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 A GEOGRAPHICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE 
 
 POEM. 
 
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 PART I. 
 
 io w 
 est locus, extremum pandit qua gallia littus 
 
 OCEANI PRJETENTUS AQUIS Claudian in Ruftn, Lib. I. v. 122. 
 
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 Noblemen anti Gentlemen 
 
 OF THE 
 
 UNITED KINGDOM 
 
 OF 
 
 GREAT-BRITAIN AND IRELAND, 
 
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 cated to the public Service, (if, as an 
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 to the regard and esteem of those, to 
 whose Education 1 have in any degree 
 contributed : 
 
 To such I appeal, under the persua- 
 sion that the following Publication will 
 
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 couragement. Its merits as a Poem 
 must be determined by the general 
 Opinion : to that I submit as an Au- 
 thor. But, as an Individual, I feel a 
 satisfaction which the annexed List of 
 those, who have honoured me with their 
 Patronage, has raised above the possibi- 
 lity of disappointment. Who are these ? 
 Men now occupying conspicuous situ- 
 ations in the service of their Country, 
 and whose countenance will be ever 
 acknowledged with the utmost grati- 
 tude 
 
 By their faithful 
 
 Obliged Servant, 
 E. SMEDLEY.
 
 PREFACE. 
 
 np 
 
 J- HE Author of this Poem has taken his design from 
 Dr. Campbell's Political Survey of Great Britain; 
 and the following extract is sufficient to point out 
 the substance of it: without farther preface he 
 will use the words of that excellent and profound 
 writer. Page 236. 
 
 " In respect to Ireland, we have more than once ob- 
 served, that, except Great Britain, there is not perhaps 
 in the world an island that possesses more natural ad- 
 vantages. The climate, soil, and productions, of this 
 country are such, as render it wonderfully commo- 
 dious to its inhabitants, as furnishing them with all 
 the necessaries, and most of the conveniences, of 
 life, with a large surplus of valuable commodities." 
 " To this we may add the peculiar happiness of its 
 situation, by which it not only enjoys an easy and 
 settled trade with all the ports on the west coast of 
 Great Britain, and the islands dependant on it ; but
 
 PREFACE. 
 
 has also the command of an universal correspondence 
 with all parts of the known world." 
 
 " Ireland indeed, all things considered, is in possession 
 of so many benefits, and has the increasing and multiply- 
 ing of these so much in the power of the inhabitants* 
 that we may without scruple affirm, they may with faci- 
 lity and certainty improve their country in all respects, 
 to a higher degree possibly than any of the like extent 
 upon the continent ; and at the same time accumulate 
 such a strength, as to stand in no dread,with the assis- 
 tance of the fleets and forces of Great Britain, of the 
 envy" (we may add evil intentions) " of her most potent 
 neighbours. A circumstance sufficient to excite and 
 support the endeavours of her genuine patriots, in their 
 intentions not to spare either labour or expence, in order 
 to verify from facts, what all, who have considered this 
 island with attention, have unanimously pronounced to 
 be in her power, and which has been so clearly justified 
 by every experiment that has hitherto been attempted. 
 The circumstance of all others that puts this most be- 
 yond doubt, is the happy distribution of her waters, 
 which nature has so disposed as to render them equally 
 favourable for almost every valuable purpose. The bays 
 and inlets of the sea supply her with numerous half-
 
 PREFACE. 
 
 bours ; while, on the other hand, her rivers and lakes 
 are no less happily placed, for the procuring her inha- 
 bitants all the advantages that naturally arise from an 
 easy communication between the several parts of the 
 country, and thereby furnish the means of a flourishing 
 inland trade." 
 
 The testimony of an eye-witness, who had seen 
 what is so justly described, and who wrote his account 
 two centuries before, corroborates the opinion of the 
 learned author. 
 
 " And sure it is yet a most beautifull and sweet coun- 
 try as any is under heaven, being stored throughout with 
 many goodly rivers, replenished with all sorts of fish, 
 most abundantly sprinkled with many very sweet islands 
 and goodly lakes, like little inland seas, that will carry 
 even shippes upon their waters, adorned with goodly 
 woods even fit for building of houses and ships so com- 
 modiously, as that, if some princes in the world had 
 them, they would soone hope to be lords of all the ^eas, 
 and ere long of all the world ; also full of very good ports 
 and havens, opening upon England, as inviting us to 
 come unto them, to see what excellent commodities that 
 country can afford, besides the soyle itselfe most fertile, 
 fit to yeeld all kinde of fruit that shall be committed
 
 PREFACE. 
 
 thereunto. And lastly, the heavens most milde and 
 temperate, though somewhat more moist than the parts 
 towards the west/* 
 
 Spenser's View of the State of Ireland, Vol. VIII. p. 320. 
 
 Todd's Edit. 1 805. 
 
 The following extract from the great Natural His- 
 torian, though applied to Italy, corresponds so en- 
 tirely with these opinions, that we might suppose 
 the authors above quoted had the passage on their 
 mind. 
 
 " Pulcherrima est omnium situ ac salubritate coeli 
 atque temperie, ancessu cunctan gentium facili, lit 
 toribus portuosis, benigno ventorum afflatu, aquarum 
 copia, nemorum salubritate, montium articulis, fe- 
 rorum animalium innocentia, soli fertilitate, pabuli 
 ubertate. Quidquid est, quo carere vita non debeat, 
 nusquam est praestantius." 
 
 L. Plinii. Nat. Hist. Lib. 37. cap. 77.
 
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 Argument. 
 
 INVOCATION TO ERIN : ITS VARIOUS BEAUTIES 
 AND EXCELLENCIES DESCRIBED : THE ADVANTAGES 
 OF ITS INSULAR SITUATION EXEMPLIFIED BY ITS 
 PORTS: ITS INTERNAL ADVANTAGES BY ITS RIVERS: 
 THE MISFORTUNES BROUGHT UPON A COUNTRY BY 
 INROADS OF SAVAGE HORDES AND INVASION SHEWN, 
 1st, IN THE INVASION OF IRELAND BY THE DANES 
 BY TAMERLANE'S INCURSION INTO INDOSTAN PI- 
 ZARRO'S INVASION OF PERU STRONGBOW'S INVASION 
 OF IRELAND, &c. HISTORICAL ANECDOTES OF VA- 
 RIOUS PLACES AND PERSONS -.COUNTRIES ENRICHED 
 BY COMMERCE AND MANUFACTURES. KING ALFRED 
 EDUCATED THERE ; HIS PROPHETIC ADDRESS TO ERIN, 
 RECOMMENDING THE UTILITY AND NECESSITY OF 
 AN UNION WITH ENGLAND. 
 
 B
 
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 PART I. 
 
 main, 
 
 _T AIR ERIN, Daughter of the western 
 Whose cliffs rise proudly, destined to sustain 
 The war of waters rolling to thy shores, 
 Where uncontroul'd the vast Atlantic roars; 
 As around Skelig's 1 rocks fierce ocean raves, 
 And wastes the strand with never-ceasing waves ; 
 Or on Rathlin, 2 with many a shipwreck foul, 
 Night after night destructive tempests howl :
 
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 Britain thy aid demands in war or peace ; 
 With thine her pow'rs diminish or increase. 
 Whene'er her crimson banners she unfurls, 
 And o'er the globe her vengeful thunder hurls, 
 If Plata's flood demand a soldier s toil, 
 Or Asia's plains, or Afric's burning soil, 
 Where dauntless Abercrombie nobly bleeds, 
 Where Stuart conquers, or where Wellesley leads; 
 Thine with her offspring, liberal as brave, 
 To vanquish hasten, and exult to save. 
 Nor do the perils of the deep affright, 
 Where glory hovers o'er Trafalgar's height. 
 And gallant Nelson to his comrades calls, 
 Tells them their duty, then triumphant falls ;
 
 They stand prepared for victory or death, 
 And cheer the hero at his latest breath. 
 
 When roving wild the 3 Scandinavian host 
 Braved every sea and ravaged every coast, 
 In thee still glow'd Religion's sacred flame; 
 Learning thy boast, and holy was thy name. 
 In better times, when Reason's purer sway 
 Taught kindred isles one sceptre to obey, 
 The maiden Queen, 4 who happily combined 
 With port majestic energy of mind, 
 Under one name, most honour' d most rever'd, 
 Twin seats of science in two kingdoms reared : 
 There pensive students o'er their midnight oil, 
 In pale and solitary silence toil,
 
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 Trace all the wonders of the peopled sky. 
 New worlds discern beyond the galaxy ; 
 Attest the force of the creative nod, 
 And call on Atheists to confess a God. 
 
