Identifier: picturesquedoneg00shru (find matches)
Title: Picturesque Donegal: its mountains, rivers, and lakes. Being the Great Northern Railway (Ireland) Company's illustrated guide to the sporting and touring grounds of the north of Ireland
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Shrubsole, Edgar S
Subjects: Donegal (Ireland : County) -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : W. Cate, Limited
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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otographers,store-rooms for bicycles, motor garage, and other conveniencesthat go to complete a well arranged and well-equipped establish-ment, and close by is a postal and telegraph office. In fineweather afternoon tea, or a comfortable smoke, can be indulged inon top of the tower, from which point of vantage a truly grandview is obtained of the whole district, contained, as it were, in avast amphitheatre of striking scenery. The Golf Links at Portsalon rank high with the finest andmost sporting in the Lnited Kingdom, and they are charminglyset amidst the delightful scenery associated with the hotel, whichhas already been described; for at Portsalon the first tee is withintwo hundred yards of the hotel doors. The links skirt beautifulBallymastocker Bay and the eighteen holes are included in acircuit of 3i miles. The hazards are legitimate and consist chieflyof sand bunkers, bums and bents, while the greens are, for themost part, natural : the turf throughout is exi-ellent and affords
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LOUGH S)\ILLV. 21 great scope for l^rassv plav, and oi .s\\anip\ ground there is none.The whole course is kept in creditable order. Ladies are per-mitted to play. The charges for guests at the hotel and fortenants of several houses close bv, which Colonel Barton has tolet from time to time, are one shilling per day, five shillings perweek. Sunday play is permitted, and tournaments are held inJid\- or August of each year. The first hole, The Lodge (163 yards), requires a cleekonly. A clean shot over a small burn forty yards from the teeshould reach the green, a pulled ball will find a bad lie in the bent

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