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 thelake appears DerrygoreHouse, in the Eliza-bethan style, and in ad-mirable keeping withthe surrounding boat now shoots into a bright expanse of waters fringed with forests ofbulrushes, behind which are countless beds of blue forget-me-nots and otherwild flowers of natures planting ; white water-lilies float in front; and everynow and then, from clum
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 thelake appears DerrygoreHouse, in the Eliza-bethan style, and in ad-mirable keeping withthe surrounding boat now shoots into a bright expanse of waters fringed with forests ofbulrushes, behind which are countless beds of blue forget-me-nots and otherwild flowers of natures planting ; white water-lilies float in front; and everynow and then, from clumps of reeds and other aquatic plants, frighted by ourintrusion, start the water-hens and flappers. The island soon appears, a long,low, grassy eminence, over the ridge of which the upper portion of the roundtower is seen. There too is the square belfry of the abbey^a thing almost ofyesterday compared with its companion—yet the less ancient building presentsa more time-tinted and wind-worn appearance than the tower. As we near theisland other buildings become distinguishable. Devenish is clothed in rank herbage during summer. Excepting the graywalls and the solitary hut of a herd, there is no trace of man. But when winter. Tally CastU FERMANAGH. 485 has stripped it, the old gardens of the ancient community can be traced in manya boundary, and even by the presence of herbs and plants, which, though oldin the soil, are not found in other islands, or on the surrounding hills. Thebuildings upon Devenish are, firstly, the foundations and a portion of the wallsof the house or oratory of the saint ; secondly, the round tower; thirdly, thegreat church; fourthly, the abbey; fifthly, the foundations of an unknownenclosure—probably the aherla or burial-place of the early abbots. The house of St. Molaisse, like that of St. Columba at Kells, in Meath,was a small, stone-roofed quadrangular edifice. Its remains testify that it wasone of the earliest structures composed of stone and lime in
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