Any ideas on where we can find out more about Richard Lovett? Parents, Marriage?????? -----Original Message----- From: Jean R. [mailto:jeanrice@cet.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2006 1:24 PM To: IRELAND-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [IRELAND] Glengariff (Cork) - "An Earthly Paradise" (1888) - English Traveller, Richard LOVETT SNIPPET: Enthusiastic and observant Victorian traveller, Richard LOVETT, journeyed throughout Ireland, and his journal was first published in 1888 by The Religious Tract Society. "There are three main routes from Cork to Killarney. The tamest is by rail via Mallow; the most adventurous is by rail to Macroom, and thence to Killarney by the north road, as it is called, one of the finest drives in South-western Ireland, running through the country of the MacCARTHYs, with their ruined castles, and enabling the traveller to see Gougane Barra and the Pass of the Deer. The former is a lonely lake, lying embosomed in a great hollow formed by the mountains, which tower in parts almost perpendicularly above it. In the centre of the lake is an islet sacred to St. Finn Bar, which was for ages the object of special pilgrimages. The scenery here, for wild magnificence and power to touch the imagination, can hold its own with any in this region -- so full of grand mountain and lake solitudes. The Pass of the Deer is a deep mountain cleft about two miles in length, the most sternly grand defile in Ireland, a scene of utter loneliness, where no song of bird or ! hum of bee breaks the monotonous stillness, save where the ripple of numerous sparkling rills course down the side of the acclivities. There are immense masses of rock seemingly poised in the air, almost perpendicularly on either side, clothed with stunted arbutus, rowan-tree, yew and holly, while huge projecting cliffs ever and anon seem threatening to bar the visitor's progress. Here the outlawed O'SULLIVANs and O'LEARYs long defied the Government, and in 1822 the adherents of Captain ROCK for a long time held possession of the pass, until dislodged by LORD BANTRY and the military. It is a district well adapted for lawlessness of this kind. But the popular route is by way of Bantry and Glengariff. This takes the traveller along one of the roads in Ireland most frequented, at least in the tourist season; but it also has compensations, inasmuch as it offers some most magnificent drives, and at the chief stopping points some of the very best hotels in Ireland are to be found. A short but pleasant railway journey from Cork enables the visitor to see the pretty country on the road to Bandon, to catch a good passing glimpse of that well-situated town, to see something of the wildest parts of County Cork, and finally brings him to Bantry, at the head of the famous bay of the same name. Here, if disposed to stop, he will find very comfortable accommodation, and although the little town presents an ancient appearance, and has a fish-like odour, there is nothing in it that need detain him long. But with the drive to Glengariff the beauties of this region begin to reveal themselves. the road winds along the north-eas! tern shores of Bantry Bay, which are somewhat hilly, affording consequently beautiful and ever-varying views. Whether the shadows of evening are over the landscape, it will linger long in the memory. The noble expanse of the bay, the lofty peaks of the Sugar Loaf and other distant mountains, the fine bold rock contours, the little streams that ripple down the surrounding mountains, the splendid colorings of sea and sky and rock and heath, all combine to heighten the enjoyment of the traveller. Especially fine are the views when the approach of evening tends to deepen the shadows and to robe the more distant prospects in a lovely purple haze. Eloquent descriptions of Glengariff abound, sometimes accurate and adequate, sometimes charged with pardonable exaggeration. But the perusal of these tends to form either untrue or disproportionate ideas of this celebrated glen. Perhaps the ideal course would be to go and see the spot, and then read the descriptions. Glengariff is emphatically a place where the eye seem what it is capable of seeing, and the impression received will vary here, more than in most places, according to the brain to which the eye transmits its sensations. Those who love the combination of bold rocks with lovely dells whose sides are fringed with beautiful trees, and through which musically murmuring streams run down to the sea; those who rejoice in the fresh, blue, health-giving ocean, and who yet love to look upon it in his gentler and softer moods; those who like when taking a holiday to exchange the rush and struggle and selfishness of modern metropolitan life for the peaceful country, fa! r removed from the roar of business and fierceness of modern competition, and yet sufficiently in touch with the outer world to avoid all traces of stagnation -- such as these, can hardly do better than select Glengariff as a place of resort. The modern tourist loves his comforts, and these he can have in the hotels. Be he pedestrian, or cyclist, or fisherman, or sketcher, or lover of boating and driving, here can he indulge to the full his favourite recreation. And he can at the same time breathe some of the purest air and rejoice in the marvellous wealth of rich and lovely scenery with which the beneficent Creator has gladdened this part of the land. The name Glengariff means 'the rugged glen.' It includes the harbour formed by the innermost recess of Bantry Bay, and the valley through which flows the Glengariff River, in its descent from Eagle's Nest Mountain, to the sea. The bay is dotted with a large number of tiny islets; the river rushes headlong down from its source, reaching its highest point of beauty, perhaps, at the old ruined arches of what is known as CROMWELL's Bridge. The temperature in this favoured glen varies within narrow limits, the vegetation is rich, the arbutus, the rowan-tree, the holly, azaleas, rhododendrons, and hydrangeas, all flourish here and its wonderful combination of beauties and advantages make it a notable place for rest for the overworked and weary, and a choice wintering place for the delicate. But most who visit this earthly Paradise, like ourselves, however fain to linger, have to hasten on to other scenes ..." ==== IRELAND Mailing List ==== Ireland Mailing List website..surname registry, links, lookup volunteers,unsubscribe, change your subscription from L to D or D to L http://www.connorsgenealogy.com/IrelandList/