4 o6 DRUMMOLAND. 



from ios. to 12s, an acre, fome at more. It 

 is in general applied to fheep, Mr. Gregory 

 has a very noble nurfery 3 from which he is 

 making plantations, which will foon be a great 

 ornament to the country. 



September 5th, to Drummoland, the feat of 

 Sir Lucius O'Brien, in the county of Clare, a 

 gentleman who had been repeatedly afliduous 

 to procure me every fort of information. I 

 (hould remark, as I have now left Galway, 

 that that county, from entering it in the road 

 to Tuam till leaving it to-day, has been, upon 

 the whole, inferior to moft of the parts I have 

 travelled in Ireland in point of beauty : there are 

 not mountains of a magnitude to make the 

 view finking. It is perfectly free from woods, 

 and even trees, except about gentlemen's houfes, 

 nor had it a variety in its face. 1 do not, how- 

 ever, fpeak without exception j I paffed fome 

 tracts which are chearful, Drummoland 

 has a pleafing variety of grounds about the 

 houfe ; it ftands on a hill gently rifing from 

 a lake of 24 acres, in the middle of a noble 

 wood of oak, afh, poplar, &c. three beautiful 

 hills rife above it, over which the plantations 

 fpread in a varied manner - } and thefe hills 

 command very fine views of the great rivers 

 Fergus and Shannon at their junction, being 

 each of them a league wide. For the follow- 

 ing particulars 1 am indebted to Sir Lucius 

 O'Brien. 



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