--- Page 1 --- emphatically an old place , and I said to have been granted of two to bring to their present perfection . Woodlands is years back , but a portion of the original castle still remains , no recent creation , and are such as it would require a century wisely changed . " sons . the family into whose possession it has passed have knight who accompanied him into Ireland , and in possession about five miles from Dublin . last Earl of Carhampton . Up to the mind was known by by . King John to Sir Geoffry Lustered at Anglo-Norman and an apartment in it bears the name of King John's cham- The principal parts of the mansion were rebuilt about fifty sent proprietor , who is now making further additions to the ber . It has also received additional extension from its pre- from modern improvements . Its chief artificial features are of structure . present century ; when it was sold to Mr. Luke White by the of whose descendants it remained , and was their residence the name of Lutterelstown , a name which , for various rea- Woodlands is situated on the north bank of the Liffey , from the close of the fifteenth till the commencement of the Though Woodlands derives very many of its attractions --- Page 2 --- 1961 62 . --- Page 3 --- 1934 --- Page 4 --- 1907 08 --- Page 5 --- Norman doorway in Christ Church Cathedral . --- Page 6 --- be supposed to have been the forms and features of the ancient to preserve as far as possible the original buildings : and while might be supposed to have been their original state . But it to preserve and restore them as much as possible to what signed it as to exhibit with historical accuracy what might sossed within the present century . With the good feeling as tinginished , his first desire in the re-edification of this castle was was found impracticable to do so . The foundations were found buildings , and thus make it a consistent commentary on and subsequent centuries , was preserved as a residence for the pro- he increased their extent in the necessary additions to them , to have sunk , " and a nearly total re-erection was therefore 18- square tower , connected with additions of the sixteenth and the superintendent of the late William Morrison , Esq , the associations connected with a spot so interesting , he so do- prietors of the manor till the year 1835 , when the present Of the original castle erected here in the twelfth century . a most eminent and accomplished architect whom Ireland has pos- well as refined taste for which this admirable artist was so die . illustration of the past history of its locality . noble structure was commenced from the designs and under cessary ; yet , in the new edifice , attending to the historical CLONTARE CASTLE , COUNTY of Dublin . --- Page 7 --- 1930s . --- Page 8 --- to Christ Church by Archbishop . Lorcan O'Tuthal in 1/78 ) one would expect to find some care be - vent the inroads of cattle , but the same apathy few exceptions , and it is not improbable that the prevails as in other places in the country , with but , stowed to keep it in preservation , or at least to pre- convenient for hearthstones of doorsteps , as an liney ( which with the town or village were granted former ages of even " a local habitation and a From the great antiquity of the church of Kil- Aderrig and other places in the county , where there are no gravestones at all remaining . morials have in many instances been removed as boxes will deprive this most interesting relic of I suppose , and not without reason , that these me- name . " There is not an own tombstone left to The rude forefathers of the ramlet sleep . modern noisy manufacturers of brick and mostant nmark where modern noisy manular --- Page 9 --- the present proprietor ; the principal front is design , and having a gallery at the south end . nave and choir , separated from each other by propriators of the Castle . It consists of a rous superb apartments , of which the most of two lights , ornamented with crochet agree for ages the place of sepulture of the which is an altar piece in three compatments painted by Albert Durer , and originally placed a lofvy pointed arch nearly in the centre of To the left of the hall is the drawing-room , a curious is one called the Oak Chamber , wins- cotted and veiled with native oak , richly the building . The east window is large , and canopies . The whole is shaded by chestnut established , and the entrance defended by two stately apartment , richly embellished , and containing some very valuable paintings , among oak , lighted by three large windows of elegant carved in scriptural devices , and lighted by a personages , among the latter of which are larged by Richard Lord Talbot de Malahide . very large collection of royal and distinguished circular towers . The interior contains nume- of this chamber is the Grand Fall , a spacious and covered with Ivy , beneath which is a window enriched with geometrical tracey , and over several members of the Talbot family , also pointed window of stained glass . To the right loity room , with a vaulted roof of richly carved in the oratory of