Identifier: seriesofpictures04morr (find matches)
Title: A series of picturesque views of seats of the noblemen and gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland. With descriptive and historical letterpress
Year: 1840 (1840s)
Authors: Morris, F. O. (Francis Orpen), 1810-1893
Subjects: Historic buildings Historic buildings
Publisher: London (etc.) W. Mackenzie
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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st, by Vandyke; portraits of several of theEarls of Thomond and Inchiquin, as well as many of the Clarendon and Keightleyfamilies, and also some curious hunting and racing pictures of the last century. In the hall is a large antique table of curio as manufacture, a relic of the SpanishArmada, which was washed ashore at Miltown Malbay, on the coast of Clare. There are also in the gallery some curious ancient tablets of bog oak, representingthe life and death of Brien Borohme, who was slain at Contarf in A.D. 1010, aswell as a bronze effigy supposed to have been at one time fastened on that monarchstomb. The family of OBrien, of which Lord Inchiquin is the head, is one of the IV. E 28 ^ DROMOLAND. oldest in Ireland. They maintained an independent sovereignty over a large partof the South of Ireland up to a late period, A.D. 1543, when Murrough OBrien,the then Tanist, or Monarch, resigned his princedom to Henry the Eighth, andaccepted the titles of Earl of Thomond and Baron of Inchiquin.
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LOCKO PARK, NEAR DERBY, DERBYSHIRE.—DRURY-LOWE. LoCKO, the seat of William Drury Lowe^ Esq., is one of tlie most charminglysituated mansions in the Midland Counties. It stands in a well wooded deer parkabout five miles from Derby, and has a magnificent sheet of water at a picturesquedistance in front, the drive from the lodge to the mansion passing along its margin,and presenting many points of beauty to the eye of the visitor. The front of the house, which faces the lake, consists of a central body withportico, and two wings, one of which is the private chapel, and the other thedrawing-room. Formerly this front was the principal entrance to the house. Thepresent owner, however, a few years ago, added a new and advanced portico, withentrance-hall, picture-gallery, and dining-room at the east end. The whole of theseadditions, with a well proportioned tower, are designed in the Italian style, thedining-room facade forming a striking and pleasing front. The interior of the mansion pres

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