Morning journal and courier., 1893-05-13
wAKEMAN,s WANDRRINGs.

where in this neighborhood-Fun.
 WAKRMAN's wANDRRINGs.
 At BIarney and Roundabout-Thrs
 Noted Examples of the Tower
 Houses or Castles of Ancient Irish | Chieftains Graphically Described | Castle Lisfinny at Tall0w, Castle Kilcolman, the Irish Home of the Poet spenser, and World Famous Castle Blarney, as They Exist To- Day.
 LONDON, May 1. | To the Editor of the JOURNAL AND COURIER: l Throughout the entire south of Ireland, and particularly along the banks of such rivers as the Bsrrew, Suir, lsckwstsr, Bride and Lee, srs found the ruins or the we'll ll-pressrved remains of huge square castles, built by the heads of septs and clans at different periods during the thir- teenth, fourteenth, fifteenth, and few ss late as the sixteenth, centuries.
 Whatever the reasons fer the same, these massive stone keeps-for they bore | no resemblance to the sTchiteoturally beau tiful Irish and English castles of the EliE- abethan and a still more modern time seemed to have been constructed with ref erenoe to conveying intelligence from one to another, probably from signal.lishts from their lofty psrspets, as some which are still standing are more than one hun dred feet in height. Wherever you may sumter along these southern Irish rivers, you will find that there Is an uninterrupt- ed view between the sites of the ancient castle ruins. Often they are but two miles apart: frequently from four to six; but in every instance ffey are in view of each other; and ancient roads. showing that quick and easy communication was taken into account, are invariably found be- tween.
 Probably three of the most interesting | of these massive old structures In the south of Ireland are very near together; and can all be visited in a days iourney. | town or Tsllow on the river Bride, near the boundaries of counties Waterford and | Cork; castle Kilcolmsn, on a rivulet flow ing into the Awbeg, h the northern part of county Cork; and castle Blsrney, in the beautiful Blsrney vale, but an hours love ly walk from the winsome city If Cork. Taken together thess three are the best ex- isting specimens of the tower house or castle of the ancient Irish chieftsin; while each iu its way Is world famous in view of Its distinctive associations.
 Castle Lisanny stands on the side of a lgentle declivity, which rises from the mar
 rn of the river Bride, with the sleepy old
 town of Tallow and Its low, gray conven.
 re.tling in the valley on the southern side
 It is supposed to have been built by tue
 Earl of Desmond, and has undergone but
 little change during the past hundred
 years It consists of a massive square
 tower with fscsdes of fully fifty feet, and
 the structure ie nearly onh hundred fee,
 high. Its summit commands delightful
 view of the valley of the Bride, upward.
 of twenty miles in extent, gemmed will
 villas, sheeted with luxurisnt farms, and
 dappled a. intervals with witching reveal
 ments of the river, here and there appear
 ing like tiny lakes of silver In emerald set
 ting. of verdure and woodland.
 The late Douglas Pyne, M. P. for Wee
 Waterford, as I knew from personal sc
 quaintance one of the most lovable of men
 in the fall of 1887 threw the whole Unitet
 Kingdom and part of America into roar of laughter. from his odd and chsrscteris tically Irish mode of avoiding arrest fo upwards of three months, with the police
 soldiery and a warrant all literally unde his very nose. The "seditious offences which had brought the law upon him con , sisted in tunneling from his own land t , | the house of a neighborlng tenant under , going siege for eviction, and in this noyt 7 manner supplying him now and then ! | his dilemma with courage and comfort i the form of an odd bottle of whiskey. an r a snug hamper of victusls cooked by goo q Mrs. Pyne herself. MT. Pyne was consit
 erable of g wsg. and AS 1t was Octob' d when he was 'summonsed," his crol f were all ip, and as parliament did nt
 %se. until SsnqeEE hs iS dssass sss s0 0s "a ! with the minions of the law.
 a MT. Pyne was tenant of the Lieinr . demesne; and his home, a few yards fro n the castle, was one of those old and no l. almost obsolete mansions of the Irish ge ,t tlemsu of half a century ago. He hi a converted the castle into byre, barn sl # storehouse. Into this strange srruotu .. Pyne and two of his companions retrei If ed, walling up and completely bsrricadil ,e the lower entrance; and, provided vi
 canned meats, fruits and other edible
 with an unknown quantity of whisky al
 cigars, here he grandiostly dehed arrest.
 An entire company of Bslfour's soldie
 endesvored to dislodge him. But tt
 was impossible. An entrance could [ at be effected. Even If one had been mst k' arrangements were such within, that sr D. where from one to a dozen tons of TO
 could have been precipitsted upon the h. vaders. MT. Pyne, from his lofty per a above them, soothingly told the soldi' is all this and much more, which made th
 duties particularly agreeable. The sit ab ton becoming known, Lisfnny was h. center of attraction for all Irelsl ,ts Throngs came to Tsllow daily to oh ,.n MT. Pyne, who sazely addressed them
 the "wrongs of Ireland" from wind , ninety feet from the ground; while :, unfortunate soldiers were the butt of t measurable and inexpressible ridicule. Ne For thirteen weeks this tremend ny farce continued, when finally the gl
 question as to how Mir. Pyne would t ng his seat in parliament grew to be uni' -a sally discussed. Irish wit and recor A answered this promptly. Suddenly Il old appeared plscarded all over the coun
 of Cork and Waterford 6 notice that ss- Douglas Pyne's grazing lands would ( ch, certain day be sub let by auction 8 if wards evening of that day every rosd | en- ing into Tallow swarmed with Irish ct
 and Irish men. By sunset over one tl ex- sand cattle were believing and char ,or. around the base of old Lisdnny, V Ehis fully one hundred tenant farmers, sv ,ble ing, protesting, fighting, managed to
 the soldiers hopelessly stampeded by
 excited herds.
 nan It Is about forty miles by road from In low to Cork harbor. In the melee, a ,,. CT ruse by Pyne's friends among the
 from his eeris, and by relays of [ rom barses was at Oueenstown bafore 'Oh night. The next night he was in ut @ south of England, and ten days her while Bslfour's soldiers were still cl
 guarding old Lisfuny, that the a man rebel should not escape, Douglas