INNISFALLEN, KILLARNEY. -The old Irish called this romantic spot, in the Gaelic language, Inis-Faithlenn-the island of Faithlenn, or Fallen, which would seem to have been the name of some Irish chief, or saint, of high distinction in remote ages. The island is 21 acres in extent, and contains much of what is most beauteous in fair Killarney. St. Finangobhar, or the Leper, so called from having been afflicted with a distressing form of cutaneous disease, founded here a monastery-remnants of which are pictured in the left foreground of the sketch-in the middle of the seventh century.

Innisfallen, as it is now spelled and pronounced, is situated in the Lower Lake of Killarney and has been admired by generations of pleasure seekers. Sir Walter Scott-ever susceptible to the beauties of nature-revelled in its charms, and Thomas Moore devoted to it stanzas that have made its loveliness world-famous and immortal. How sweet, yet sad, is the cadence of his lines:- Sweet Innisfallen, fare thee well, May calm and sunshine still be thine; How fair thou art let other tell, To feel how fair, yet still be mine. Sweet Innisfallen, long shall dwell In memory's dream that sunny smile, Which o'er thee on that evening fell, When first I say they fairy isle!

MUCKROSS ABBEY, KILLARNEY.-The ruins of this renowned abbey, reproduced with fidelity in the sketch, are situated on Castlelough Bay - one of the arms of the Lower Lake of Killarney, and contiguous to the pretty little hamlet of Cloghreen. Muckross Hotel, built by the Herbert family for the accommodation of tourists, is in the immediate neighborhood. Our erudite friend, Professor Joyce, of Dublin, gives romance a dab in the face when he declares that Muc-ros-the Gaelic spelling of the name-means, in Irish, "the peninsula of the pigs!" "Muc" standing for "pig" and "ros" for "peninsula."

Others claim that the original name was "Irelough"-Anglice "Westlake"-but, in either case, the old monks, who had a great eye for scenic beauty, chose the beautiful spot for the founding of the abbey, under the patronage of one of the princely McCarthys, while they yet ruled over "deep-valley'd Desmond." It is said that the original church was burned in 1192. The Four Masters mention the foundation of the structure, whose remains are shown above, in 1340, while some say it was established for the Franciscans in the middle of the Fifteenth century. The ruins comprise those of the convent and the church, and present many beauties of ecclesiastical architecture. The chief entrance is through a superb Gothic doorway, deeply bearded in ivy, through which is seen the great eastern window, as in a picture.