Beauties

OF

I R E L A N D: V

BEING

Original Delineations,

TOPOGRAPHICAL, HISTORICAL, AND BIOGRAPHICAL,

OF EACH COUNTY.

✓
BY J. N. BREWER, ESQ.
Aalbor of the Introductory Volume to the Beauties of England and Wales; Delineations

of Gloucestershire, &c. &c.

ILLUSTRATED

WITH ENGRAVINGS, BY J. & H. S. STORER,
AFTER ORIGINAL DRAWINGS, CHIEFLY BY MR. PETRIE, OF DUBLIN.

" It was a chosen plott of fertile land,
Amongst wide waves sett, like a little nest,
As if it had by Nature's cunning hand
Bene choycely picked out from all the rest.”

Spenser's Faerie Queen.

VOL. II. V

London :

PRINTED FOR SHERWOOD, GILBERT, & PIPER,

TO HIS GRACE

RICHARD-GRENVILLE-BRYDGES-CHANDOS TEMPLE,

DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM AND CHANDOS, K.G. &c. &c.

a Nobleman

WHOSE PATRONAGE OF THE LITERARY INTERESTS OF IRELAND

18 SPLENDIDLY EVINCED BY

THE COLLECTION OF MANUSCRIPTS, RELATING TO THE

ANTIENT HISTORY OF THAT ISLAND,

PRESERVED

AS THE MOST ESTEEMED TREASURES EVEN IN THE

PRINCELY LIBRARY OF STOWE,

THIS VOLUME

IS, WITH PERMISSION OF HIS GRACE,

MOST RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED,

AS A SMALL TRIBUTE TO HIS PUBLIC AND PRIVATE VIRTUES,

BY HIS GRACE'S MOST OBEDIENT SERVANT,

J. N. BREWER.