3-021-216 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Lismore Castle, Ireland, visited by Prince Arthur, 1869. 'The tour which Prince Arthur has been making in the south of Ireland, during the last fortnight, has been repeatedly noticed in our "Court" news. Lismore Castle, in the county of Waterford, the seat of the Duke of Devonshire, was visited by his Royal Highness on Friday, the 16th, and he stayed there till the next Monday, before going westward, to the Lakes of Killarney. The Duke of Devonshire is the proprietor of the district for thirty miles around Lismore. It once belonged to Sir Walter Raleigh, from whom it passed to Robert Boyle, ancestor of the Earls of Burlington. The castle is a fine old building, yet modernised, and beautifully situated, amidst venerable trees, on the banks of the Blackwater. It was originally founded by John of Mortaigne, one of the Norman Barons who conquered Ireland in the time of Henry II.; but it afterwards became the residence of a Bishop...The road by which Prince Arthur came from Cahir is through a mountain pass, where the scenery rivals the Scottish highlands in its bold and picturesque wildness, contrasted with the soft luxuriance of the valley of Lismore'. From "Illustrated London News", 1869.