AMERICANS IN IRELAND.
[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR.]
Six,—" The enthusiasm of Americans for the shrines of our common past" sometimes carries them too far. It was stated at a recent meeting of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, that one of the celebrated high crosses of Monaster- lboice, the finest in Ireland, had lately been mutilated by a party of American tourists. While some of the visitors shut up the keeper in the round tower, the others cut out and took away the central figure of a sculptured group. "It would look pretty," they said, "on a garden-wall at the other side of the water." A photograph was exhibited to us showing the lamentable mutilation of this national monument. Monas- terboice is not far from Drogheda.—I am, Sir, &c.,
N. G. BATT, A.M., Member of the Society of Antiquaries of Ireland. Bak/nu/len, September 171h.
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