Identifier: onirishjauntingc00bayn (find matches)
Title: On an Irish jaunting-car through Donegal and Connemara
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Bayne, Samuel G. (Samuel Gamble), 1844-1924
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Publisher: New York, London, Harper
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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builtin 1722, and is remarkable for its extraordi-nary tower, one hundred and twenty feet133 ON AN IRISH JAUNTING-CAR high, surmounted by a graduated turret ofthree stories, faced on two sides with redstone, and on the others with limestone. Party-colored, like the people,Red and white stands Shandon steeple. It contains a peal of bells, immortalizedby Father Prout in the famous lyric: ... The Bells of ShandonThat sound so grand onThe pleasant watersOf the River Lee. They bear the inscription: We wereall cast at Gloucester, in England.—AbelRudhall, 1750. Father Prout is buriedin the church-yard of Shandon. Shandonderives its name from Seandun (old fort) ;the name was given to the church of St.Mary, from its near neighborhood toShandon Castle, an old seat of theBarrvs. On the way down to Queenstown wepassed Passage West, a pretty village em-bosomed in woods, and a considerableplace of call, both for travelers and othersbound up and down the river. FatherProut has sung its praises:134
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CORK AND QUBBNSTOWN The town of Passage is both large and spacious,And situated upon the say;Tis nate and dacent, and quite adjacentTo come from Cork on a summers day. There you may slip in and take a dippinForenent the shippin that at anchor ride;Or in a wherry cross oer the ferryTo Carrigaloe, on the other side. Near here is Monkstown, where Anas-tasia Gould, wife of John Archdeckan,while her husband was absent in a foreignland, determined to afford him a pleasantsurprise by presenting him with a castleon his return. She engaged workmenand made an agreement with them thatthey should purchase food and clothingsolely from herself. When the castle wascompleted, on balancing her accounts ofreceipt and expenditure, she found thatthe latter exceeded the former by four-pence. Probably this is the first exampleon record of truck practice on a large scale.She died in 1689, and was buried in theground of the adjoining ruined church ofTeampull-Oen-Bryn, in which is a monu-ment to her memory. m

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