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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
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Among his earliest compositions were tworemarkable poems, Loch Ine and IrishCastles, which present in a picturesque vo-cabulary many of the salient charms and beau-ties of his native isle. CHAPTER V. THE SHANNON AND ITS LAKES 1VTO river in Great Britain, neither the^ Thames, nor the Clyde, nor even theSevern, equals the river Shannon and its lakes,either in length or in importance as an inlandwaterway. The native on its banks tells youthat it rivals the Mississippi; but in whatrespect, Americans, at least, will wonder. Ex-cept that it broadens to perhaps a dozen milesin the widest of its lakes, there is, of course,no comparison whatever. The traffic on theriver is of no great magnitude compared withthat on the Thames and the Clyde ; but, werethere a demand for such, its capacity wouldbe far greater than either. Moreover, for beauty, either of the daintyand popularly picturesque sort, or of the su-premely grand, it has preeminence, and onecan journey its whole length, from Killaloe,104
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THE SHANNON AND ITS LAKES 106 Romantic Ireland practically a suburb of Limerick, to Carrick-on-Shannon, something over a hundred miles,in steamboats of really comfortable, if notexactly luxurious, appointments. It is the tourist traffic mostly that is cateredfor; and the traveller, in the season, is likelyto find the company mixed, though by nomeans is it of the tripper class. The itinerary comprehends much that isbeautiful and much that is historic. From Limerick, one usually makes his wayby train, although he may go by car or coach,— such a trip is well worth while, — andembarks upon the tiny steamer at Killaloe. Here, at the lower end of Lough Derg, nearKillaloe, stood in the ninth century BrianBorus palace of Kincora. The mound onwhich it was built is all that remains of aplace that displayed, twelve hundred yearsago, the greatest glory of the proud Irishkings. Many were the events of historical momentwhich took place here, though, as a palace ofgreat splendour and magnitude,

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