. Highways and byways in Donegal and Antrim; . nal overthrowing of Shane the Proud, it may be saidthat the vale of the Swilly is full of glorious memories for theKinel Conaill. Yet it was in a bad day for the lords of Tyr-connell that Shane was driven to his ruin. Sir HenrySidney—Big Henry of the Beer, as the Irish called him—feasted lovingly in Hughs castle, and dubbed his hostknight, and bade him go on and prosper. Not twenty yearsafter that, Elizabeths Viceroy, with Elizabeths full sanction, was treacherously kidnapping Sir Hughs eldest son on thissame Lake of the Shadows, to hold him fast
. Highways and byways in Donegal and Antrim; . nal overthrowing of Shane the Proud, it may be saidthat the vale of the Swilly is full of glorious memories for theKinel Conaill. Yet it was in a bad day for the lords of Tyr-connell that Shane was driven to his ruin. Sir HenrySidney—Big Henry of the Beer, as the Irish called him—feasted lovingly in Hughs castle, and dubbed his hostknight, and bade him go on and prosper. Not twenty yearsafter that, Elizabeths Viceroy, with Elizabeths full sanction, was treacherously kidnapping Sir Hughs eldest son on thissame Lake of the Shadows, to hold him fast in prison, even infetters, till he broke loose at the last. But for Sir Hughs defeatof Shane, it is possible that Elizabeth might have had no Viceroyin Ireland in 1587. Sir Hughs son was to show what Tyroneand Tyrconnell, leagued together, could accomplish; and hadSir Hugh stood for Shane and not against him, history mighthave been altered: there might have been no Flight of theEarls, and no broad lands of the ODonnells for division among. Cuihendun and Mouth of Dun River. IX THE BELLS OF KILLYDONNELL 123 Jamess hungry settlers. But Irish history is full of theseifs. There is a story, less matter-of-fact in nature, clinging toKillydonnell. The church, besides its architectural beauty—ofwhich some remnants can be seen in the tracery of an eastwindow—owned a fine peal of bells. Marauders from theTyrone shore crossed the water and robbed the abbey, andmade a shift to carry off the bells with them. But a stormrose, and the heavy cargo was fatal to these sacrilegious per-sons, for they all went to the bottom with the bells. And onceevery seven years at midnight, if you are listening, the bellmay be heard tolling deep down under the waters of thelough. One more battle was fought in the vale of Swilly, whichseems indeed to have been the cockpit of Tyrconnell. It wasin that strange and confused war which began with the Irishoutbreak in 1640, and was finally put down by the hard
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