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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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the domesticstruggles and troubles of the latter half of theseventeenth century. Of the old castle, whichhas braved so many fights, only a small por-tion remains, and is incorporated in the mod-ern military barracks, which, in one way, in-dicate the importance of Enniskillen. The Falls of Erne, at Ballyshannon,where the river joins its estuary with its rapid,tumbling torrent falling over a thirty-footwall of rock, indicate in no unmistakable man-ner the volume of water which flows fromsource to sea. At Ballyshannon, which hasmore than a local renown among disciples ofIzaak Walton, is the famous salmon leap which, at certain seasons, provides a display ofthe wonderful acrobatic ability of this gamyfish. But a short three miles from Ballyshan-non is Belleek, with its famous china factorieswhich produce a peculiarly lustrous egg-shellware much admired for its simplicity andcrudeness of form, but very transparent andlight. Here, too, are another series of rapids, 4 Detail of Sligo Abbey t
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Achill to Sligo !93 as great in their way as those farther down-stream. Sir Joseph Paxton called them themost picturesque in the world, but one shouldjudge for himself. They are marvellously ef-fective, however, for the river falls nearly 150feet in three miles or less. Sligo itself, in spite of its commercial im-portance, is not greatly appealing in its inter-est, if one excepts its old abbey, now a ruin,but once an exceedingly ambitious Dominicanestablishment. Founded in 1252, it was des-troyed by a fire in 1414, though immediatelyrebuilt. Its Gothic is of that superlative qual-ity known best in the superb monkish erectionsof the Continent of Europe. There are vari-ous monuments yet to be seen therein of localand historical interest, but the chief attractionis what remains of the beautiful cloister, fairlyperfect as to preservation, and surroundingthree sides of a rectangle. There are forty-six arches, each about four feet and a half inheight, all elaborately carved, and quite diffe

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