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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
Contributing Library: Boston College Libraries
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. For this reason, it is mani-festly presumptuous to attempt to give itsproper rank to its great wealth of naturalattractions among the various collections whichIreland possesses. The scenery about Recess is a picturesquecombination of lake and river and mountain;but, to the southward, there are wild andrugged bits of coast and red bracken-coveredhills, which look to-day exactly as they didin times primeval. Lough Glendalough, which lies immediatelybefore Recess, is but the foreground of a lovelypicture which it will take many days to dis-sect and fully appreciate. There has ever been a dispute as to whetherthe glory of the Twelve Bens really be-longed to Recess or Leenane. It certainlymatters little, since they are a wonderfullyimpressive background viewed from eitherpoint. It must be a well-booted and strong-limbedpedestrian who will essay the task of ascend-ing these famous mountains. Benbaun is themonarch of the Bens, and is 2,395 feet inheight. Not a very great altitude as Conti-
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Achill to Sligo 185 nental mountains go, but withal a very re-spectable eminence to climb. North of Achill is Black Sod Bay, whosememory comes down to us through Kiplingsreminiscence in A Fleet in Being/ Moreanciently, it was one of the harbours wherea part of the ill-fated Armada was supposedto have gone ashore. There are no great cen-tres of population here in the bleak northwestof County Mayo, and there are no architecturalremains of note; but there is local colour,and much of it, for one who would study thepoor Irish peasant on his native heath. Until one rounds the headland of Benwee,and passes the Stags of Broadhaven, — ahead of deep-water pinnacles of rock whosejagged outlines have been likened to a stagsantlers, — and reaches Killala Bay, there isnaught of twentieth-century civilization toremind one he is not living in other days, orcertainly in other lands and among other asso-ciations than those which city folk have cometo consider necessaries. Killala Bay is flanked on

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