 Erin, where bounteous heav'n has spread around 
 Her choicest gifts o'er lands with plenty crown'd, 
 Learn thine own strength. For who thy coasts survey 
 Thy lakes, thy rivers, thy capacious bays, 
 Plains, valleys, verdant hills, and mountains blue, 
 And sylvan shades in all their varied hue ; 
 Thy nodding tow'rs, thy venerable piles, 
 Thy holy 5 springs, and consecrated isles; 
 Who would regard, when these amidst he roves, 
 Hesperian gardens or Phoeacia's groves ? fl
 
 The mariner, whose lot it is to roam, 
 To count the tedious months, far, far from home, 
 Fearless has seen his crazy vessel shape 
 Her billow' d course round Esperanza's cape, 
 Or that bluff point, which Anson's spirit shook ; 
 But yielded to thy skill, immortal Cook. 
 I view him on the giddy topmast stand, 
 Seeking with steadfast eye his native land ; 
 His former perils vanish like a dream ; 
 The plighted vow becomes his only theme. 
 When the north-east 7 strikes back the sullen sails, 
 Damp'd are his hopes ; his perseverance fails, 
 Anxiety succeeds, and dark despair 
 Doubles the distance from his faithful fair.
 
 8 
 
 The broken coin, which at his bosom hung, 
 
 The well-known ditty, which his comrades sang, 
 
 The stern command, the tender look, the sigh, 
 
 Susan's fond tear, and William's constancy. 
 
 These, with the baffling winds, augment his pain; 
 
 The hours he watches, and each change in vain. 
 
 While doubt, and fear, and hope alternate strive 
 
 To thwart, or keep expectancy alive ; 
 
 Ne'er could the watchman from his height descry 
 
 The pennant of the laded Argosie, 
 
 Did not Kinsale, on Munster's friendly coast, 
 
 Give shelter to his vessel, tempest tost ; 
 
 Kinsale, whose ivied walls above the flood 
 
 Look down on Bandon, 8 crown'd with many a wood
 
 9 
 
 Or where, like Venice, Mistress of the Sea, 
 Cork rears her head 9 , amid divided Lee ; 
 Replenished from her store, which never fails, 
 A thousand fleets expand their swelling sails. 
 
 The topmast bends ; and now the busy crew 
 May with the breeze their destin'd course pursue : 
 With sickness pale, the sport of ev'ry wind, 
 Me, they must leave, their passenger, behind. 
 But soon, those salutary gales, that blow 
 From 10 Nagle's heights, the varied scene below, 
 The freshening verdure of the coming year, 
 The bleating flock, the ruminating steer, 
 The feather' d songster, whistling from the brake, 
 The distant plain, and tranquillizing lake,
 
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 Thy echos, Alio, Buttevant, thy tow'rs, 
 (Oft argument of contemplative hours,) 
 These all my shatter d faculties restore, 
 And prompt me Erin's beauties to explore. 
 Heard ye the shepherd's legendary tale, 
 Under old Mole, in soft Armulla's dale 1 
 Saw ye the villagers around him throng, 
 Attentive still to hear his rustic song, 
 And Mulla, list'ning, stop her native speed, 
 To catch the sound of harmless Colin' s reed ? 
 Kilcolman's woods with Colin' s carrols ring; 
 Kilcolman's ruins sad remembrance bring. 
 Ill-fated swain ! what boots it to have sung 
 Of knights, of dames, of halls with trophies hung,
 
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 Of tournaments and necromantic pow'rs, 
 And damsels sleeping in enchanted bow'rs, 
 Fays, giants, goblins, dwarfs of horrid mien, 
 And all the glories of thy Fairy Queen ! 
 Slow chilling penury, the poet's fate, 
 And disappointment, on thy evening wait, 
 Hope for the morrow ; evil for the day ; 
 To stoop to those who smile but to betray, 
 To know of sad dependance all the fears, 
 To court the bounty of reluctant peers ; 
 From barh'rous spoilers not a remnant save, 
 Worn down with cares, to sink into the grave- 
 Such were the sufFrings of Eliza s bard ; 
 This, Poesy exalted, thy reward !
 
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 Flow, Mull a, flow ; though Colin be no more ; 
 Though Colin's friend reluctant leave thy shore 
 To court new smiles, and give his youthful sail 
 To all the dangers of Ambition's gale; 
 Yet shall the Muse, sure harbinger of fame, 
 Give to remembrance injur d Raleigh's 11 name, 
 Bid the fond mother tell her infant brood, 
 When wean'd, they banquet on Columbia's food, 
 " This, Raleigh planted." If he proudly calls 
 England's best bulwark, England's wooden walls ; 
 When new defence, new conquest Britain plans, 
 Her wooden walls, thus nurtur'd, Erin mans. 
 
 Sweet Mulla, flow ; and, as thy waters glide, 
 Increase, dilate, till Bregog's widow'd bride
 
 13 
 
 Shall, join'd to Avenmore's 19 commanding flood 
 
 At You ghal, overwhelm full many an ancient wood. 
 
 Three brothers, 13 yet not rising from one source, 
 Thro* difFrent districts shape their checquerd course, 
 Suir, Barrow, Nore, improving, as they flow, 
 Luxuriant pastures, verdant meads below. 
 From flow'r-enameU'd plains, and flooded stores, 
 Here all her riches vegetation pours : 
 Here innate virtues of thefatten'd soil 
 Reward the masters skill, the servant's toil, 
 Attract the produce of each varying clime, 
 Gain without fraud, and wealth without a crime. 
 
 What complicated ills hath Erin known 
 Since that dread time, when on her coasts was throw
 
 14 
 
 The murd'rous Dane : in blood his steps are trac'd, 
 Learning's abode > and holy piles defac'd, 
 And smoking huts and homes, for ever lost, 
 Mark the dire progress of the savage host! 
 The land of strangers 14 is the land of woe ; 
 Stern desolation rules where'er they go : 
 Licentious sway, by no just rule confin d, 
 Nips, as it buds, each virtue of the mind, 
 Changes the shape and flavour of the fruit, 
 Makes the mild merciless, turns Man to Brute. 
 
 When Tamerlane, inexorable lord, 
 Leads from Tartarian plains his savage horde, 
 Delhi soon feels his unrestricted ire, 
 While countless victims at his feet expire :
 
 15 
 
 When Quito's shores Pizarro's bands invade, 
 
 And Cuzco's streets, (too soon a desert made,) 
 Hear this sad boding : " Children of the Sun, 
 
 " Your empire falls, your father's race is run ;" 
 
 The wealth of Capac's realms, imperious gold, 
 
 Heaps on gigantic heaps in vain are told ; 
 
 The dogs of war are slipt, Pizarro nods, 
 
 Peru weeps o'er her temples and her gods. 
 
 Manapia thus, Earl Strongbow's first essay, 
 
 To the proud ]$ or man falls an easy prey. 
 
 Knights, iron-clad, expert in war's turmoil, 
 
 Averse to spare, and resolute to spoil, 
 
 Disperse the vassal crew, who dare the fight, 
 
 III train'd, worse arm'd, tho' strong in native might;
 
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 And blazing harvests mid the din of arms, 
 Sad torch ! light Richard 35 to his Eva's charms. 
 Though from his daring height the tyrant frown, 
 Beaming new terrors from his iron crown, 
 Yet will the transitory vision pass, 
 Like fleeting shadows in the magic glass. 
 Let pow'r and conquests loftier minds invite, 
 Far difTrent scenes the placid man delight. 
 SoftWicklows mountains, and her veins of gold, 
 Her rocks, and rills, in beauty manifold, 
 The towring oaks along the valley's side, 
 The roaring torrent, 16 Powerscourt, thy pride, 
 And Dargle's glen, pre-eminently wild, 
 Have love with hope inspir'd, and cares beguild.
 
 17 
 
 From Wicklow LhTey, 17 "rolling down the lea," 
 Flows westward in her course to meet the sea : 
 Kildare to northern climes directs the dame ; 
 Yet, like her sex, tho' fickle, still the same, 
 Allur'd by wealth, magnificence, and show, 
 Eastward to Dublin see the wanton go ; 
 Too eager to display her short-liv'd charms, 
 Ocean receives her in his willing arms, 
 And forms a bay, where beauties so combine, 
 They yield alone Parthenope 18 to thine. 
 
 As ancient monarchs swell'd their coffer d hoards, 
 By gifts pour d in from tributary lords, 
 So royal Boyne, 19 rich in collected bourns, 
 Augmented deepens, as it deepens mourns.
 
 18 
 
 Fierce Cromwell's 20 iron ministers proclaim 
 
 Destruction : infants tremble at his name : 
 
 Fond mothers weep for those who are no more 
 
 Unburied lie their corses on the shore. 
 
 In one vast ruin overwhelming all, 
 
 Riv'd from their rocks Tredagh's old bulwarks fall. 
 
