Identifier: picturesqueirela00sava (find matches)
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
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Connor and his wife, in the act of supplication. Thesteeple is still entire, supported upon a carved arch, the inside of which is also SLIGO. 5 carved. Adjoining tiiis are the cloisters, three sides of a square of beautifully carved little arches, of about four feet in height. Almost all the pillars are differently ornamented, and one in particular is very unlike the rest, having a h u m a n head on the inside of the arch.Two miles south east of Sligo is the romantic and beautiful Lough Gill, containing many wooded islands of all dimensions, on the largestof which — Church Island— are somein terestingruins. Fromthe watersedge of thesouthernshores of thelake the rug-ged gneissmountains ofSlieve Daeaneand Slish ab-ruptly rise toan elevatioiof about 870 feet, their steep acclivities covered with plantations. Gill, with all its beauties,IS nearly embraced within the grand demesne of Hazelwood. On the peninsulabetween Sligo and Ballysadare is Knocknarea, 1,078 feet above the bay, whose
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Sligo Abbey—Nave and Choir. 512 PICTURESQUE IRELAND. waters nearly lave its base. Rising solitary and smooth, its flat top crownedwith a sepulchral tumulus, it is a strong contrast to the rugged mountains around.From the summit a magnificent view is obtained—inland as far as the lofty headsof Croagh Patrick and Nephin, and seaward from the Stags of Broadhaven to the stupendous cliffsof Slieve League.At the southernbase is the glenof Knocknarea, achasm three-quar-ters of a mile inlength, thirty feetwide, with perpen-dicular walls fortyfeet high. Plan-tations on the top,and indigenoustrailing plantsand ferns on thevertical sides, addto its naturallyweird character. On the road toBallyshannon,four miles fromSligo town, isDrumcliffe, withits ancient crossesand remains of around tower.Near Ballysadereis a church intowhich has been built some portions of an ancient temple of a highly ornamental character. OnInnismurry, thirteen miles from Sligo and five from land, are numerous earlyChri

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