. The history of Ireland, from the earliest period to the year 1245, when the Annals of Boyle, which are adopted and embodied as the running text authority, terminate: with a brief essay on the native annalists, and other sources for illustrating Ireland, and full statistical and historical notices of the barony of Boyle. ough, many isolatedrocks, which in spring are covered with seagullseggs. The surrounding waters are well stocked withsalmon, trout, and pike, and the supply of the formeris likely to be. much increased by a dam head, re-cently constructed on tlie Boyle river, at the plea-sure
. The history of Ireland, from the earliest period to the year 1245, when the Annals of Boyle, which are adopted and embodied as the running text authority, terminate: with a brief essay on the native annalists, and other sources for illustrating Ireland, and full statistical and historical notices of the barony of Boyle. ough, many isolatedrocks, which in spring are covered with seagullseggs. The surrounding waters are well stocked withsalmon, trout, and pike, and the supply of the formeris likely to be. much increased by a dam head, re-cently constructed on tlie Boyle river, at the plea-sure ground near the town. A tract of thirty-eightacres, projecting into the Jake, near the house, iscalled Drummans Island, but is, in truth, a penin-sula of the demesne, recently isolated by an artificialcanal, and now connected by the bridge engravedin the vignette title of this work—while, from ano-ther fine eminence overhanging the lake, called theRock of Doon, this lovely sheet, its wooded islands,its bordering plantations, the isolated, castle, thehouse, the elevated steeples of Ardcarne at rig] left; the mock battlements of Castle, a striking object, ,lit or deeply shaded, are, with the distant hills, in the annexed plate, most effectively dis-played. .. THE PAlUSn OF BOYLE. 45 Of Rockingliam and its lake it but remains tosay, that it is on every side surrounded by the resi-dences of comfortable leaseholders, the shops ofthriving artizans, the cottages of an industrious pea-santry, and the schools of their respective familieswithin their view, inculcating peace, order, and mo-rality in the rising generations. The succession of inheritors by whom, duringcenturies of residence, these benefits have beeneffected, naturally suggests the introduction here of A MEMOIR OF THE NOBLE FAMILY OF sii-nanics cun bo found, from the earliest era of autlientichistory, more widely and induentially extended over every dis-trict
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