 From Dunmore's height 21 let timid James behold 
 
 A rival king his martial bands unfold : 
 
 Now to the shock see kindred bands advance ; 
 
 The bigot shrinks, and, speeding back to France, 
 
 Leaving his friends their fallen lot to moan, 
 
 Flies to the mass, and abdicates a throne : 
 
 Thy column, Boyne, records their valiant deeds, 
 
 Where William with his conq'ring squadrons bleed;
 
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 If o'er thy streams, 22 augmented by the tide, 
 Newry, the laded bark could scarcely glide, 
 Now Art completes what Nature first began, 
 Wedding thy waters to the silver Ban. 
 Thus, as it deepens, Locha shall convey 
 From inland seas the treasures of Lough Neagh, 
 Here busy hands their flaxen harvests spread, 
 Or in the loom insert the ductile thread. 
 Here cottagers their former huts despise 
 Cabins no more, but palaces arise. 
 
 As grateful show'rs refresh a thirsty soil, 
 New crops arise, repaying ev'ry toil ; 
 The valleys laugh, and drops of fat'ning dew 
 Each fading glory of the land renew :
 
 20 
 
 So Commerce, in her various bounties bless'd, 
 Unfetters realms by Poverty oppress' d. 
 Commerce, an eagle in her rapid flight, 
 With wings expanded leaves the realms of night ; 
 The massive iron 23 from its mountain brings, 
 Gold from the treasure-house of Lybian springs; 
 Potosi's silver, and Golcondas gems, 
 Shine with new lustre on the banks of Thames. 
 
 Can the Muse pass that hospitable door 
 Where dwells in peace the mitred sage Dromore, 
 Nor give one line of gratitude to praise 
 The second father of our ancient lays? 
 Prelate much honor'd, while the many come 
 To weep o'er Isabel's sequester' d tomb,
 
 21 
 
 They shall recall thy hermit's tale of woe, 
 
 While real tears for fabled sorrows flow : 
 
 They shall recall 24 how valiant Douglas sped, 
 
 Ere he was number d with the mighty dead ; 
 
 How Percy, flow'r of knighthood, scorn' d to yield 
 
 On northern hills and Cheviot's blood-stain'd field. 
 
 For me, who knew thee in my earlier years, 
 And, sympathising, felt a father's tears, 
 
 And saw that father, in the midst of grief, 
 
 Seek from religion and his God relief. 
 
 Be mine thy Christian virtues to record : 
 
 O ! be it Heav'n's those virtues to reward J 
 
 Shall rocks conceal' d Ban's 25 lengthen'd course disgra 
 
 Shall years roll on, and no improvement trace ?
 
 22 ' 
 
 Athwart the flood shall rugged bars be thrown, 
 Nor Smeaton's art, nor Brindley's talents own ? 
 Yet here could I the passing hours beguile, 
 Watch the brown salmon 26 practice ev'ry wile : 
 By instinct urg'd, the ocean's depths he leaves 
 Surmounts loud cataracts, and torrents cleaves ; 
 With energetic spring the rock escapes, 
 To fresher streams with exultation shapes 
 His mazy windings, heedless of the bait, 
 Nets, spears, or torches ; perils that await 
 The playful victim, taught by nature's law 
 From the main's briny bosom to withdraw, 
 And seek, where brooks o'er pebbled bottoms run, 
 The vivifying rays of Leo's sun. 27
 
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 Hail, Columb ! 28 saint rever d, whose holy toil 
 Proclainrd salvation on the banks of Foyle, 
 Instructed savages to quit their groves, 
 Their rites barbaric, and unhallow'd loves ; 
 Taught them one God with holy dread to fear, 
 To pity others woes, their own to bear ; 
 Left them his volume, his baptismal well, 
 His pastoral staff, and consecrated cell. 
 Here Derry, 29 London's friend, andUlster's pride, 
 With battlements adorns Foyle's western side ; 
 And once majestic oaks with spreading shade 
 Their leafy honors o'er the lake display'd. 
 But now the nymphstheir wonted haunts deplore, 
 Hercynian 30 forests are beheld no more :
 
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 Frantic with loss, the desolating heir 
 The growth of centuries disdains to spare, 
 Infatuate sets upon a single cast 
 The pride of ancestors for ages past, 
 And hears unmov'd the frequent strokes resound, 
 That lay the forest level with the ground. 
 Britain, beware ! for, should the time arrive 
 When, heav'n forefend! nor elm nor oak shall thrive 
 In glen, or valley, or on mountain steep, 
 To float thy sov'reign thunder o'er the deep, 
 Then shaltthou mourn thy wealth-deserted coast, 
 Then must the empire of the sea be lost. 
 A bridge of piles, immeasurably long, 
 Across the flood with wintry torrents strong,
 
 Leading the weary traveller o'er Foyle, 
 Joins Derby's 31 ramparts to the parent-soil. 
 The flights of humour and of comic mirth, 
 Which Farquhar penn'd, toDerry owe their birth : 
 Thalia, tho' she blush at many a page, 
 
 Mourns her lost statewhenFarquhar quits the stage, 
 Sees Dulness reassume her leaden reign, 
 Till Sheridan shall banish her again. 
 
 Unwillingly I leave that busy coast, 
 Where works of giants 32 are in ocean lost, 
 And Donegal in piercing fog immers'd, 
 Hills clad in russet, ne'er by bards rehearsed, 
 Save when sweet Carolan 33 in wandrin mood 
 A pilgrim came to Patrick's holy rood,
 
 26' 
 
 And, in the narrow limits of a cell, 
 
 His own from other votaries could tell ; 
 
 Blind was the bard, and silent was the fair; 
 
 Small was the space that held the tuneful pair ; 
 
 Tho' Time o'er both his hoary honors strew'd, 
 Here they join d hands, their former vows renew'd; 
 
 And Carolan repeats, ' My love is found!" 
 Lough Derg, thy rocks the liquid notes resound. 
 If, where the seed is sown, that land can claim 
 Some merit from the future harvest's fame, 
 Mayo, thy lake with confidence may boast 
 A world of learning in oblivion lost. 
 Here 84 (not I ween mere legendary tale) 
 The Muse resorts, her ruins to bewail ;
 
 27 
 
 Here would relate (had not old Time remov'd 
 
 Each vestige of her residence belov'd) 
 
 How Alfred watch' d by less'ning taper's light 
 
 The creeping moments of the silent night ; 
 
 Enrich'd his ardent mind with classic lore, 
 
 Convey d that knowledge to his native shore, 
 
 A structure rais'd to last the lapse of years, 
 
 (Cherish it, Britons,)- Trial by your Peers ! 
 
 Let civic wreaths adorn his patriot-head, 
 
 For Alfred twine fresh laurels. From the dead. 
 
 Bursting the cearments of his hallow' d tomb, 
 
 In awful majesty behold him come : 
 
 To Erin s friends, to Erin s secret foes, 
 
 Hear him prophetic thus his thoughts disclose :
 
 u Long had unhappy England, stain'd with blood, 
 
 "Th'invading Danes' relentless pow'r withstood, 
 
 " What ! tho' with this right arm (no puny boast) 
 
 " 1 seized their Refern 35 from the recreant host, 
 
 ( * Mid havoc wild and desolating fire, 
 
 " Back to their haunts compell'd them to retire I" 
 
 " Wearied with battles, and with conquest cloy'd, 
 
 " A weightier task my lab'ring mind employ'd ; 
 
 " When malice, fraud, and ignorance combin'd, 
 
 iC Kingdoms afflict, and man's best reason blind, 
 
 " The hero, like a tutelary god, 
 
 * Benign, descending from his blest abode, 
 
 " Authority by mild persuasion gains, 
 
 " Reforms the barbarous, the rash restrains,
 
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 " The virtuous fosters, bolder souls inspires 
 " In valorous deeds to emulate their sires. 
 " If realms divided, in one bond to join, 
 " And by affection's magic make them mine ; 
 " If Learning's drooping head again to raise, 
 " If Commerce to allure be Alfred's praise, 
 " Erin these arts imparted : Hence my name 
 " Lives on the records of eternal fame. 
 
 " Bear me, ye visions, into future times, 
 " O'er Norman conquests and successive crimes; 
 " The fatal victories of either Rose, 
 u Relentless hatred, war without repose ; 
 " Ambition's pomp, and Bigotry's short scene. 
 " Alfred, thy counsels in a maiden Queen,
 
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 u When, as he rides gigantic o'er the tide, 
 
 " Collected wisdom humbles Spanish pride: 
 
 " Beyond that age, which stain' d with kindred blood 
 
 " England shall rue, and o'er her follies brood, 
 
 " O ! waft me to those happier days of peace, 
 
 " When feuds and groundless jealousies shall cease. 
 
