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Title: Picturesque Ireland : a literary and artistic delineation of the natural scenery, remarkable places, historical antiquities, public buildings, ancient abbeys, towers, castles, and other romantic and attractive features of Ireland
Year: 1885 (1880s)
Authors: Savage, John, 1828-1888, ed
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Publisher: New York, T. Kelly
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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Ireland. Its last lord was DArcy, whose name is now usually asso-ciated with it, and whose mausoleum, in a very neglected condition, is in a smallchapel in an adjoining inclosure. It is a current belief among the peasantry thatan underground passage and tunnel leads from it under the Boyne to the oppositeside. Near Ardmulchan is Hayes, the seat of the Earl of Mayo. At Stackallan,over the Broad Boyne Bridge, is a holy (St. Patricks) well, and in the vicinity theresidence of Viscount Boyne, once occupied as the College of St. Columba.Proceeding toward Slane we move amid delightful scenery : passing the wood-crowned heights and leafy banks of Beauparc ; the ivy-mantled walls of Castle-Dexter, over the dark plantation on the opposite river-side, until rise before us themodern castle of Slane, and farther down the ancient abbey ruins. No one with a Christian spirit, and even faintly excited by the charm of his-torical stud)^, can fail to pause and ponder at Slane. Resting on the venerable
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DUNMOE CASTLE. 2/4 PICTURESQUE IRELAND. tombstone beneath the ivy-mantled tower, which was the belfry of the old cathedralabbey, once gorgeous with shrines, illuminated by votive tapers, whose places areusurped by the hemlock and purple foxglove, we readily realize the pictureswhich hang on memorys walls, presenting scenes and acts in the early missionlife of the Apostle of Ireland, and the pagan powers and practices contemporane-ous with them. The ground we stand upon is truly sacred ground. If the scenesconjured before the minds eye are impressive, equally beautiful and suggestive ofa pageant of history are the scenes presented to the actual vision, if climbing to the broken battlements of the- - - -5.E^^3s*=^ - _ - tower summit, we gaze below and around. From the towersand steeples of Trim, we tracethe windings of the blue Boyneto the meeting of the sea andsky below the Maiden ToAver,at Drogheda. We follow it,passing through the highly cul-tivated landscape ; view thehills of Tara

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