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and attempting to invoke a new or an old and more beautiful world into being. The wrong of unshapely things is a wrong too great to be told, he cries, and over against the unshapely earth he sets up the "happy townland" of which he sings in one of his later and most lovely poems.
But this plan did not win the Irish landowners, and they began a new agitation for townland divisions. On this point he quoted the following passage from a letter of Smith O'Brien, in which the Prime Minister said he fully concurred: "This plan had the merit of being intelligible, simple, and effective.
A similar "disert" or collection of hermit cells was endowed at Cashel in 1101; and a "disert columkill," with two townland mills and a vegetable garden, was endowed at Kells, at a somewhat earlier period, for the use of "devout pilgrims," as those were called who left the society of men to worship God in solitude.
And what he sang was a song he had heard or had made one time in his wanderings on Slieve Echtge, and the words of it as they can be put into English were like this: O Death's old bony finger Will never find us there In the high hollow townland Where love's to give and to spare; Where boughs have fruit and blossom At all times of the year; Where rivers are running over With red beer and brown beer.
"Out of the whole townland, sir, all I got was two men for the aveny a goose from Barney Scadden, and her last ten, along wid half-a-dozen eggs, from that dacent creature, widow M'Murt. Throth four fine little clildre she has, if they had anything on them, or anything to keep body and sowl together." "You warned them all, of course?"
So that, from all the wants put together, I shall take an early breakfast, and start to-morrow for Cruhan is not that the name of the little village in the bog? 'That's Miss Betty's own townland though I don't know she's much the richer of her tenants, said Kearney, laughing. 'The oldest inhabitants never remember a rent-day. 'What a happy set of people! 'Just the reverse.
Declan's Well," beside some remains of a rather large and apparently twelfth century church on the cliff, in the townland of Dysert is diverted into a shallow basin in which pilgrims bathe feet and hands. Set in some comparatively modern masonry over the well are a carved crucifixion and other figures of apparently late mediaeval character.
"Is there much due on the estate?" "Very little. No estate in county Cork has less on it. Miss Letty has her income, and when Poulnasherry was bought, that townland lying just under Berryhill, where the gorse cover is, part of the purchase money was left on mortgage. That is still due; but the interest is less than a hundred a-year." "And that is all?" "All that I know of."
This townland is the property of Mr. Arthur Blennerhasset, of Ballyseedy, and it has fallen into an awful condition through no fault of its present proprietor. Years ago the land was let for electioneering purposes, akin to the creation of faggot votes, and a vast number of small holders became fixed upon land from which it is impossible to evict them.
The estate, in fact, would be better without them, were it not for their votes. The townland of Ballyweltem is principally the property of a wild faction, named M'Kippeen, whose great delight is to keep up perpetual feud against an opposite faction of the O'Squads, who on their part are every whit as eager for the fray as their enemies.
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