Wheels Within Wheels (2011)
“To me, it has always seemed Lismore’s most tangible link with the saints and sinners and scholars of the past. Many centuries ago it was most appropriately known as Nem, an Irish word meaning ‘Heaven’. Much later, Spenser mentioned it in The Faerie Queene – ‘Swifte Awnaduff which of the English man is Cal’de Blackewater’. Later still, some enthusiastic Victorian tourist (Thackeray, I think) decided to rename it the Irish Rhine and this inanity – as absurd as calling Swat the Switzerland of the ...East – has earned him the undying gratitude of the Irish Tourist Board.
The Blackwater – one of Europe’s great salmon rivers – rises near Killarney and flows for seventy miles through the countries of Kerry, Cork and Waterford. In the twelfth century both Dromana House and Lismore Castle were granted charters entitling their owners to extensive fishing rights and even now these charters of King John of England remain good in law, much to the annoyance of certain local rod fishers.MoreLess
The Blackwater – one of Europe’s great salmon rivers – rises near Killarney and flows for seventy miles through the countries of Kerry, Cork and Waterford. In the twelfth century both Dromana House and Lismore Castle were granted charters entitling their owners to extensive fishing rights and even now these charters of King John of England remain good in law, much to the annoyance of certain local rod fishers.MoreLess
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