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Romantic Ireland
Volume I.

Travel Lovers’ Library

Each in two volumes, profusely illustrated

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R O M A N T I C
I R E L A N D

By
M. F. and B. McM. Mansfield

IN TWO VOLUMES
Vol. I.
Illustrated by
BLANCHE McMANUS MANSFIELD

Boston
L. C. Page & Company
MDCCCCV

Copyright, 1904
By L. C. Page & Company
(INCORPORATED)
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All rights reserved
Published October, 1904
COLONIAL PRESS
Electrotyped and Printed by C. H. Simonds & Co.
Boston, Mass., U. S. A.

Contents
Volume I.

CHAPTER PAGE
[I.] Introductory [1]
[II.] A Travel Chapter[16]
[III.] The Land and Its People[37]
[IV.] Romance and Sentiment[82]
[V.] Religious Art and Architecture[109]
[VI.] The Scotch-Irish Blend[136]
[VII.] Irish Industries[155]
[VIII.] Dublin and About There [176]
[IX.] Kilkenny to Cork Harbour[242]



List of Illustrations
Volume I.

PAGE
The Rock of Cashel (See [page 271])[Frontispiece]
Muckross Abbey[11]
The Chimney-tops, Giant’s Causeway[17]
Map of Ireland (facing)[22]
The Cliffs of Moher[25]
McCarthy More’s Castle[29]
St. Doulough[41]
Peat-choppers[47]
A West of Ireland Farm[55]
Bog Land, Kerry[59]
A Jig Dancer[69]
The Genuine Irish Peasant[83]
Bog Land, Kerry[87]
An Irish Lass[99]
A Brooch from the Hill of Tara[107]
The Hill of Tara[113]
Round Tower, Ardmore[117]
Downpatrick[129]
The Bell of St. Patrick[133]
Dunluce Castle[149]
Limerick Pigs[157]
Torc Cascade[161]
A Cottage Spinner[165]
A Cottage Loom[169]
Embroidering[173]
New Grange[177]
Dublin Castle[199]
Enniskerry[207]
Glendalough[217]
St. Kevin’s Kitchen[221]
The Vale of Avoca[225]
The Meeting of the Waters[229]
Reginald’s Tower, Waterford[235]
Sir Walter Raleigh’s Cottage, Youghal[239]
Kilkenny Castle[245]
St. Canice’s Steps and the Round Tower, Kilkenny[253]
Rhincrew Castle[257]
Cappoquin[261]
Lismore Castle[265]
The Cross of Cashel[273]