page_title: Kilcolman Castle
hierarchical_section_title: Kilcolman Castle
caption_attribution_description: English: Identifier: picturesqueirela00sava (find matches) Title: Picturesque Ireland&#160;: a literary and artistic delineation of the natural scenery, remarkable places, historical antiquities, public buildings, ancient abbeys, towers, castles, and other romantic and attractive features of Ireland Year: 1885 (1880s) Authors: Savage, John, 1828-1888, ed Subjects: Publisher: New York, T. Kelly Contributing Library: The Library of Congress Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: Mallow Castle. office in the Court of Chancery until June, 1588, when he was appointed Clerkof the Council of Munster. He received a grant of Kilcolman and other lands,amounting to 3,028 acres of Desmonds confiscated estates&#160;; and was marriedin Cork, in 1594, to an Irish girl named Elizabeth, of whose family and stationwe know nothing; but of whose personal charms we have devoted descriptions,*as of the inward beauty of her spirit, where dwelt—■ * See. The Faerie Queene, Book VI., Canto X.&#160;: the sonnets entitled ..//«ore///, and the Jlarriage Song Epitha~laniion. Text Appearing After Image: KH-COLMAN CASTLE. 458 PICTURESQUE IRELAND. Sweet Love, and constant Chastity, Unspotted Fayth and comely womanhood,Regard of Honor, and Mild Modesty. At Kilcolman, which stood in a most pleasant and romantic situation on thebanks of a fine lake, Spenser received his friend Raleigh, and the gifted under-takers of English colonization on Irish soil that did not belong to them, con-gratulated each other on a future of fortune. Raleigh found his in the vindic-tive meanness of his sovereign, which sent him to the scaffold. Spensers worldly-success was equally short lived. One of the plunderers who profited by thespoil of the Geraldine, and whose sweet poetry has earned for him a fame for_ _ gentleness his political writings scarcely merit, _ he has, in terse and picturesque language, chronicled the horrors which made his for-tune. He was a victim of similar retaliatoryhorrors. He was the advocate of unsparingforce against the Irish. When the success ofHugh ONeil, in Ulster, inspired the Mu Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
context_page_description: Kilcolman Castle is a tower house located in County Cork, Ireland. It was formerly the residence of the poet Edmund Spenser.
context_section_description: Kilcolman Castle is a tower house located in County Cork, Ireland. It was formerly the residence of the poet Edmund Spenser.
caption: Illustration of the castle, 1885
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