Mary Queen of Scots at paintings by the most celebrated masters of the western end is a small bolify thickly fine view of the town and bay . The original trees , of which the branches bend over the buildings have been much improved and en- are the remains of the ancient church . of considerable elevation , and commanding a roofless walls . Holywood House . There is in the castle a Contigons to the Castle the Italian and Flemish schools . situated on a Limestone rock . # --- Page 10 --- bective abbey . himself actively in the cause of Lambert Simnel , in opposition to the authority of Henry VII , but monarch , and received the royal pardon . the body of Hugo de Lacy , the great Palatine of Dublin , and entombed in the Abbey of St. Thomas . Meath , was buried with much solemnity within the walls of Bective , but his head was carried to he afterwards took the oath of allegiance to that Towards the close of the twelfth century ( 1195 ) In 1488 . the then Abbot of Bective exerted The Abbey ruins consist of pointed arches , the tower with projecting angles , and from the gallery opening into the former by twelve arches , sup- monasteries , and all its ornaments , jewels , etc , were The Abbey was one of that class which came to space or area , which was apparently roofed , ported by clustered pillars . In the south front is a cloisters , with a tower , and other remains distinct . therefrom absorbed into the royal treasury . tive of the Gothic order . In the centre is a square access is had to a number of cells under the chapel . the Crown before the general suppression of while at the south and west side is a gallery --- Page 11 --- gles by towers ; the whole in good preservation . To the veyed to South by those of St. Cianan . west , adjoining the main building , are offices , which appear son , both slain at the battle of Clontarf . were brought by battle of the Boyne . ing which , it contained great riches at the Dissolution , north side , is a large square building , defended at the an- on the south side . is through a pointed area . The houses and was possessed of a very large property in lands and Athearne Castle , romantically situated in the midst of Cianan , or Kenan , is said to have founded the abbey and plantings in the neighbourhood form an agreement trees , not far from the Nanny-water , which flows by its water . The ruined Abbey-Church , with its majestic tower is , with justice . perhaps , supposed to have been the titles . The bodies of Brien Boromhe. and Moragh , his to be of the same date . The principal entrance , which is country through which the traveller has had to pass during James slept in the castle on the night previous to the the preceding eighteen or twenty miles of his journey , in about 488 : it was frequently plundered by the Danes , as from the metropolis , a little to the left of the nail-coach This venerable ruin is situated about twenty miles the monks of Swords to this abbey . and from thence con- well as by the Irish in their intestine wars's notwithstanding- contrast to the barren and " uncomtivated appearance of the first stone edifice , of its kind , erected in Ireland . St. the route from Dublin to Drogheda . ' It is said King line to Drogheda , in the village of Duleek , on the Nanny- DOUDROYLESS CRAWW.S.Y. C.000 W.L. --- Page 12 --- ravel that have been taken from it for road purposes led to the mistake . founder and the monastery , called as it is St. Michael's , may have Wheban is situated in the parish of Churchtown " and " union of Moore received in down the manors of Rheban and Woodstock . typulchral mound raised over some kind or chieftain . and though Lord of Rheban . A coincidence between the names of the supposed Army , about two-and-a-half miles north-west of the latter . official in a great degree . There was nevertheless , advantage erroneously stated to have been the one founded by De St. Michael , In 1924 Thomas Fitzgerald , Lord of Offaly , and afterwards teated . Lord Inchigrin , and compelled to surrender Rheban strength Earl of Kildare , marrying Dorothea , daughter of Anthony In16#It was taken by Owen Roy O'Neill , who was afterwards religious edifice erected by the families of Boesel and Hogan , at the In 1325 , in the absence of the English settlers , Rheban . Duna- after an obstinate resistance . entrance of the town , and dedicated to St. Michael , which is ear the lastle was a very high conical mount . thought to have been travel that have been taken from it for road purposes . At tion of a natural height , as may be sibly the unilisturbed beds nd all their dependencies , were taken by O'Moore . , and all their dependencies , were taken by O'Moor --- Page 13 --- height . A Henry Bru . cond floor , which rests on an arch . ' There are two flights of the Bag pied by Do walls , about five foot thick , are in some places fifty feet The appear of stops higher up , but they are a state of dilapidations the fronts from the outer extremity of one of which to lagh , styled the towers was the chief entrance , of archeil , cut stone . high ; they are of rule stone work , built