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 . Ruins of Dangaii Castle. coming of Saint Patrick. This accounts for his burial at Rosnaree. He chargedhis attendants not to lay his body in Brugh, because it was, though royal, thecemetery of idolaters ; but at Rosnaree, with his face to the east, in token of therevelation of heavenly light coming from that point. After his death, however,his council deemed it more
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 . Ruins of Dangaii Castle. coming of Saint Patrick. This accounts for his burial at Rosnaree. He chargedhis attendants not to lay his body in Brugh, because it was, though royal, thecemetery of idolaters ; but at Rosnaree, with his face to the east, in token of therevelation of heavenly light coming from that point. After his death, however,his council deemed it more becoming to the honor of so great a prince that heshould lie with his predecessors, the kings of Tara. Thrice they raised his bodyto carry it over the river, and each time the Boyne swelled to such a height as torender the ford impassable. This circumstance was regarded as an evidence ofthe violation of the kings testamentary desire, and he was finally laid at rest inRosnaree. Of Cormac, the Aiinals of the Four Masters say he composed Carving in Eastern Ent> ance to Ga, Ca?vc(i iitoiu on hititior ANCIEMT REMAINS AT NE-W GRANQE. 278 PICTURESQUE IRELAND. precepts for kings, tracts on the customs and tributes, and on the ordinations ofkings : he was well versed in the laws, as well as In historical and chronologicalresearches ; he planned rules for the judges, and right principles of equity in mat-ters of agreements ; and that he was also the person who collected the chroni-cles of Ireland into one place, Tara, until he ordained that they should be written
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