Excerpt from Munster The best way to get to Munster nowadays is nu doubtedly by the new route from Fishguard to Ross lare, in which the Great Western Railway has reopened what was for ancient times the natural and easy way from England to Ireland. The Normans, as every one knows, came across here, an advance party land ing on the coast of Wexford; but the main force under Strongbow sailed straight up the river to Waterford. Many another invader before the Normans took the same route: and there is little doubt but that the peaceful invasion of Christianity had begun in this region, or that south-eastern Ireland was already bap tized, before Patrick set out on his mission. Earlier again, the Milesians (according to modern theory) About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.