2 LIMERICK. 



common crops. From Clonmelly Hill, the 

 profpe6t is very noble. There is a view of the 

 Shannon from Limerick to Foynes liland, which 

 is 30 miles, with all its bays, bends, iflands, 

 and fertile ihores. It is from one to three miles 

 broad, a moft noble river, deferving regal na- 

 vies for its ornament, or what are better, fleets 

 of merchantmen, the chearful figns of far ex- 

 tended commerce, inftead of a few miferable 

 fifhing -boats, the only canvafs that fwelled up- 

 on the fcene : but the want of commerce in 

 her ports is the misfortune, not the fault of 

 Ireland. Thanks for the deficiency to that illi- 

 beral fpirit of trading jealoufy, which has at 

 times actuated and difgraced fo many nations. 

 The profpecl has a noble outline in the bold 

 mountains of Tipperary, Cork, Limerick, and 

 Kerry. The whole view magnificent. 



. At the foot of this hill is the caftle of Bun- 

 ratty, a very large edifice, the feat of the 

 O'Brien's, princes of Thomond ; it (lands on 

 the bank of a river, which falls into the Shan- 

 non near it. About this caftle, and that of 

 Rofmanagher, the land is the beft in the coun- 

 ty of Clare 5 it is worth il. 135. an acre, and 

 fats a bullock per acre in fummer, befides 

 winter feed. 



To Limerick, through a chearful country, 

 on the banks of the river, in a vale furround- 

 ed by diftant mountains. That city is very 

 finely fituated, partly on an ifland formed by 

 the Shannon. The -new part, called Newtown 



Pery, 