 "Then if the Gaul's fell treachery prevail, 
 
 " And dastard Europe in her duty fail ; 
 
 " If Erin, whom each novelty beguiles, 
 
 " Deluded listen to the serpent's wiles, 
 
 " Britain alone shall from her daring height 
 
 " See the storm lour, nor tremble at the sight; 
 
 " Shall bid her pilot boldly seize the helm, 
 
 " And guide the tow'ring vessel of the realm.
 
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 " Westward with swelling sail she makes her way, 
 " The flag of Union eager to display : 
 " She rolls her thunder o'er Rebellion's waves, 
 " And hapless Erin from destruction saves. 
 " Hence sister-isles shall to Time's latest hour, 
 " Regardless of a restless tyrant's pow'r, 
 " Nor meanly yield, nor fearfully despair, 
 '* But equal perils, equal triumphs share."
 
 - - laWWWW 
 
 FONTESQUE FLUVIOSQUE VOCO.....*Vuicil, 
 
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 PART IT
 
 Argument. 
 
 LOUGH ALLEN, THE SOURCE OF THE RIVER SHAN- 
 NON, THE GRAND FEATURE OF THE INLAND PART OF 
 ERIN, DIVIDING IT INTO EAST AND WEST. THE PLA- 
 CES OF NOTE ON ITS BANKS AND ITS NEIGHBOUR- 
 HOOD, AND THE HISTORICAL SUBJECTS ALLUDING TO 
 THEM. A DESCRIPTION OF AN IRISH FAIR &c THE 
 BEAUTIES AND ADVANTAGES OF THE SHANNON ENU- 
 MERATED. ITS PRESENT STATE DESCRIBED, AND FU- 
 TURE GLORY ANNOUNCED. THE POEM CONCLUDES 
 WITH A DESCRIPTION OF THE LAKE OF KILLARNEY, 
 AND AN IRISH WAKE. 
 
 E2
 
 c as. 3 # 
 
 PART II. 
 
 _ HAMES, on whose banks I whilom thoughtless stray'd, 
 Where in youth's spring my sportive comrades play'd, 
 And 1 the foremost saw with conscious pride 
 My vessel leading o'er his surface glide, 
 Thames yields delight no more : with sullen wave 
 He flows, nor heeds Pope's ever-hallow'd grave>
 
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 Nor swells indignant, the/ the troubled shade 
 Still hovers o'er his willow, prostrate laid ; 
 Still deprecates the spoiler's ruthless hand, 
 That raz'd the dome, 1 by real genius plann'd. 
 Some unfrequented isle, some distant shore, 
 Sung by no muse 3 unknown to man before, 
 Might better suit the present hour of gloom, 
 When all combine to hasten Europe's doom : 
 But Allen s 2 waters, mighty Shannon's source, 
 Arrest me in my melancholy course ; 
 Her rills resounding, her abundant streams, 
 Fresh thoughts awaken, and create new dreams. 
 
 Einbosom'd deep within a mountains glen, 
 Whose summit, tow'ring above mortal ken,
 
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 Chills the moist vapours, Allen gently swells, 
 Or turbid, rising storms and rains foretells ; 
 When with the drizzling waters of the North 
 She teems, and Shannon, eager to rush forth 
 (To Leitrim, as the ruffled waters stray,) 
 Brawls o'er the stones and mounds that clog his way ; 
 Here 3 giddy rustics, laughing at restraint, 
 Haste to carouse in honour of their saint. 
 Some throw the quoit, or pitch the pond'rous bar 
 Some in mock combat, imitating war, 
 Inflict on daring fronts th'encrimson'd scar. 
 Others, who from Miletus proudly trace 
 Athletic 4 sinews in a Grecian race,
 
 40 
 
 The feats and boastings of their sires renew, 
 Thrice 5 how they grappled, thrice their rivals threw 
 Wrapt in mute silence Veterans view the scene, 
 Or as they strut along the level green, 
 Oft garrulously tell what they have been. 
 Dance more attractive lighter minds invites, 
 And harmony, tho* rude, the fair delights : 
 See the fond boy, a partner in the dance, 
 With playful smile and nimble step advance ; 
 Their hands responsive to the measur'd sound, 
 Their feet in tuneful unison rebound ; 
 Now with light trip appearing to retreat ; 
 Now, as if willing to embrace, they meet.
 
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 Applauded from the ring, the nymph retires 
 The more she triumphs, he the more admires ; 
 But fleeting joys await the laughing fair ; 
 Soon shall her swain to foreign climes repair, 
 And, by the hope of India's treasure buoy'd, 
 Tempted by fame, by flattery decoy'd, 
 His valor and inconstancy to prove, 
 Forsake his friends, his country, and his love ! 
 Heard ye that noisy rabble ? These delight 
 Like Thracians in their revelry to fight ; 
 Hideous in shout, invet'rate in their rage, 
 Inebriated combatants engage. 
 Lost were the time such battles to describe, 
 Broils of an hour, that suit a savage tribe : 
 
 G
 
 Some fly, some triumph ; others drop their heads, 
 When o'er their wassails Night her mantle spreads. 
 
 With rising morn let me resume my toil, 
 Roscommon's plains, and Longford's humid soil ; 
 Where Cromlin, 6 gently flowing, still retains 
 Of Celtic rites traditional remains : 
 Crom's temple rude here reeVd with human gore ; 
 Here pangs of torture trembling victims bore, 
 Not self-devoted to resign their breath, 
 But doom'd by pagan mysteries to death ; 
 At furnace blue, to cymbals' barb'rous strain, 
 Thus Palestine to Moloch bow'd profane. 
 
 Light be the turf where holy Keiran lies, 
 While angels waft his spirit to the skies.
 
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 Thy mound, fam'd Clonmanois, 7 thy tufted slope, 
 
 Cover the dead, who slumber yet in hope 
 
 To hear this salutation : " From the grave 
 
 " Arise, ye few, who would your country save. 
 
 " Rather endure depopulating woes, 
 
 " Cold northern blasts, and everlasting snows ; 
 
 " See smoking castles crumble into dust, 
 
 " Children a prey to sanguinary lust, 
 
 " Meet death in ev'ry shape, at evry hour, 
 
 " Rather than Erin own a tyrant's power. 
 
 <e From the recesses of these sepulchres 
 
 " Rise to receive the meed your God confers ; 
 
 " Not sculptur'd urns, not banners waving high, 
 
 " But heav'n's best guerdon Immortality."
 
 44 
 
 Here simple hinds, by annual custom led, 
 O'er many a marble fragment thoughtless tread, 
 Trample on graves that mark intestine wars, 
 On chiefs and kings, perhaps their ancestors : 
 In vain they strive high titles to discern, 
 And mighty deeds and sounding names to learn ; 
 To boors, who know not from what sires they sprung 
 Pride vainly babbles in an unknown tongue. 
 
 In pensive state and meditating mood 
 Devious awhile 1 stray from Shannon's flood 
 To CasheVs rock 8 and battlements decay'd, 
 Not by stern war in holy ruins laid. 
 What ! tho* it stood the shock of Thomond's rase, 
 The storms and conflicts of a rebel age !
 
 45 
 
 What ! though the pinnacle, and buttress* d wall, 
 And aisles, and turrets, now forsaken, fall ; 
 Still, Cash el, thy remains with pride look down, 
 Still cast on lesser piles a gloomy frown. 
 
 Connaught! thy leaders lost, and all their might 
 Lay shrouded in Oblivion's darkest night, 
 When Cashel's Psaltric to her sons reveal'd 
 Their father's glory in the tented field ; 
 Here Kerry's knights Meclellin overthrew, 
 High wavd the blade, that holy Cormac slew ; 
 Nor sacred vest the raging tyrant spares, 
 Nor bended knee regards, nor fervent pray'rs. 
 
 On the parch' d mountain as the prophet stood, 
 And saw light mists arising from the flood,
 
 46 
 
 He told the king his chariot to prepare, 
 Fly from the tempest gathering in the air ; 
 Ahab in haste from Carmel's summit hies, 
 And grateful rains Samaria fertilize. 
 
 Had I a prophet's voice, I might recal, 
 The native Lord to his deserted hall, 
 Here might send back those wanderers, who roam 
 In search of happiness, best found at home. 
 Is it for health to Bladud's springs ye haste, 
 Your wealth in pamper d luxury to waste ? 
 Or where light Fashion with her vot'ries sports 
 In balls, in banquetings, and crowded courts? 
 The rich domain forsaken or forgot, 
 The park, the castle ! the sequesterd spot,
 
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 Where peasantry neglected bide the storm, 
 And to their wants their habitation form. 
 Where day's pale gleam with difficulty stole, 
 From the same crevice see black vapours roll ; 
 A squalid race behold, from terror mute, 
 With hunger clam'rous, huddled with the brute, 
 Nurtur'd in ignorance, and sunk in sloth, 
 These heirs of Penury, allied to both, 
 Feed with and imitate whate'er they see 
 In these associates of their misery. 
 Their distant Lord knows nothing, nothing sees, 
 Suffers no steward to disturb his ease, 
 No province of its gold 10 untimely drain'd, 
 No tenant of his last best hope distrain'd.
 
