CONTENTS.

SKETCHES IN DONEGAL.

LETTER I.

Author's Motives for his Tour. Peculiar appearance of the

Province of Ulster. Arrival in Donegal. Commencement

of his Sketches. Ascent and Description of Lough Salt

Mountain. Beautiful Lake. Magnificent View. Outline

of Coast. Torry Island. Extraordinary Blowing of Sand.

Destruction of a Nobleman's Manor House and Demesne by

the Sand Tempest. M'Swine's Gun. Briney O'Doherty.

Sir Cahir O'Doherty, his Ancestor. Rock of Doune. The

Place where the O'Donnels were crowned, as Chiefs of Tyr-

connel. Geraldus Cambrensis' Description of that Cere-

mony-a barbarous, beastly Rite. A contrary Statement

by Gratianus Lucius. Death of Sir Cahir O'Doherty. The

Fairies' Palace under the Rock of Doune. Con M'Gilligan,

the Tailor's Adventure. The Holy Well of Doune. Its

Sanctification by Friar Freel. The miraculous Conversion

of John McClure the Presbyterian. The various and va-

luable Qualities of the sacred Water of this Well, 1 to 49

LETTER II.

Pass by the Lake of Gortin.-

Stone on which he was born.-

Excursion to Glen Veagh.

Church of St. Columkill.

His Character and History. Saves a Magician from the

Claws of Satan. Description of the Red Granite Formation

of the County of Donegal. Rocking Stone.

Glen Veagh

Lake. Interesting Story of a Guager's Abduction by the

Mountaineers. Teague O'Gallagher. Island in Glen Veagh.

Description of a Distillery of illicit Whiskey. Description

and Account of Jack M'Swine. Visit to Ards.

Muckish Mountain. Proceed to Hornhead.

of the Cliffs and Promontory of Hornhead.

semblage of Wild Fowl. Description of the natural Pho-

nomenon of M'Swine's Gun,

Account of

Description

Amazing As-

50 to 96

LETTER III.

Giant's Grave.

Vitrified Fort.

Mulroy Bay.

Peninsula of

Fannat. St. Columkill's Miracles. Excels St. Patrick.--

Confers on the Inhabitants of Fannat Indemnity from being

Hanged. The Fannat Ghost and Jerry M'Cullum. Priest

lays the Ghost, and Jerry becomes Catholic. Distinctive

Character of Romanists, Presbyterians, and Church Pro-

testants. Power of Romish Priests often exercised for good

Purposes. Dondy O'Donnel, and his Wife's Funeral. In-

stances of Protestant Superstition. Improvement of the Es-

tablished Church. Effects of Preaching the Gospel. Heard

Mr. Pope for the first time. Augury of his future Christian

Attainments, Popularity, and Fame. Mineralogical Sketch

of Donegal,

97 to 128

LETTER IV.

Pilgrimage to Patrick's Purgatory. Departure from Convoy.
Gap of Bearnosmore. Magnificent Defile. Old Fortification.

Dreary Moorland Jour-

Characteristics of that

Residence of Rapin the Historian.

ney. Arrival at Lough Erne.

Lake. Legend concerning its Origin. What St. Columkill

did for it. Ruined Castle. Story concerning the Ghost of

an old Buccaneer, its Builder. Arrival at Petigo. Cha-

racter of its Inn. The Colonel and Attorney. The Host

and Hostess. Departure for Patrick's Purgatory in Lough

Derg. Account of my Guide. First sight of Lough Derg.

Contrast between Lough Erne and it. Account of my Fer-

ryman. Arrival at Purgatory. Pilgrims. Their Numbers.

The Profit arising from them. Forbearance of the Landlord

of Purgatory. Modern and ancient Description of this noted

Place. O'Sullivan's History of the Spanish Viscount and

his Adventures in Purgatory. Uprooting of Purgatory in

Change of its Position in latter times. Why re-

moved. Legend of Lough Derg before St. Patrick. Fin

M'Coul and the Hag with the Finger. Fin M'Coul's Mili-

tia. St. Patrick and the blatant Beast. Legend of the ori-

gin of Fin M Coul's Bravery and Wisdom,
129 to 200

1632.

SKETCHES IN THE SOUTH OF IRELAND.

LETTER I.

