Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 July 1892 — BLARNEY CASTLE. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

BLARNEY CASTLE.

It Wm Built by Cormlck McCarthy hi 1440. Blarney Castle, which has given to the English language a word that will probably never become obsolete, was built by Cormick McCarthy in Blarney, a village in Ireland four miles distant from Cork, in 1449. The castle, or rather what is left of it, stands on the north side of a pre-

cipitous ridge of limestone rock, and its base is washed by the small river, the Aw-Martin. Near the summit ol tho castle is the famous stone which has the legendary property of conferring on tho person who kisses it such persuasiveness as to compel the hearer to believe anything he may assert. The stone can be kissed by a person held over the. parapet by th< heels. There is a belief that before Blarney Castle surrendered to King William’s forces Lord Clancarthy’s plate was packed in a chest and thrown into a lake a short distance from the castle. Several attempts have been made to drain this lake.

BLARNEY CASTLE, IRELAND.