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 . ne, the fatherof the present pro-prietor of Cappo-quin. How theytoiled and dugandcleared through-= long years, till they created a fer-tile soil on the bare rocks, and made fields bloomwhere the heather hardly found nourishmentbefore, only those can imagine who remember itas a wilderness, the very approach to which wasa toilsome path over hills, almost impassable fo
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 . ne, the fatherof the present pro-prietor of Cappo-quin. How theytoiled and dugandcleared through-= long years, till they created a fer-tile soil on the bare rocks, and made fields bloomwhere the heather hardly found nourishmentbefore, only those can imagine who remember itas a wilderness, the very approach to which wasa toilsome path over hills, almost impassable forhorses, and constantly torn by fierce mountain floods. When the monks came,it would scarcely feed a goat; now the tilled portion is like a gentlemans de-mesne. Looking at the remnants of this old road to-day, when engineering has sup-plied a new and pleasant one around the base of the hill, the simple labors of themonks in dragging the lime for their reclamation works, and the stones for theirbuildings, up the rocky gullet seems incredible. In time the community got thechance of purchasing, in the Landed Estates Court, the fee-simple of the prop-erty which their unceasing industry had created, and ever since they have gone. Up the Blackwater—Knockmeledownin the Distance. JFA TERFORD. 525 on, flourishing, and building, and improving, until to-day there are smiling cropsor meadows covering their little estate, and in a thick shelter of trees has arisena, group of buildings which revive at once the traditions of Irish hospitality, pietyand learning. The monastery forms a quadrangle, three sides of which are occu-pied by the cells, the refectory and reception-room, used for the accommodationof the community and of visitors, and the college buildings, while the fourth isclosed by the pretty convent chapel. The community who originally came toIreland have been succeeded year after year by fresh accessions, and upwards ofa hundred brethren, about thirty of whom are priests, and mos
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