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| VIEW ON ROSS ISLAND, KILLARNEY. -The foregoing is a sketch of a rustic cottage and charmingly kept grounds on the southern portion of the Kenmare demesne, popularly called Ross Island, although it has quite as much the characteristics of a peninsula. It is connected by a solid causeway with the main land. The autumn and winter floods frequently submerge this connecting link, and hence this spot of land, with an area of about 160 acres, is called an island by the natives of Killarney. It contains the ruins of an old fortress, known as Ross Castle, and also some abandoned copper mines, which were worked with good success at the beginning of this century by Col. Hall, father of the gentleman who, with his wife, wrote so complete a description of Ireland fifty years ago. In the summer of 1808, the workmen, in their imprudent zeal, sunk a shaft too close to the water, and the mines were immediately flooded to an extent that put an effectual stop to all further operations, greatly to the chagrin of Colonel Hall and the pecuniary loss of the people of the district. The island is a favorite stopping place of tourists, and from it many of the choice excursions to neighboring points of interest are made. |
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