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    The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 396, October 31, 1829
    The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 396, October 31, 1829
    The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 396, October 31, 1829
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    The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 396, October 31, 1829

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      The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 396, October 31, 1829 - Archive Classics

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      Title: The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction

      Volume 14, No. 396, Saturday, October 31, 1829.

      Author: Various

      Release Date: March 5, 2004 [EBook #11459]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MIRROR OF LITERATURE, NO. 396 ***

      Produced by Jonathan Ingram, Marvin A. Hodges, David Garcia and the

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      THE MIRROR

      OF

      LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION.

      BLARNEY CASTLE.

      This Engraving, to use a cant phrase, is an exquisite bit of Blarney; but independent of the vulgar association, it has a multitude of attractions for every reader. Its interest will, however, be materially enhanced by the following admirable description from the graphic pen of T. Crofton Croker, Esq.¹

      Blarney, so famous in Irish song and story, is situated about four miles north west of Cork, and was, within these few years, a thriving manufacturing village; but it no longer wears the aspect of comfort or of business, and appears much gone to decay.

      The alteration struck me very forcibly. In 1815, I remember a large square of neat cottages, and the area, a green shaded by fine old trees. Most of the cottages are now roofless; the trees have been cut down, and on my last visit, in 1821, a crop of barley was ripening in the square.

      "the clam'rous rooks

      Ask for their wonted seat, but ask in vain!

      Their ancient home is level'd with the earth,

      Never to wave again its leafy head,

      Or yield a covert to the feather'd choir,

      Who now, with broken song, remote and shy,

      Seek other bowers, their native branches gone!"

      This prepared me to expect a similar change in the grounds of the castle, where much timber has been also felled; but the grounds still are beautiful, rock and water being features in the landscape, the picturesque effect of which neglect cannot injure.

      The castle consists of a massive square tower, that rises broad and boldly above surrounding trees, on a precipitous rock over a stream called the Awmartin; and attached to the east side is an extensive dwelling-house, erected about a century since by Sir James Jeffreys, who purchased or obtained this estate from the crown, and in whose family it still continues.

      Blarney Castle was built about the middle of the fifteenth century, by Cormac MacCarty, or Carthy surnamed Laider, or the Strong. He was descended from the kings of Cork, and was esteemed so powerful a chieftain that the English settlers in his part of Munster paid him an annual tribute of forty pounds to protect them from the attacks and insults of the Irish. To him is also ascribed the building of the Abbey and Castle of Kilcrea, the Nunnery of Ballyvacadine, and many other religious houses; in the former of which he was buried.² It would be a matter of little importance and considerable labour to trace the Castle of Blarney from one possessor to another. The genealogical table in Keating's History of Ireland will enable those addicted to research to follow the Mac Carty pedigree; but a tiresome repetition of names, occasioned by the scantiness of them in an exceedingly numerous family, present continual causes of perplexity to the general reader. The names of Donough, Cormac, Teague, Florence, Dermot, Owen, and Donnel, constitute almost the whole catalogue used by the Mac Carties³ for a period exceeding six hundred years.⁴ This difficulty is heightened from the entire Sept being, in point of fact, without a sirname, as the followers of most chieftains in Ireland as well as Scotland assumed that of their lord. In the reign of Edward IV. a statute was enacted, commanding each individual to take upon himself a separate sirname, either of his trade and faculty, or of some quality of his body or mind, or of the place where he dwelt, so that every one should be distinguished from the other. But this statute did not effect the object proposed, and Spenser, in his View of Ireland, mentions it as having become obsolete, and strongly recommends its renewal.

      The military and historic recollections connected with Blarney are doubtless of sufficient importance to give an interest to the place; but to a curious superstition it is perhaps more indebted for celebrity. A stone in the highest

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