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DUNLOII DUPPA. 



issue ; thirdly, in April, 1819, Anna Maria, eldest 

 daughter of Francis Plowden, Esq. LL. D., the 

 Irish historian, who died September 18, 1822, leav- 

 ing an only child, the hon. Dorothy Cochrane, so 

 named after her maternal grandmother, who was 

 the authoress of an opera entitled " Virginias." 



DUNLOH CASTLE, in the county of Kerry, 

 Ireland, the remnant of an ancient fortress, which 

 .:s to have been originally erected for the pur- 

 pose of guarding the river Laune, which is the only 

 outlet of the lakes of Killarney. It stands on the 

 .summit of a small conical hill, whose apex has been 

 cut away to niford a more convenient space for 

 building; audits position must have rendered it, 

 until the introduction of cannon into modern war- 

 fare, a place of great strength. It suffered consi- 

 derably in the wars of the earl of Desmond, dur- 

 ing the reigns of Henry VIII. and queen Elizabeth; 

 but it was rebuilt about the period of Sir George 

 Carew's administration in Munster. Subsequently, 

 when the forces of the parliament came into this 

 part of Ireland, the castle was again attacked, and 

 a great part of it demolished by a bombardment. 

 The only part of the edifice now standing is a 

 square tower, which constituted but a small por- 

 tion of the original fabric ; this has been converted 

 into a dwelling-house, " which affords more room 

 and convenience than could be expected from the 

 exterior aspect." Owing to the extraordinary 

 thickness of the woods covering the hill upon 

 which the building stands, no part of the lake or 

 of the surrounding country is seen from the area 

 in front of the castle, and even the windows af- 

 ford but a very confined view ; the battlements, 

 however, command a noble prospect of the lake 

 Killarney and of the windings of the river Laune. 



The defile, which lies between Tomies Moun- 

 tains and Macgillicuddy's Reeks, is called the Gap 

 of Dunloh. The entrance is formed by the Holly 

 mountain and the Bull mountain, which are shoots 

 from the two larger masses above mentioned. 

 Amidst the vast mountainous region on the western 

 side of the county of Kerry, there is no scene 

 which exhibits a more varied and sublime combina- 

 tion of the boldest features of uncultivated nature 

 than the Gap of Dunlob. 



DUNLUCE; a parish in the county of Antrim, 

 Ireland, containing 338 1 inhabitants. It is six miles 

 N.N.E. from Coleraine, and one and a half from 

 the Giant's Causeway. The land is generally fer- 

 tile and well cultivated. There are extensive 

 lime works and quarries of basalt within the parish ; 

 also a large paper manufactory. 



Dunluce castle is a very extensive ruin, situated 

 on a steep rock on the northern coast of the county. 

 The rock on which it stands is completely covered 

 with the buildings, so that the outer walls are flush 

 with the face of the precipice. The rock itself is 

 not surrounded by water, but is connected with the 

 main-land by a stone ridge, a little higher than the 

 surface of the ocean. The entrance to the castle 

 was by means of a bridge, formed in the following 

 manner: Two parallel walls were thrown across 

 the chasm, about eight feet asunder : upon these, 

 planks were laid crossways for the admission of 

 visiters, and removed again immediately afterwards. 



At present, one of these walls lias fallen, so that 

 the access to the ruins is extremely dangerous, as 

 it can only be effected by walking along this re- 

 niiiining wall, which is but three feet in width, and 

 considerably injured by time. Nothing accurate is 

 known as to the date of its erection. In the 

 fifteenth century, it was in the possession of an 

 English family, named MacWillies, from whom it 

 passed to the MacDonaldsof the isles, and it remains 

 the property of their descendants, the earls of An- 

 trim, to the present day. It was the favourite re- 

 sidence of the latter family, till it was destroyed 

 by tire on the 9th April, 1750. 



DUNSTABLE; a market-town in the county 

 of Bedford, thirty-three miles from London. It is 

 situated near the Chiltern hills, and consists of four 

 principal streets running nearly in the direction of 

 the four cardinal points. Here is an extensive 

 manufacture of various articles in straw, especially 

 the well-known " Dunstable hats ;" here is also one 

 of the largest manufactories for whiting in the king- 

 dom. Dunstable is proverbially famed for its larks, 

 which are of a remakarble large size, and are sent to 

 the London market in great quantities. Popula- 

 tion in 1841, 2582. 



DUPPA, RICHARD, ESQ. LL. B. barrister-at-law, 

 and F.S. A., in Lincoln's inn. Mr Duppa received 

 his university education at Trinity college, Oxford, 

 and afterwards took the degree of LL. 13. of 

 Trinity hall, Cambridge, in the year 1814. He 

 died llth July, 1831. He was the author of a 

 great variety of works, of which the following is a 

 catalogue : " A Journal of the most remarkable 

 occurrences that took place at Rome upon the 

 Subversion, of the Ecclesiastical Government in 

 1798," two editions in 1799. "A Selection of 

 Twelve Heads from the Last Judgment of Michael 

 Angelo, 1801," imperial folio. "Heads from the 

 fresco Pictures of Raffaelle in the Vatican, 1803." 

 folio. " The Life and Literary Works of Michael 

 Angelo Buonarotti, with his Poetry and Letters, 

 1806." 4to. 2d edit. 1809; 3d edit. 1816. " Ele- 

 ments of Botany, 1809," 3 vols. 8vo. " Virgil's 

 Bucolics, with Notes, 1810." " Select Greek 

 Sentences, 1811," 24mo. "An edition of Martyn's 

 Eclogues of Virgil, 1813." "On the Author of 

 Junius, 1814." " Introduction to Greek, 1815.' 

 " Observations on the Price of Corn as connected 

 with the Commerce of the Country and the Pub- 

 lic Revenue, 1815." " Classes and Orders of the 

 Linnaean System of Botany, illustrated by select 

 Specimens, 1816," 3 vols. 8vo. "Life of Raf- 

 faelle, 1816." " Outlines of Michael Angelo's 

 works, with a plan, elevation, and sections of St 

 Peter's, Rome, 1816." "Illustrations of the 

 Lotus of the Ancients, and the Tamara of India, 

 1816," (only thirty private copies.) "Dr John- 

 son's Diary of a Journey into North Wales in 1774, 

 with illustrative Notes, 1816," (incorporated in 

 the late edition of Boswell's Life, by the Right 

 hon. J. W. Croker.) " Miscellaneous Observa- 

 tions and Opinions on the Continent, 1825." 

 " Travels in Italy, &c. 1828." " Travels on the 

 Continent, Sicily, and the Lipari Islands, 1829." 

 "Maxims, &c. 1830;" and a pamphlet on the 

 claims of authors to their copyright. 



