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 . 59 GLEN LOLGH. If niv olen and mv lake were not Irish ; it the curse of beingout ottashion did not put everything Irish under attainder, 1would venture to show Glenveagh against any foreign fashion-ables, and would encourage my mountain nymph to hold herseltas fair in varied beautv as any of them. Thus wrote the Rev. C. Otwav of the wondrous wild beautyof Glenveagh eighty years ago. To-day that beau
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 . 59 GLEN LOLGH. If niv olen and mv lake were not Irish ; it the curse of beingout ottashion did not put everything Irish under attainder, 1would venture to show Glenveagh against any foreign fashion-ables, and would encourage my mountain nymph to hold herseltas fair in varied beautv as any of them. Thus wrote the Rev. C. Otwav of the wondrous wild beautyof Glenveagh eighty years ago. To-day that beauty still reignsamidst the sublime solitariness of the mountain shores of Lough \eagh. So wondrous wild, the whole might seemThe scenery of a fairy dream ;but it is no longer a reproach that it is Irish; the curse ot bc^mgout of fashion no longer obtains in this country that Godintended for holidays; scores of tourists, of every nationality,visit Glenveagh now; hundreds will do so as it becomes betterknown. Glenveagh Castle, on the shore of the lough, is theshow place of the district, and to this all roads in Donegallead. But the whole valley, and the countryside immediatelyassociated with it
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