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les: At morn the crowded march begins Of steeds and cattle for the glynnes; Well for poor Erin's wrongs and griefs, If thus would join her severed chiefs! 77. A beautiful inlet, about six miles west of Donegal. 78. Lough Eask is about two miles from Donegal. Inglis describes it as being as pretty a lake, on a small scale, as can well be imagined. 79. The sands of Rosapenna are described as being composed of "hills and dales, and undulating swells, smooth, solitary, and desolate, reflecting the sun from their polished surface," &c. 80. "Clan Dalaigh" is a name frequently given by Irish writers to the Clan O'Donnell. 81. The "Fairy Gun" is an orifice in a cliff near Bundoran (four miles S.W. of Ballyshannon), into which the sea rushes with a noise like that of artillery, and from which mist, and a chanting sound, issue in stormy weather. 82. The waterfall at Ballyshannon. 83. The O'Donnells are descended from Conal Golban, son of Niall of the Nine Hostages. 84. Cushendall is very prettily situated on the eastern coast of the county Antrim. This, with all the territory known as the "Glynnes" (so called from the intersection of its surface by many rocky dells), from Glenarm to Ballycastle, was at this time in the possession of the MacDonnells, a clan of Scotch descent. The principal castle of the MacDonnells was at Glenarm. 85. The Rock of Doune, in Kilmacrenan, where the O'Donnells were inaugurated. 86. The Hebrides. 87. Carrick-a-rede (Carraig-a-Ramhad)--the Rock in the Road lies off the coast, between Ballycastle and Portrush; a chasm sixty feet in breadth, and very deep, separates it from the coast. 88. The waterfall of Assaroe, at Ballyshannon. 89. St. Columba, who was an O'Donnell. 90. "This bird (the Gannet) flys through the ship's sails, piercing them with his beak."--O'Flaherty's "H-Iar Connaught," p. 12, published by the Irish Archaeological Society. 91. She was the wife of Oisin, the bard, who is said to have lived and sung for some time at Cushendall, and to have been buried at Donegal. 92. The Rock of Clough-i-Stookan lies on the shore between Glenarm and Cushendall; it has some resemblance to a gigantic human figure.--"The winds whistle through its crevices like the wailing of mariners in distress."--Hall's "Ireland," vol. iii., p. 133. 93. "The Gray Man's Path" (Casan an fir Leith) is a deep and remarkable chasm, dividing the promontory of Fairhea
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