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 . Remains of Sclskcr Abbey adjoining the old fortifications. they have none of the social faults usually ascribed by Protestants to the influ-ence of the Catholic religion ? Thirdly, they seem to verify a mooted theoryabout the causes of insanity and idiocy. In order to keep their farms in thesame families, they have been in the habit of intermarrying with blood relat
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 . Remains of Sclskcr Abbey adjoining the old fortifications. they have none of the social faults usually ascribed by Protestants to the influ-ence of the Catholic religion ? Thirdly, they seem to verify a mooted theoryabout the causes of insanity and idiocy. In order to keep their farms in thesame families, they have been in the habit of intermarrying with blood relations ;and to this is ascribed a fact, that Forth and Bargy send more lunatics to theasylum at Enniscorthy than any other part of the county. Fourthly, thoughthe landlords are Protestants, evictions and agrarian outrages are excep-tional, if not almost unknown, and, but a few years since, only one landlord was S04 PICTURESQUE Rathmacnee Castle. Spoken of as feloniously appropriating his tenants improvements in the formof increased rents. Fifthly, although the people of Forth and Bargy are men of Saxon blood, they foughtagainst England in 1798; andit has been remarked, that forhalf a century no man from thedistrict was ever known to takeroyal bounty as a soldier. The country throughoutthese baronies is usually flat,and without striking features,save the remains of the towerhouses alluded to. Over a sur-face of forty-thousand acres, theremains of fifty-nine castles arestill standing, and the sites ofmany more are pointed out. From the Warders watch-tower, at least two, and often six castles were ia sight, and a signal-fire on one soon spread the alarm over the colony. These edifices were plain stout towers, built at the corner of a square walled and battlemented enclosure. The fine modern castle of Johnstown is built on the site of one of these fortalices, in the centre of Forth, and is itself the centre of
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