Monday July 10th
I rose this morning at 6 & employed myself till Breakfast in laying out my Plants See. {MS page 12} — Soon after 10 we took a Boat & crossed the River to an Island called Conygare on which Gladiolus communis15 is in Gough's Camden16 said to grow but tho' we hunted over every part of the Island we saw nothing like Gladiolus nor any other plant which can be considered as at all rare except Juncus acutus,17
Dungarvan is a small dirty Sea Port & contains very little to interest a Traveller. It is said in the Post Chaise Companion22 that large quantities of Potato & Birch Brooms are here shipped for Dublin, & they form what is jocosely called a Cargo of Fruit & Timber.
Having taken an early Dinner we ordered our Carriage & at 1/2 past 2 set out for Youghal. We first ascended a high hill {MS page 13} which commands a very extensive Prospect but as in all the rest of the Country thro' which we have passed there is a sad deficiency of Woods in the Landscape. The Road was excessively rugged & the Country nearly all the way dreary & uninteresting. We stopped to bait23 near the next village of Clashmore & reached the Ferry side opposite to Youghal about 7 in the Evening. Here we left our Carriage (which followed us soon after) & crossed the River Blackwater which is here about 1/2 a mile wide & divides the Counties of Waterford & Cork into the latter of which we now entered. We went to a very comfortable Inn called the York Hotel & employed ourselves till bed time in writing &c.