In the centre of the chancel of the church, belonging to the same abbey, stands a tomb in tolerable preservation, which a Latin inscription denotes to be that of the White Knights. Many other interesting Marte novo* fratresque ruunt tria pignora justa : Lilia purpureos inter sudantia fluctus Tres meruere. Fratres Trium nomina marmor habet, Nep Alexander Burgate. "The third day of September, in the year which you read, records these slain; alas! the urn contains three men not yet old. Brothers and three just pledges, (children,) they fall in a new war. The king and religion approve the right and the cause of the country. The untainted purity of a virgin is found in their worn-out remains, and the purple (blood) of a real martyrdom. The three merited lilies+ exhaling (odours) amidst the bloody waves. This marble preserves their name, The Burgates took an active part in the great rebellion of 1641, and were consequently involved in the contentions which followed. Amongst the depositions relative to the year 1641, existing in MS. in the library of Trinity College, Dublin, it appears that John Burgate, Esq. of Kilmallock, was an officer of the Irish army. In July, 1642, he was present when the Irish took from Lady Elizabeth Dowdall, of Kilfinny, her castle: he was also present, with several thousand • Substituted in lieu of the corrupt word, marteneros, which appears on the stone. The lily was an emblem of martyrdom. relics of antiquity are doubtless to be seen at Kilmallock; but, as I only stopped there for a few hours, and was prevented by torrents of rain from taking more than a very slight view of the town, I am unable to give a fuller account of it. In the Monasticon Hibernicum, Kilmallock is only slightly mentioned, and I have never met with a detailed description of its ruins. The misery of Kilmallock is to be attributed, seemingly, to the total want of manufactures, and to the land of the surrounding country being almost wholly devoted to grazing bullocks. The peasantry are few, and their condition abject. Indeed, throughout this district, man seems to derive less benefit from the bountiful gifts of nature, than the beasts which repose in the luxuriant meadows. The roads through rebels, at the taking of the castle of Croom, in the county of Limerick; which last was given to him in custody. It appears also, that the battle of Liscarrol, a place about twelve miles distant from Kilmallock, was fought between the English and Irish armies on the 3d of September, 1642; in which the latter were routed, according to the manuscript account, with the loss of eight hundred men killed; whilst twelve only were killed on the part of the English. I am indebted for these illustrations to an ingenious and learned member of the university of Dublin. The epitaph is a striking proof that the Irish considered the rebellion of 1641, and the subsequent wars, to be the common cause of the country, approved of by the king, (Charles I.) and sanctioned by religion: and the publicity of the monument on which it was inscribed, serves to shew the weakness of the English interest in this part of the country for some time afterwards. this country are good; but the inns between Limerick and Mallow are all of the very poorest description. Mallow is beautifully situated on the rich banks of the river Blackwater, in the centre of a district, which is embellished with numerous gentlemen's seats. The place is celebrated for a spring, which throws up an abundant supply of very pure water, resembling that of the hot-wells near Bristol. It is much resorted to by invalids from the southern parts of Ireland, who labour under consumptions and other complaints. Public rooms are opened here in the season for the recreation of the visitors; but the improvement of the town is strangely neglected; and a place which might easily be rendered extremely attractive, at present holds out few inducements, except the natural salubrity of its air and water, From Mallow to Killarney, the road runs for some miles along the banks of the Blackwater, through a country highly improved and well wooded; but, as it advances, the scenery becomes less interesting, and, in the vicinity of the village of Mill-street, about fifteen miles from Killarney, it enters a bleak and mountainous region. Mill-street is situated at the junction of the Cork and Mallow roads; and, being a place of great thoroughfare, it affords much business to a considerable inn, which has hitherto been one of the very best in the country. Hence to Killarney the road passes alternately over bogs and mountains, and the country affords little that is pleasing, until a view of the lake is discovered from the mountains at the distance of a few miles. From Cork to Mill-street the road is still more dreary, passing over mountains, where, for many miles, no human beings are seen but the drivers of the numerous horses which are employed in transporting butter from Kerry. Yet, bleak and dreary as this country now appears, a century, it is said, has scarcely elapsed, since the whole of it was so thickly covered with wood, that, to use the expression of those from whom I received the account, a squirrel could go from Killarney to Cork by leaping from bough to bough. The road through Mill-street is the direct one from Cork to Killarney; but there are several others which are far more agreeable in point of scenery as by Bandon, Bantry, &c. My first excursion to Killarney was made from Cork, along the sea coast; and, as it afforded a view of a part of the country, which, though rarely visited, abounds in objects of interest and curiosity, I shall devote the following and concluding section to a few observations that were made during the journey. SECTION V. THE first town which we came to on the coast was Kinsale, situated at the distance of fourteen miles from Cork; a place of great antiquity, and celebra ted in the annals of Irish history for having with stood various sieges. William the Third, indignant at its resistance to his forces, ordered its strong walls and fortifications, on the land side, to be destroyed; those towards the sea, however, were not only suffered to remain entire, but even strengthened. The town is built on an elevated bank at the head of an inlet of the sea, which affords one of the most safe and commodious harbours on the coast; and it contains the only king's dock-yard in Ireland. From the water, the houses have an agreeable appearance, rising above each other in stages from the bottom to the very summit of the bank. The streets are very narrow, and the precipitous ascents and descents render them still more incommodious. Many ancient houses still remain inhabited, which exhibit specimens of architecture totally different from what is observable |