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Title: Picturesque Ireland : a literary and artistic delineation of the natural scenery, remarkable places, historical antiquities, public buildings, ancient abbeys, towers, castles, and other romantic and attractive features of Ireland
Year: 1885 (1880s)
Authors: Savage, John, 1828-1888, ed
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Publisher: New York, T. Kelly
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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ering-place of Kilkee, thence to Dunbeg, and fromthat over the exceedingly dangerous coast, not inaptly called Malbay, to Liscanor,and forward to the tremendous cliffs of Moher, extending from Hagshead toDoolin, a distance of five miles, we encounter a series of sea-made excavations,caverns, gorges, isolated pinnacles, arches and pufifing-holes, among the resound-ing labyrinths of which the Atlantic riots, and roars, and rages in its mightagainst the indescribable barriers of the land. The cliffs along this coast vary inheight from 100 to 1,000 feet, overhanging their base in many places. It is im-possible to conceive the force of the ocean without beholding what its wrath haseffected on this coast. Mr. Hely Button, in his Statistical Survey of Clare, 1808,states, that cubes of limestone rock, ten and twelve feet in diameter, are thrownup on the ledges of rock several feet high near Doolin; and at the same placemay be seen a barrier of water-worn stones, some of them many tons weight,
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582 PICTURESQUE IRELAND. thrown above twenty feet high, across a small bay, where fishermen used to land,and where their quay remains, many yards from the sea. The present county was, at an early period, the principality of Tuath-Mum-han, or Thomond, signifying North Munster, and was possessed by the OLogh-lins, OGarbhs, OConnors, MacNamaras, and OBriens, the latter exercisingsupreme authority over the whole, which they held from the date of the earliestrecords to a late period. This family fill a large space in the history of thecountry. The great Brian (Boru) became king of all Ireland. The Anglo-Nor-mans penetrated into the heart of Thomond, marking their progress with barba-rous cruelties, especially on the OBriens. Donald OBrien obtained his kingdomof Thomond under Henry III., by paying tribute; but Edward I. granted it (1275) to Thomas de Clare,son of the Earl of Gloucester,who headed a formidable forceto support his claim. In theconflict which ensued, the chiefof the OBriens wa

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