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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
Contributing Library: Boston College Libraries
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ugh a tunnelled rock, when a transforma-tion takes place, and one leaves the rugged-ness and freshness of Bantry Bay for the moreor less humid fairy-land of the region aboutKillarney. The view ahead is peculiarly grandin its contrast with that left behind. Downthe beetling precipices along which the road isclinging to its sterile sides, one traces thevalley beneath until it blends with the silverysurface of Kenmare River. From Kenmare,the way to Killarney is by the Windy Gap.Beneath lies an extensive valley, and beyondis the Black Valley. Farther on are the sky-lines of the mountains which encompass thewild and dark Gap of Dunloe; and, fartherstill, will be observed the more jagged outlinesof MacGillicuddys Reeks. Soon one be-holds the first view of the beauties of far-famedKillarney, the immense valley in which reposethe three lakes, — the upper, lower, and mid-dle, with their numerous islets. En routefrom Kenmare to Killarney, one first comesto Muckross Abbey and Demesne, of which
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Killarney and About There 71 Sir Walter Scott has said: Art could makeanother Versailles; it could not make anotherMuckross. This is characteristic of Sir Wal-ter and his fine sentiment; but, as Muckrossis suggestive of nothing ever heard or thoughtof at Versailles, the comparison is truly odious. Muckross is charming. It is thoroughlyIrish; and reeks of the native soil and its peo-ple, wherein is its value to the traveller. The scenery around about Muckross is verybeautiful, but its ruined abbey is the greatarchitectural relic of all Ireland. The ruinsconsist of the abbey and church, which wasfounded for the Order of Franciscans by Mc-Carthy Mor, Prince of Desmond, in 1340, onthe site of an old church which, in 1192, hadbeen destroyed by fire. The remains of sev-eral of this princes descendants are said torest here. In the choir is the vault of theancient Irish sept., the McCarthys, the memoryof whom is preserved by a rude sculpturedmonument. Here also rest the remains of theIrish ch

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