The harbour of Larne had many names; it was called Olderfleet Haven, Wolderfrith, Walverflete, Olderfleet,-in all probability these names were corruptions of its original name Ollarba.

At Glynn there is the ruin of the ancient church of the parish, situated in a very picturesque spot, and is worthy of the notice of the antiquary. As Dr. Reeves observes, the present is an instance, almost a solitary one, of a church having a distinct nave and chancel, each consisting of a totally different style of architecture, the windows in the nave being square and surmounted by a slab, whereas the east window in the chancel is pointed. They have been evidently built at different periods.

Larne is a comparatively modern name, as applied to the town. It was formerly the name of a district of some extent in Dalaradia. So early as A. M. 2550 it is noticed in the Annals of the Four Masters as the "plain of Larne in Dalaradia," in which year it was cleared of wood. The town was called Inver, which signifies the mouth of the river. The Ollarba, now the Larne Water, rises about four miles S. W. of the town. The hill at its source was called the Hill of Grief, Ceaun Gubha, from the circumstance of the death of Tuathal Teachtmar, who was slain in battle by Mal Mac Rochraide, King of Ulster, in A. D. 106, as the following bardic verse proves, from the Four Masters:

Ollar and Ollarbeg,

Ceaun fubha, lordly noble:

They are not names without a cause.

The day on which Tuathal was slain.*

Here also, in 285, Fothadh Airgtheach fell by the hands of Caolile, the foster-son of Fin Mac Comhaill. See Petrie's Round Towers, pp. 105, 106, for some very curious details, from which, as illustrative of the interment of a king or chief slain in battle, we may quote a portion of the passage. Caolile thus relates to Finn the manner of Airgtheach's death and burial:"I made a shot at him and drove my spear through him, so that it entered the earth at the other side of him. The round stone from which I shot will be found, and to the east of it the iron spear-head, and the cairn will be found at a short distance to the east of it. There is a chest of stone about him in the earth. There are his two bags of silver, and his two bunedoat [bracelets?], and his torque of silver on his chest, and there is a pillar-stone at his cairn, and an Ogham inscribed,

Eochaid Airgthech Inso,—

Eochaid Airgthech Here,

on the end of the pillar-stone in the earth.”

We are now entering upon the county anciently and still very appropriately called the Glynnes or Glens. It comprises a line of coast about twenty-five miles, and is penetrated by many deep valleys and creeks, many of

* Reeves' Down and Connor, p. 266.

which were formerly wooded, and afforded excellent

shelter to the Scotch galleys.

These glens open into

the interior by narrow passes, through many of which roads have been made in modern times.

This territory was formerly divided into seven baronies, and extended from Larne to Cushendun. The traditions of the county point it out as the scene of Ossian's Poems, fragments of which are still familiarly repeated by the older inhabitants; and it was only a few years since that the knowledge of these poems was nearly universal in the glens. It would be impossible for the imagination to picture scenes more in harmony with Ossianic strains.

Glenarm-The Castle-Earl of Antrim-Glenclye-Mr. TurnlyDrumnasole The Garron Point-Red Bay-Glenariff-Cushendall-The Burial-place of Ossian-Cushendun.

LEAVING Larne, the road becomes more and more interesting as we approach Glenarm, which is distant fourteen miles. On the left, about six miles from Larne, in the parish of Carncastle, the cliffs of the Sallagh Braes, forming two vast semicircular escarpments, attract attention; and on the right the bold cliffs of Ballygalley Head are no less striking. In this cliff the tourist

will find a grand development of basaltic columns, with long shafts, beautifully articulated. On a solitary rock in the sea is the ruin of Carn Castle, built by the Shaws in 1625, which gives name to the parish.

The old road to Glenarm was very hilly and difficult, but beautifully picturesque, affording some of the finest views along this romantic coast.

Some years ago, just before entering the town, the road crossed Glenarm Head, rising about 600 feet in the mile, at an incline of 1 foot in 5. This was called the path. Carriages had to be assisted from the neighbouring farm sheds, with horses accustomed to the road. But this is now entirely superseded by the magnificent new road planned out by John Bald, Esq., in 1834, and executed at the joint expense of Government and the county. He conceived the bold and original plan of cutting down the whole chalk cliffs along the margin of the sea, hurling the debris over, as a protection against the waves, and laying the floor of the road at the base, about 10 feet above high-water mark. This achievement has excited the admiration of all who have seen it. Rounding this point, the town of

GLENARM,

embosomed in a beautiful vale opening to the sea, comes into view, with the turrets of the Castle, and its handsome barbican gate.

The Castle, although a very ancient one, has only been occupied as the family seat of the Mac Donnells