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 . Donore mark the battle-field of1690, where the scepter of the line of Stuart may be said to have passed fromtheir hands forever; and each hill and ford recalls heroic names—Sarsfield,Hamilton, Berwick, Schomberg, Caillemote. In the distance stands Duleek, andbeyond the hill-line of Louth, are Monasterboice and Mellifont, in the latter ofwhich Devorgilla, the falsest
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 . Donore mark the battle-field of1690, where the scepter of the line of Stuart may be said to have passed fromtheir hands forever; and each hill and ford recalls heroic names—Sarsfield,Hamilton, Berwick, Schomberg, Caillemote. In the distance stands Duleek, andbeyond the hill-line of Louth, are Monasterboice and Mellifont, in the latter ofwhich Devorgilla, the falsest of women, ended her life in prayer and the lower distance the echoes of Cromwellian cannonading comes from thosesteeples , and, jutting out, above them, is the Mill Mount of Wilde says : The records and footprints of two thousand years are all be-fore us: the solemn procession of the simple shepherd to the early pagan mound ;the rude slinger standing on the earthen circle ; the Druid fires, paling before thebright sun of Christianity ; the cadence of the round towers bell : the matin and thevesper hymns swelling from the hermits cell, or early missionary church ; the proud ME A TH. 275. galleys and glancing swords of fierce northern hordes; the smoking ruins of churchand tower ; the shout of rival clans in civil feuds ; the lances and banners ofNorman soldiers ; the moat, and fosse, and drawbridge of the keep, still echoingback the strife of hostile ranks . . have, one and all, their epochs, ruins,sites, or history legibly inscribed upon this picture. There formerly stood, probably on the site of these ruins, a round tower, oftenreferred to in ancient records, which was destroyed by the Danes in the tenthcentury. It is said that, in the year 653, Dagobert, a child of seven years, sub-sequently king of Aus- trasia, was sent to Slane, _ ^^_^=^ . _ _--_ and after attaining ed- - - _ ~^ ^ _ ucation proper for the ^ enjoyment of a throne,was re
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