A south view from the Athlone road, which runs parallel with the stone wall, and nearly east and west: the gateway is that mentioned in Goldsmith’s letter,* the mount being directly opposite, in a field contiguous with the road.
* See note to l. 114 of The Deserted Village.
The ruinous stone wall in this and three other sketches, which is a frequent sort of fence in the neighbourhood, gives a characteristic propriety to the line (48)
And the long grass o’ertops the mould’ring wall.
(pp. 84–5).
THE PARSONAGE
(R. H. Newell)
THE SCHOOL-HOUSE.
This cottage is situated, as the poem describes it, by the road-side, just where it forms a sharp angle by branching out from the village eastward: at this point a south-west view was taken (p. 85).