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 . The Cross of Cong. MAYO. 38s Donegal annals, however, distinctly state that Ruodri Ua Concobair, Kingof Connaught and of all Ireland, both the Irish and English, died among the can-ons at Cong, after exemplary penance, victorious over the world and the devil. Hisbody was conveyed to Clonmacnois, and interred on the north side of the altar. Standing between the river
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 . The Cross of Cong. MAYO. 38s Donegal annals, however, distinctly state that Ruodri Ua Concobair, Kingof Connaught and of all Ireland, both the Irish and English, died among the can-ons at Cong, after exemplary penance, victorious over the world and the devil. Hisbody was conveyed to Clonmacnois, and interred on the north side of the altar. Standing between the river and the abbey, the picture naturally rises beforeus of the aged monarch, broken down by the calamities which his country wassuffering from a foreign invasion which he was no longer able to resist—butstill more so by the opposition and ingratitude of his own children and relatives—passing up the river with his retinue, landing here in. 1183, and received by. TAe KillcrUs. Mayo. the lord abbot and his canons and friars ; and then taking leave of his faithfuladherents at the waters edge, being conducted to the abbey which it is said hismunificence had endowed. There as a recluse, untrammelled by the weight ofstate affairs, and possibly unaffected by the quarrels of his chieftains and kins-folk, the Last Monarch of Ireland, abdicating his authority, because the countryno longer supported him, died.* The rocks, caverns, and dark-flowing streamsof Cong, were, as Otway suggests, a fit place to sigh away a life which no longer * Wildes Loiigk Corrib, which see, for many antiquarian notes of this locality. ?S6 PICTURESQUE IRELAND could serve his country. Though the Connaught abbeys suffered less thanothers from the original suppressors, the fond superstition that turned theinteriors into places of sepulture, defaced and destroyed what the avarice ofHenrys courtiers and the curse of Cromwell had spared. The tomb pointed out as that of the king, is
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