Identifier: onirishjauntingc00bayn (find matches)
Title: On an Irish jaunting-car through Donegal and Connemara
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Bayne, Samuel G. (Samuel Gamble), 1844-1924
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Publisher: New York, London, Harper
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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o, he hoped, was likely to reform, fromthe circumstance of his being attachedto a Galway lady of good family. Andso it might have proved had he not jeal-ously fancied that the lady looked toograciously upon the Spaniard. Rousedto madness, he watched the latter out ofthe house, stabbed him, and then, stungwith remorse, gave himself up to justice,to his fathers unutterable dismay. Not-withstanding the entreaties of the townfolk, with whom the youth was a fa-vorite, the stern parent passed sentence ofdeath, and actually hanged him from thewindow with his own hand. The Joyces, however, ran the Lynchesa close race in Connemara, a part of whichis called Joyces country/ In Abbey-gate Street is the Joyces mansion, now inruins. On a house in the adjoining streetare the arms of Galway. The completeruins of Stubbers Castle are in HighStreet, the entrance to it being through ashop, the only feature of which worth no-ticing is a carved chimney-piece bearingthe arms of Blake and Brown (1619). In102
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RECESS TO GALWAY Market Street are the remains of theBurkes mansion. The Bay of Galway consists of a longarm of the sea, protected at the entranceby the lofty cliffs of the islands of Aran,which in clear weather are visible at adistance of twenty-nine miles, and onthe north and south by the coasts of Gal-way and Clare, respectively. A legendin the annals of Ireland states that it wasonce a fresh-water lake known as LoughLurgan, one of the three principal lakesin Ireland, and was converted into a bayby the Atlantic breaking over and unit-ing with the water therein. A large number of the population isemployed in the salmon and herring fish-ery, and the Claddagh is their home. Thisis an extraordinary assemblage of low,thatched cottages, built with total dis-regard to system, and numbered indis-criminately. Hardiman wrote of themas follows: The colony from time im-memorial has been ruled by one of theirown body, periodically elected, who is dig-nified with the title of mayor, regulatesthe

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