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Journal of a tour in Ireland [...] performed in August 1804

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Electronic edition compiled and proof-read by Beatrix Färber

Funded by University College, Cork, School of History

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(2016)

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Text ID Number: E800005-004

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Notes

This account was first brought to our notice by Dr C.J. Woods, formerly of the RIA.

Sources

    Printed source
  1. Journal of a tour in Ireland &c., &c., performed in August 1804; with remarks on the character, manners and customs of the inhabitants (London 1806) 36 pp.
  2. Seamus Grimes (ed), Ireland in 1804. (Dublin 1980).
    Further reading
  1. [Dunn (attributed)], A Description of Killarney (Dublin 1776) [available online at CELT].
  2. Caspar Voght, Schilderung von Irland, Bruchstücke aus dem Tagebuche eines Reisenden. Im Herbst 1794, in: August Hennings, Der Genius der Zeit, Bd. 8, (Mai bis August 1796) 566–653 [available online at CELT.]
  3. Jacques Louis de Bougrenet Chevalier de La Tocnaye, A Frenchman's Walk through Ireland 1796–7 (Promenade d'un François dans l'Irlande), translated by John Stevenson (first published Cork 1798; repr. Belfast 1917; Dublin 1984).
  4. Christopher J. Woods (ed. and trans.), Select Documents XLI: Johann Friedrich Hering's description of Connacht, 1806–7, Irish Historical Studies 25/99 (May 1987) 311–321.
  5. Sir Richard Hoare, Journal of a Tour in Ireland in 1806 (London 1807).
  6. Nicholas Carlisle, A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (London 1810).
  7. Thomas Crofton Croker, Researches in the south of Ireland (London 1824) [available online at CELT].
  8. Samuel Lewis, A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, comprising the several counties, cities, boroughs, corporate, market, and post towns. Parishes, and villages, with historical and statistical descriptions (...) (London 1837). [Available online at http://www.libraryireland.com/topog/index.php].
  9. W. A. Watts, "Contemporary Accounts of the Killarney Woods 1580–1870", Irish Geograph, 17 (1984), 1–13.
  10. Gerard J. Lyne and M. E. Mitchell (eds), 'A scientific tour through Munster: the travels of Joseph Woods, architect and botanist, 1809', North Munster Antiquarian Journal 27 (1985) 15–61.
  11. Gerard J. Lyne (ed), 'Rev. Daniel A. Beaufort's tour of Kerry, 1788', Journal of the Kerry Archaeological and Historical Society 18 (1985) 183–214 [available online at CELT.]
  12. C. J. Woods, Travellers' accounts as source material for Irish historians (Dublin 2009).
    The edition used in the digital edition
  1. Journal of a tour in Ireland &c., &c., performed in August 1804. With remarks on the character, manners and customs of the inhabitants. unknown First edition [36 pages] Printed for Richard Phillips, 6 Bridge-Street, Blackfriars; by Barnard & Sultzer, Water-Lane, Fleet StreetLondon (1806)

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Created: By an unknown author Date range: c. 1–28 August 1804.

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Language: [EN] The text is in English.
Language: [LA] Some quotes are in Latin.
Language: [FR] Some words are in French.

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