Picturesque Ireland : a literary and artistic delineation of the natural scenery, remarkable places, historical antiquities, public buildings, ancient abbeys, towers, castles, and other romantic and attractive features of Ireland . Tunnel at Red Bay. 132 PICTURESQUE bounded on the one side by the cHffs of Carnlea, 1,179 f^^t high, and on theopposite by Lurgethan, a huge truncated cone of equal altitude. Leaping be-tween boldly escarped Avails the Ariff River forms a waterfall and flows into thesea at the little hamlet of Waterfoot. Beyond the latter are the noted caves ofRed Bay, exc
Picturesque Ireland : a literary and artistic delineation of the natural scenery, remarkable places, historical antiquities, public buildings, ancient abbeys, towers, castles, and other romantic and attractive features of Ireland . Tunnel at Red Bay. 132 PICTURESQUE bounded on the one side by the cHffs of Carnlea, 1,179 f^^t high, and on theopposite by Lurgethan, a huge truncated cone of equal altitude. Leaping be-tween boldly escarped Avails the Ariff River forms a waterfall and flows into thesea at the little hamlet of Waterfoot. Beyond the latter are the noted caves ofRed Bay, excavations in the soft red sandstone, formed perhaps by the unceas-ing inroads of the -I IT^^F waves in days past, now exclud-ed by the embank-ment. Red BayCastle, the ruinsof which towerabove a loftyarch cut through JIin-/oii£;h Bay. , , the southern endof one of the projecting red cliffs, was, in 1598, the residence of Randall MacDonnell, then lord of the county, but was originally built by the Bissetts. Theshore view from Red Bay is something very remarkable. On the left, a range ofdeeply-furrowed escarpments, with torn and irregular abutments, extends formiles along the coast. In this the courses and furrows of numerous waterfalls—torrents precipitated over mural
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