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Close to Blessington may be seen Russborough House, formerly residence of the Earls of Milltown. This handsome mansion is built in the Grecian style after a design by Cassels, regarded as having been the architect of the Irish Parliment House.
The Liffey as Poulaphouca forms means the Pool of the Pooka, a kind of malevolent goblin peculiar to Ireland, but closely connected with the English Puck or Robin Goodfellow. All tradition of his exploits has long since passed out of this neighbourhood.
In the history of hunting this locality is memorable, being the scene of the destruction of the Kildare Hounds in 1813.
The following description of the event is taken briefly from an account in the "Sporting Magazine for 1832.
The Kildare Hounds met in the November of that year at the Tipper cross roads near Naas, and after trying a neighbouring gorse were trotting towards Troopersfields, when a large fox jumped up from a thicket just in front of the hounds and made straight for the Wicklow Mountains
Going at such a pace over rough country, the whole field were thrown, with the exception of two, who, being well mounted, were able to keep Reynard in sight.
He passed Liffey Head, and without a check gained the romantic rocks plantation and waterfall of Poulaphouca, where the Liffey River is precipitated over a high and rugged ridge of rocks, and which was then unusually swollen by a succession of rainy weather.
In this plantation, on the other side of the Liffey, was
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