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Guide to Killarney and Glengariff (Author: George Newenham Wright)
chapter 6
SEACOURT,
The dwelling and demesne of the Earl of Bantry, is within less than a mile from the town. The house contains an excellent collection of pictures. The park, in which it occupies a well selected site, stretches its green and wooded declivity down to the shore. On the opposite side, at the distance
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of about six miles, over a beautiful and lake-like expanse, interspersed with islands,
that like to rich and various gems inlay
The unadorned bosom of the deep,’’John Milton: Comus, A Mask
may be seen the woods of Glengariff, rich with the promise of to-morrow's pleasure; and beyond these a range of mountainous elevations, stretching in grey distance into Kerry. The ancestors of the family of Bantry are said to have entered this country in the middle of the seventh century. The present lord, whose family name is White, was created baron in 1797. In 1800 he was advanced in the peerage by the title of viscount; and in 1816, was created earl of Bantry and Viscount Beerhaven. He is honourably distinguished for his brave and patriotic activity in the troubles of 1796.