Identifier: historyofireland11845dalt (find matches)
Title: The history of Ireland, from the earliest period to the year 1245, when the Annals of Boyle, which are adopted and embodied as the running text authority, terminate: with a brief essay on the native annalists, and other sources for illustrating Ireland, and full statistical and historical notices of the barony of Boyle
Year: 1845 (1840s)
Authors: D'Alton, John, 1792-1867
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Publisher: Dublin, Pub. by the author
Contributing Library: Boston College Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston College Libraries

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on. Some years since it waspurchased by the present proprietor, Mr. Barton.The face of this tract consists of hills, chiefly oflimestone gravel, with good parcels of soil inter-spersed among reclaimed bog. When Mr. Weldpublished his Survey of the County of Roscom-mon (1832), he stated, that, in several of the thennewly erected cottages on this estate, he found thewool-spinning assiduously practised, and loomscrowded to excess, for the manufacture of coarseflannels, striped woollens, and cotton stuffs; thereis, however, no manufacture or trade here now, andthe place presents a mixture of wretched cabins,with a Roman Catholic chapel wholly unworthyof religious appropriation. There are two fairs heldannually, on the 18th of May and 14th of Novem-ber. The old hall is situated on the summit of agentle eminence, and originally presented a large,quadrangular enclosure, or bawn, of about 100 yardssquare, boimded by lofty walls, with spacious, butlow, round towers, at each angle. The habitable
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;;v^-f:/ THE PARISH OF TUMNA. 119 part occupied nearly tlie whole of the eastern side,and what remains of it (for it was burned down in1798 by the insurgents) is now, together with thenorthern tower, converted to a faim-housc. Fromthe terrace in front of the building a line view opensof Oakport Lough, witli the woods round the house.The approach to the hall was, and still is, up astraight inclined plane, the front of which is fdledby a conically topped, gable-like wall, perforatedwith three Saxon arched portals, the centre for car-riages, and the sides for foot-passengers. The as-cending avenue leads hence to another Saxon arch,opening into the court south of the hall. The river,where it passes out of the Lough of Oakport, iscrossed by an old straight bridge of seven arches, onthe off side of which, as sketclied in the annexedengraving, is an excellent police barrack, also fittedup for holding the district Petty Sessions. Wlicrethe Cootehall estate terminates, at the Shannon, asmall v

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