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 Back to your homes, ye triflers, haste away ! 
 Palaemon's cultur'd boundaries survey ; 
 See in their master's presence, doubly blest, 
 Stout youth employ'd, see feeble age at rest; 
 Their flocks increasing, dreary wastes improv'd, 
 Palaemon equal with themselves belov'd. 
 When thus contrasted with your own distress, 
 
 Ye view these sons of humbler happiness, 
 If e'er the godlike wish pervade the heart, 
 Such plans to try, such blessings to impart, 
 Check not the impulse ; let your bounty flow 
 Full, plenteous, as your native rivers go : 
 If health the salutary draft demand, 
 Seek Mallow's 11 waters in your native land ;
 
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 Or Connel, 12 in whose spring old fables trace 
 The noble blood of Boriom's slaughter d race, 
 
 Limerick, 13 tho' last to yield, yet faithful found, 
 When treason, like a robber, hover d round , 
 When bigot-monks, too eager to engage, 
 Mock'd the swift bullet 'mid the battle's rage ; 
 Commerce in thee shall all her wealth unfold, 
 And Shannon deepen'd future navies hold. 
 As to the sea in wide expanse he flows, 
 Description fails, and language feeble grows ; 
 Yet let my thoughts his ample banks retrace, 
 Those mighty waves that many a district grace. 
 Placid tho' vast, magnificent tho' mild, 
 Adorn'd, yet more in native beauty wild ; 
 
 H
 
 50 
 
 Behold three provinces his influence own ; 
 Behold by art, to former times unknown, 
 His arms he spreads o'er Erin's fertile field, 
 And makes coy Liffey 14 to his sceptre yield. 
 The fairest colours, which at first delight, 
 Oft view'd, or dazzle or fatigue the sight: 
 Taste will not ever the same banquets bear ; 
 Repeated melody offends the ear. 
 Yet scenes remain to court the curious eye, 
 Above the pow'rs of Spenser's harmony, 
 Or Claude's enchanting pencil to display, 
 Ting'd with the hues of ev'ning's milder ray. 
 Oh ! for a Muse, with vivid ardor bold, 
 Killarney, all thy beauties to unfold!
 
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 Let hill, and dale, and grove, and stream, prolong 
 The Poet's labour, and adorn his song ; 
 And, when to other shores he shapes his way, 
 Let Launa 15 to the main his praise convey. 
 
 Mountains on mountains rise, in russet deck'd, 
 And waterfalls, 'mid precipices wrecked, 
 Scatter the spray from torrents tumbling down, 
 While o'er th'abyss impending forests frown ; 
 Turk 16 tow'rs, and MangertonV 7 sublimer top 
 Heav'n s canopy, like Atlas, seems to prop. 
 Here (might 1 whisper legendary tales) 
 Satan by night his ghastly court regales, 
 Infernal imps their dire abode forsake, 
 To quaff the waters of the sulph'rous lake
 
 52 
 
 Here wayward shepherds, in their rambles round, 
 A print of foot not human oft have found ; 
 Seen on the tender grass, in verdant rings, 
 By moonlight fairies dance. Tradition brings 
 To childish ears the stories of each place, 
 Minds more mature with pleasure these retrace. 
 But why should fable occupy my pen? 
 Endless the tales of goblins, ghosts, and men 
 Of size colossal, or of dwarfish mien, 
 Shadows which decorate a lifeless scene : 
 Some real woe let yonder hermit tell, 
 Who hides his head within his moss-clad cell, 
 Who ne'er is seen but at the dawn of light, 
 Or when the solemn orisons of night
 
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 Induce him to forsake his bed of stone, 
 
 And for his sins by penitence atone. 
 
 " Say, gentle hermit, if thy solitude 
 
 " Allow an unknown stranger to intrude; 
 
 " Say, why amid these rocks and mountains bleak 
 
 " Sad groans I heard ; and now a frantic shriek ? 
 
 f c No more with thunder or the clarion s sound 
 *' The echoes of the Eagle's 18 nest rebound. 
 " Methought I heard, or do I seem to hear, 
 fC Accents of sorrow vibrate on my ear." 
 
 " And would you learn from me," (the seer replies,) 
 " Must I show whence these mournful obsequies? 
 " No common grief, which evry day may move 
 " The tribute of affection or of love,
 
 54 
 
 " Paid to the memory of bad or good, 
 u Collects this sorrowing band of neighbourhood. 
 " Saw ye that cottage 19 with its narrow door, 
 " And straw coped thatch,and freshly sanded floor ; 
 " And irons kept from rust, and brighten'd brass 
 " Plac'd to attract the eyes of those who pass ? 
 " There dwells a widow' d dame ; her only care 
 " A daughter liv'd, beyond her equals fair. 
 " Oft down the slope we saw her trip along, 
 " Oft climb the hill ; around in numbers throng 
 "The village youth, in silence to admire, 
 " Or praise the object of their fond desire. 
 "But Sullivan she view'd with partial eye : 
 u For him would rise tlunvoluntary sigh.
 
 55 
 
 " She with a breast in conscious pride elate, 
 " Would his return from rustic triumphs wait, 
 " Hear him the legend of each ruin tell, 
 " The fairies' gambol, and the wizard's spell; 
 " With nervous arm behold him ply the oar, 
 " Or throw his line along the sedgy shore, 
 
 " Now wily trout, or more reluctant bream, 
 " Now pike allure, fell tyrant of the stream ; 
 " Then, as a look on Sullivan she cast, 
 " She thought her youth all other youths surpassd. 
 " Vain man ! whose life on dark events depends : 
 " Nor parents' prayrs, nor vows of anxious friends, 
 " Nor beauty's influence, nor rank, nor pow'r, 
 Ci Can death procrastinate one little hour.
 
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 " To-morrow's morn had join' d this happiest pair, 
 
 " But the last eve, as through yon rapid weir 20 
 
 " To Dinis Isle his bark the youth convey'd, 
 
 " (Himself the burden and his faithful maid,) 
 
 " On her fair charms, enamour' d as he hung, 
 
 (e The fabled ditties of the lake she sung : 
 
 " Thee, Donaghoe, 21 the Guardian of the stream, 
 
 " The rider and his milk-white steed her theme, 
 
 " The dreary horrors of thy prison-cave, 
 
 " The precious gem beneath the lucid wave. 
 
 " Ah, bitterness of woe, so soon to part ! 
 
 " Regarding her, regardless of his art, 
 
 " He sees no rock, hears not the torrent roar, 
 
 " Nor heeds the dangers of the treach'rous shore :
 
 57 
 
 " They pray, they sink, remote from ev'ry friend ; 
 <c Nor saints, nor angels, to their aid descend* 
 
 " Hark from Mucrusses 22 tow'r the sullen knell ! 
 " Behold ! preparing for their last farewell, 
 " Not 23 shameless Bacchants to the spot repair, 
 ie To laugh, and groan, and grin 4 and rend the air 
 "With mockery of woe, but friends approv'd, 
 " Who sorely weep, because they truly lov'd ; 
 " See them in snowy stole or sable weed, 
 " Along the margin of the lake proceed. 
 
 " For me, whom multiplied offences bring 
 
 " To craggy rock and consecrated spring, 
 
 " A voluntary exile in disguise, 
 
 " (Too deep the crime which in my bosom lies, 
 
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 58 
 
 u Too foul the stain of appetite and will 
 " To be annull'd by abstinence or skill,) 
 " Some scene more distant from the haimts of man, 
 " Where I may learn my proper faults to scan, 
 " Bear mine own ills compar d with others' woe, 
 " And by compunction lessen those I know, 
 " Pensive I seek. See from yon foaming spray 
 " A spirit calls, a sister leads the way." 
 
 No more ! but swifter than the fleeting wind, 
 Leaving his hermit's garb and beads behind, 
 
 The fatal bridge and foaming flood he cross'd, 
 And in impenetrable woods was lost. 
 Yet, thq' misguided taste destroy the cell 
 Where this sequester d stranger deign'd to dwell,
 
 59 
 
 Still RonyanV 4 island, and her spring the same, 
 True to their trust, retain the mourner's name. 
 Seek not his virtues or his faults to know ; 
 Unfeign'd repentance taught the tear to flow : 
 Sins, thus deplor'd, their purple stain shall lose. 
 And Faith and Hope awake to brighter views. 
 
