. A history of the County Dublin; the people, parishes and antiquities from the earliest times to the close of the eighteenth century. Cromlech near Carrickgollogan. From a nkdch hi/ \V. F. Wakcnuni. mountain scenery has few rivals in the British Isles. Standing onthe elevated ground on which the ruined church of Rathmichaelrests, and looking over the rich and well wooded country by which 80 PABISH OF EATHMICHAEL. it is surrounded, one sees to the east the lovely bay of Killiney andthe blue waters of St. Georges Channel, to the north tlie whitehill of Killiney and the green island of Dalkey, a
. A history of the County Dublin; the people, parishes and antiquities from the earliest times to the close of the eighteenth century. Cromlech near Carrickgollogan. From a nkdch hi/ \V. F. Wakcnuni. mountain scenery has few rivals in the British Isles. Standing onthe elevated ground on which the ruined church of Rathmichaelrests, and looking over the rich and well wooded country by which 80 PABISH OF EATHMICHAEL. it is surrounded, one sees to the east the lovely bay of Killiney andthe blue waters of St. Georges Channel, to the north tlie whitehill of Killiney and the green island of Dalkey, and to the westand south the dark mountains of the Counties Dublin and Wicklow,terminated by Bray Head and forming a diversified althoughalmost continuous range. But apart from its charm of situationthe jjarish of Rathmichael is interesting on account of its historicalassociations. Many remains of past ages, marking the differentperiods into which Irish history may be divided, either exist orhave been found within its limits. These include cromlechs at. Supposed Cromlech on Carrickj^ollojtan. From a sketch hy W. F. Wakcvuin. Carrickgollogan and Shankill; a rath or caher near Rathmichael(i) ;three churches of Celtic foundation—namely, those of Rath-michael, Shankill, and Kiltuck; the base of a round tower; andfour castles dating from the time of the Pale—namely, thoseof Shankill, Shanganagh, Ballycorus, and Rathmichael, the latterbeing commonly called Pucks Castle (-). Of the chiefs under whose sway the rock monuments and caherwere erected nothing is now known, and it is only from the existenceof the base of the round tower and from traces of an ancientenclosure tliat the importance of Rathmichael as the site of aCeltic religious establishment has become apparent. To the () See Borlases Dohnens of Ireland. vol. ii., ]i|i. 392. 393; also OrdnanceSurvey , p. 35, and vohimo of Skctclies, l)y \V. F. AVakciiian, preservedin the Royal Irish Academy. The Shankill croinlech h
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