. Highways and byways in Donegal and Antrim; . a large block ofwhite quartz placed on a raised platform ascended by in the Annals of the Four Masters a more romantic storyis told. Balor was not only a giant but a monster with an eyein the back of his head ; and he had a daughter who, accordingto the prophecy, would bear a son that would be the deathof him. So Balor kept his daughter shut up like Danae, butthe chief Kineely made his way over in womans dress, wastaken in as one of her attendants, and in due time made loveto the giants daughter. The end was that a child was born,whom Ba
. Highways and byways in Donegal and Antrim; . a large block ofwhite quartz placed on a raised platform ascended by in the Annals of the Four Masters a more romantic storyis told. Balor was not only a giant but a monster with an eyein the back of his head ; and he had a daughter who, accordingto the prophecy, would bear a son that would be the deathof him. So Balor kept his daughter shut up like Danae, butthe chief Kineely made his way over in womans dress, wastaken in as one of her attendants, and in due time made loveto the giants daughter. The end was that a child was born,whom Balor threw into the sea; Kineely he pursued and cuthis head off on Clogh-i-neely stone. But the child floatedand was picked up on the coast by a smith, who reared theboy and bred him to his trade; till one day, after many years,Balor came into the forge, and the boy seizing a red hot iron•ran it into Balors eye and so avenged his father. A step nearer to history is marked by the ruins of churcheson Tory, where Columbkill founded a Carrying Peat. i58 TORY FISHERMEN CHAP. In short, Tory is a place with no want of picturesque legendabout it, but the few people who have been there are morestruck with its present than its past. The islanders live almostentirely by fishing, and the whole soil is covered, one hears,with the fish heads. Tory is now in the highway of the world,compared with what it was; a telegraph wire connects it withPollaguill Bay on the west of the Horn ; there is a signalstation of Lloyds shipping agency there, and a call there weekly for the take of fish and lobsters, andthere are few of the people who have not been on themainland, and probably also one or two who have been inEngland, Scotland, or America. They fish, too, in yawlsnowadays, which are weatherly boats, though no boat thatsails will take you to and from Tory in all weathers, and if yougo there you risk having to stay a fortnight. But in the old daysthe islanders owned
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