. Highways and byways in Donegal and Antrim; . e way, there is a curiousthing to be seen if you can find any one to show it you, justabove the first pool on the river. It is a hiding hole under arock with a tiny aperture scarcely bigger than a rabbit this you can creep, and find yourself in a space largeenough to move a little about in. The place has been partlymade up with masonry, and they say that within living memorya boy who had done a bad turn of some sort, hid himselfthere for two or three nights while the police were on his track,and eventually escaped. About two miles up t
. Highways and byways in Donegal and Antrim; . e way, there is a curiousthing to be seen if you can find any one to show it you, justabove the first pool on the river. It is a hiding hole under arock with a tiny aperture scarcely bigger than a rabbit this you can creep, and find yourself in a space largeenough to move a little about in. The place has been partlymade up with masonry, and they say that within living memorya boy who had done a bad turn of some sort, hid himselfthere for two or three nights while the police were on his track,and eventually escaped. About two miles up the course ofthe Lackagh—its whole course—lies Glen Lough, and into thetop of Glen Lough flows the Owen Harrow, which you will re- XII DOE CASTLE 167 member to have seen coming down from Glen Veagh. But theview from the Lackagh Bridge seawards is incomparably morebeautiful even than the beautiful landward one. You lookdown the length of Sheephaven to its opening ; quite near youon the left is the wooded point of Doe Castle, which, when the. The Lackagh Bridge, MacSwineys ruled there, was the strongest place in Tyrconnell jfurther down on the left are the woods of Ards, and along theright, in a continuous curve, are the sands of Downings Bay,with their sandhills glistening white behind them. The roadto Rosapenna turns sharply to the left when you cross the follow along it for rather a hilly four miles, but with ROSAPENNA CHAP. beautiful views on every side of you until you come to a chapel(Roman Catholic Church). Beyond the chapel, as a little girlexplained to us, you will see a big city, and thats Carrigart,and nearly a mile beyond the city, away out on the sandhillson the left, you will see a town, and thats the hotel. Youride the level mile or so that brings you up the sandy approachto the hotel, and pull up in front of the pleasant verandahwhich runs along the front of the house. The hotel is a largestructure, all constructed of Norwegian pine, which the lateLo
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