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 . Newry,embosomed in hills. A small part lies in Armagh, but the larger portion is builtupon the steep slope on the Down side of the river. The Four Masters recordthe founding of a monastery and the planting of a yew tree by St. Patrick,from which it is said its name (^ait yewe) is derived. In the Little Greencemetery, High Street, John Mitchel is interred. Formerl)^
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 . Newry,embosomed in hills. A small part lies in Armagh, but the larger portion is builtupon the steep slope on the Down side of the river. The Four Masters recordthe founding of a monastery and the planting of a yew tree by St. Patrick,from which it is said its name (^ait yewe) is derived. In the Little Greencemetery, High Street, John Mitchel is interred. Formerl)^ a Unitarian Churchoccupied the site, of which only a part of the wall and the pulpit remain. Thelatter is preserved temporarily under an awning in memory of the patriots father,a distinguished clergyman who preached, and rests not far from it. On the dayof Mitchels burial, March 23, 1875, John Martin was borne fainting from thescene back to the house whence the remains had been carried. The earthlyseverance of the comrades was brief. Mr. Martin died within a week, and wasburied in Donoughmore churchyard, within sight of the school where the life-long friendship of the patriots had commenced half a century before. Rock and Rttins of Cashel. TiPPERARY, an inland county in the province of Munster, is distinguished asone of the most exuberantly productive counties in Ireland. The surface pre-sents a number of extensive fertile tracts of undulating and champaign country,diversified with woods, and separated by mountain ranges, variously graceful andrugged, and always picturesque. These ranges are the Galtees (3,000 feet) ;Knockmeledown (2,700), on the border of Waterford, and extending westwardinto Cork ; Slieve-na-man (2,364,) also on the south, looking across the Suir atthe Commeraghs ; on the northwest the Keeper Mountains (2,100); northeastthe Devils Bit Mountain.^., rising abruptly near Roscrea, and extending in asouthwesterly direction to Burrisoleigh, the highest
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