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                        THE IRISH PENNY JOURNAL.

         NUMBER 15.    SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1840.    VOLUME I.

[Illustration: THE TOWN AND CASTLE OF LEIXLIP, COUNTY OF KILDARE.]

Localities are no less subject to the capricious mutations of fashion in
taste, than dress, music, or any other of the various objects on which
it displays its extravagant vagaries. The place which on account of its
beauties is at one period the chosen resort of pleased and admiring
crowds, at another becomes abandoned and unthought of,