Templecarn is a "barren subject"

Templecarn is a "barren subject"

Lough Derg--Ordnance Survey--Description--Lieutenant Lancey

"The author of the following brief sketch, on first receiving a copy of the statistical queries, was for a considerable time in doubt whether to forward any answer to the inquiries proposed..."

Lieutenant W. Lancey, 1835

Replies to Queries on Termon Magrath District from North West Farming Society, Parish of Templecarn, in Institute of Irish Studies, and Royal Irish Academy, Parishes of County Donegal / Edited by Angélique Day and Patrick McWilliams. II 1835-6, Mid, West and South Donegal., Ordnance Survey Memoirs of Ireland; v.39, p. 159

Institute of Irish Studies in association with The Royal Irish Academy, Belfast

1835-6 [1997]

Citation for the purposes of criticism

Monograph

English

Ordnance survey memoir

DD_0165

54.590453,-7.856407

"The author of the following brief sketch, on first receiving a copy of the statistical queries, was for a considerable time in doubt whether to forward any answer to the inquiries proposed. The barren subject on which he was invited to communicate his knowledge and observations presented an appalling obstacle to a successful execution of such a project. Meagre and dry to the last degree must appear the description of a region where the hand of nature, severely parsimonious, has been very niggardly aided by the ingenuity of art of the tasteful design of scientific industry. Beautiful indeed and picturesque in many places the scenery must appear to the eye of the poet, but when considered in an agricultural, commercial or manufacturing point of view, it presents a spectacle little fitted to captivate the fancy of the theoretical or invite the labours of the practical improver."

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