Low vantage-point view of the ruins of Arklow castle, its surrounding walls and adjacent buildings, above the Avoca River.<br><br>This image was inserted by Miss Hammill in the manuscript diary of her travels in Wales and Ireland (1828-1829). <br>The bottom border has been cropped and lacks the usual inscription ‘Drawn on stone by J.D. Harding from a Sketch by Robert O'Callaghan Newenham Esq<sup>r</sup>. Printed by C. Hullmandel.’ It appeared in Robert O'Callaghan Newenham, <em>Picturesque views of the Antiquities of Ireland. Drawn on stone by J.D. Harding, from the sketches of R. O'C. Newenham. Vol. 1</em> (London: T. & W. Boone, 1830). The 112 views in the two volumes of this work had appeared in numbers each containing 8 lithographs, published by Ackerman, Strand, London, and Hodges & McArthur, Dublin, in 1826. <br> <br>Sources:<br>Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720-1940, at https://www.dia.ie/. Accessed 13.4.2018. <br>Rosalind M. Elmes and Michael Hewson, <em>Catalogue of Irish topographical prints and original drawings</em (Dublin: Malton Press for the National Library of Ireland, 1975).
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| Arklow is a neat market town and near it stand the ruins of a castle once the seat of the Earls of Ormond to whom it still gives the title of Baron; there is also a Barrack capable of accommodating a large body of troops. In the Irish rebellion of 1798 a sharp engagement was fought at Arklow where the rebels were defeated by Gen. Needham. – We now returned to the Ovoca Inn changed horses and reluctantly bid adieu to this romantic and Arcadian valley. [p. 40] |