in the most per- that of the other , being a distance of forty feet . " The servation . It is of a square form . having two towers in dows , seems to have been in each of the towers : between The ruins of Ballyloughan Castle , situated in the parish the north , ruin , about century . that the one in thickness . window , wi distance of Although at present roofless , the walls are in good pre- manent manner . Fourteen stone steps conduct to the se- An apartment about seven foot in height , with two was- been a place of considerable strength and importance . it former Dumbackny , and barony of I.I.I. none East , show it Ballyloughan castle . --- Page 14 --- latively so which leads through Leixlip , a neat little quented by its pleasure-seeking inhabitants than eat antiquity , its external character exhibits but little unity by the river . Liffey , which is crossed by a village about seven miles from Dublin , up the Lif- the village of Leixlip , although it is now compa- view as the place where in the war of 1641 . General Preston halted when on his way to form bridge of ancient construction , and on the other by Adam de Ilereford , one of the chief followers of the outlets of Dublin are pleasant . but this super- nce of an ancient fortress , having been modernised by on a steep and richly-wooded bank over the Liffey . O'Keefe in his opera of ' The Tired Soldier , ' thus by the Rye-water , over which there is a bridge of upants . It is supposed to have been erected in the reign a junction with the Marquis of Ormond to oppose neighbourhood " of the Irish metropolis more fre- modern date . The Castle of Leixlip is magniti- Its groves of fine myrtle , its beds of sweet flowers . the Parliamentarians . It is bounded on one extra- This lady so well dressed , and its neat pretty maids . " fey . whose banks are beautiful beyond description . " Its clear falling waters , and murmuring cascades , EXTY years ago there were few localities in the ratively neglected . Doctor Campbell says : " All The town is memorable in an historic point of " Though Lexlin is proud of its close shady powers . chaunts its charms : eixlip and its castle . vy . latively so which leads through Leixlip . a neat little --- Page 15 --- 0 0 --- Page 16 --- commercial dollar-larr . " Liffey . The name signifies " The Devil's , or Daemon's Hole , ' ascertained . The water is drawn by a section , the power of which influence over the feelings : its charims give greater exercise to the ponderous and rapid descent of the whole body of the river Mr. Brewer , in reference to this waterfall , says : " this cata- OL-A-PHUCA , or Paul-a-Phouka , situated near Rus nothing can resist , to the edge of a crazy-precupice , where the rocks it being an immense whirluool whose death has never yet been happy tourist once met his fate , having fallen from the rock above . single burst of the fall at Powerscourt produces astonishment in an water rushes . The sum of the arch is sixty-five feet , and the kev- with which we are acquainted in the county of Wicklow . The are divided into several distinct falls , in the manner of a stair-case . stone is one hundred and eighty feet above " the level of the river ; springing from rock to rock across the chasin through which the there is a natural basin beneath the arch . in which it is said an un- imagination , and afford a variety of pictures , independent of the I-a-Phuca bridge consists of one Gothic or pointed arch , But Pol-a-phuca does not depend on a first impression for its unity of Wicklow , is a remarkable waterfall formed by the unquestionably the most picturesque and pleasing of any unusual degree , and many adjacent circumstances are truly attrac- I natural basin beneath the arch . in which it is said an un- of Wicklow , is a remarkable waterfall formed by a --- Page 17 --- 1952 53 --- Page 18 --- Ardrmann Castle , near Cahir . --- Page 19 --- is seen winding through the rich valley for a considerable distance . " left bank of the Sur , near the Waterford and Carrick-on-Surir road . position on the banks of the Suir , render them a striking object in the general scenery . The Sur , which is here about 400 yards in breath , of Ormond , and Lord-deputy of Ireland in 1521 ; and it was taken by fortress ; and , even now , the extent of the ruins and their remarkable Parliamentary forces , under Colonel Axel , one of Cromwell's officers , of the importance of this place when entire and garrisoned as a castle is supposed to have been built by Pierce Butler , the eighth Earl From the towers and walls which remain , some idea can be formed Grandison , or , as they are now called , Graney Castle , about the tourist , looking to the right , would see the ruins of N reaching the valley of the Suir , coming into Waterford , I amile to the right . They are picturesquely situated on the --- Page 20 --- about the year 1662 , by Sir John Clotworthy , Lord on Lough Neach . His son . Sir John , was one of this fact , was oddly enough , raised to the peerage Six-mile-water river , immediately contiguous to erected in the early part of the reign of