A good line in which to view these objects is either to take
the Killarney and Mallow road to Mitchelstown and from thence by Lord
Kingsborough's new one to Skeheenrinky, there to take one of the glens to
Galtybeg and Galtymore, and return to Mitchelstown by the Wolf's Track,
Temple Hill, and the Waterfall; or, if the Cork road is travelling, to
make Dobbin's inn, at Ballyporeen, the head-quarters, and view them from
thence.

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Having heard much of the beauties of a part of the Queen's County I had
not before seen, I took that line of country in my way on a journey to
Dublin.

From Mitchelstown to Cashel, the road leads as far as Galbally in the
route already travelled from Cullen. Towards Cashel the country is
various. The only objects deserving attention are the plantations of
Thomastown, the seat of Francis Mathew, Esq.; they consist chiefly of
hedgerow trees in double and treble rows, are well grown, and of such
extent as to form an uncommon woodland scene in Ireland. Found the widow
Holland's inn, at Cashel, clean and very civil. Take the road to
Urlingford. The rich sheep pastures, part of the famous golden vale,
reach between three and four miles from Cashel to the great bog by Botany
Hill, noted for producing a greater variety of plants than common. That
bog is separated by only small tracts of land from the string of bogs
which extend through the Queen's County, from the great bog of Allen; it
is here of considerable extent, and exceedingly improvable. Then enter a
low marshy bad country, which grows worse after passing the sixty-sixth
milestone, and successive bogs in it. Breakfast at Johnstown, a regular
village on a slight eminence, built by Mr. Hayley. It is near the spa of
Ballyspellin.

Rows of trees are planted, but their heads all cut off, I suppose from
their not thriving, being planted too old. Immediately on leaving these
planted avenues, enter a row of eight or ten new cabins, at a distance
from each other, which appear to be a new undertaking, the land about
them all pared and burnt, and the ashes in heaps.

Enter a fine planted country, with much corn and good thriving quick
hedges for many miles. The road leads through a large wood, which joins
Lord Ashbrook's plantations, whose house is situated in the midst of more
wood than almost any one I have seen in Ireland. Pass Durrow; the
country for two or three miles continues all inclosed wit