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Romantic Ireland
Volume II.

Travel Lovers Library

Each in two volumes, profusely illustrated

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By M. F. & B. McM. Mansfield

L. C. PAGE & COMPANY
(INCORPORATED)
New England Building
Boston, Mass.

CROSS AND TOWER OF MONASTERBOICE. (See page 259).
CROSS AND TOWER OF MONASTERBOICE.
(See ).

R O M A N T I C
I R E L A N D

By
M. F. and B. McM. Mansfield

IN TWO VOLUMES
Vol. II.
Illustrated by
BLANCHE McMANUS MANSFIELD

colophon

Boston
L. C. Page & Company
MDCCCCV

Copyright, 1904
By L. C. Page & Company
(INCORPORATED)
All rights reserved
Published October, 1904
COLONIAL PRESS
Electrotyped and Printed by C. H. Simonds & Co.
Boston, Mass., U. S. A.

Contents
Volume II.

CHAPTER	PAGE
Queenstown, Cork, and Blarney
Glengarriff and Bantry Bay
Killarney and About There
Around the Coast of Limerick
The Shannon and Its Lakes
Galway and Its Bay
Achill to Sligo
The Donegal Highlands
Londonderry and the Giants Causeway
Antrim and Down
The Boyne Valley
Belfast and Armagh

List of Illustrations
Volume II.

PAGE

Cross and Tower of Monasterboice (See )

Queenstown Harbour

Shandon Church Tower

Cork

An Old-style Irish Car

A Modern Irish Car

Blarney Castle

Gougane Barra

Bantry Bay

Glengarriff Bay

Hungry Hill

Killarney and About There

St. Finians Oratory, Innisfallen

On the Road from Cork to Kerry

Cloisters of Muckross Abbey

The Eagles Nest

Ross Castle

The Gap of Dunloe

The Black Valley

Valentia

The Skelligs Rocks

Limerick Castle

The Shannon and Its Lakes

Kincora

An Irish Piper

The Stone of the Divisions, Westmeath

Athlone Castle

Claddagh

Judge Lynchs House, Galway

The Church of the Canons, Aran

Achill Island

Cathedral Caves, Achill

In Connemara

Kylemore Castle

Killary Harbour

A Detail of Sligo Abbey

Donegal Castle

Lake of Shadows, Donegal

Derry

The Honeycomb, Giants Causeway

Carrick-a-Rede

Grave of St. Patrick, Downpatrick

The Stone of Destiny, Tara

Trim

The Round Tower, Kells

The Cross of Kells

Crosses of Clonmacnois, Donegal, Slane, and Moone Abbey

Holy Well, Kells

Romantic Ireland

CHAPTER I.
QUEENSTOWN, CORK, AND BLARNEY

Q UEENSTOWN has been called a mere appendage to its harbour, and, truly, it is a case of the tail wagging the dog, though the residents of Cork will tell you it is Cork Harbour, anyway, and Queenstown is nothing but a town that was made by the American War of Independence, and by the emigration rush that, during the past sixty years, has deprived Ireland of more than half her population.

Be this as it may, the harbour dwarfs everything else about the town. Above the enormous expanse of sheltered water, the little town piles itself up on the overhanging cliffs, pink houses, yellow houses, white houses, like a veritable piece of Italy. It is always warm here, or almost always. In the winter time, the temperature is seldom severe, and, in the summer, it is one of the finest yachting centres in the United Kingdom.

The Beach of Queenstown is truly Irish, since it is not a beach at all, but a fenced street full of shops, occupying the place where a narrow strand once ran.

Time was when Galway was a rival to Queenstown for the honour of being the link which was, by the emigrant chain, to bind the Old World to the New; but now the honour is Queenstowns alone.

If tears,the bitterest ever shed on earth, the hopeless tears of lonely aged parents parting from their cherished offspring; of mans love leaving womans love thousands of miles behind across the seas; of friend clasping the hand of friend perhaps for the last time; of brothers and sisters parting from brothers and sisters, and all from the land that the Irishman loves as he loves his own life,if such tears as these could quench the myriad of fairy lights that sparkle on the great harbour at dusk,

QUEENSTOWN HARBOUR.
QUEENSTOWN HARBOUR.

Queenstown would doubtless be the darkest city in all the world.

Queenstown is drenched in tears; the air still quivers inaudibly with the wailings that have filled it through day after day of half a century or more of bitter partings. Thousands have left Ireland every year from these quays, the torn artery through which the countrys best blood drains away year by year. To see an emigrant-ship cast loose from the quay and steam out of the harbour is a sight, once witnessed, that will never be forgotten; that will haunt ones very dreams in years to come.

Until 1849 Cove was the name of the city, but during a visit of Queen Victoria here at that time, her first visit to Irish soil, the name was changed, in her honour, to that which it now bears.

Cork Harbour, to most travellers, is little more than a memory; but, in reality, it is one of those beautiful landlocked waterways which, for sheer beauty and grandeur, is, in company with Bantry Bay and Dingle Bay, which are less known, only comparable to the fiords of Norway. They have not the majesty or expansiveness of many of the latter; but they have most of their attributes more subtly expressed. Indeed, Cork Harbour and the river Lee, whose waters are in part enfolded by the third city of Ireland, Cork (Corcaig, a marshy place), are unapproachable in all the world for a certain subtle charm which is perhaps inexpressible in words.

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