Identifier: romanticireland02mans (find matches)
Title: Romantic Ireland
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Mansfield, M. F. (Milburg Francisco), 1871- McManus, Blanche, 1869-1935, joint author
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Publisher: Boston, L. C. Page & company
Contributing Library: Boston College Libraries
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h andnorthwest of Ireland. It is a remarkable factthat the strategic importance of CarlingfordLough should be thus recognized in a peacefulfashion at the end of the nineteenth century;for one recalls that the ruined castles at Car-lingford and Greencastle were built by theAnglo-Normans, at the close of the twelfthand beginning of the thirteenth centuries, toprotect their lines of communication when in-vading, in a far different and more tragicfashion, the hills and dales of Ulster. Thefrowning ruins of Carlingford Castle still seemto guard the western shore of the lough, whilethe fortress of Greencastle, on the easternshore, commands a glorious view from; its loftybattlements. Greenore supposedly presents many attrac-tions for the tourist, but they are mainly of thekind set forth in the tourist programmes of theshipping companies and the railways, and, infact, they are but of the conventional variety,though it is only fair to say they are hereperused under very attractive and charming
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Antrim and Down 243 on the river Quoile, which shows off its im-posing cathedral in a most pleasing manner. The native Kings of Ulster had their resi-dence here before the coming of Christianity.The town was known anciently to Ptolemy,who called it Dunum. The religious foundation of the place datesfrom 432 to 440, when St. Patrick establishedthe see and the Abbey of Saul of the CanonsRegular, who was superceded in 1183. a fewyears after the town was taken by John deCourcy, by the Benedictines. The cathedral of to-day is a rehabilitationof an ancient ecclesiastical building, though toall appearances it is a comparatively modernwork and is often credited as such. Locally, great importance is naturally at-tached to the supposed fact that Downpatrickis the burial-place of St. Patrick, and a rough,unhewn boulder marks the spot in the church-yard where his bones rest — or do not rest,for there is great and constant doubt as towhether this is really so or not. However,there are, it is to b

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