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 . AIEA TH. 269 used to He for hours holding, It was thought, entranced communion with the fay-queen, and her court within it. While on this subject it will not be out of place,before we continue our course by the Boyne, to refer to other scenes in Meath,Laracor and Dangan, associated with the names and memories of two other Irish-men of world-wide fame—Dean Swift and
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 . AIEA TH. 269 used to He for hours holding, It was thought, entranced communion with the fay-queen, and her court within it. While on this subject it will not be out of place,before we continue our course by the Boyne, to refer to other scenes in Meath,Laracor and Dangan, associated with the names and memories of two other Irish-men of world-wide fame—Dean Swift and the Duke of Wellington. The Iron Duke was born in Dangan Castle, the family seat of the Wesleys,some five miles from Trim. He was baptized in Dublin, which gave rise to a. Swift Piriih Lkuic/i t/ Lii ico? supposition, now dispelled, that he was born in that city. He passed many of hisdays of boyhood at Dangan, resided some time in Trim in the house at the cornerof Dublin-Gate Street, and represented that borough in the Irish Parliament,where, in the Reports of 1793, he appeared as Captain A. Wesley. These asso-ciations were no doubt influential in suggesting the monument (representedonpage 251), which tells its own story in the inscription— This column, erected inthe year MDCCCXVIL, in Honour of the Illustrious Duke of Wellington, bythe Grateful Contributors of the County Meath. Dangan was described in theearly days of the dukes father, i 748, by Mrs. Delany, who was his godmother, as 270 PICTURESQUE IRELAND. a magnificent place, with a gravel walk fifty-two feet wide and six hundred yardslong- from the house to the lake, which was twenty-six acres in extent, all set in apark of more than eight hundred acres. It passed from the Wellesleys, and has lon
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