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 Tyrconnel. Geraldus Cambrensis' Description of that Ceremony-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 valuable Qualities of the sacred Water of this Well, 1 to 49 IN IRELAND: DESCRIPTIVE OF INTERESTING, AND HITHERTO UNNOTICED DISTRICTS, IN THE NORTH AND SOUTH. DUBLIN: WILLIAM CURRY, JUN. AND CO. M,DCCC,XXVII. PREFACE. IRELAND is such an unfashionable country, that to travel out of it seems the pursuit of every one who is not forced by poverty to stay at home. Thus, every one who is tired of his time, and fondly fancies that change of mind can be procured by change of place, flies from his own despised country as fast as steam can paddle or wheel whirl him, to join the herd of idlers that infest the sunny roads of France or Italy; visiting the Continent, as woodcocks do southern shores, to be shot at by sharpers, and become the fair and full-fed game of inn-keepers, and artists, and Ciceroni. Therefore there is |