[Ireland Under Coercion (2nd ed.) (2 of 2) (1888) by William Henry Hurlbert]@TWC D-Link bookIreland Under Coercion (2nd ed.) (2 of 2) (1888) CHAPTER X 26/26
It is the Protestant Church.
Lord Ashtown built it; he was a very good man too, and did a power of good--building and making roads, and giving work to the people. He was buried there in that Castle, over the station--Trench's Castle, they called it." "All that lumber there by the station ?" "That came out of the Ashtown woods.
They were always cutting down the trees; there was so many of them you might be cutting for years--you would never get to the end of them." Woodlawn Station is one of the neatest and prettiest railway stations I have seen in Ireland--more like a picturesque stone cottage, green and gay with flowers, than like a station.
The station-master's family of cheery well-dressed lads and lasses went and came about the bright fire in the waiting-room in a friendly unobtrusive fashion, chatting with the policeman and the porter and the passengers.
It was hard to believe one's-self within an easy drive of the "cockpit of Ireland.".
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