Identifier: picturesqueirela00sava (find matches)
Title: 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
Year: 1885 (1880s)
Authors: Savage, John, 1828-1888, ed
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Publisher: New York, T. Kelly
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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IMoyiic Abbey. Sprinkled over a surface covered with grass, and corn, and heath, in beautiful al-ternation. The sun was shining gloriously, and the variety of coloring presentedby this expansive landscape was splendidly tinted by the vertical rays of light.The yellow corn, the green pasturage, the russet heaths, were traceable to an in-finite distance, while smaller objects were marked upon this natural panorama,and churches, towns, and mansions occasionally relieved the prospect. We 392 PICTURESQUE IRELAND. turned from the interior to the west; there the dark waters of the Atlantic ex-tended till the eye lost them in the horizon. Northward lay the Sligo Islands;
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Head of the Killeries. and southward the Connemara \^j Mountains, with the noble islands of I I ^- Turk and Boffin—nearer objects seem almost beneath us; Achil was below,Clare Island stretched at our feet ; while our own cabin j^. looked like a speck upon the canvas, distinguished only byits spiral wreath of smoke from the hillocks that encircled it. There was anindescribable loneliness around that gave powerful effect to all we saw. Thedreariness of the waste we occupied was grand and imposing; we were far MAYO. 393 removed from everything human ; we stood above the world, and could exclaimwith Byron, This, ^/ns is solitude. * Arriving at Leenane from Cong, we can take a boat, and, crossing the Kil-leries, visit Delphi and Lough Finn. The ferry is half a mile across, and theLodge is about two miles from the Mayo shore. The road to it is renderedattractive by the Bundoragh river, and the scene itself one of grandeur andbeauty. The shores of Lough Finn have been adorned by extensive

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