 | Charlotte Anne Eaton - 1822 - 434 pages
...smiling country, recur to my mind, as I journeyed through the bepraised, but dreary scenes of Langucdoc and Provence ! It was during the season of the vintage,...unpicturesque country in Europe. France is, indeed, everywhere bounded by beauty. The Alps, the Pyrenees, the Estrelle mountains,* and the Jura, contain... | |
 | JOHN P. PRENDERGAST, ESQ. - 1868 - 292 pages
...March, 1655," 100 ; the earliest of the transplanters set down in the barony of Burren, where there is " not wood enough to hang a man, water enough to drown him, or earth enough to bury him/' 98 ; the coming transplanters scared, like beasts driven too suddenly to a slaughter-yard, 98. TRANSPLANTATION,... | |
 | John Patrick Prendergast - 1868 - 306 pages
...barony of Burren, in the county of Clare, one of the barrenest, where it was commonly saidf there was not wood enough to hang a man, water enough to drown him, or earth enough to bury him.J They were therefore scared, like the first beasts too suddenly driven at a slaughter-yard, communicating... | |
 | John Patrick Prendergast - 1870 - 626 pages
...barony of Burren, in the county of Clare, one of the barrenest, where it was commonly said* there was not wood enough to hang a man, water enough to drown him, or earth 1 " Upon reading the petition of Edmund Dogherty, mason, and the certificates of the Commissioners... | |
 | John Patrick Prendergast - 1875 - 580 pages
...barony of Burren, in the county of Clare, one of the barrenest, where it was commonly said4 there was not wood enough to hang a man, water enough to drown him, or earth i A iq.1 P- *°s• " Upon reading the petition of Edmund Dogherty, mason, and the certificates of... | |
 | Charles Sotheran - 1876 - 80 pages
...a certain boundary line was instant death without trial, and where it was commonly said, "There is not wood enough to hang a man, water enough to drown him, nor earth enough to bury him." One hundred thousand Catholics were sold as slaves to the West Indian... | |
 | James Frost - 1893 - 724 pages
...Transplanters assignments in the barony of Burren, one of the barrenest, where it was commonly said there was not wood enough to hang a man, water enough to drown him, or earth enough to bury him. Edmond Dogherty, mason, presented a petition, certified by the Commissioners at Loughrea, containing... | |
 | Thomas Fitzpatrick - 1899 - 270 pages
...more probable ? " "The Barony of Burren!" exclaimed Father Anthony. " A place which, they say, has not wood enough to hang a man, water enough to drown him, or earth enough to bury him ! " " The very place to transplant a people whom it is desirable to be rid of." " I see," sighed Father Anthony.... | |
 | 1913 - 468 pages
...absolutely the worst land that could be hit upon in County Clare, where, as the saying went, there was not wood enough to hang a man, water enough to drown him, nor earth enough to bury him. Worse, however, than this was the practice which came to light and resulted... | |
 | Robert Dunlop - 1913 - 468 pages
...absolutely the worst land that could be hit upon in County Clare, where, as the saying went, there was not wood enough to hang a man, water enough to drown him, nor earth enough to bury him. Worse, however, than this was the practice which came to light and resulted... | |
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Transplanters assignments in the barony of Burren, one of the barrenest, where it was commonly said there was not wood enough to hang a man, water enough to drown him, or earth enough to bury him. 
