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Title: Romantic Ireland
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Mansfield, M. F. (Milburg Francisco), 1871- McManus, Blanche, 1869-1935, joint author
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Publisher: Boston, L. C. Page & company
Contributing Library: Boston College Libraries
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s a his-toric interest and value, from the ruins of itsformer splendid ecclesiastical establishments toits old houses and still more ancient fortifi-cations, and the castle erected in 1215 by KingJohn, — a counterpart in every respect of asimilar establishment at Limerick. QueenElizabeth made Athlone the. capital of Con-naught. After the battle of the Boyne, itunderwent two sieges from the forces of KingWilliam. Some traces of the old fortificationsmay be seen, and the castle is still in perfectrepair. Just north of Athlone, where the Shannonjoins Lough Ree, is Auburn, more popularlyknown as Sweet Auburn, whose old ruinedparsonage is famous as the early home ofOliver Goldsmith. Fleeting time has changed this modest man-sion — whose ruin was deplored by Goldsmithhimself — but little. It stands about a hun-dred yards from the public road at the end ofa straight avenue bordered with ash-trees, —a plain rectangular, two-storied house, builtin the ugly and uncompromising style that
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The Shannon and Its Lakes 123 was popular in Ireland in the early part ofthe seventeenth century. The roof is off, butthe walls remain, and seem still to be hauntedby the shade of the Rev. Charles Goldsmith,the original Doctor Primrose in The Vicarof Wakefield, while his wife, hospitable asof yore, still seems to invite the passingstranger to taste her gooseberry wine. Thefamous inn, — since rebuilt out of all resem-blance to its former self, — immortalized byGoldsmith, and known as the Three Pigeons,where were drawn the inspired nut-browndraughts, and where village statesmentalked with looks profound/ is but a littledistance from the house. The country allaround Lishoy — for that is the name of thetownland in which Toberclare, this Mecca ofthe Goldsmith student, is situated — is wellwooded and cultivated. The drive from Ath-lone to Sweet Auburn is one of the mostdelightful in Ireland. As the reputed localeof The Deserted Village/ Auburn, orLishoy, as it was formerly known, ha

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