliated
galena, and gneiss:--at Glenmolaur.
Gneiss; granite:--on Lugneguilla Mountain.
Lead ore; galena; carbonate of lead crystallized; sulphate of
barytes:--at Shankhill.
Hornstone, and quartz:--in the Sugar-loaf mountains.
BOTANY.
_Asplenium Trichomanes_, English black Maiden-hair:--on rocks.
_Hieracium paludosum_, Succory-leaved Hawkweed:--on the Mountain of the
Three Rocks.
_Juniperus communis_, Juniper:--on mountains.
_Pulmonaria maritima_, Sea Bugloss:--on the Meneagh of Wicklow.
_Saxifraga umbrosa_, London Pride, or None-so-pretty:--on mountains.
_Silene amœna_, Sea Campion:--among stones near the sea.
_The following Iters from Dublin, extracted from_ CUMMING'S Traveller's
Guide through Ireland, _may be found useful_.
_miles._
From Dublin to Howth.
To Marino 2
Clontarf 2-1/4
Raheney 4
Beldoyle 6
Howth 7-1/2
From Dublin to Malahide.
To Coolock 3
St. Douloughs 4-1/2
Malahide 6-1/2
From Dublin to Balbriggan.
To Drumcondra 2
Santry 3
Swords 7
Turvey 9
Man of War 12
Balruddery 14
Balbriggan 15-1/2
From Dublin to Naul.
To Glassnevin 2
Forest 5-3/4
Brackenstown 6-1/4
Bally-boghill 10-1/2
Naul 14
From Dublin to Garrelstown.
To Finglass 3
Pass if you Can 5-1/4
St. Margarets 5-3/4
Chapel Midway 7
Kilsaloghan 8-1/4
Clonmethan 10
Garrelstown 14
From Dublin to Cloonee.
To Castleknock 3-1/2
Mullahedart 6-1/4
Cloonee 7
From Dublin to Lucan.
To Chapelizod 2-3/4
Palmerstown 4
Lucan 6-1/2
From Dublin to Tallagh.
To Crumlin 3
Tallagh 5
From Dublin to Waterford.
To Rathcool 8
Johnstown 5-1/2 13-1/2
Naas 2-1/2 16
Kilcullen Bridge 5 21
Timolin 8 29
Castle Dermot 5 34
Carlow 5 39
Leighlin Bridge 6 45
Royal Oak 2 47
Gowran 5-1/2 52-1/2
Thomastown 7 59-1/4
Waterford 15 74-1/4
From Dublin to Limerick.
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