text:  The district of country too in which Mr Tyrrel's lot had fallen although sufficiently fertile and wealthy was of all others from its situation at the foot of the high and sterile tract of the Kilworth mountains (then the favourite resort of highwaymen and fugitives from the law ) with the gloomy range of the Gaultees to the north and on its southern edge the long and lonely Commeragh hills that divided it from Waterford the most unfavourable to passing a life of quiet plenty and security