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 . of Ireland. TheAbbot was a lordof parliament;and the last whoexercised thisdignity was Oli-ver Grace, young-er brother of Baron John Grace of Courtstown. The architecture combinesthe Anglo-Norman and Gothic styles; and the less ancient divisions of the General View—KMs Abbiy. KILKENNY. S4I tuilding, which are strictly in the pointed manner, are probably, in the opin
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 . of Ireland. TheAbbot was a lordof parliament;and the last whoexercised thisdignity was Oli-ver Grace, young-er brother of Baron John Grace of Courtstown. The architecture combinesthe Anglo-Norman and Gothic styles; and the less ancient divisions of the General View—KMs Abbiy. KILKENNY. S4I tuilding, which are strictly in the pointed manner, are probably, in the opinion ofMr. Brewer, contemporary with the Abbeys of Dunbrody and Tintern, but theexecution is greatly superior, and the general design partakes more of lightnessand elegance than is seen in either of these much-admired relics. Its battle-ments are noteworthy, as being identical with many found in the north of Italy,but very unlike anything either in England or Scotland. They give a foreign. Jerpoint Abbey, from tlic Kivcr. look to the whole building. In wealth and grandeur Jerpoint was esteemedfourth among the mitred abbeys of Ireland. , On its suppression it contained 6,500acres demesne lands ; and these, with its other estates, were granted to Thomas,the tenth Earl of Ormond, at a rental of less than ^50. The abbey containedmany ancient and beautiful monuments, among them one of two figures (habitedin the costume of the twelfth century) to the founder, who died and was hereinterred in 1185; others to ecclesiastical dignitaries; and to members of the 542 PICTURESQUE IRELAND. Butler, Grace, Walsh, and Fitzgerald families, down to the seventeenth remains is extremely interesting and elegant, but wantonness and neglecthave gone far to destroy this once extensive and beautiful structure. The city of Kilkenny has a county attached to itself, comprising an area ofover 17,000 acres of the surrounding district. It is built on the Nore, whichdivides it into unequal
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