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| FERRY CARRIG CASTLE, CO. WEXFORD.- The river Slaney is one of the most charming of Irish streams, and some points upon it have been favorably compared with the southern Blackwater, or, in the patois of Edmund Spenser, the Avonduff. The ruin picture on the right of the sketch has been erroneously called Fitzstephen's Castle, because the first Norman invaders, under renowned chief of that name, landed in this neighborhood, in A. D. 1169; but authentic history ascribes the edifice to the Roche family, who came over with Henry II. three years later than the warlike Fitzstephen. |
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