 \
 
 J3J.UTE is the tongue of Erin's tuneful king, 5 
 Cold is the hand that swept the silver string : 
 But, while his harp remains, it still recalls 
 Terrific measures in resounding halls ; 
 War, tumult, shouts of triumph, dying groans, 
 Love's playful strains, and Pity's melting tones. 
 Six valiant sons around their monarch stood, 
 Of chieftains first, and best among the good ;
 
 62 
 
 As the light chords he swept with magic skill. 
 He movd their warring passions at his will : 
 Rude tho' himself, each faithful kern admires 
 Th'exalted virtues of departed sires. 
 Feats of the brave he sung the robber Dane, 
 Invading foemen, friends in battle slain ; 
 Shame and disgrace the coward's certain mead, 
 Eternal bliss to those who nobly bleed. 
 
 If haply I, without a muse of fire, 
 Have dar'd to touch the chords of Erin's lyre, 
 Have faintly sung of desolated woods, 
 Meads, mountains, lakes, and their prolific floods, 
 The weakness of the bard in pity spare ; 
 Few well describe high-sounding deeds of war.
 
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 Yet if, fond hope ! the verse successful prove, 
 Adding one convert to his country's love, 
 Erin no more shall at her lot repine, 
 But with the oak her hallow' d grass entwine, 
 And form (more envied than thy laurel, Rome !) 
 
 A wreath to decorate the Poet's tomb.
 
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 1 .r OR a description of the Skelig islands, the reader is 
 referred to Dr. Smith's Natural and Civil History of the 
 County of Kerry, page 111; but, as this book is not every 
 where to be met with, the following extract may afford some 
 entertainment. 
 
 " The great Skelig stands about nine miles W. S. W. from 
 Puffin-Island. It is a most high and stupendous rock, and 
 the middle part of the island is flat and plain, consisting of 
 about three acres of ground, formerly cultivated. This place 
 is surrounded with high and inaccessible precipices, that 
 hang dreadfully over the sea, which is generally rough, and
 
 NOTES TO PART I. 
 
 roars hideously underneath. There is but one track, and 
 that very narrow, that leads to the top, and this ascent is 
 so difficult and frightful, that few people are hardy enough 
 to attempt it." Here follows a description of the difficulties 
 which pilgrims experienced in gaining the top. There are 
 two curiosities on this island : The first, the exquisite work- 
 manship of the cells, or small chapels, built in the ancient 
 Roman manner, without cement. The other, the wells of 
 fresh water on the rock. 
 
 2 Rathlin is an island situate at the northern extremity 
 of Ireland. . 
 
 3 The Danes or Ostmen, Easterlings. These are not merely 
 to be understood as the inhabitants of Denmark, but as 
 colonies of promiscuous nations of the ancient Scandinavia, 
 who, some time between the eighth and ninth centuries, 
 invaded and settled themselves in Ireland. For these inva- 
 sions, their piracies, and their commerce, they have been 
 recorded. 
 
 Vide Smith's Natural and Civil History qflVaterford, page 96. 
 
 *' Queen Elizabeth founded Trinity-College, Dublin, and 
 gave the statutes by which Trinity-College, Cambridge, is 
 governed. 
 
 5 In almost every lough there are islands, and in them 
 wells dedicated to some^ saint.
 
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 6 That this assertion is not merely poetical, the following 
 anecdote may prove. King William, on his march to Car- 
 rick, having, from the hills which overlook Iverh, beheld 
 the noble course of the Suir, exclaimed, " This indeed is 
 a country worth fighting for !" 
 
 Vide Statistical Survey of the County of Kilkenny. 
 
 7 When the North East wind prevails, ships can scarce- 
 ly make their way up Channel. In this respect, the harbours 
 of Kinsale and Cork, are of infinite advantage to British fleets, 
 not only on account of their seasonable supplies, but (prior 
 to our complete sovereignty of the seas) for their affording 
 protection from the enemy, as well as security to those who 
 had made successful captures. Ann. 1665, several rich prizes, 
 taken from the Dutch, were brought into Kinsale. 1667, Sir 
 Jeremy Smith came into Kinsale with eight men of war and 
 some Dutch prizes of great value ; two English East India- 
 men, valued at ,300,000. and the West India fleet of 130 
 sail, were preserved in Kinsale harbour. In 1673, the St. 
 David, with twenty East Indiamen, and forty other rich 
 merchantmen, waited for a convoy from England. 1678, 
 several rich French prizes were brought in. In the begin- 
 ning of May, 1703, the Virginia fleet came into Kinsale. No- 
 vember, 16, 1704, the transport ships from Portugal sailed 
 from Cork. 1705, the homeward bound Virginia fleet, 72 
 sail, came into Kinsale harbour, as also, on the 28th, five 
 ships of the line and nine rich East Indiamen. These, 
 among many other instances, are sufficient to show the value 
 of these two ports to Great Britain.
 
 NOTES TO PART I. 
 
 6 The pleasant Bandon, crown'd with many a wood. 
 
 Spenser's Fairy Queen, Book 4. Canto xi. Stanza 44. 
 
 9 - **- Amid divided Lee. 
 
 The city of Cork is built upon islands formed by the se- 
 veral branches of the river Lee. Over the many canals which 
 run through this city, there are several bridges : in this parti- 
 cular it resembles Venice. 
 
 10 Nagle's heights." After having ascended Nagle moun- 
 tains, the river Avenmore, or Black Water, separates the 
 spectator from Armoy, called Armulla's Dale by Spenser. 
 Hence may be viewed the echoing river Alio, which runs by 
 Kean-Turk, (the Boar's Head.) Here is a large building erected 
 by the Macclonoughs, a most magnificent pile ! yet the jealousy 
 of the times never suffered it to be finished ; it belongs to the 
 Earl of Egmont, Viscount Perceval of Kan-turk. Buttevant, 
 the burial-place of the Barrys, exhibits a melancholy scene 
 of the grandeur of ancient times in its ruined abbey, the 
 high square tower of St. Mary's chapel, and another called Cul- 
 len. On each side of the west entrance of the Abbey, are large 
 piles of sculls. Buttevant is a corruption of Boutez en avant 
 " Push forward ;" the motto of the Barrys. About two miles 
 from Buttevant, on the right, are the ruins of Kilkolman 
 Castle, once the residence of Spenser, where he completed 
 his Fairie Queen. Spenser's name for the Awbeg is Mul- 
 la, which river he personifies, and feigns her to be mar- 
 ried to a river then called Bregog. But her father, the
 
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 mountain Mole, being averse from the match, causes the 
 destruction of Bregog. The foundation of the fable may 
 be traced in that of Acis and Galatea. Spenser's calamities 
 are too well known. He fled to England on Tyrone's rava- 
 ging the country, 1597, and was ever after in great dis- 
 tress. Camden's words are very expressive on this occasion. 
 A rebellibus e laribus ejectus, et bonis spoliatus. This exqui- 
 site poet, according to the date on his tomb in Westmin- 
 ster Abbey, was born in 1553, and died in 1598. iEtat. 45. 
 
 11 The fate of that consummate warrior and statesman 
 Sir Walter Raleigh is sufficiently known. He was an 
 intimate friend of Spenser, and in Ireland at the same 
 time, 1580. He brought the potatoe plant from Columbia, 
 or America, and cultivated it in his own garden at Youg- 
 hal. It is now the universal support of the inhabitants of 
 Ireland and England. At the time of the Spanish invasion, 
 his opinion in council was delivered in the memorable words, 
 " England s best bulwarks," &c. &c. 
 
 * 2 Either by the encroachments of the sea, or the ra- 
 vages of the land-floods, the strand of Youghal abounds 
 with roots of trees ; and the tract of land at low ebb shews 
 marks of its ancient woods, The people of this region 
 were called Vodii, and there are persons fanciful enough to 
 trace the woods in the word. Ochella, the Latin name, 
 may be derived from Koill, a forest, and sufficiently makes, 
 out its modern name, Youghal.
 
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 13 Spenser calls these three rivers three brothers. 
 
 "And there the three renown'd brothers were, 
 " Which that great Giant Blomius begot." 
 
 Fairy Queen, Book 4, Canto xi. Stanza 42. 
 
 14 Fingal, or Sene Gall ; literally, The Land of Strangers. 
 The Danes ravaged Dublin, Wexford, and Waterford, which 
 districts were known by this name. Manapia is the name 
 given by Ptolemy to that part of Ireland which now is 
 distinguished by and divided into these three counties of 
 Waterford, Wexford, and Dublin. 
 
 15 Richard Earl of Chepstow, surnamed Strongbow, (or 
 according to some Strongbone,) in the midst of war, tumult, 
 and rage, married Eva, daughter of Dermond, king of Lein- 
 ster, in the hope of securing by this marriage the kingdom 
 to himself; at least, his master Henry II. suspected him 
 of this intention, 
 
 16 Powerscourt, in the county of Wicklow. Near this place 
 is the glen called the Dargle. The rocky precipices on both 
 sides as you approach the cataract, with the lofty oaks grow- 
 ing thereout, form a delightful and contemplative scene. The 
 origin of the name seems to be comprehended in the fol- 
 lowing words : Darrog, an oak ; Gleann, a valley. 
 
