Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-08-06
Tenants Six Centuries.

Tenants Six Centuries.
Lord Barrymore. who, as William Bar
~. was the object Of one Of the most
severe and extended boycotts ever at
tempted in Ireland by his tenants and his
neighbors near Tipperary. has an estate
In this neighborhood. His wife IL. an
American. She was Elizabeth Wads-
worth. daughter of the late Gen. Wads-
of James w. Wadsworth, recently a rep
resentative in Congress from that dis
trict
That there are some satisfactory land
lords in Ireland Is proven by the fact that
the tenants of Ahadoe, the ancestral es-
tate Of Sir Cappell Brooke. near the vii
lage Of killeagh. have occupied the same
holdings generation after generation for
more than six hundred years, and the es-
tate has remained all that time in pos
hundred years ago one of the Brookes
went out to BorneO to shoot big game
and found the native tribes at war. For
self-protection and from benevolent mo-
and love one another, which they agreed
to do. provided he would remain and rule
over them. He is there still, in the per-
son Of grandson, the third generation.
They have been absolute autOcrats in
northern BorneO, and carry on a benevo-
lent despotism that is almost ideal.
Oldest House Of Worship in World.
Youghal is summer resort. There
is sea bathing and boating and delicious
salt air which gives one a lazy feeling
and takes away his eagerness for antiQ-
uities and history. The only thing in
the town to attract strangers is Myrtle
Lodge, the old home of Sir Walter
Raleigh. of which l wrote you yester-
A.,
which is said to be the oldest house of
worship in which service is regularly held
in all the world. 1t remains practically
unaltered from the eighth century and
one of the transepts dates from the sixth
century.
There are tombs dating back to the
eighth. ninth and tenth centuries. A slab
OF marble upon the altar Is said to have
been taken from a Druid temple which
stood on the same site.
Four holes, about five inches in diam
eter, have been made In the walls each
side Of the chancel about two-thirds Of
the way to the roof, opening into large
chambers within the walls. The verger
told us that this was an invention to re-
lieve an echo, and had been entirely sue
cesSful. ! have never seen 1t anywhere
else. and he insisted that 1t is unique.
Tombs, Emblems, Epitaphs.
He also pointed out Masonic emblems on
tombs Of the twelfth century. He showed
us the sarcophagus which contains the
dust Of the great Earl of Desmond: also
that Of Lady Desmond. who lived to be
many more than one hundred years old !;
likewise several quaint epitaphs. One Of
them was as follows:
burial for Cristas Hartford
Here 10 made.
Where he and his intend
Fo! to bee laid.
His life 10 known
Both what he was and ID.
Same In heavenly bliss.
1918.
Mayor Of YoughAl and
Knight Of the Garter.
The tomb Of Sir Edward Villiers. brother
of the great Duke of Buckingham, IL deco
rated with his lance and his banner He
died lord president of Munster Ammo
Domini 1920" and his epitaph reads:
Munster may curse
The time that Villiers came
10 make us worse,
While leaving such a name
OF noble parts
As none can Initiate
But those whose hearts
Are married to the state.
To initiate his fame
Munster may bless
The time that Villiers came
Mrs. Charles Fleetwood. daughter of
Oliver Cromwell and widow Of Gen. Ire
ton. who died from wounds during the
siege of Limerick. is buried In the center
of the chaneel. Cromwell has his head
quarters here for some time. and appoint
ed his son-in-law. Fleetwood, lord deputy
In 1910.
Raleigh was twenty-eight years old
when he came here from Devonshire in
1879 as captain of levy Of troops. and
Youghal is the only home he ever had, so
far as we know. He sailed from here
upon his last and fatal voyage August 6.
1917.
Myrtle Lodge and Faerie oueene.
There is still another association which
will appeal with force to the majority OF
the masculine readers Of these lines From
Myrtle Lodge Sir Walter Raleigh intro
duced tobacco into the United Kingdom.
He brought 1t home from the West In
dies, where the Spaniards found the ma
tives smoking It at the time OF the dis
covery of America. Columbus and his
followers carried 1t back with them to
Spain. Fifty years afterWard Sir Walter
Raleigh introduced II at the court Of
Queen Elizabeth and brought to Youehal