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- c.1890-c.1905 (Creation)
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68 pp; 31 cm x 21 cm; clipping
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Scope and content
A bound volume containing pasted-in clippings of mainly antiquarian descriptions of various historical buildings and scenic locations in South County Dublin and in County Wicklow. Several of the clippings appear to be reprinted descriptions taken from Samuel Lewis’s ‘A topographical dictionary of Ireland’ (1837). Other descriptions are clippings taken from contemporary newspapers and magazines. Some texts by Patrick Weston Joyce and Miss K.L. Montgomery. Includes texts and illustrations relating to Kingstown (Dún Laoghaire), Dalkey, Killiney, Bray, Blackrock, Enniskerry, Powerscourt, Poulaphuca, Avoca, Glendalough, Carrickmines, Kilternan, and Drimnagh. Manuscript title to the front cover reads ‘South County Dublin and County Wicklow’.