 Vide LhuyaVs Archaol. Part. Irish-English Diet. 
 
 * T " There was the Liffie rolling down the lea." 
 
 Fairy Queen, Book 4. Canto, xi. St. 41.
 
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 The river Liffey rises in the county of Wicklow, runs 
 westward to Kildare, then changes its course to the north, 
 and at length falls into the sea at Dublin, forming its har- 
 bour (so much celebrated in description) due East. It is 
 called Anna Liffey, from An Water na of Liffey. (Vide Lhuyd.) 
 The rivers in many parts of Ireland are called the waters of 
 the places near which they flow. 
 
 18 The Bay of Dublin, formed by the waters of Liffey, 
 has ever been compared with that of Naples, here called, 
 from Virgil's authority, Parthenope. 
 
 19 The Boyne rises in King's County. 
 
 20 Cromwell's impiety often exceeded his fanaticism : his 
 motto on his " iron or brazen ministers" was, " Open my 
 lips, O Lord, and my mouth shall shew forth thy praise." At 
 the siege of Tredagh, or Drogheda, the Irish in one of the 
 towers having held out more obstinately than the republican 
 hero expected, as soon as a practical breach was made, he 
 entered, and put every person to the sword. His observation 
 in his letter to the parliament was, that " he had no occa- 
 sion to use such severity afterwards." 
 
 21 The hill of Dunmore, from which King James the 
 Second saw the beginning of the battle of the Boyne, and 
 speedily fled to Dublin. It would be too much to impute 
 cowardice to him, who had more than once " met death with- 
 
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 out dismay ;" but men are not the same at all times. James 
 betook himself to France. The Archbishop of Rheims sar- 
 castically observed, pointing to the fallen monarch at St. 
 Germain's, " There is a fool, who has lost three kingdoms 
 for a mass." 
 
 22 The County of Down abounds with rivers suitable to 
 the commerce it has established in the manufacturing of 
 linen. The water of Newry (so called) promised, and per- 
 formed as little as any stream in Ireland, it being naviga- 
 ble only as far as the tide flowed. 
 
 Vide Campbell, Vol. 1 . p. 255. 
 
 The canal of Newry has made a communication with the 
 interior of the province of Ulster : it joins the Ban and wa- 
 ter of Newry, and vessels are now conveyed into Lough 
 Neagh, deservedly called an inland sea, being almost the 
 largest lake in Europe ; connecting the counties of Armagh, 
 Down, Antrim, and Derry. Lagan or Logan river has a 
 communication in the same manner, and empties itself into 
 Carrick-fergus Bay. By these improvements, the wealth 
 of the northern parts of Ireland has been so far increased, 
 that the appearance of it is manifest from the many coun- 
 try seats, &c. of the persons employed in the linen trade. 
 The southern parts of Ireland have continued the same for 
 centuries. 
 
 83 The iron manufactories, established in South Wales and 
 elsewhere, explain this line.
 
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 24 Alluding to the Hermit of Warkworth, and the bat- 
 tle of Otterbourn, (the ground-work of the ballad of Chevy 
 Chace,) which was very different in the event. Percy was 
 taken prisoner. 
 
 25 The river Ban, after falling into Lough Neagh, con- 
 tinues its course, dividing the counties of Antrim and 
 Derry. There is a bar called the Cuts, which, though it 
 prevents navigation, assists the persons employed in the 
 salmon fishery, who catch them in their attempt to get over 
 the bar. 
 
 26 The eel and salmon fisheries of this river are invalua 
 ble. The salmon of the Ban is of a brownish hue. If some 
 able engineer of the present day were to be employed, the 
 impediments to navigation might easily be removed. 
 
 87 The Sun enters Leo the 22nd of July 
 
 28 Saint Columbhill, or rather Saint Columb, founded most 
 of the churches in the North of Ireland, and put an end to 
 druidical superstitions. These lines, " Left them his volume," 
 &c. are nearly a translation of four lines in the Irish tongue, 
 written on the tomb of the Saint. 
 
 29 Many companies, belonging to the corporation of Lon- 
 don, have large estates in this part of Ireland.
 
 NOTES TO PART I. 
 
 30 The Hercynian forest was of great extent. The forest 
 of Derry in former days was not much less ; and now there 
 is scarcely a tree left. 
 
 31 Londonderry, being placed on the western side of the 
 river Foyle, appears naturally to belong to Donegal, but is 
 joined to its own county by means of the bridge of piles, 
 built at the instigation of the Earl of Bristol, then Bishop 
 of Derry. Farquhai, the comic poet, was born here in 1678, 
 and died at the premature age of 30, 
 
 32 The county of Antrim. 
 
 33 Carolan, the Irish bard and musician, in a pilgrimage to 
 the cave of Saint Patrick, situate in one of the islands of 
 Lough Derg, when in the cell, laid hold of the hand of a 
 lady, (with whose beautiful person and musical voice in his 
 youth he had been enamoured,) and, after an absence of a- 
 bove 20 years, he exclaimed, " The hand of Miss Bridget 
 Cruize P and so it was. 
 
 34 Lough Con, in the county of Mayo. In a city called 
 Con, situated on the southern extremity of this lake, there 
 was a seminary for the education of Saxon youth con- 
 verted to Christianity. The boasted learning of the Irish in 
 ancient times is by no means an invented tale or idle tradi- 
 tion. Ik-re Alfred was educated. In his life we read : "Then 
 " at God's ordinance he had the eveil called Fycus, with the
 
 NOTES TO PART I. 
 
 u wyche syckenes he was grived many yeres, and lastely 
 " cured of that holy virgin Saint Modovenna, then dwelling 
 " in Irelande. But after this cure by her done, she came 
 " into Englande, for so much of her monastery or church, 
 " that she there dwell'd in, was destroyed." 
 
 Fabian's Chronicle, 1541. Aluredns, Chap, ccxxi. p. 192, 193. 
 
 35 The Refern, or Raven ; the standard of the Danes.
 
 NOTES 
 
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 PART II. 
 
 Ma VMftftftMWWvw 
 
 POPE'S Villa, the resort of all the wits of the age ia 
 which he lived, now exists not. 
 
 2 Lough Allen, situated in the county of Leitrim, is en- 
 compassed by high mountains. The river Shannon breaks 
 forth at the southern extremity of this Lake, visiting in its 
 progress the ten following counties, viz. Leitrim, Rosscom- 
 mon, Galway, Clare, Longford, Westmeath, King's County, 
 Tipperary, Limerick, and Kerry. Its current has been im- 
 peded by those disgraces to such a noble river, weirs and 
 stepping stones, instead of bridges. 
 
 3 The feria (the origin of the word fair) were always 
 held in the places where the wakes or feasts of the dedica- 
 tion of churches were observed.
 
 NOTES TO PART II. 
 
 4 The Irish historians assert, that two Grecian colonies 
 settled there. The one 322 years after the flood, under Par- 
 tholanus, in the province of Munster ; the other under Ne- 
 medius. From one or other of these Grecian colonies, their 
 wrestlers must be derived, as those of Crotona were from 
 Achaia. The story of Milesius the Spaniard, and his four 
 sons, is given up as fabulous. 
 
 5 The boast of the Crotonian is conveyed to us in the 
 following lines : 
 
 Avr? $v |iA<r<roi<ni/ otvtxpecyiv l " Oup^i 1pt I$-jv, 
 " Ev xij,at : Xonrov 1AA<x jae 1k (3aXf]." 
 
 Milo arose, and in the circle cried, 
 
 " One fall shall never thus the prize decide, 
 
 " But who dares throw me thrice, let that be tried." 
 
 Crom Llyn is the water of Crom. On this river, and at 
 another place of the same name, in the county of Dublin, 
 were these horrid rites performed by the Druids; as they are 
 said to have worshipped Saturn^ Crom may be an abbrevia- 
 tion of Kpovos. Dr. Beaufort calls this river Camlin. Two 
 authorities call it Cromlin. 
 
 i Clonmanois, Cluan Macnois the lawn of the sons of 
 the chiefs. This is situated on a rising ground, on the east- 
 ern bank of the river Shannon, on the confines of King's 
 County and Westmeath. An abbey was founded here, 
 A. D. 548, dedicated to St. Kiaran. At this place, many
 
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 mutilated inscriptions in Greek, Latin, and Hebrew, have 
 
 been found. 
 
 Vide Sir John Ware's Antiq. of Ireland. P. 28, Bishop of Meath. 
 
 8 In 1641, Inchiquin battered the episcopal palace of Ca- 
 shel, situated on a rock, yet he spared the cathedral. In the 
 last century an Archbishop unroofed, and thereby brought 
 to ruin, the ancient cathedral, founded by St. Patrick, in or- 
 der to cover a smaller church built by him at the foot of the 
 rock. Credite, Posteri ! 
 
