The Building of Mourne: A Legend of the Blackwater Rome, according to the old aphorism, was not built in a day. Neither was the old town of Mourne, although it was destroyed in a day, and made fit almost for the sowing of salt upon its foundations, by the great Lord of Thomond, Murrough of the Ferns, when he gathered around it his rakehelly kerns, as Spenser in his spleen called them, and his fierce galloglasses and roving hobbelers. But the present story has naught to do with the spoliation and burning of towns. Far different, indeed, was the founding of Mourne, to the story of the...
The Building of Mourne: A Legend of the Blackwater Rome, according to the old aphorism, was not built in a day. Neither was the old town of Mourne, al...