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 . ce,and the walls arethree feet fiveinches thick; thusthe inside is onlynine feet teninches in diam-eter. At the base, outside, a circle of stones projects five inches. Of the great church, the only remaining feature is a fine window in thesouthern wall. This is round-headed, with semi-cylindrical mouldings verydeeply cut. The masonry of this church is quite distinct
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 . ce,and the walls arethree feet fiveinches thick; thusthe inside is onlynine feet teninches in diam-eter. At the base, outside, a circle of stones projects five inches. Of the great church, the only remaining feature is a fine window in thesouthern wall. This is round-headed, with semi-cylindrical mouldings verydeeply cut. The masonry of this church is quite distinct from that of oratory or the tower. Near the highest part of the island are theruins of a large abbey church, erected by Matthew ODubhagan in the earlypart of the fifteenth century, which, being dated on a wall in the interior, is ofvery great interest to students of archaeology. To the north of the oratory, within a small enclosure, which appears to havebeen the ahcrla, or saints burial-place, is a rude stone coffin—supposed to beof mediaeval times. The island is regarded with great veneration by the people,among whom there is no dearer wish than to be laid to rest within its sacredprecincts among their Sculpture on Round Tower—North side. LEITRIM. Leitrim, a long narrow county of the province of Connaught, lies alon;^ th^.western boundary of Ulster, and extends from Longford County to DonegalBay. The extreme length of the county is fifty-one miles, and its width variesfrom two to twenty. The Shannon, which flows through Lough Allen, formsthe western boundary : and the scenery partakes, to some extent, of the char-acter of that in the northwest of Fermanagh, and east of Sligo. The county town is Carrick on Shannon, situated on the left bank of thegreat river. Lough Erne and the Shannon are connected by a canal, whichjoins the former at Ballydonell, and the latter north of Carrick, at the villageof Leitrim, whence navigation is continued to Lough Allen by
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