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 . Killery is, wefind, a narrow arm of thesea extending some ten miles into the land between the counties of Gahvay andMayo, completely overhung by lofty mountains, nearly as elevated, and of aspicturesque form as any in Ireland. The Irish name appropriately indicates itas the reddish narrow sea-inlet. Inglis described it as resembling- a Norwegian yX Salruc Pass. GAL
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 . Killery is, wefind, a narrow arm of thesea extending some ten miles into the land between the counties of Gahvay andMayo, completely overhung by lofty mountains, nearly as elevated, and of aspicturesque form as any in Ireland. The Irish name appropriately indicates itas the reddish narrow sea-inlet. Inglis described it as resembling- a Norwegian yX Salruc Pass. GAL WA Y 229 fiord, but the lack of woods does not fill out the details of such a sensation experienced by Otway is realized by every tourist—that, whilesailing on the bay, locked in as you apparently are on every side, were it not forthe smell and color, and vegetation peculiar to the sea, you would imagine youwere on a mountain lake. But, as he adds, there is scarcely any lake whichhas not a iante end, generally that where the superabundant waters flow off andform a river ; but here nothing was tame. On every side the magnificent moun-tains seemed to vie with each other which should keep your attention Hotel at Maam. Most of the mountains we have passed or seen, are here in sight; with others,and Muilrea with its cap of clouds that it has caught, and anon flings fitfully off,as much as to say, I am the great cloud-compeller of Europe, and not one ofyou, ye proud rangers of the sky, shall come from the banks of Newfoundlandwithout paying me tribute. Leenane is near the head of the Killery—a most picturesque and desir-able place for the artistic tourist. It is in the center of the Joyces Country,a district of the northwest of Galway embracing the Killeries, parts of loughsCorrib and Mask and the Maam Turk group. This district derives its namefrom a settlement made in it in the reign of Edward I. by Thomas Joyes orJoyce, who married the daughter of an Irish
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