School: Lecks
- Location:
- Lecks, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: C. Ní Dhiarmuida
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1013, Page 135
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“There is a splendid view during the clear days of Summer from the top of Taghart hill.”
(continued from previous page)is now standing roofless.To the South and West of Taghart lies a varied landscape. A wilderness of hills and hollows, lakes and rivers, rocks, and bogs, are lying stretched out to the view and over the whole wide-spreading scene there is a chilling bleakness.The total absence of ornamental planting is the characteristic of the whole; and had we men of the proper taste for it, these highlands would form a fine field for labours of such men as the exiled monks of La Trappe, who after being banished from France, in 18-- came over to Ireland and settled on the Southern declivites of the Knockmealdown mountains, and there undertook to reclaim a wild tract of five hundred and seventy five acres of brown, healthy, stoney waste mountain ground.