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MUCKROSS ABBEY MANSION.
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of John Drake about a hundred years ago. He lived here for
eleven years, and from his solemn but cheerful aspect, his
seclusion and piety excited the interest of the inhabitants,
who yet rehearse with many additions the narrative of his
sojourn. In the church are many tombs, bearing such illus¬
trious names as O’Sullivan and M‘Carthy. The tomb containing
the remains of the descendants of McCarthy Mor and O’Donaghue
Mor is modern, and has a beautifully written epitaph upon it.
No gratuity is allowed to be solicited by attendants. .
MUCKROSS ABBEY MANSION is the seat of H. A.
Herbert, Esq., M.P. for the county. The mansion was built
from a design by Mr. Bum of London. It is new, and a fine
) example of the Elizabethan style. From various points in the
; demesne good views of the lake and surrounding scenery are
) obtained, which to particularise would but lessen the pleasure
; of seeing. By a good road we make the circuit of the domain
I and the islands Brickeen and Dinish, and join the high road
i about a mile from Tore Cottage. In hidden watery nooks
among these woods, covered by shrubs, large ferns, and moss,
grow isolated patches of that botanical treasure the Tricho-
manes speciosum. Glena is another station for it; but without
the assistance of a guide to point out the habitats, it is almost
in vain to search for it. Its miniature, the llymenophyllum
Turibridgeme grows in vast luxuriance on everyrock moistened
by the spray of a waterfall or the trickling of all but impercep¬
tible streams. Nowhere is the latter more abundant than at
the reputed station of the Trichomanes.
TORC CASCADE. The visitor is admitted by a little
| gate, and may give, or not, a small gratuity to the person who
; acts as porter. The gravel walk leads up a valley lined with
| larch on the one side, and holly, birch, oak, alder, and arbu-
' tus, on the other. The stream all the while is heard roaring
down its channel on our right; a rough wooden seat is gained,
and the cascade bursts suddenly upon the view. It comes
over a broken wall of rock, forming numerous cascades in its
progress, but, from the nature of the rock, has less of the
■ “ Falling, and brawling, and sprawling, •
And driving, and riving, and striving,”
’ characteristic of Lowdore fall, which, in appearance, though