Volume 1

The beauties of Ireland. Being original delineations, topographical, historical, and biographical, of each county / By J.N. Brewer. Illustrated with engravings, by J. & H.S. Storer, after original drawings, chiefly by Mr. Petrie.

  • Brewer, J. N. (James Norris)
Date:
1825-1826
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Credit: The beauties of Ireland. Being original delineations, topographical, historical, and biographical, of each county / By J.N. Brewer. Illustrated with engravings, by J. & H.S. Storer, after original drawings, chiefly by Mr. Petrie. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Here is an antient residence of the family of Bolger, styled of the Rhor ; and also, Ringwood, the fine seat of the late Lord Callan, which, with the rest of that nobleman’s large property, has de- volyed on his nephew and heir, Viscount Clifden. On the estate of Mr. Bolger is Balynabearagh, a romantic spot, thickly planted with oak trees down to the margin of the water. The name would appear to signify the seat of judgment (Baly, a town or seat ; and bearacht, judgment), and is an appellation derived, unquestion- ably, from the practices of very remote antiquity. In the neigh- bourhood are several cromlechs, all of which have been partially prostrated, and otherwise injured. The ruins of the monastery of Rosstpercon, seated on ‘the borders of the river Barrow, form a melancholy, but attractive, ornament to this part of the country. The monastery of Rossi- bercon was founded by the families of Grace and Walsh, in the year 1267. ‘The ruins are extensive and picturesque, comprising the lofty tower of the church, sustained on four pointed arches, and the south wall of an aisle, containing five arches and ten windows. The contiguous scenery is extremely pleasing. The river Barrow is here of a noble width, and its bosom is often animated by ships of considerable burthen, ‘and numerous fishing _ boats. The town of Ross, placed on the side of a precipitous hill, rises finely in the back ‘ground. This religious house was dis- solved in the thirty-first of Henry VIII. Aytwarpstown, the estate of the Earl of Bessborough, and at present the seat of the family of Strange, was formerly the pro- perty of the Aylwards, from whom it derives its name.* At Ballinlaw-Ferry i is a small village, near the confluence of * The family of Aylward is of Anglo-Saxon origin, and down to the period of the conquest (1066,) had been of great note, especially in Somer- setshire. The branch settled in Treland i is now represented by Nicholas Aylward, Esq. of Shankill, in this county. Several of this family were mayors and sheriffs of Waterford, in the sixteenth and seventeenth cen- turies. Faithleg, and other great estates, possessed by the Aylwards in the county of Waterford, were forfeited during the usurpation ‘of Crom- wells Mr. Aylward, abovementioned, is lineal heir to the vig repairs ? of Faithleg. |