Project Gutenberg 2025-07-23 Public domain in the USA. 137 Dunn A description of Killarney $aLondon :$bJ. Dodsley, $c1776. The anonymous author of "A description of Killarney" is identified as having the surname "Dunn" in "Anonyms: a dictionary of revealed authorship," by William Cushing. The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (Images courtesy of the Digital Library@Villanova University.) "A description of Killarney by Dunn" is a travelogue and topographical account written in the late 18th century. The book portrays the Lakes of Killarney and their surroundings in County Kerry, sketching landscapes, islands, mountains, flora and fauna, echoes, and local lore with a picturesque sensibility. The narrative maps the two main northern lakes (the Great Lake/Lough Leane and Turk Lake) and the upper southern lake, tracing shores, bays, peninsulas, rivers, and cascades while naming key features such as Glená, Tomies, Mangerton, Turk, the Eagle’s Nest, M’Gilly Cuddy’s Reeks, and the Mucrus peninsula. It lingers on O’Sullivan’s Cascade, the wooded richness of Mucrus and Camillan, and the dramatic echoes at the Eagle’s Nest and along the Great Range; it catalogs islands in detailed clusters—Ross Island, Innisfallen, Brickeen, Dinish, the Oak Islands, and Arbutus Island—describing their vegetation (yew, holly, arbutus) and wildlife (red deer, eagles, grouse). Anecdotes include a learned poor boy, a backsliding hermit at Mucrus Abbey, the legend of O’Donahue, and a hunter’s cottage on a remote islet; there are notes on arbutus fruit, bog formation, and concerns about felling ancient woods. The final section defines Killarney’s character as variety and beauty, recommends vantage points (Yellow Mountain, Aghadoe, Dunloe, Mucrus, Turk, Mangerton, Crom-a-glaun), celebrates shifting light and weather, and defends the region’s abundant rains as the source of its luxuriant scenery. (This is an automatically generated summary.) https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:126835#?xywh=-2155%2C-260%2C7998%2C5180 20241215184902anonymous 1776 GB Reading ease score: 57.3 (10th to 12th grade). Somewhat difficult to read. en Lakes -- Ireland Killarney, Lakes of (Ireland) -- Description and travel DA Text Category: Travel Writing 94249 2025-09-30T08:13:24.968256 text/html 69203 2025-07-23T16:53:34 text/html 369110 2025-09-30T08:13:28.110228 application/epub+zip 367486 2025-09-30T08:13:26.035203 application/epub+zip 141822 2025-09-30T08:13:25.401190 application/epub+zip 660212 2025-09-30T08:13:29.726174 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 647540 2025-09-30T08:13:27.669179 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 79145 2025-09-30T08:13:24.788192 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 59315 2025-07-23T16:53:34 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 15728 2025-09-30T08:13:30.874270 application/rdf+xml 16663 2025-09-30T08:13:25.663197 image/jpeg 2715 2025-09-30T08:13:25.529249 image/jpeg 615127 2025-09-30T08:13:24.987259 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog