3-082-632 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Homes of Irish Landlords - No. II. Powerscourt, 1895. '1. The Dargle. 2. The Sugar Loaf, from the water. 3. Valley of the Dargle. 4. The Lovers' Rock. 5. The House. 6. Falls of the Dargle. 7. The Hillside. Powerscourt House...[stands] about five hundred feet above the sea, near Bray, in County Wicklow. The demesne...is about eight hundred acres in extent, bounded on the south side by the Dargle or Glenislorane River, which is formed by the junction...of the Glencree stream and the Dargle (Glen of the Oaks), which flow from the Wicklow mountains to the sea...The demesne is connected with the Deer Park...by a drive planted by the present owner with coniferous and other trees - such as Wellingtonias, Picea nobilis, Abies Douglasii, Araucarias, and many others, of which the present Lord Powerscourt planted some fifteen thousand on the estate. He formed several largo woods - one of 350 acres, another of some 700 acres, all on the slopes of the mountains. The Deer Park contains about 1000 acres, and is partly covered with ancient oaks, and partly with younger plantations, and is stocked with red and fallow and Japanese deer. In the Deer Park is the Powerscourt Waterfall, well known to tourists, 370 ft. high - the highest in the British Islands'. From "Illustrated London News", 1895.