the First name , carried the estate and title into the latter The present Castle appears to have been originally ad is a good example of the style of domestic archi- by patent of Charles II , under the title of " Baron val with the erection of the edifice , and are laid out teenth century . it was founded long before , as some of Lough Neagh and Viscount of Massarene . " The id into Ireland after the Restoration . The gardens daughter and beiresses . Mary , by her marriage with the Castle may have been re-edified in the seven- James , by Sir Hugh Clotworthy , who by that Massarene , who died in 1665 , and whose only family . From the architectural style of the edifice . forces during the Civil War , and notwithstanding the most distinguished leaders of the Parliamentary greatest length of which runs parallel with the river , of the walls of the earlier structure are still visible . Sir John Skeffington , the fifth baronet of that according to Dr. Petrie . to have been erected in or however . it is more than probable that although ive and uncommon style . Castle is beautifully situated on the banks of the monarch's patent had the charge of certain vessels HE original Castle of Antrim is generally supposed , antrim Castle . on Lough Neach . His son , Sir John , was one of --- Page 21 --- 0 0 --- Page 22 --- 1414 is was destroyed by fire , but very shortly afterwards as . of the O'Connor kings ; the latter is in good preservation . monuments one bearing date 1616 , and the other belonging to one erected in the present style of architecture . It is a pictur- under which is the altar . likewise of cut stable . Here are two-ment apartments . The first has a beautiful window of carved stone , esque ruin of very large dimensions , divided into several Maurice Fitzgerald , Lord Justice , about the year 1252 . In LIGO Abber is an object well deserving of the notice of the antiquary . It was originally erected , according to Wake , by sligo Abbey . --- Page 23 --- HE remains of the once noble Priory of Kells , less in a state of ruin ; and though some parts may striking and imposing spectacle . ' The Priory was into two courts , separated by a strong wall . ' The of the Vonrigh , or King's River . ' They stand arches , and immense masses of fallen fragments all , in good preservation , fitted up with fire-places , away , clad in a rich garden of ivy , that sometimes ventation , ) is about four hundred feet square , and closets , and narrow stone stair-cases ; and their Southern , or , as it is sometimes called , the Burgher's each of the northern angles , and in the centre of entively shrouds the ancient masonry ; broken are others in a shattered and most dilapidated con- was apparently never occupied by buildings . In comprehended within a large oblong square , divided be pronounced as excellent in preservation . there court , ( of which the above engraving is a repre- upon the aspect of a hill , and are bounded at the county Kilkenny , are situated on the south side northern extremity by the river . They are more or kells priory . everywhere strewing the ground , present a most dition . Distantled towers , with whole sides torn the northern and western curtains , is a strong tower , --- Page 24 --- exterior of the building is tolerably perfect . It of finely-diversified country : immediately under is the White Knights , in Desmond's rebellion . " river Bride . This castle is a high square tower . built parently with little effect . Over the entrance is a From this room may be described , to the west , a tract nd commands an extensive prospect over the adjacent conducting aperture is , with few exceptions , peculiar forces , and from whence he battered the castle , ap- almost perpendicularly from the river Bride . The presents a square tower about eighty feet in height . on an enemy attempting to force the doorway ; this poss of letting fall missiles , or boiling water , or lead , and held council for the execution of the defending to the ancient defensive towers , and similarly situ- covered' aperture in the wall , which communicates ated in each . Dr. Smith , in his " History of the county with the upper room , and is evidently for the pur- onged to Thomas Fitzgerald Roe . It was demised to le by Sir James Fullerton , A. p. 1603 . Near is a stone west is the small parish church of Knockmourne , in which , for neatness of execution , far exceeds any the village of Conna ; a little beyond which is Comma Castle , on a high limestone rock , which rises is accessible by a winding staircase of cut limestone , we have seen in the ancient towers of the south . emains of an ancient corporation , which was entirely where , we are told , Cromwell stationed his army , The first arched floor , called " The Earl's Room , ' rentions it : " A mile west of Maguly is Connough a rising ground , called " Gallows I Kill , " the spot ROM three to four miles west of Tallow stands CONNA CASTLE . --- Page 25 --- and strong castle , built , as is generally supposed , by attacked the Irish army , and after a very severe and on the second of September , after a