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tation ; and form an object of considerable curiosity, 

 as a relic of the days of Elizabeth. The room is 

 lighted by three very large and beautiful windows of 

 painted glass ; the large circular window containing 

 die armorial bearings of the successive generations 

 of the Fairfaxes ; arid those on either side are similar 

 records of the ancient families of the Stapyltons and 

 Constables. The floor is of dark polished oak, and 

 tiie chairs and other furniture assimilate to the gene- 

 ral style and ancient character of the rest of the 

 room. In a small pane of the eastern window is this 

 inscription, recording in all probability the name of 

 the artist employed in blazoning the arms, and adding 

 the other ornaments of these beautiful windows : 

 " Bernard Dininckhoff fecit, anno 1585." 



Though this room from its great antiquity forms 

 the chief attraction in the castle, yet there are others 

 well worth noticing. The octagon drawing room 

 in tbe western wing is fitted up with great taste ; and 

 in the adjoining dining room is an excellent portrait 

 of Charles Gregory, first viscount Fairfax, of Emely, 

 in the county of Tipperary. Next however to the 

 ancient dining room already noticed, the eastern 

 gallery, fitted up as it is in the most beautiful and 

 tasteful manner, the otherwise tedious uniformity of 

 jso long a room being relieved by arches and pillars 

 light, graceful, and elegant, and terminated at its 

 southern extremity by a neat octagon chapel, forms 

 the chief object of attraction in the modern part of 

 the building. 



The grounds around the castle are not deficient 

 either in interest or ornament, though they are on a 



