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 . °^ ME A Til \ King Johiis Castle, Carlingford. Louth, the smallest county of Ireland, embraces scenes, and is associatedwith deeds, of the saddest and deepest interest, as well as of great importancein the history of England and Ireland. Invaders, saints, kings, and adventurershave passed over it—Heremonians, Danes, Christians, Cromwellians, Jacobites,Willia
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 . °^ ME A Til \ King Johiis Castle, Carlingford. Louth, the smallest county of Ireland, embraces scenes, and is associatedwith deeds, of the saddest and deepest interest, as well as of great importancein the history of England and Ireland. Invaders, saints, kings, and adventurershave passed over it—Heremonians, Danes, Christians, Cromwellians, Jacobites,Williamites, have made its waters, its fields, and its towns famous or unfortu-nate, and assured the little territory a wide space in history. With its easternside to the Irish Sea from Carlingford Bay to the Boyne, it presented induce-ments or facilities for adventure from the earliest period. Foreign kings havehunted each other over its borders ; foreign dynasties have sunk in its waters ;and its soil has been deeply drenched by the most treacherous and atrociousshedding of native blood by a more ferocious puritan butcher than any paganDane that ever ravaged an abbey. Toward the sea the surface is level, and onthe north mountainous. The principal
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