A Picturesque Handbook to Carlingford Bay: And the Watering Places in Its Vicinity .... |
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... remains of antiquity , which are scattered over the County Down . This fine specimen of the Norman - Irish military keep is situated a little inland of the entrance of Carlingford Lough . The Castle is a massive square pile , in ruins ...
... remains of antiquity , which are scattered over the County Down . This fine specimen of the Norman - Irish military keep is situated a little inland of the entrance of Carlingford Lough . The Castle is a massive square pile , in ruins ...
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... remains of the Blockhouse ; Little Green Island raising its emerald bosom out of the aqueous waste ; Greenore Point , with its handsome Light- house ; Carlingford , with its ancient castles , its ruined abbeys , its lofty mountain , and ...
... remains of the Blockhouse ; Little Green Island raising its emerald bosom out of the aqueous waste ; Greenore Point , with its handsome Light- house ; Carlingford , with its ancient castles , its ruined abbeys , its lofty mountain , and ...
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... and monastic remains of Carlingford , the pretty town of Warrenpoint , Mount • Hall , the cenotaph of General Ross , the 24 HAND - BOOK TO CARLINGFORD BAY . The Woodhouse .................. Another Trip from Newry FAGE 201.
... and monastic remains of Carlingford , the pretty town of Warrenpoint , Mount • Hall , the cenotaph of General Ross , the 24 HAND - BOOK TO CARLINGFORD BAY . The Woodhouse .................. Another Trip from Newry FAGE 201.
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... remains of oblong stones , such as we commonly find supporting the cap- stones of cairns ; it is hollowed beneath , sloping gradually to- by comparison - a pivot . It is almost impossible to conceive that it could have been dropped into ...
... remains of oblong stones , such as we commonly find supporting the cap- stones of cairns ; it is hollowed beneath , sloping gradually to- by comparison - a pivot . It is almost impossible to conceive that it could have been dropped into ...
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... remains of two rude edifices , where in " old times , " on the Saint's patron day , the peasantry used to assemble in throngs to do penance and pay their devo- tions . " A deep , narrow vale divides Sliev Donard from Sliev Snaven , or ...
... remains of two rude edifices , where in " old times , " on the Saint's patron day , the peasantry used to assemble in throngs to do penance and pay their devo- tions . " A deep , narrow vale divides Sliev Donard from Sliev Snaven , or ...
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Abbey ancient appearance Ardglass Armagh Bagnal Ballynahinch Bank Baron beautiful Belfast born building built Canal Captain Carlingford Lough Castle Catholic chapel church coast command cottages Courcey daughter demesne district ditto Donard Downpatrick Drogheda Dublin Dundalk Dungannon Earl Edward elegant English Enniskillen erected extensive feet formerly GOSFORD CASTLE granted green Greencastle Greenore grounds handsome Henry Hill Hotel House Ireland Irish Island James John Kilkeel Kilmorey Lady land late linen Liverpool Lord Lough Lough Neagh Loughbrickland Louth Marquis merchant miles mountains Mourne Narrow Water Castle neat Newry Newry Canal O'Neill Omeath Park Parliament pass Patrick picturesque Presbyterian present pretty proprietor Quay Railway residence river road Robert Rosstrevor ruins scenery seat Shane O'Neill shore side Sliev Sliev Donard splendid steamers stone Strangford Street Thomas tion tons tower town trade trees Ulster vessels village Viscount Warrenpoint waters William woods
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Page 257 - That a claim of any body of men, other than the king, lords, and commons of Ireland to make laws to bind this kingdom, is unconstitutional, illegal, and a grievance.
Page 237 - Sword; was appointed ambassador to the court of Lisbon in 1806, to Sweden in 1817, to Constantinople in 1820, and to Russia in 1825 ; is author of " Poems from the Portuguese of...
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Page 21 - COMB back, come back together, All ye fancies of the past, Ye days of April weather, Ye shadows that are cast By the haunted hours before ! Come back, come back, my childhood ; Thou art summoned by a spell From the green leaves of the wild wood, From beside the charmed well ! For Red Riding Hood, the darling, — The flower of fairy lore.
Page 33 - In the descent southward, near the bottom, one is forced to slide down a sort of thatch, composed of furze, long grass, and juniper. St. Donard, a disciple of St. Patrick, is said to have spent the life of a hermit on this mountain, and built a cell, or oratory, on the top of it, towards the close of the fifth century.
Page 160 - And no spectacle was more frequent in the ditches of towns, and especially in wasted countries, than to see multitudes of these poor people dead with their mouths all coloured green by eating nettles, docks, and all things they could rend up above ground.
Page 255 - ... inviolable, and to deliver up the succession peaceably to his Tanist, and then hath a wand delivered unto him by some whose proper office that is; after which, descending from the stone, he turneth himself round, thrice forwards and thrice backwards. Eudox. But how is the Tanist chosen? Iren. They say he setteth but one foot upon the stone, and receiveth the like oath that the captaine did.
Page 14 - A day with not too bright a beam, A warm, but not a scorching sun, A southern gale to curl the stream, And, master, half our work is done.
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