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| | Blackrock Village, Dublin county, Ireland, Lewis, 1837 description ©Jane Lyons |
 | | The other principal seats are Montpelier House, that of J. |
 | | Frescati, formerly the seat of the Fitzgerald family, a spacious mansion erected by the mother of Lord Thomas Fitzgerald, called "Silken Thomas," is now divided into four separate dwellings, and occupied by respectable families. |
 | | The facilities for sea-bathing render this a place of great resort during the summer months; several respectable boarding-houses have been opened for the accommodation of visitors ; and an excellent hotel, called Seapoint House, has been built and fitted up for the reception of families. |
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