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A Tour in Connaught, by the Author of 'Sketches in Ireland' [Signing Himself C.O.]. by Caesar Otway (Paperback / softback, 2012)

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1839. Excerpt: ... Very pleasant to me was the morning when, escaping out of Dublin, I took my way to the west, through that exceedingly disgusting purlieu of the city, Barrack-street. The road, w made level eugh to answer even for a steam locomotive, runs parallel to the river--on the right the Phcenix-park--on the left the lands of Kilmainham--where, in former days, the wild fellows of Dublin came out to bait bulls--as is recorded in that very humorous ballad, entitled The baiting of Lord Altham's bull. The whole of the fine inches along the river on its rth side, and reaching for two miles, were granted by the crown to Sir John Temple, the ancestor of Lord Palmerston, as a remuneration for building a stone wall separating the Phcenix-park from the high road. Fine times these, when estates could be got in the Land Of Job So cheaply. B 2 CHAPELIZOD. To the left is Chapelizod, formerly the residence of the lords deputy--once a place of considerable manufacturing industry, and where the great Duke of Ormonde, immediately after the restoration, set up the linen and cambric manufactures, under the inspection of Colonel Lawrence, who brought a colony of Huguets from Rochelle, and the Isle of Rhe, and located it here. Old Hanmer, the chronicler, tells a story mighty romantic, relative to the name of this village--it being, according to him, the retreat of La Belle Isod, the frail beloved of a Danish king of Dublin. Here were her bower and her chapel--the devotions of the chapel, (according to the religion of the times, ) atoning for the misdeeds of the bower. But this appears but a rechauffe of the story of the fair Rosamond, and the more probable origin of the name is as follows--the place of worship here built on the river bank was deminated Teampoll or Seapoll isio...

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General Books
ISBN-10
1150424184
ISBN-13
9781150424182
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185129191

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Paperback / Softback, Trade Paperback (US) ,Unsewn / Adhesive Bound
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English
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Caesar Otway

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07/07/2016
Date of Publication
01/02/2012
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Black & White Illustrations
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United States

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