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MR. HART enthusiastically describes the parish of Howth as one with many attractions. He thinks that as a sea bathing summer retreat “its equal cannot be found in Ireland”; and he points out that it is invested with archæological interest by a great dolmen in the demesne of Lord Howth, by the ruins of an early abbey in the village of Howth. by the earlier church or chantry of St. Fintan's on the Sutton side, with its holy well, and by the ancient castle, called Corr Castle, of the Barons of Howth. A little way from the shore is Ireland's Eye, with the remains of a church of the sixth or seventh century. For the ornithologist, the entomologist, and the marine zoologist, Howth, according to Mr. Hart, provides much material for study. These things, however, he notes only by the way; it is with the flora of Howth that he is especially concerned. For this he claims attention on two grounds: (1) because several of the species found are rare; (2) because it does not often happen that so many forms exist in so small a space. Mr. Hart has taken great pains to make his account of his subject complete and readily intelligible, and the book ought to be of considerable service to local botanists and tourists.
The Flora of Howth.
By H. C. Hart (Dublin: Hodges, Figgis, and Co., 1887.)
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Our Book Shelf . Nature 37, 245 (1888). https://doi.org/10.1038/037245a0
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