Identifier: connaught00gwynuoft (find matches)
Title: Connaught
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Gwynn, Stephen Lucius, 1864-1950 Williams, Alexander
Subjects: Connaught (Ireland) -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : Blackie
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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hat he had been fishing that waterall his life as often as the fancy took him. Nowadays much of the land (if it can be calledland) about these parts has been bought by thetenants, who lease out the shooting and fishing andpay their instalments of purchase with the proceeds—an admirable condition under which both shootingand fishing are likely to improve. But except forfishing and shooting I cannot recommend anyone togo to Bangor Erris, which is the most desolate spotthat I have ever trodden. Distant views of Achillshigh peaks made the one element of beauty in thatdepressing landscape — where, nevertheless, I wouldgladly go back, to try my luck once again on thatwildly rushing stream that comes down, a torrentfrom Corrsliabh. Ill Sligo town in itself is well worth a pilgrimage, ifonly because, unlike other towns in western Ireland,it is making modest advances towards prosperity:and for the lover of beauty it makes the centre ofa district rich in scenery, rich in historic associa- ^
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CONNAUGHT 59 tions, and in monuments of a time far before writtenhistory. The town Hes at the outfall of a short broad riverwhich flows from Lough Gill, and the row up to thatlake with Hazelwood demesne on your left, rich invaried wooding, may honestly challenge a comparisonwith whatever is finest at Killarney. The lake itselfis girded about with mountains, not perhaps so pic-turesque as Carrantuohil and Mangerton, yet far moreknown in story. On the west is Knocknarea, crownedwith the huge cairn of stones which is named afterMaeve, the fierce Queen of Connaught, wife of Ailill,lover of Fergus MacRoy, she who headed the greathosting into Ulster for the Brown Bull of Cooley.Yet earlier by far than this deposit of legend must beplaced the great stone remains at Carrowmore threemiles out of the town and in Hazelwood demesne.At Carrowmore are stone circles, cromlechs, and sub-terranean chambers of stone — all far prehistoric: inHazelwood are what can be seen nowhere else inthese islands

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