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
MITCHELSTOWN, a neat little town, 21 m. N.E. of Cork.--See the
magnificent seat of Lord Kingston, and the College, a liberal charity.
See in the vicinity, at Brigowne, 1 m., ruins of Ch. and round tower:
1-1/2 m., ruins of Caherdriny Castle; 2 m., ruins of Carriganoura
Castle. Castle Hyde near to Mitchelstown deserves a visit. The
grounds are extensive, and the house is curiously seated at the base
of a lofty rock. The park contains much diversified scenery, and
is traversed by the romantic Blackwater. See the marble quarries,
esteemed as handsome as any in Ireland; of a dark gray colour with
various shades, and a rich display of shells. At Skehewrinky, see
the cave in a limestone hill of dangerous descent, but beautifully
encrusted with spar and resembling a vaulted cathedral.
MIDDLETON, half way between Cork and Youghall, at the N.E. corner
of Cork harbour. See some ancient ruins of a Castle and Abbey; the
Market-house; public Freeschool, an elegant building; some remains
of Danish works and a large rath at Ballinachora. Several of the
curiosities are noticed under CLOYNE.
MILL STREET, 20 m. N.W. is a small village, with some appearance
of the linen manufacture. The roads are bad; but it has near it a
continued range of mountains that deserve investigation, particularly
two amongst them called the Papps, from their singular resemblance
to the human breast, and having two little protuberances on the very
summit of each, which enforce the resemblance more strongly: these Sir
R. C. Hoare suspects to be carnedds or Tumuli. Near it see ruins of
Clodagh Castle, feudal seat of the Mac Swinneys, once distinguished
for its hospitality by an inscription inviting all strangers to enter;
at Clondrohid, ancient Ch. and Danish encampments; and 1 m. W., on
Lessecresighill, vestiges of a Druidical altar. At Kilnamartery,
curious white rocks, at a distance resembling the ruins of a
magnificent city.
RATHCORMUCK, 12 m. N.E. of Cork, a decent town, with Ch. and neat
Market-house. See to the N. Cairn Tierna, a range of mountains
with an ancient cairn, forming a conspicuous object. Glanmire is
described by Miss Plumptre as a village in a beautiful and romantic
situation:--trace the rivulet through the deep and picturesque glen.
Glanworth has spacious ruins of an ancient Castle, and some remains
of a Dominican Abbey, with good river scenery. 1 m. distant is a most
curious sepulchral monument called Labacally or the Hag's Bed, said
by tradition to have belonged to a giantess of whom many ridiculous
fables are related. Its real history and antiquity are unknown: it
consists of several broad flag-stones supported by others, and most of
them of an enormous size, one no less than 17 feet long and 9 broad.
The whole length of this vast tomb, which is hollow underneath, is 40
feet; in breadth 14; and the whole seems to have been inclosed in a
circle of flag-stones about 14 feet from the outside.
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