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height, which were of only thirty years' growth. 

 The trunk of one on the bank of the Avon- 

 more was above fourteen feet round, and car- 

 ried nearly the same dimensions for eighteen 

 feet. An ash at Dunganstown was a few years 

 back, twelve feet round, and quite clear of 

 branches for thirty feet, where it measured 

 ten feet round, and the arms extended in 

 beautiful forms twenty-eight yards. At Tiny 

 Park is another, the circumference of which, 

 in the smallest part, somewhat exceeded nine- 

 teen feet, or six feet four inches diameter, in 

 1808. At Leixlip Castle is a row of eighteen 

 ash trees, on a very bleak exposure, measuring 

 from nine to twelve feet round, with fair 

 stems of considerable height, and fine branch- 

 ing heads. At Donirey, near Clare, in the 

 county of Galway, is an old ash, that at four 

 feet from the ground measures forty-two feet 

 in circumference, at six feet high thirty feet. 

 The trunk, has long been quite hollow, and a 

 little school was kept in it. There were a few 

 branches remaining in 1808, which were fresh 

 and vigorous. Near Kennity Church, in the 

 King's County, is an ash, the trunk of which 

 is twenty-one feet ten inches round, and it is 

 seventeen feet high before the branches break 

 *>ut. These are of enormous bulk. When a 

 funeral of the lower class passes by, they lay 