 Adjoining to the cathedral are the ruins of a chapel, 
 founded by Cormac Mac Cullen, a king and archbishop of 
 Cashel. He is the author of a History of Ireland, written 
 in his native language, and called the Psalter or Psaltric 
 of Cashel. This venerable personage was slain in the field 
 of battle, by Flan Mechleclin, in the very act of offering 
 up his prayers to heaven, and in his pontifical robes. 
 Nee te tua plurima, Pantheu, 
 Labentem pietas nee Apollinis infula texit. Mneidll. line 4C. 
 
 Vide Sir John Ware. 
 
 9 "The prejudice Ireland receives by absentees has been 
 long complained of, and will certainly continue, till the 
 country puts on another face ; for, if it were better improved, 
 and beautified with fine seats, our number of absentees would 
 every day decrease. Few gentlemen, who have seen any 
 thing abroad, and have observed how men live elsewhere, can 
 sit down contentedly in a cold, damp, sordid babitation, in 
 
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 the midst of a bleak uninhabited tract ; whereas, a hand- 
 some seat, amidst well-improved lands, fair villages, and a 
 thriving neighbourhood, may invite men to live on their es- 
 tates, and quit the life of insignificant saunterers about town, 
 for that of useful country gentlemen. They who employ 
 men in buildings, and manufactures, put life into the coun- 
 try, and the neighbourhood round is also observed to thrive.* 
 
 Vide Dr. Smith's Natural and Civil Hist, of Cork, 
 Book 4. Vol. 2. p. 255. 
 
 ao A nobleman, not many years back, was the cause of 
 much inconvenience to the inhabitants of the counties where- 
 in his vast possessions were, by drawing out of circulation 
 an immense sum of gold ; as he insisted that the fines for 
 renewal of leases should be paid in cash only. There are 
 various reports of the sum brought into England on this 
 occasion, but the distress was lasting. 
 
 11 Mallow, famous for its waters, similar to the Clifton 
 springs. 
 
 12 Famous for its waters in quality and effect, equal to 
 the Spa. The old King Brian Boriom, and four of his sons, 
 were slain at Clontarf, A.D. 1014. The victory gained 
 by his death put an end to the ravages of the Danes, the 
 scourge of Ireland for two centuries. The grandson of this 
 great king was murdered at Castle Connel, situated six miles 
 from Limerick, on the east side of the Shannon, by the Prince
 
 NOTES TO PART II. 
 
 6f Thomond. In Lodge's Peerage, article Earl of Inchi- 
 quin, there is one solitary mention made of an Obrien, 
 who died in his bed. 
 
 13 The treaty of Limerick was the last made between 
 King William and the remains of King James's party, Octo- 
 ber 12, 1691. 
 
 In the late insurrection, the people of Limerick were par- 
 ticularly steady to the English interest. The infatuation of 
 the common people in this unhappy struggle was such, as 
 to believe the bodies of their Catholic priests and leaders 
 to be invulnerable. " Among the baggage was found a peck 
 full of charms, relics, &c. besides an infinite quantity taken 
 from the dead, with a peculiar one on paper, said to be the 
 exact measure of our Lady's foot, and written in it, " Who- 
 soever wears this, and repeats certain prayers, shall be free 
 from gun-shot, sword, and pike, respectively, as each desired." 
 
 Engagement at Knochbrack, alias Knochniclashy , July 26, 1652. 
 Vide Dr. Smith's Nat. and Civil Hist, of Cork, Book 4. Vol 2. p. 174. 
 
 14 There are two canals communicating, or to communi- 
 cate, with the Shannon; one on the north side of the city 
 of Dublin, and the other on the south. The Shannon may 
 fairly be deemed Fluviorum Rex. 
 
 15 Launa, the river Lane, the outlet to the waters of 
 Killarney. It empties itself into Dingle Bay. Dingle is the 
 most westernly town in Europe.
 
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 16 8f 17 Turk, the name of a mountain to the southward 
 of the lake. Mangerton was supposed at one time to be the 
 highest ground in Ireland, but now the palm is claimed by 
 Magillicuddy's Reeks. In Mangerton is a lake called the 
 Devil's Punch-bowl. 
 
 18 The Eagle's Nest, a towering rock on the western side 
 of the lake. Persons who visit this place well know the 
 effects of a cannon fired, or the melody of a few French horns. 
 
 19 This is not a description merely imaginary. Such a cot- 
 tage is mentioned as attracting the notice of the visitors of 
 the Lake, and perhaps intended to rouze the native Irish from 
 their slovenly inattention to their habitations. 
 
 20 Old Weir Bridge, opposite to Dinis Island ; the cause of 
 many a disaster, owing to an artificial cataract formed by 
 one of the arches being blocked up. 
 
 21 In what age the great O'Donaghoe flourished, the tra- 
 dition of whose virtues is fondly transmitted, is not easily 
 determinable ; but, that a distinguished prince of that name 
 did actually reign over this favoured region, is so established 
 by the testimony of concurrent traditions, as scarcely to re- 
 quire confirmation from the page of history. 
 
 His countrymen represent him like the demigods of old ; 
 a contemner of danger, a sworn foe to oppression. The ap- 
 pearance of O'Donaghoe is considered a most propitious
 
 NOTES TO PART II. 
 
 omen to the person who is fortunate enough to behold him ; 
 and the eye of the peasant eagerly searches for him along 
 the windings of the lake. He is described as being mounted 
 /m a milk-white steed. A large rock of limestone 20 feet 
 high, on one side perpendicular, is called his prison ; 
 
 There, during life, the factious were imrnur'd, 
 And peace and order without blood secur'd. 
 
 A person, who is deemed a lineal descendant, is said to be 
 one among the many of the name now residing in the town 
 of Killarney ; and, to distinguish him particularly from the 
 rest, he is called O'Donoughoe. 
 
 Illustration of the Scenery of Killarney, p. 81. by Isaac Weld, Esq. to 
 whom the Author (though unknown) begs leave to return thanks for 
 permitting him to copy the engraving of old Wier Bridge. 
 
 " The common people hereabouts have a strange roman- 
 tic notion, of their seeing in fair weather what they call 
 a carbuncle at the bottom of this lake, in a particular part 
 of it, which they say is more than sixty fathoms deep." 
 
 Dr. Smith's Hist, of Kerry. 
 
 22 Mucros, the remains of an abbey, which the inhabi- 
 tants of the lake prefer as a burial-place. 
 
 23 These two lines are intended to convey a description 
 of a real Irish wake. The women are hired, appear frantic 
 with woe, and act their part without knowing the deceased. 
 
 Ot |tAvap' tfynvtov, tin $t s"tvK%pvlo yvvKixte. 
 
 Vide Homer, n. 722. 
 Pectora nunc fcedans pugnis nunc unguibus ora. 
 
 Virg. Mn, LXI. S6.
 
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 24 The island is called Ronyan's Island, from the name of 
 the person who dwelt there many years in a cell or cottage, 
 which now no longer remains* As soon as the solitude of the 
 place was invaded by strangers, he quitted the spot. It was 
 neves known who he was, or why he avoided society. 
 
 25 Brien Boro, (Borr Magnus,) Buruma, or Boroimhe, (the 
 Alfred of Ireland,) fought no less than twenty-four success- 
 ful battles against the Danes. In the twenty-fifth, he, 
 with four of his sons, though victorious, perished at 
 Clontarife, 23d April, A. D. 1014. The following is a de- 
 scription of his harp, now in existence in Trinity-College, 
 Dublin. 
 
 It is thirty-two inches high, and of extraordinary good 
 workmanship. The sounding-board is of oak, the arms of 
 red sally ; the extremity of the uppermost arm is part capped 
 with silver, extremely well wrought and chisseled. It con- 
 tains a large crystal set in silver, and under it was another 
 stone, now lost, &c. This harp has twenty-eight keys, and 
 as many string-holes, and consequently there were as many 
 strings. The foot-piece, or rest, is broken off, and the 
 parts, round which it was joined, are very rotten. The 
 whole bears evidence of an expert artist. 
 
 Brien's son Donagh, having murdered his brother Teighe, 
 fled to Rome, carrying with him the regalia and this harp, 
 which he gave to the Pope, in order to obtain absolution 
 for the murder of his brother. It was kept in the Vatican 
 until the reign of Henry VIII. to whom the Pope sent it.
 
 NOTES TO PART II. 
 
 Henry gave it to the first Earl of Clanricard. In his family 
 it remained till the beginning of the last century. A lady 
 of the De Burgh family brought it into the possession of 
 Mac Mahon of Clenagh, in the county of Clare. After his 
 death, Commissioner Macnamara of Limerick had it. By 
 him it was presented to the Right Honourable William 
 Conyngham, who deposited it in Trinity -College library.
 
 
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