Identifier: seriesofpictures04morr (find matches)
Title: A series of picturesque views of seats of the noblemen and gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland. With descriptive and historical letterpress
Year: 1840 (1840s)
Authors: Morris, F. O. (Francis Orpen), 1810-1893
Subjects: Historic buildings Historic buildings
Publisher: London (etc.) W. Mackenzie
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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orridor,occupied as a museum, and containing a collection of objects of interest, comprisingantiquities, geological specimens, and miscellaneous curiosities of various kinds. In thecentre is placed a magnificent and perfect skeleton of the great extinct Irish deer,recently dug up in the vicinity of Limerick. On the south side of the house is a large geometrical garden, enclosing a bowlinggreen and croquet ground, bounded on the east by handsome stone terrace walls,surmounted with vases, and with a broad flight of steps leading down to the river,from whence a gravel walk, under a row of majestic elms, extends along the banksof the stream to a picturesque bridge in the vicinity of the Abbey. This is one of the few families of Celtic origin in the Peerage of Ireland. Its immediate ancestor was James Quin, of Kilmallock, brother of the Right Rev. John Coyn, or Quin, D.D.,Bishop of Limerick in the reign of Henry the Eighth, but who resigned the see onaccount of his blindness and infirmity.
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APPLEBY CASTLE, NEAR APPLEBY, WESTMORELAND. TUPTON, BARONET. This edifice is generally believed to have been founded previous to the NormanConquest, but was in all probability rebuilt shortly subsequent to that period, andagain progressively re-edified by successive noble proprietors. Of the buildings now in existence the most ancient is a structure of extensiveproportions that appears to be of Norman origin, although, like many similarerections, it is called Csesar^s Tower. At one time there was a brass plate upon awall in the vault, bearing the following inscription:—This Cesars Tower began tobee repaired and this middle wall to bee built from the foundation in 1651 by Ann,Baroness Clifibrd, Westmorland, and Vesey, Lady of Honour of Skipton in Craven,and Countess Dowager of Pembroke, Dorsett and Montgomery, after it had laidruinous and uncovered from the year 1559 until now. The principal part of the present structure was built by Thomas, Earl of Thanet,in the year 1686, from the

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