. Connaught. nity. From the point of the Mullet to Erris Head, andacross Broadhaven to Ben wee Head and Portacloy, runsthe wildest country and the most inaccessible in theseislands. I have reached it only from the sea, andnever anywhere in Ireland have I seen people so farremoved from civilization as rowed out in their curraghsto meet us. Yet—so odd a place is Ireland—it isten chances to one but in the loneliest of these creeksand mountains you would find folk who knew thegreat cities of America, and who if they landed inBoston or New York would find friends and kindredin plenty to greet them
. Connaught. nity. From the point of the Mullet to Erris Head, andacross Broadhaven to Ben wee Head and Portacloy, runsthe wildest country and the most inaccessible in theseislands. I have reached it only from the sea, andnever anywhere in Ireland have I seen people so farremoved from civilization as rowed out in their curraghsto meet us. Yet—so odd a place is Ireland—it isten chances to one but in the loneliest of these creeksand mountains you would find folk who knew thegreat cities of America, and who if they landed inBoston or New York would find friends and kindredin plenty to greet them and help them to a is not so difficult here as it was formerly: for now-adays the trade in lobster fishing becomes very profit-able on this unexploited coast, with its profusion ofkelp-covered rocks and islands, and they have learnt inlate years to take their toll of the salmon droves thatpass this headland, making for Galway or the they have to sell, what they win at risk of life. CONNAUGHT 55 in the tremendous sea that runs among their rocks,they can sell now at a fair price. There is talk, too,of carrying a railway along the Mullet, in the hopeof making Blacksod a haven for transatlantic com-merce, and when that happens, the country will begradually changed, as I have seen in my lifetimesimilar regions changed in Donegal; but till thatday, whoever wants to see Ireland as Ireland hasbeen any time for three or thirteen centuries (alteredonly by the introduction of three things, tea, paraffinoil, and American flour) can see it only in the northernparts of the Barony of Erris. It is no place to go forcomfort; but *for to admire and for to see it is wellworth while. The train will take you to Ballina, a considerabletown, with a famous fishing on the River Moy, whichcan be had on easy terms—and nowadays even sofar as Killala, on a bay which is for ever associatedwith a romantic espisode in Irish history. HereHumbert landed in 1798—a month too late,
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