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 . ast. From Meen-lecknalore the connecting stream flows to the bridge on the roadto Fintown, and from there connects up three small loughs. Fad,XAMUCK, and Cushkeeragm, after which the important water ofLough Craghv (locally termed Tully Lough) is reached. Thisis the most picturesque lough on this chain, and it ranks onlysecond to Dungloe Lough as a sporting water. Close by isDungloe Lough, the favourite with mos
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 . ast. From Meen-lecknalore the connecting stream flows to the bridge on the roadto Fintown, and from there connects up three small loughs. Fad,XAMUCK, and Cushkeeragm, after which the important water ofLough Craghv (locally termed Tully Lough) is reached. Thisis the most picturesque lough on this chain, and it ranks onlysecond to Dungloe Lough as a sporting water. Close by isDungloe Lough, the favourite with most anglers, howbeit it iscoy and its finny inhabitants need much and careful wooing. Inaddition to the main stream this lough also receives a feeder thatcomes from Lough Ardrhiidbi-g and Lough Anullen, into bothof which a few sea-lrout run. The Derrvdruel River, and thechain of loughs on it are equal, many anglers think superior, tothe Dungloe chain, and so far as extent and variety of fishing isconcerned they are (Xrtainly to be preferred. But they are notso accessible, and the loughs lack a sufficient number of River lies from three to four miles south of Dungloe, and. ROSSES AND GWEEBARRA. 93 the best way to cover it is to drive to Derrvdruel Bridge andfish right up, returning in the evening from the upper reaches Iron Bridge where a car should be in waiting by arrange-ment. Nearly a score of lakes are included on this chain, and thebulk of them are reached by car on the Fintown road, the averagedistance from Dungloe being five miles. Nearly half of thelakes hold sea-trout and the chief of these are Namurrig,Gannivegal, Nabrackmore and Nillan. The others are all goodbrown-trout waters and include Croangar, Axillar, Imslandand Nasxahida. Half-wav between Dungloe and Burton Port is
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