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 . Sliaiu s CastL Jioin LoiigJi VIEWS NEAR SHANES CASTLE AND LOUGH NEAGH. 174 PICTURESQUE IRELAND. brown linens averages one million sterling (five million dollars) annually. Nearthe town is a noted rath fifty feet high, in connection with which is anothermound in the form of an amphitheater: and within sight is Slemish {Sleive MisJi),1,400 feet in height, wher
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 . Sliaiu s CastL Jioin LoiigJi VIEWS NEAR SHANES CASTLE AND LOUGH NEAGH. 174 PICTURESQUE IRELAND. brown linens averages one million sterling (five million dollars) annually. Nearthe town is a noted rath fifty feet high, in connection with which is anothermound in the form of an amphitheater: and within sight is Slemish {Sleive MisJi),1,400 feet in height, where Saint Patrick as a captive youth filled the duties of aswineherd. On the Ahogill road, two miles from Ballymena, is the handsomevillage of Gracehill, a Moravian settlement founded in 1765. Midway from Ballymoney to Ballymena, are the Craigs rocks, which form asquare of nine thousand feet in area, with a very deep trench, close to which arethree pillars erect and tapering, supposed to have been raised in honor of somevaliant chieftain slain in battle. A short distance from them, in the hollowof a high and craggy ridge, is a cromlech, or druidical altar—a slab of blackheavy stone, one foot in thickness, ten feet long, and eight broad, originallyplaced upon f
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