Arrival at the South Coast of the County of Cork. Village of
Skull. Fine Mountain and Cliff Scenery. Venerable Glebe
House. Hospitable Reception by a Curate. Voyage to
Cape Clear Island. Description of our Boatmen. Mount
Gabriel and its Legend. A Look along the Coast. Cha-
racter of the Sea. The Wrecker and the Fate of the Maho-
nys.
Arrival at Cape Clear Church-yard. Big Cornelis
O'Driscol. Miraculous fall of Dunanore Castle. Powerful
Priest. His Death. The Waterguard. Our Reception

and Communion with them. The Bible read.
tion. Ascend to the Summit of the Island.

Our Separa-
Native Girl.

Schoolmaster. Lake in the Island.

Valuable Qualities of

its Waters. Innisherkin. Dunalong, Sir Fineen O'Dris-

coll's Castle. Sir Fineen and Black Gilly Duff's Feats.

Consequences of Adventure with a Merchant Ship of Water-

ford. Defeat and Ruin of Sir Fineen. Departure from

Cape Clear.
Storm. Escape. Note-stating the Wants

and Capabilities of the Island of Cape Clear, 203 to 256

LETTER II.

Departure from Skull for Bantry. A Priest's Grave. Holy

Clay. Extraordinary Consequences of Drinking an Infusion

of it for superstitious Purposes. Passage over the Peninsula

of Ivaugh. Industry of the Irish. Descent of Mountain

towards Dunmanus Bay. Description, by Peter Walsh, of

the Milesians. State of Protestants in the South of Ireland,

past and present. Consequences of extending the Elective

Franchise to the Forty-shilling Freeholders. Value of a

good Protestant Ministry. View from the Mountain-road

between Dunmanus and Bantry Bay. Magnificent Prospect.

Panorama of Bantry Bay. Priest's Leap. Legend. Dune-

marc Castle. Waterfall. Pass of Cooleagh. Approach to

Admiration of it. Account of Bat-

tle in 1822. Captain Rock. His Generalship. His Enter-

prise. The loosened Rock. The bereaved Father. The

Insurgents' Rashness. Captain Rock discomfited, 257 to 301

it.

Entrance into it.

LETTER III.

An Irish Village. Always contains a Talker and Story-teller.
Find one to my purpose, and proceed to Gougane Barry.
Irish Children-fine Materials from which to form Soldiers.
Cornelis Colclough. Arrival at Gougane Barry. Descrip-
tion of the Mountain Scenery and Lake. Entrance to the
Holy Island. Ash Trees. Sacred Rounds. Girl going the

His

Rounds. Father Denis O'Mahony, the Founder.

Scheme for going the Rounds. His History. Father Denis's

House. Darby O'Riordan's Possession and Ejectment. A

sacred Receptacle for Fowl. Fallen Apple-tree. Modern

Clergy condemn Patrons. Cornelis Colclough's Distress at

this. Punishment of the Man who bought the Trees at

Gougane Barry. Alpine Valley. O'Sullivan Dismal.-

Glengariff. Description of the first Sight of the beautiful

Bay and Glen. Mr. White's Demesne and Castle. O'Leary.

A Challenge,
302 to 338

LETTER IV.

Lord Bantry's Cottage. Irish Language. The O'Sullivans.

Dunboy. Sir George Carew. Siege of Dunboy. Its Sack

and Destruction. Battle in Glengariff. Gorrane M'Swiney.

How he preserved O'Sullivan's Wife and Family. O'Sul-

livan's Retreat. His March through Munster. His Passage

of the Shannon. Battle in Connaught. Parley with Maltby.

Maltby's Death. Escape of O'Sullivan into O'Rourke's

Country. Excursion in Glengariff Bay. The Bog of the

Bay, or the Path of Bad Luck. Fairies' Pass. Supersti-

tion of Fishermen. A good Day's Sport, 339 to 375

LETTER V.

Excursion to Adrigoll. Description of Scenery. Hungry
Mountain. Bed of Cataract. Dumb Church. Disappearance
of Protestants. Mary Blake. Ross M'Owen. Old Hospita-
lity. Salmon caught and boiled in the same Kitchen. Bad
Consequences of a poor Man marrying a proud Lady. De-
parture from Glengariff. Ascent of Esk Mountain. Alpine
Scenery. Numerous Lakes. Noble Views. Risks run in
Passage of the Mountain. A Lake turned into a Vat of
Beer. A Priest's Power and Self-denial. Arrival in Kerry.