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Account Of A Tour To Killarney, &C.
convivial friends , I shall then have done more than many who visit Killarney ; and whilst travellers more learned than myself stand foremost in the ranks of literary fame , I will contentedly mingle with the humble tribe of minor journalists . Having at Limerick met with three of my intimate friends , ready to depart from thence to Killarney , I made a proposal to join them
in the excursion ; the acceptance of that proposal 1 shall always remember with sensations of delight , as it produced more pleasure than I ever experienced in any other journey . No company could study more than we did the art of being agreeable to each other , so that mutual exertions to please , did not fail to produce mutual hapiness .
p Of Limerick I have not much to inform you , having met few things there , to excite curiosity . The city is divided into two parts , that called Newtown Perry is well built with brick , and the houses mostly large . A communication between this and the Old Town , is formed by a handsome bridge of three arches , near to which are several convenient quays , and a new Custom-house fronting the Shannon .
The export of beef , pork , and raw hides , is here very considerable , and to this the fine p lentiful country round Limerick must largely contribute . Pretty early in the morning of the 9 th instant we departed from Limerick , and passing through a country finely improved , stopped at the pleasant village of Adare , to breakfast . This is a sweet woody place , and though there are the ruins of several churches and abbeys , our impatience to get forward hurried us away without giving them
a visit . We passed through the small town of Rathkeel without stopping , but at Newcastle staid several hours , where a new church and several pretty buildings gave it an appearance superior to most towns in this country . Lord Courtenay has a considerable estate here , and his agent ( an English Gentleman , whose name is Locke ) has raised the Lombardy poplar in great numbers ; in some inclosures contiguous to
his house these plantations have a grateful appearance to the eye of a traveller , where such sights do not abound , but , on the contrary , the country is bleak , ^ and bare of wood . From Newcastle we rode through- a poor lonesome country on the borders of the County of Kerry , which we found joined with that of Limerick by a bridge of twenty-two small archesover which we
, passed , and late in the evening reached Castle Ifland . The country hereabout is both fertile and well improved , but - the town is a . mean , dirty p lace ; our inn was worse than tolerable , or at least it seemed so after the more decent entertainment we had received at Newcastle : though our table at supper was covered with plenty , there wanted the appearance of order and cleanliness ; and
this I- have observed in many places in Ireland , too much of the profusion of nature , and too little of the elegance of art . We did not leave Castle Island so early in the morning as we intended , for the town had no apparent beauties to entice our stay , yet we met with N n 2
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Account Of A Tour To Killarney, &C.
convivial friends , I shall then have done more than many who visit Killarney ; and whilst travellers more learned than myself stand foremost in the ranks of literary fame , I will contentedly mingle with the humble tribe of minor journalists . Having at Limerick met with three of my intimate friends , ready to depart from thence to Killarney , I made a proposal to join them
in the excursion ; the acceptance of that proposal 1 shall always remember with sensations of delight , as it produced more pleasure than I ever experienced in any other journey . No company could study more than we did the art of being agreeable to each other , so that mutual exertions to please , did not fail to produce mutual hapiness .
p Of Limerick I have not much to inform you , having met few things there , to excite curiosity . The city is divided into two parts , that called Newtown Perry is well built with brick , and the houses mostly large . A communication between this and the Old Town , is formed by a handsome bridge of three arches , near to which are several convenient quays , and a new Custom-house fronting the Shannon .
The export of beef , pork , and raw hides , is here very considerable , and to this the fine p lentiful country round Limerick must largely contribute . Pretty early in the morning of the 9 th instant we departed from Limerick , and passing through a country finely improved , stopped at the pleasant village of Adare , to breakfast . This is a sweet woody place , and though there are the ruins of several churches and abbeys , our impatience to get forward hurried us away without giving them
a visit . We passed through the small town of Rathkeel without stopping , but at Newcastle staid several hours , where a new church and several pretty buildings gave it an appearance superior to most towns in this country . Lord Courtenay has a considerable estate here , and his agent ( an English Gentleman , whose name is Locke ) has raised the Lombardy poplar in great numbers ; in some inclosures contiguous to
his house these plantations have a grateful appearance to the eye of a traveller , where such sights do not abound , but , on the contrary , the country is bleak , ^ and bare of wood . From Newcastle we rode through- a poor lonesome country on the borders of the County of Kerry , which we found joined with that of Limerick by a bridge of twenty-two small archesover which we
, passed , and late in the evening reached Castle Ifland . The country hereabout is both fertile and well improved , but - the town is a . mean , dirty p lace ; our inn was worse than tolerable , or at least it seemed so after the more decent entertainment we had received at Newcastle : though our table at supper was covered with plenty , there wanted the appearance of order and cleanliness ; and
this I- have observed in many places in Ireland , too much of the profusion of nature , and too little of the elegance of art . We did not leave Castle Island so early in the morning as we intended , for the town had no apparent beauties to entice our stay , yet we met with N n 2