. Romantic Ireland . ter lying in a basin at the foot of a veryhigh range of mountains, set with islands andbegirt with rocky and wooded heights. Theyare three in number; what is known as theupper, the middle or Muckross Lake, and thelower lake, — the northernmost, — more prop-erly called Lough Leane. The middle lakeis also called the Tore. A winding stream,known as the Long Range, unites the dif-ferent bodies of water. The chief of thenatural beauties of the Long Range is theEagles Nest, which rises sheer from thewaters edge 1,700 feet. The upper lake isthe most beautiful of all, though the s
. Romantic Ireland . ter lying in a basin at the foot of a veryhigh range of mountains, set with islands andbegirt with rocky and wooded heights. Theyare three in number; what is known as theupper, the middle or Muckross Lake, and thelower lake, — the northernmost, — more prop-erly called Lough Leane. The middle lakeis also called the Tore. A winding stream,known as the Long Range, unites the dif-ferent bodies of water. The chief of thenatural beauties of the Long Range is theEagles Nest, which rises sheer from thewaters edge 1,700 feet. The upper lake isthe most beautiful of all, though the smallestof the triad. It is studded with tiny islandsand girt with mountain peaks, bare and sternabove, but clothed with rich foliage at theirbase. The middle lake is also a beautiful,though more extensive, sheet, and contains butfour islands, as compared with thirty in thelower lake and six in the upper. The Colleen Bawn Caves — reminiscent ofGerald Griffins story, The Colleen Bawn, Cloisters of Muckross -Abbey. Killarney and About There 75 and Boucicaults famous play ofthe same name— are also in the immediate neighbourhoodof the middle lake. Tore Cascade and ToreMountain lies just to the southward, and isjustly famed as one of the brilliant beautiesof the region, as it fails in numerous sectionsover the broken rock to fall finally in a precip-itous torrent of foam to its ravine-bed below. Ross Castle, like Muckross Abbey, is oneof Killarneys chief picturesque ruins. It ison an island in the lower lake, and was builtages agone by the ODonoghues. It was thelast castle in Munster to surrender in the warsof the seventeenth century, giving in onlywhen General Ludlow and his ships-of-war,as his narrative called them, surrounded Reeks lie farthest to thewestward in the Killarney region. The nameof this stern and jagged range sounds some-what humourous, and in no way suggests themajesty and splendour of these hills; for theyresemble the great mountains of oth
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