Beauties of the Boyne and Blackwater.
Author: WILDE, (Sir) William.
Headford: Kevin Duffy, 2003 (reprint of original edition of 1849). xxix, 324 pages. Illustrated. Folding maps. Hardback.
“This Book was written by Sir William Wilde in 1849 and gives an exhaustive account of the antiquities along the Boyne Valley and its contributory river the Blackwater, which flows through Counties Kildare, Meath, Louth and Cavan. Along its banks are countless Ruined Forts, Castles, Abbeys, Cairns, Tumuli including Newgrange, Knowth and Dowth. Here too took place the famous Battle of the Boyne at Old Bridge - a Battlefield map is supplied (Folded) - all are graphically described and illustrated with eighty four woodcut engravings. Now, after one hundred and fifty years this marvellous book is reprinted from a facsimile of the original second edition. What had become a collector’s item is now available to all readers.
William Wilde, Oscar’s father, was one of the most renowned Antiquarians of his day, as well as being a Historian of note, a Naturalist and the founder of the first Eye and Ear Hospital in Dublin.”
Contents:- The River’s Source and History. From Carbury to Clonard. Clonard, and the Boyne to Trim. Trim. From Trim to Navan. The Blackwater. The Boyne from Navan to Slane. The Royal Cemetery of Brugh-na-Boinne. The Ethnology of the Ancient Irish. The Battlefield of Oldbridge - Duleek. Drogheda and its Environs.
ISBN: 095400342X
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