Lays of Killarney Lakes Descriptive Sonnets And Occasional Poems
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Innisfallen is, according to Joyce, derived from Innis, an island, and Faithlen (pronounced Fahlen) a man's name. According to the same authority the small island off Howth, now known as Ireland's Eye, was antiently called Innisfallen. The island to which the poem refers is the most beautiful and most celebrated of the islands in that portion of Lough-lein, now known as the Lower Lake of Killarney. It is composed of lime-stone rock which in this district is often metamorphosed into beautiful ma...rble. In the month of May it presents a sheet of hawthorn blossom, and in October of red berries. A monastery for Augustinian friars, of which exten- 104 NOTES. sive ruins still remain, was here founded about the year 550 by St. Finan, surnamed the leper. It was by its abbots that were compiled the celebrated Annals of Innisfallen, one of the oldest and most authentic of the records of Ireland now extant. These annals according to O'Curry (Lectures, p. 75) were commenced about the year 1015 and were continued down to the year 1215.
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