Leisurely review, historic Clare sites, 1870 travel book

[smcarberry]

Handbook for travellers in Ireland, by John Murray, 4th ed., 1870
The pages indicated are for the pdf formatting of the book, using the sliding bar, and not the printed page numbers in the book.
p. 417 Tarbert to Kilrush
p. 426 Limerick to Ennis and so on

http://archive.org/stream/handbookfortr ... 2/mode/2up

1866 edition
http://openlibrary.org/books/OL6936049M ... in_Ireland

[Paddy Casey]

Thanks for flagging this, Sharon.

Some delightful little nuggets in there. For example "Ennis (Hotels: Carmody's, Brennan's), a queer little town, with narrow streets,or rather lanes,filled with a bustling, foreign-looking people.....Miltown Malbay..wretched....Gort, a neat little town...there is nothing to do in it....".

Remarkable that a travel book writer, when travelling abroad, finds an encounter with "...foreign-looking people.." noteworthy.

Paddy

[mcreed]

And of course there are all the travel accounts in Travels in County Clare 1534 - 1911 at http://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/coclar ... _index.htm