. The earth and its inhabitants ... ^, on the banks of the Arigna, and near Keadue village. Boyle, Fig. 208.—Galway 1 : 800,000. 50 j \-^^^ ^ s^mrw^-f^ z-. on a river of the same name, is a market town. Elphin, farther south, is an oldepiscopal city. Roscommon, Mith the ruins of an abbey and a castle, manufacturescoarse earthenware. The count} of Galway is divided b} Loughs Mask and Corrib into two well-marked regions. To the west lie the wild mountain land of Joyces Country,Connemara, and Jar Connaught ; whilst in the east a plain extends to the Shannon,broken only towards the south
. The earth and its inhabitants ... ^, on the banks of the Arigna, and near Keadue village. Boyle, Fig. 208.—Galway 1 : 800,000. 50 j \-^^^ ^ s^mrw^-f^ z-. on a river of the same name, is a market town. Elphin, farther south, is an oldepiscopal city. Roscommon, Mith the ruins of an abbey and a castle, manufacturescoarse earthenware. The count} of Galway is divided b} Loughs Mask and Corrib into two well-marked regions. To the west lie the wild mountain land of Joyces Country,Connemara, and Jar Connaught ; whilst in the east a plain extends to the Shannon,broken only towards the south-east, where Slieve Anghty, on Lough Derg, risesto a height of 1,243 feet. Galivay, at the mouth of the river which drains Lough Corrib, and on thenorth shore of a wide bay, occupies a favourable position for commerce, and asearly as the fourteenth century, soon after its foundation by an English colony, itcarried on a brisk trade with Spain. Andalusians and Castilians established 426 THE UlJlTiSil themselves ia the Irish city, and their influence became so great that Galway, inthe aspect of many of its old mansions, reminds the traveller of similar b
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