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 . Up the Blackwater— WA TERFORD. 523 the glen of Glendlne. In the charming grounds at Ballinatray are the ruins ofMolana Abbey, where Raymond le Gros was buried. At Strancally the watersof the Bride unite with the Blackwater. Here was one of the Desmondsstrongholds, which had, it is said, a subterranean passage, in which their enemieswere entrapped and destro
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 . Up the Blackwater— WA TERFORD. 523 the glen of Glendlne. In the charming grounds at Ballinatray are the ruins ofMolana Abbey, where Raymond le Gros was buried. At Strancally the watersof the Bride unite with the Blackwater. Here was one of the Desmondsstrongholds, which had, it is said, a subterranean passage, in which their enemieswere entrapped and destroyed. One person escaped, and, proclaiming the in-famy, the castle and cave were destroyed. The new castle, a few miles distant, isa beautiful structure, rising gradually from the waters edge. On the oppositebank, near Villiarstown, which is a steamer station, is the magnificent forest ofDromana, one of the finest and most extensive demesnes in Ireland. Here wasborn Catherine, the famous Countess of Desmond, who, at the age of one hun-dred and forty years, went to London to demand of James I. the restoration ofher fortune, of which she had been deprived by the attainder of the last Earlof Desmond. Her death wassaid to have been caused by afall from a c
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