siege of next day , the Earl of Inchiquin came to its relief , King John , though some attribute it to some of able , queer town . In it are the ruins of a very large forty feet by one hundred and twenty , and was ow entirely filled up . e into the water below for sixteen seconds afterwards . the above drawing , which represents the south side . which very little now remains , as may be seen by subterranean passages near the castle , the entrances cal tradition , but we are not aware that it has ever thirteen days , it surrendered . However , the very stone were let fall from the brink , it would not be flanked by six great towers , two square and four part of the county of Cork , and is a very reconsider- The Castle is an oblong square , two hundred and ily authenticated . contest defeated them , with the loss of fifteen round , and the walls were thirty feet high . The Mountgarret , consisting of seven thousand men : it was besieged by the Irish army . under Lord In the latter end of the month of August , 1642 , the vicinity of this town , the depth of which was so Lord Castlehaven , with an army of five thousand south entrance was defended by a strong fort , of about fifteen years ago , an extraordinary well , or the Strongbowian adventurers . HE town of Liscarroll is situated in a mountainous hundred men . It was again taken in 1646 . by men . Liscarroll Castle . --- Page 26 --- conjectures were completely overthrown , and the They have been assigned to the dark rites of Pagan- for the clergy , from the sudden inroads of the tolerable good state of preservation . It differs in ism - to the mystic arcana of Druidism - said to be Academy , by Dr. Petrie . Sixty-five of these extraordinary constructions have been discovered temples of the fire worshippers-standings of the Liffey , in accounting for their origin and use . thirty-four feet of this ancient structure is still in a ruthless Norman . But all these clever and recordite remains of the Round Tower of Army . About real nature of these Round Towers clearly explained , n Ireland . There are generally the marks of five reach tower ; the doors are from thirteen to twenty antiquarians . Quires of paper tall as a tower , have Ballycastle and one of Kenbaan Head , stands the to rear'd with stern and trusting hands . towers of the Danish invaders defensive retreats n was their faith , the ancient bands , N the Antrim coast , within about four miles of in a Prize Essay , presented to the Royal Irish been covered with as much ink as might form a dark grey towers of days unknown . pillar worshippers-Christian believes military wise in heart , in wood and stone , met with in the same county , Antrim , Trummery , ground , and so low , that none can enter except by some respects from the three other towers to be The Round Towers were a prestigious puzzle to and Kam's Island . Armoy round tower . --- Page 27 --- 1907 --- Page 28 --- red on him the additional title of Earl of Wiltshire . places and the other usual appendages to a build- able importance . as is sufficiently attested by the that is now nearly destroyed . together with fire- considerable elevation , though of rather gradual been erected in the course of the fourteenth cen- of this tower , with their graceful label-mouldings , extent of the ruins , and the elegance of those parts jury , and was the keen of the fortress as it then ing of the kind-all now in a most dilapidated ascent , they overlook a country of beautifully ransoms , some of which are overhung and interwoven and exuberant ivv. are of elegant construction : over diversified appearance , in fine cultivation , and noble house of Ormond . this castle was of consider- remain . The north-west tower seems to have the date A.D. 1455 , showing the erection of this side antiquity . Once a principal strong-hold of the condition . The other remaining tower is obviously the middle or termination of the fifteenth century . of less antiquity : and were we not possessed of the stood . It contained four floors , one of which was have taken place in the time of James , fifth Earl of real date of its erection , we would immediately possessed great power , and was a favourite of Henry arched : a fine stone staircase in one of the angles the original structure but two towers at present of the building that have escaped destruction . " Of Freshford , county Kilkenny , stand the imposing mins of Balleen Castle . Situated on ground of BOUT two miles north west from the little town of interspersed with numerous interesting remains of Balleen castle . --- Page 29 --- h springers , that are supported on each side by corbels c spring from them . The two arches of the transents and that its support from four massive square milliers , and the arches which also . The stecule , which is over the cross of the transent derives Nore , about two miles from Thomastown , and are very in his proper habit . In the left hand he holds a cruiser , the route of the figures wear long beards , and appear to be singing or launching . is uplifted , and the two first fingers and thumb are raised , as if