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 . east to west, and the transept measuring 123 feet. It was founded aboutthe year 1180, by Bishop Felix ODallany, and was finished some two centurieslater. It was a magnificent edifice, and scarcely inferior in magnitude, complete-ness, and ornamentation to St. Patricks and Christs Church in Dublin. Warestates that Bishop Ledred, soon _ after 1318, expended large sums
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 . east to west, and the transept measuring 123 feet. It was founded aboutthe year 1180, by Bishop Felix ODallany, and was finished some two centurieslater. It was a magnificent edifice, and scarcely inferior in magnitude, complete-ness, and ornamentation to St. Patricks and Christs Church in Dublin. Warestates that Bishop Ledred, soon _ after 1318, expended large sums ^=^ %_ in embellishing the cathedral, and ^T^ ^K particularly in filling the win-dows with stained glass, whichwere destroyed by the Crom-wrellian fanatics in 1650. Indeed,the fabric sustained great in-juries during these wars, and hasbeen undergoing restoration toour day. It contains many finemonuments ; and in the northtransept is a stone seat, the Chair of St. Kiernan, who is believed to havepreceded St. Patrick on the mission by thirty years. Six feet and a half fromthe cathedral is a Round Tower, in good preservation, 108 feet high and 40feet in circumference. At a short distance is the Well of St. Canice, the waters. bt taniccs LatJudt III 546 PICTURESQUE IRELAND. of which are icy cold in the hottest day of summer. The Dominican, or BlackAbbey, founded in 1225, is also in Irishtown, the oldest part of which oldborough is The Butts Cross, where the people, between the ages of sixteenand sixty were compelled by statute to practice with the long-bow—the bows of ewe, wyche-hasel, auburne, or other reasonable tree, according to their power under pain of two pence per month, or on every feast-day of an half-pennyper day. The Priory of St. John, founded by the Earl of Pembroke about1211, was demolished to make room for a foot barrack but in the present centurywas re-edified into a parish church. From the number of its windows it wasknown as the Lantern of Ireland. One of the
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