The Irish standard., 1916-03-18


The landlords are swept away! The
Dromore estate, or rather the Cappan
acussy lands Of the Vera O'Sullivan
McGrahs has changed hands once
more. The Mahonys have passed
away, and with them all vestiges of
the ancient regimes, whether of ma
tive or Norman feudalism. With the
new dispensation farmers, fortunate at
last, will come to your own, become
owners Of the soil, men Of affairs, an
Independent democracy, purged Of
petty faults, and imbued with a COM
munity spirit, hope and high ideals.
Future generations will see Temple
noe-keeping pace with the rest Of
the new misunderstanding with popu.
lation and prosperity, every road of it
ploughed deep and drained dry, bloom.
ing under diversified cultivation; will
see the broad circle of its bald hills
clad with sheltering groves and
woods; will see its airy prospects,
those sunny terraces from Lacka to
Lackeen, covered with the ornate vii
las of the new Irish aristocracy; will
see shops and stores line Kenmare
street from Days to Donoghues. The
Clever-F1eld glebe will be plotted and
built up as a city-not Of thatch, nor
reed and wattles-but of sand and CO.
ment and glistening Valentia slate,
those cascading rivers shall be har-
messed to turn the wheels Of your
mills and factories, and light your
homes and streets and seaside esplan-
AIDES. Spume-sprayed Cuss will be q
busy, over-crowded wharf, the sleep
ing and Shiny Colleen and that sand
choked channel shall be dredged deep
and free for the crafts Of many seas.
A benevolent government will build
and maintain docks, shops, arsenals,
stores, ETC., for its grand fleets-whose
men, regular visitors, will help, mate.
rally, to enrich your shopkeepers,
tradesman, and farmers.
Enterprise will cover Dinish and the
Dunkerron Islands with Summer-yea
and winter-resorts and sanitariums;
the limestone Isles of Grenane will be
preserves of the local clubs; Low.
Reen and the Royalty" will be given
over to the oyster and fishing indus
try; Park-na.Fiann will be restored to
its former use-a deer park and zoo;
Thrag.a-thalin will resume its long-lost
trade of sea-salt capitalization, and de
velop that immensely profitable bust
ness Of manufacturing Kelp and 10
dine; classic Reen.Athen will be givel
over to Eucalyptus groves and nurser
les of semi-tropic vegetation; tn
Dromore yard and shops will be tn
home of the allied crafts and guilds
the walled gardens and glass house'
will continue as a flower and horticul
tural institution; clover-covered Cap
pamore and the rich red sandston.
slopes of Lackeen will revive the OLE
dairy on scientific basis, whose gold
en- product shall wrest from thrifty
Tulipy Holland, and, for all time, re
store to Kerry, and Erin, absolute su
premacy in butter-making.
Dromore Castle itself, that beauti
full, but solemn ill-starred Gothic pile
whose towers were ever Swallowed b!
a sombre lethal pail, and which seemed
destined to swiftly fulfill the ominou
import of Nedeen's dire prophecy al
to the fate and fortunes of it's nobl,
owners, while happily remaining fit
ting monument to the brave Mahonys
will be state building-the home O
the historical, antiquarian and othe
learned societies; will be a museum
for the relics and remnants of the art
and treasures of the kingdom, sucl
as those Ogham pillars of Dromlusk
Derrigarane and Direen.
And walled, elm bordered Castle
field, nesting down there under tn
shadows of the fighting O'Sullival
shrine-the dark solemn ruins of Car
panacuss Castle, the ancient seat O
the McGraw-O 'Sullivans,-mosta pprt
priately will be consecrated as put
lie cemetery-and oh! how sorel
needed!-amply spacious, surveye
and plated into sections, squares an
lots, and all duly mapped and record
ed. It will, of course, be decent
maintained under rigid regulation
which shall call for landscape orne
mentation, perpetual care, and law
which will, for all time, prevent an
recurrence of the miserable and hol
rible habit of dissertation that had OF
tanned in the old ill-kept, nettle-tar
gled, cramped and wretched relligs-
the habit of disinterring- diggin
up the dust of the dead every decade
or generation, to make resting plac
and temporary-for those who II
their turn shall follow them.
All this. and more, is sure to com