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Title: Romantic Ireland
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Mansfield, M. F. (Milburg Francisco), 1871- McManus, Blanche, 1869-1935, joint author
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Publisher: Boston, L. C. Page & company
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ing unduly with thewild birds and beasts of the island. Therewould be, of course, an absolute interdictagainst sportsmen and gunners; it wouldno longer be permissible to shoot the sealsthat haunt the caves and rocks around Achill,while the deer, wild goats, foxes, eagles, ra-vens, swans, gulls, choughs, and other wildbirds and beasts would be similarly protected.People would then visit Achill Island at allseasons of the year (the climate is remarkablymild in winter) for the pleasure and interestafforded by the contemplation of its wildfauna. We should, in short, have an object-lesson of what Ireland and most other partsof the British Isles were like under prehistoricconditions/ From this it will be inferred that there isevery encouragement for such a procedure,did the powers but take their rightful initia-tive. Whether such an event, if it come to pass,would make for a greater admiration of thislone and sea-girt bit of terra firnta, it remainsfor others than the writer of this book to
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Achill to Sligo prognosticate. Certainly, under any aspectexcept that of the erection of multitudinous resort hotels and furnished bungalows,Achill Island is a wonderful resort for thosein need of soothing influences; and, for itsnatural and unspoiled charms alone, shouldbe kept quite as it now is. Achill is a veritable unknown wonderland.Not that it is actually unexplored, that it isvast, or that it is inaccessible. It is noneof these; but few foreigners, or aliens, asthe Irish prefer to think of strangers, haveever visited this little-known corner of Ireland,or even know where it is. Achill Island is thelargest island on the Irish coast, in shape notunlike an irregular triangle, and contains anarea of fifty-five square miles. To the northis the deeply indented Black Sod Bay, withits myriad smaller bays, while to the south isClew Bay, populated with numerous tinyislets, and the high-held head of Croagh Pat-rick. Off to the northwest are the EnchantedIsles, the legendary homes of sain

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