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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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y fine and characteristic; the south-west coast is low and flat, and fringedwith treacherous rocks. It was here thatthe gunboat Wasp was wrecked on the22d of September, 1884, and all its crewexcept six drowned. Fishing is the chiefindustry, and the islanders are good fish-ermen, pursuing their avocation now chieflyin Norway yawls instead of curraghs.The Congested Districts Board have aidedthe inhabitants by supplying these vessels,the cost to be repaid by small instalments,also in building a curing station and teach-ing the people how to cure fish. Quantitiesof lobsters and crabs are caught, and aSligo steamer calls once a week for fish.There is a lack of fuel, which has to besupplied from the main-land. The inhabi-tants have paid no rents since the loss ofthe Wasp, which was sent to enforce pay-ment or evict the tenants. St. Columba,the patron saint of the place, is reportedto have landed here in a curragh. From Fallcarragh you get a fine viewof Muckish, with its twenty-two hundred38
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FALLCARRAGH TO GWEEDORE feet of altitude. While not the highestmountain in the Donegal highlands, Muck-ish is longer and of greater bulk than anyof its rivals, and is also more imposing.Its name in Irish means a pigs back/which it very much resembles. Here isBallyconnell House, seat of WybrantsOlphert, Esq., where the Plan of Cam-paign was originated, so well known inconnection with the landlord and tenanttroubles in Ireland. We now took the shore-road througha district known as Cloughaneely, whereEnglish is rarely spoken and we had tomake our way by signs, spending a fewminutes en route at a national school andhearing them teach the children both Irishand English. Continuing, we passed closeto Bloody Foreland, a head one thousandand fifty feet high, so called because ofits ruddy color. Arriving at Bunbeg, westopped to feed the horse and take somelunch ourselves, and then made playfor the Gweedore Hotel. Our road tookus past the spot where Inspector Martinwas clubbed to death when exe

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