2J 4 CURRAGH OF KILDARE. 



ing, 6s. 6d. Mowing grafs, 2s. 6d. to 35. 

 Pigeons, 3d. each. Rabbits, 8d. a couple. 



To Kildare, eroding the Curragh, fo fa- 

 mous for its turf. It is a fheep walk of above 

 4000 Englifh acres, forming a more beautiful 

 lawn than the hand of art ever made. Nothing 

 can exceed the extreme foftnefs of the turf, 

 which is of a verdure that charms the eye, and 

 highly fet off by the gentle inequality of furface. 

 The foil is a fine dry loam on a ftony bottom $ 

 it is fed by many large flocks, turned on it by 

 the occupiers of the adjacent farms, who 

 alone have the right, and pay very great rents 

 on that account. It is the only confiderable 

 common in the kingdom. The fheep yield 

 very little wool, not more than 3lb. per fleece, 

 but of a very fine quality. 



From Furnefs to Shaen Caftle, in the 

 Queen's County, Dean Coote's ; but as the 

 huibandry, &c. of this neighbourhood is al- 

 ready regiilerec} , I have only to obferve, that 

 Mr. Coote was fo kind as to fhew me the im- 

 proved grounds of Dawfon's Court, the feat 

 of Lord Carlow, which I had not feen before. 

 The principal beauties of the place are the well 

 grown and extenfive plantations, which form 

 a fhade not often met with in Ireland. There 

 is in the back grounds a lake well accompanied 

 with wood, broken by feveral iflands that are co- 

 vered with underwood and an ornamented walk 

 paffing on the banks, which leads from the houfe. 

 This lake is in the feafon perfectly alive with 



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