in church was a cruciform structure , and consisted of a rare . smaller dimension , is also of the pointed form . Such an anomaly is separated from each other by a single million with rounded tops very probable that the choir was the work of a different period ; HIS religious edifice was originally founded by Danovich The roof of the steeple , over the cross transept , is curiously ground # with a corresponding number of massive columns . Above and occasioned the one to supersede the other . The roof of the chair is Donoughce . King or Prince of Ossorr , in the year 11/30 appear at the foot of the monument , standing beside a kneeling serpoint abbey . wered amidst the rubbish with which the Abbey-church is now in rule , though bold relief , opposite to the grand altar of the south supposition that it was built about the period when these styles even these pointed arches are the remains of six elementary and a female figure . habitat in the costume of the twelfth or this- windows , narrow and rather rounded at their tops . The western L second ancient monument of a religious person sustains a statue . inscription is illegible . for Oistercian Monks . The ruins are situated on the ornamental form . The nave and transepts are uncovered , eads to the choir or chancel is secular . A Serpent , or monster grows at the lover end of the crosier . The Donough , King of Ossory , founder of the Abbey , who died , and left side . The base of the monument is cut into compatments , in or great window of the nave consists of three distinct arches . igure reclines , is covered with trefoils and roses . in the manner that is to this day practised on parts of the continent . right hand , which reposes on his breast , the fragment of a crucifix ads to the choir or chancel is secular . sublematic of the Trinity . The table , or altar-slab , on which this head of the statue revoses upon a pillow of much elegance . The executed with conspicuous talent and delicacy . The crosier is of choaked up . sive , occupying nearly three acres of ground . " The In a tomb of black marble lies the full length statue of jellent workmanship , and in the right hand is a spring of trefoil , which contains an Agnus Dei , well sculptured . The croof of which was supported by a range of six poi the stating reposes upon a pillow of much elegance . s-aisle , stand the remains of a tomb , upon which repos reredings , is covered with trefoits and no, since it was Although the eastern or altar window which is now built in to a angel , whose hands are uplifted in the act of fervent prayer . Most aracter of its architecture . can only be accounted for , 1907 t hand is directed towards a small harp , that hangs for the nave , are of the pointed form : the arch which nanner that is to this day practised on parts of the centi relonging to the nave , are of the pointed form : signular deviation in point of form between them . 1 a circular arch of stone . quite perfect , and in the chancel , sculptured share interred , in the year 1185 . The male figure holds in the the act of swearing an oath of fidelity , or of some very serious kind , 6tho . e seen various images of the apostles . Two crowned fig circular and the pointed-were undergoing that can teenth century . This monument is said to have been erected for his one chair or chance is secular . --- Page 30 --- 1907 08 --- Page 31 --- of black marble , and are lighted by pointed windows . The 60 Though of such antiquity , it is in good preservation , having I potent family of Ormond . Next the cathedral is a round town muncate with the centre of the nave by pointed arches , spring last century , and more recently by Dean Vignolles . ' The la Bishop Pococke , to whose memory there is a cenotaph , in th the see of St. Kieran having been removed from A ghaboe to K thedral of St. Canice , a vast cruciform pile , dating from the on ground arches , resting on massive columns of black mark ments are numerous and interesting , and include those of sex that most perfect of all our ancient ecclesiastical --- Page 32 --- 1930s . --- Page 33 --- 1925 --- Page 34 --- of Her Majesty's troops in Ireland . The gardens . gives one of her large garden parties . The principal avenue is approached through a the city , but being supposed like Temple pleasant locale when Viscountess Wolseley building , and slope towards the railway in Royal Hospital during the past eighteen which formerly stood at one of entrances to it more fitting than it has been for years months , which when completed will render handsome turretted archway ( see sketch ) Bar to impede the traffic , it was taken Extensive repairs are being carried on at the for the accommodation of the Commander a succession of terraces , which form a are situated on the northern side of the down and re-execled in its present position , where it serves also as a guard house . --- Page 35 --- 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --- Page 36 --- 1907 Presidential --- Page 37 --- Great Cross , monasterboice . --- Page 38 --- 1961 62 . --- Page 39 --- 1930somann --- Page 40 --- 1961 62 .