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DINGLE, or DINGLE-I-COUCH, an incorporated seaport, market, and post town, (formerly a parliamentary borough), and a parish, in the barony of CORKAGUINEY, was anciently called Dangean-ni-Cushey, or "the castle of Hussey;” from a castle built here by an old English family of that name, to whom one of the Earls of Desmond had granted a considerable tract of land in the vicinity. On the rebellion and consequent forfeitures of the Desmond family and its adherents, it was, with divers lands, granted to the Earl of Ormonde, from whom it was purchased by Fitzgerald, Knight of Kerry, who had also a castle in this town. Dingle is the most westerly town in Ireland. |
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The two gritstone crags described below, in the lovely but neglected county of Leitrim, are south facing and open to the sun from early morning to late evening. They provide a variety of short climbs on clean, sound rock, in a lovely setting, with splendid views across Lough Allen (Loch Aillionn in Irish), a lake situated on the River Shannon to the distant hills of Sligo. Most of the lake is in County Leitrim, with a smaller portion in County Roscommon. The lake lies to the south of the river's source, near the Iron Mountains, and is the uppermost of the three main lakes on the river. The other two, Lough Ree and Lough Derg are both much further to the south. Along the Western shore of Lough Allen when the lake was dropped by the E.S.B. to as low as 150 ft O.D. vast areas of shoreline were littered by great oak trees. Oak does not grow with its roots in the water. In ancient and medieval times, the area around Lough Allen was part of the West Breifne and was within the territory ruled by O'Rourkes.
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Seltanasaggart mountain (Corry Mountain): the route of the Miners way as it descends to cross the Arigna Valley. A detour to view the cliffs on the Arigna river and district on the Shannon, and between Loughs Allen and Meelagh, Boyle barony, North county Roscommon, Ireland. The way then climbs to the wind farms on Corrie Mountain before descending to the road at Lugmore. These windfarms are a recent development, generating electricity and taking over from the closed coal fired generating station near Arigna. The lower slopes of Corrie Mountain were extensively mined in the past. This area is known as Spion Kop because Dutch miners were employed here in the 19th Century. |
Cloch an tSagairt and Carrignahasta, two edges reminiscent of some of the smaller gritstone edges found in the upland area of the Peak District in the Upper Derwent Valley of Derby and the etymology of the name 'Peak' District is a corruption of the word 'Pict.' The crag stretches over a distance of about 400m. The Western, or L section, is about 75m long, the Central section about 200m, and the Eastern, or R section, which ends at the fence marking the forest boundary, is about 50m in length. The L end of the Central section is situated directly above a gate in the fence running below and parallel to the crag. To the L of this a line of small, broken buttresses and steep heather slopes stretches for about 50m to the Western section, where the first climbs are. The name Emlagh East (Imleach Dhún Sián) in the parish Corkaguiney, Co. Kerry names an ogham stone formerly lying prostrate on the shore at Trabeg (Traígh bheag, `the little strand') and washed over by every tide'.
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Cloch an tSagairt was in discovery in the yeare 1702 AD and the ogham grit stone was the first to be recorded in this country. An account of it is included in a manuscipt note by Edward Lhwyd dating to about 1702-1707...At that time the stone stood upright in a field near the strand at Trabeg. It bears a cross which is not a later addition, but older than the Ogham. It now lies recumbent on a concrete base on the seashore near its original location.