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Extract from the Glassan Travel Guides:
Ironically enough,
GLASSAN
- identified as "Sweet Auburn", the subject of Goldsmith's celebrated anti-enclosure poem
The Deserted Village
and described as "the village of the roses" - owes its orderly layout of creamy-grey pebbledash cottages to enclosure: it was built by the neighbouring Waterstown estate to provide accommodation for the artisans needed to tend the massive estate with its ten-acre formal garden. The estate was divided by the Land Commission in the 1920s, and the house, designed by the eighteenth-century architect Richard Castle, was sold for scrap. As you head north towards Balli...
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