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 grassy hillis unconnected with any other eminence, but terminates in a double peak, evi-dently artificial, each forming a truncated cone. The northern peak is sur-mounted by a castle one hundred and eighty feet in circumference, and coveringthe whole extent of the platform. The walls are ten feet thick, and in heightperhaps forty feet. While polygonal exteriorly
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 grassy hillis unconnected with any other eminence, but terminates in a double peak, evi-dently artificial, each forming a truncated cone. The northern peak is sur-mounted by a castle one hundred and eighty feet in circumference, and coveringthe whole extent of the platform. The walls are ten feet thick, and in heightperhaps forty feet. While polygonal exteriorly, it is circular inside, and anexternal wall twenty feet high, and but little in advance from it, surrounds thestructure. Lower down a deep fosse, six hundred feet in circumference, flankedby an earthen rampart, girdles the hill. It was a stronghold of the earls of Des-mond, and their war-cry, Shannid aboo, was derived from it. The southern peakis crowned by a rath—an earthen hill fort, surrounded with fosses and ramparts,and with the peculiarity of being subdivided into four equal parts by the inter-section of a deep cut through the centre. The castle dates perhaps from thetwelfth century ; the rath from far remote New Church at Loui^h Gur. S6o PICTURESQUE IRELAND.
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