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  [Illustration]

  ON AN
  IRISH JAUNTING CAR
  Through Donegal and Connemara



  BY SAMUEL G BAYNE




  [Illustration: "THE REAL THING"]




  On An
  Irish Jaunting-Car
  Through Donegal and Connemara

  BY S. G. BAYNE


  _ILLUSTRATED_



  [Illustration]



  NEW YORK AND LONDON
  HARPER & BROTHERS
  PUBLISHERS




  Copyright, 1902, by HARPER & BROTHERS.


  _All rights reserved._

  Published November, 1902.




PREFACE


In the compiling of this little book, I am deeply indebted for
historical data, etc., to John Cooke, M.A., the Messrs. Black, Lord
Macaulay, the _Four Masters_, and many others, from whose writings I
have made extracts; and for photographs to Messrs. W. Lawrence, T.
Glass, and Commissioner Walker.

I sincerely hope I may be forgiven for the shortcomings and errors
which can doubtless be found in this brief sketch of a few weeks' tour
through the north, west, and south of Ireland.

  S. G. BAYNE.

  NEW YORK CITY.




  CONTENTS


                                         PAGE

  NEW YORK TO LONDONDERRY                   1

  LONDONDERRY TO PORT SALON                 9

  PORT SALON TO DUNFANAGHY                 14

  DUNFANAGHY TO FALLCARRAGH                23

  FALLCARRAGH TO GWEEDORE                  36

  GWEEDORE TO GLENTIES                     40

  GLENTIES TO CARRICK                      46

  CARRICK TO DONEGAL                       49

  DONEGAL TO BALLYSHANNON                  53

  BALLYSHANNON TO SLIGO                    57

  SLIGO TO BALLINROBE                      65

  BALLINROBE TO LEENANE                    67

  LEENANE TO RECESS                        70

  ACHILL ISLAND                            78

  RECESS TO GALWAY                         92

  ARAN ISLANDS                            106

  LIMERICK                                117

  CORK AND QUEENSTOWN                     128




  ILLUSTRATIONS


  "THE REAL THING"                          _Frontispiece_

  RATHMULLEN ABBEY, COUNTY DONEGAL        _Facing p._   10

  CARNISK BRIDGE AND SALMON-LEAP
  (IN LOW WATER), NEAR RAMELTON,
  COUNTY DONEGAL                               "        12

  OUR FIRST CAR                                "        14

  IN THE GREAT ARCH, "SEVEN
  ARCHES," PORT SALON, COUNTY
  DONEGAL                                      "        16

  DUNREE FORT, LOUGH SWILLY,
  COUNTY DONEGAL                               "        18

  TEMPLE ARCH, HORN HEAD, COUNTY
  DONEGAL                                      "        24

  "MCSWINE'S GUN," HORN HEAD,
  COUNTY DONEGAL                               "        26

  GLEN VEIGH, COUNTY DONEGAL                   "        34

  A TURF BOG                                   "        38

  NATIVES OF COUNTY DONEGAL                    "        44

  A TURF CREEL, CARRICK, COUNTY
  DONEGAL                                      "        50

  DONEGAL CASTLE                               "        54

  SALMON-LEAP, BALLYSHANNON, COUNTY
  DONEGAL                                      "        60

  GOING TO THE BOG FOR TURF, BUNDORAN,
  COUNTY DONEGAL                               "        62

  LORD ARDILAUN'S CASTLE, CONG,
  COUNTY MAYO                                  "        66

  CONG ABBEY, COUNTY MAYO                      "        68

  WATER-FALL IN THE MARQUIS OF
  SLIGO'S DEMESNE, WESTPORT,
  COUNTY MAYO                                  "        72

  KYLEMORE CASTLE AND PRIVATE
  CHAPEL, COUNTY GALWAY                        "        74

  DEVIL'S MOTHER MOUNTAIN, AASLEAGH
  FALLS, AND SALMON-LEAP
  ON ERRIFF RIVER, COUNTY GALWAY               "        76

  THE FISHERY, ACHILL ISLAND,
  SLIEVEMORE IN THE DISTANCE                   "        78

  C