Picturesque Ireland : a literary and artistic delineation of the natural scenery, remarkable places, historical antiquities, public buildings, ancient abbeys, towers, castles, and other romantic and attractive features of Ireland . tion and security for women and children and the woundedand defenseless, or to stow away valuables in case of attack. They may, also, have been used as sleeping apartmentsor granaries, although at the time they were built the chief food of the Irish was animal.—See Wildes Lough Corrib. MA YO. 391 ing on Clew Bay and the Atlantic, and embracing that beautiful line be
Picturesque Ireland : a literary and artistic delineation of the natural scenery, remarkable places, historical antiquities, public buildings, ancient abbeys, towers, castles, and other romantic and attractive features of Ireland . tion and security for women and children and the woundedand defenseless, or to stow away valuables in case of attack. They may, also, have been used as sleeping apartmentsor granaries, although at the time they were built the chief food of the Irish was animal.—See Wildes Lough Corrib. MA YO. 391 ing on Clew Bay and the Atlantic, and embracing that beautiful line betweenmountain and sea from Newport to Achil Island, can be visited by rail from New-port to Mulrany, and by ferry over Achil Sound to the picturesque island. Andjust here we may quote Maxwells suggestive glimpse of the various beauties ofthe panorama that is revealed from any of the mountain heights in the neighbor-hood of Mulrany: We stood upon the very pinnacle of the ridge, two thou-sand feet above the level of the sea ; Clew Bay, that magnificent sheet of water,?was extended at our feet, studded with its countless islands ; inland, the eyeranged over a space of fifty miles ; and towns and villages beyond number were. IMoyiic Abbey. Sprinkled over a surface covered with grass, and corn, and heath, in beautiful al-ternation. The sun was shining gloriously, and the variety of coloring presentedby this expansive landscape was splendidly tinted by the vertical rays of yellow corn, the green pasturage, the russet heaths, were traceable to an in-finite distance, while smaller objects were marked upon this natural panorama,and churches, towns, and mansions occasionally relieved the prospect. We 392 PICTURESQUE IRELAND. turned from the interior to the west; there the dark waters of the Atlantic ex-tended till the eye lost them in the horizon. Northward lay the Sligo Islands;
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