School: Seskin, Donard
- Location:
- Seskin, Co. Wicklow
- Teacher: Mrs Rose Tutty
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- (continued from previous page)to many in the Summer and other months of the year.
These plantations are growing very well, this last couple of years, some of the trees are twenty feet high and over.
There is a fine river, named the Slaney, half a mile from my home. It rises in Lugnaquila, (the third highest mountain in Ireland,) and flows all through the glen to Baltinglass and enters the sea at Wexford Harbour.
There is much beautiful scenery around my home district and tourists come from Dublin every summer to climb the mountains that are adjacent to my home.
No one ever gets lost climbing those hills in the summer, as crowds go together and accompany each other. Tourists would not ask a better days sport than to climb those mountains, for a day.
- Collector
- Peg Cullen
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Stranahely, Co. Wicklow
