LISSOY MILL
(R. H. Newell)
KILKENNY WEST CHURCH.
This south-west view was taken from the road, which passes by the church, towards Lishoy, and overlooks the adjacent country to the west. The church appears neat, its exterior having been lately repaired. The tree added to the foreground is the only liberty taken with the subject (p. 83).
HAWTHORN TREE.
An east view of the tree, as it stood in August, 1806. The Athlone road occupies the centre of the sketch, winding round the stone wall to the right, into the village, and to the left leading toward the church. The cottage and tree opposite the hawthorn, adjoin the present public-house; the avenue before the parsonage tops the distant eminence (p. 84).
SOUTH VIEW FROM GOLDSMITH’S MOUNT.
In this sketch ‘the decent church,’ at the top of the hill in the distance, is an important object, from its exact correspondence with the situation given it in the poem. Half-way up stands the solitary ruin of Lord Dillon’s castle. The hill in shadow, on the left, is above the village, and is supposed to be alluded to in the line—
Up yonder hill the distant murmur rose.
A flat of bogland extends from the narrow lake in the centre to the mount on the right of the foreground (p. 84).
THE PARSONAGE.