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 . Milford—Motint Leinsicr ajid Blackstairs in the distance. his ears. Queens College, Cork. The county of Cork, which is the largest in Ireland, comprises an area of2,885 square miles, or 1,846,333 acres, its greatest length, east and west, being 405 4o6 PICTURESQUE IRELAND. iio miles, and its greatest breadth, running north and south, 70 miles. It cm-braces mo
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 . Milford—Motint Leinsicr ajid Blackstairs in the distance. his ears. Queens College, Cork. The county of Cork, which is the largest in Ireland, comprises an area of2,885 square miles, or 1,846,333 acres, its greatest length, east and west, being 405 4o6 PICTURESQUE IRELAND. iio miles, and its greatest breadth, running north and south, 70 miles. It cm-braces more than half of the southern coast of Ireland, taking in the westernshore of Youghal Harbor, and the eastern shore of the great estuary KenmareRiver, as far up as Ardgroome, and is indented with several bays, such as CorkHarbor, Kinsale, Courtmacksherry, Clonakilty, Rosscarbery, Glandore, Balti-more, Dunmanus, and Bantry. Cork presents a surface of very great variety,and innumerable scenes of splendor and beauty. In the western part the pre-vailing character is that of wildness, from its bold, rocky and mountainous confor-mation, the same as that of Kerry, which forms its entire western scenery on Bantry Bay with the adjacent mountain and lake glories ofGlengariff and Gougane Barra, a
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