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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
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o.It was clear weather and we had a pleas-ant ride along the coast-line. The featureof the day was skirting the base of Ben-bulbin for about seven miles. This is amost peculiar mountain, almost eighteenhundred feet high. Its base starts in withpatches of yellow and sage-green verdure,then turns to streams of broken rocks.From these, regular pillars of stone startlike the pipes of an organ, which can beseen for fifty miles, these again being cov-ered by a flat crown of green growth. Thewhole looks like a vast temple in India.A large water-fall, consisting of three sep-arate cascades, cuts its side and addsgreatly to its beauty and attractiveness. We passed through the village of Drum-clifT, situated on the bank of the river ofthe same name which here enters Drum-cliff Bay from Glencar Lake. A mon-astery was founded here by St. Columba,the site for which was given in 575, andit was made into a bishops see, after-wards united to Elphin. This villagewas anciently called Drumcliff of the62
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BALLYSHANNON TO SLIGO Crosses/ and of the remains of these theGreat Cross is a fine example. It isthirteen feet high and three feet eightinches across the arms, which are con-nected by the usual circular segments.It is of hard sandstone and consists ofthree sections, the base, shaft, and top.It is highly sculptured, showing humanfigures, animals, and fine, interlaced scroll-work. There is also the stump of a roundtower, about forty feet high, of rude ma-sonry of the earliest group. The dooris square-headed, six feet from the ground,and the walls are three feet thick. Near Drumcliff was fought a great bat-tle in 561, arising out of a quarrel overthe possession of a copy of a Latin Psaltermade by St. Columba from one borrowedof St. Finnian, of Moville. St. Finnianclaimed the copy, and the case was broughtbefore Dermot, King of Meath, who de-cided, Brehon fashion, that as to everycow belongs its calf, so to every book be-longs its copy/ a judgment from whichSt. Columba appealed to his tr

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