Picturesque Donegal: its mountains, rivers, and lakesBeing the Great Northern Railway (Ireland) Company's illustrated guide to the sporting and touring grounds of the north of Ireland . flags, silver, and lead are here, and the sandfrom Muckish Mountain side is by experts declared to be mostvaluable for the manufacture of excellent quality flint glass. Bog-ore in plenty is in evidence all around. The coast-line discoversimmistakable signs of being storm-swept, but in fine weather onecan wander for miles alonsj beautiful stretches of sandv strand FALCARRAGH AXJ) TORY ISLAXD. 69 and rocky shore.
Picturesque Donegal: its mountains, rivers, and lakesBeing the Great Northern Railway (Ireland) Company's illustrated guide to the sporting and touring grounds of the north of Ireland . flags, silver, and lead are here, and the sandfrom Muckish Mountain side is by experts declared to be mostvaluable for the manufacture of excellent quality flint glass. Bog-ore in plenty is in evidence all around. The coast-line discoversimmistakable signs of being storm-swept, but in fine weather onecan wander for miles alonsj beautiful stretches of sandv strand FALCARRAGH AXJ) TORY ISLAXD. 69 and rocky shore. Inland is a huge panorama ol mountainscenery, and when closely explored the countryside is found toinclude very charming lake and ri\er views, indeed those in theimmediate vicinity of Alton are really deserving of theterm grand. Falcarragh is convenient for visiting Glenveagh(see Gleweagh section) and for climbing Muckish Mountain, theascent of which from Creeslough has already been described (seeSheephavex Bav). The way up from Falcarragh is by road toMuckish Gap and from there make the ascent. The way toBloodv Foreland is referred to at the beginning of this RINARDALLIFF POINT: BLOODV FORlZLAM). Alton* Lough is most conveniently reached by driving toFalcarragh Road Station, train to Cashelnagore Station ; fromthe station a road leads in the direction of the lough, but ceasesat a farmstead, adjacent to the lough. Just beyond a shortstretch of rising ground has to be surmounted, and then suddenlyAlton Lough bursts into view, one of the very wildest of all thelonely Donegal mountain tarns ; and sheer up from its watersAghla More Mountain rears its 1,800 odd feet of perpendicular 70 PICTURESQUE DONEGAL. height, while quite close by the north-east side of Errigal endsnearly as precipitously on the other shore of the lough. AltonLough is seldom visited by tourists, yet, in the writers opinion,it is one of the grandest compositions of mountain and loughscenery in
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