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 . land of Bag-an-bun,and the peninsula ofHook. The town ofFethard, an ancient lo-cality of prominence,sending two membersto the Irish Parliament, is now but a village. A few miles north of it is thebeautiful ruin of Tintern Abbey, which also can be reached by Nelson-bridge,over the Owenduff, from Clonmines. This interesting abbey was founded in1200 by William, earl ma
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 . land of Bag-an-bun,and the peninsula ofHook. The town ofFethard, an ancient lo-cality of prominence,sending two membersto the Irish Parliament, is now but a village. A few miles north of it is thebeautiful ruin of Tintern Abbey, which also can be reached by Nelson-bridge,over the Owenduff, from Clonmines. This interesting abbey was founded in1200 by William, earl marshal of England, and earl of Pembroke, who mar^ried the daughter of Strongbow and the princess Eva. When in extreme peri]at sea, the earl made a vow that if he escaped he would build an abbey wherehe safely landed. Hisvessel found shelterin Bannow Bay, andhe erected this ab-bey in honor of theMother of God, andbrought to it Cister-cian monks from Tin-tern, in Monmouth-shire. The southern part of Wexford is particularly distinguished by the number of plain, square castles,or tower-houses, clearly intended more for defence than for luxury. They markthe era of the invasion; and Mr. Wakeman directs attention to the combination. The Lake at yoJuts/own. WEXFORD. 501 of old Irish and new Anglo-Norman ideas in ecclesiastical architecture, instancingat least three abbey churches in Wexford, erected at that period, as amongst themost sumptuous in Ireland. These are the abbeys of Tintern, Ferns, and Dun-brody ; and of which Dunbrody has excited the greatest amount of is strikingly situated in the southwestern boundary of the county on a pro-jecting point, where the Barrow and Suir meet, and flow into Waterford har-bor. It was founded by Harvey de Montmorency, or Marisco, in 1182. Having
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