WINDELE, J. Historical and Descriptive Notices of Cork and its vicinity; Gougaun-Barra, Glengariff, and Killarney. A new and enlarged edition.

Illustrated. Cork: Messrs. Bolster, 70 Patrick Street; John Cumming, Dublin; Longman and Company, London; Sold also, by all Booksellers in the United Kingdom, 1848. 12mo. New and enlarged edition. pp. viii, 466. Contemporary full sprinkled calf, title in gilt on black morocco label on gilt decorated spine; comb-marbled endpapers; red and gold endbands. Early signature of M.J. Clarke, Grand Parade, Cork on titlepage. A very good copy. Very scarce.

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John Windele (1801-1865) antiquarian, who was particularly interested in early Irish literature and Ogham inscriptions. He was born in Cork in 1801. From early in life he was interested in antiquities. He became a contributor to Bolster’s Quarterly Magazine, an antiquarian journal published in Cork, and so became acquainted with a number of Irish archaeologists and literary men, including Abraham Abell, William Willes, Matthew Horgan and Francis Sylvester Mahony. With these colleagues Windele made many excursions, examining and sketching ruins and natural curiosities.
Windele also devoted much time to the study of early Irish literature, and he made a large collection of manuscripts. He died at his home, Blair’s Hill, Cork, on 28 August 1865. He left a collection of manuscripts extending to 130 volumes, which were purchased by the Royal Irish Academy in 1865. They included copies of many early Irish manuscripts. Selections from a manuscript journal of his archaeological expeditions which was found among them were published in the Journal of the Cork Historical and Archæological Society between May 1897 and March 1898.
Plates: Steam Packet Office Cork; Cove of Cork; Cove-Cork Harbour; Carrigacotta Cromleac; Round Tower, Dysert, Croom; Round Tower, Tulloherin, Kilkenny; Round Tower, Kilree, Kilkenny; Round Tower, Donoghmore; Round Tower, Clones, Monaghan; Blarney Castle (folding); Lower Lake of Killarney and Ross Castle; The Turk Mountain; Gap of Dunloe; MacGillicuddy Reeks; Upper Lake of Killarney (folding). Vignettes: Blackrock Castle; Blarney Castle; Carrigadrohid Castle; Kilcrea Abbey; St. Fin-Barr’s Doorway; Ogham; Interior Kilcrea Abbey; Gougaune-Barra Lake; Cloch greine or Sun Stone;

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