Inis Owen And Tirconnell Being Some Account of Antiquities And Writers of the C
Inis Owen And Tirconnell Being Some Account of Antiquities And Writers of the C
William James Doherty
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[Mr. Wingfield describes how a rider skirting the edges of Tragh-brega must do so] " with patience", " as he finds himself at a turn in the pathway on the summit of a pre- cipice 1200 feet above water, or in a sheltered cove where waves of celadon [pale green] and malachite plash upon a tawny bed". " Towards Malin Head the ground rises gradually from a shingly beach till it breaks off abruptly to seaward in a sheer wall of quartz and granite a vast frowning face, vexed by centuries of tempest, ...bothered by perennial storms, comforted by the clinging embrace of vegetation, red and russet heath of every shade, delicate ferns drooping from cracks and fissures, hoary lichens, velvet mosses, warm tinted cranesbill ; The white-crested swell which never sleeps laps round its foot in curdled foam ; for the bosom of the Atlantic is ever breathing heaving in arterial throes below, however, calm it may seem on the surface" " Yet the hardy storm-children of Inis-Owen love the seals, although they eat their fish" "There is a superstition which accounts for their views as to the 472 INIS-OWEN AND TIRCONNELL.
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