Ireland: Dublin, the Shannon, Limerick, Cork, and the Kilkenny Races, the Round Towers, the Lakes of Killarney, the County of Wicklow ... and the Giant's CausewayHarper & Brothers, 1844 - 115 pages |
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... tumuli , as fortress- es whence they might hold the country in sub- jection , and when the Danes had been expelled , an Irish chief here and there chose the deserted fastness for his dwelling place . The learned are not quite so ...
... tumuli , as fortress- es whence they might hold the country in sub- jection , and when the Danes had been expelled , an Irish chief here and there chose the deserted fastness for his dwelling place . The learned are not quite so ...
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... tumuli , and one of these is the farfamed hill of New Grange . This hill is composed of an enormous mass of flint - stones , is about fifty or sixty feet high , and about 200 paces in circumference . The number of stones of which it ...
... tumuli , and one of these is the farfamed hill of New Grange . This hill is composed of an enormous mass of flint - stones , is about fifty or sixty feet high , and about 200 paces in circumference . The number of stones of which it ...
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... tumuli along the shores of the Boyne , but they are none of them so large or important as that of New Grange , except one at Dowth called the Moate of Dowth , which appears exactly to resemble the former . If any thing , it is rather ...
... tumuli along the shores of the Boyne , but they are none of them so large or important as that of New Grange , except one at Dowth called the Moate of Dowth , which appears exactly to resemble the former . If any thing , it is rather ...
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Ireland: Dublin, the Shannon, Limerick, Cork, and the Kilkenny Races, the ... Johann Georg Kohl No preview available - 2018 |
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