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Finavain (or vineyard) *, Nor did it ufually receive any embel- 
lifhment from architeCture. The pigeon-houfe and dove-houfe, 
which were the general appendages of monaftic gardens, were not 
raifed by the hand of tafte; I can only find in the garden of 
Grey-abbey, founded in the year 1193, in the county of Down, 
an attempt at architectural embellifhment: “ In the gardens of 
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this abbey (fays Harris) is a large well of fweet and limpid 
“« water, over which is raifed an high vaulted arch, ornamented 
“ with heads and fome other fculpture in ftone, which feem to 
“be the fame piece of architecture that ftood here when the 
“ abbey fubfifted +.” 
NEITHER does it appear that the ftately caftles of our chief- 
tains were furnifhed with pleafure-grounds. Indeed the per- 
turbed ftate of the kingdom, during many ages, forbade it. No 
part of the Irifh chieftain’s territory was fafe from the fpoiles, 
but fo much as was encompafled with the caftle walls; 
fo that, inftead of wandering befide a murmuring ftream, mufing 
in an arbor, or extending his toil-worn limbs on a foft bank 
beneath a fpreading tree, the veteran warriour was obliged to be 
contented with a view of the circumjacent country from his 
ramparts{. “ For Ireland (fays Moryfon) being oft troubled 
with 
* In an Trith Almanack of the fourteenth century, in the poffeffion of my learned friend 
Colonel Vallancey, the time of gathering grapes, and drinking mufd or new wine, is noticed. 
+ Hiflory of County Down, p. 55. 
} It appears, indeed, from Sir John Harrington’s Report to Queen Elizabeth concerning the j 
Earl of Effex’s Fourney in Jreland in 1599, that a garden capable of containing three hun- 
dred men then appertained to the caftle of Cahir in the county of Tipperary. Nuge Antig. 
yol. ii. p. 161. But the fituation of this caftle, on an almoft impregnable rock, in the river 
Suir, protected its garden from depredation. 
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