The History of the County of Dublin Author:John D'Alton General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1838 Original Publisher: Hodges and Smith Subjects: Dublin (Ireland : County) History / Europe / Great Britain History / Europe / Ireland Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you... more » buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: On the recent suppression of this establishment the Board of the Incorporated Society have let the ground and premises for the annual rent of £100, which is applied by them to the maintenance of the surviving charter schools. On the wayside hence to Clontarf, the botanist will find the chenopodium murale, nettle leaved goose- foot, senebiera corinopus, swine's cress, and, according to Thelkeld, the geranium moschatum, masked crane's bill; while along the sea-shoreglyceria mari- tima, creeping sea sweet grass, flourishes abundantly. Continuing the latter course about half a mile, to where a lead mine was discovered and abandoned, a turn of the road leads into the town of CLONTARF, the Marathon of Ireland ; but, although invested with such historic associations, it has little remaining to interest the eye. The church, which is built on the site of an ancient monastery, is a small, unimportant edifice. It contains, however, some monuments worthy of note, one of black and white marble to Charles Bourchier of Northamptonshire, who died in 1716, and to Barbara his wife, daughter of Richard Harrison, Esq., of Balls, in Hertfordshire, who died in 1719. The inscription states that their eldest son was for some time governor of Bombay, and that their other children were one son and five daughters, whose marriages,« less