 I do not hesitate for a moment to say, that the scenery in passing from Clifden to the Killeries and Leenane is the finest in Ireland. In boldness of character, nothing at Killarney comes at all near to it ; and although the deficiency of wood excludes...  The Catholic keepsake - Page 1921843Full view - About this book
 | Henry David Inglis - 1835 - 718 pages
...road to Westport), and as no cars were to be had at Leenane, I hired a car at Clifden to precede me. I do not hesitate for a moment to say, that the scenery...wood, excludes the possibility of a competition with KUlarney in picturesque beauty, I am certainly of opinion, that the scenery of this part of Cunnemara,... | |
 | Henry David Inglis - Ireland - 1838 - 426 pages
...carriage-road to Westport), and as no cars were to be had at Leenane, I hired a car at Clifden to precede me. I do not hesitate for a moment to say, that the scenery...certainly of opinion, that the scenery of this part of Cunnemara, including especially the Killeries, which is in Joyce's country, is entitled to rank higher... | |
 | Thomas Campbell Foster - Ireland - 1846 - 994 pages
...the slopes and plains, which would abundantly repay cultivation.-f- A few bare legged half-clad * " I do not hesitate for a moment to say, that the scenery,...finest in Ireland. In boldness of character, nothing at Killamey comes at all near to it ; and although the deficiency of wood excludes the possibility of... | |
 | British empire - 1847 - 856 pages
...bare and desolate, he thus records his opinion of the north- wesCprn part of the peninsula : — " I do not hesitate for a moment to say, that the scenery...finest in Ireland. In boldness of character nothing in Killarney comes near to it ; and although the deficiency of wood excludes the possibility of a competition... | |
 | George Preston White - Connemara (Ireland) - 1849 - 208 pages
...PUBLIC LIL'KARY T'i-Df S r<j_SDAT'UN* t , • JCONNAMARA, WITH REMARKS GREAT PHYSICAL CAPABILITIES. ' I do not hesitate for a moment to say that the scenery,...the Killeries and Leenane, is the finest in Ireland. — Inglis. " I pity the man who can travel from Dan to Beersheba and cry 'Tis all barren; and so it... | |
 | Flies, Artificial - 1851 - 118 pages
...western base of the mountains called the " Twelve Pins," and leads through the heart of Connemara : — " I do not hesitate for a moment to say that the scenery is the finest in Ireland. In boldness of character, nothing at Killarney comes at all near to it, and... | |
 | Horace Gordon Hutchinson - Flies, Artificial - 1851 - 110 pages
...western base of the mountains called the " Twelve Pins," and leads through the heart of Connemara : — " I do not hesitate for a moment to say that the scenery is the finest in Ireland. In boldness of character, nothing at Killarney comes at all near to it, and... | |
 | England - 1856 - 586 pages
...be bare and desolate, he thus records his opinion of the north-western part of the peninsula : — " I do not hesitate for a moment to say, that the scenery...finest in Ireland. In boldness of character nothing in Killarney comes near to it ; and although the deficiency of wood excludes the possibility of a competition... | |
 | Philip Dixon Hardy - 1836 - 442 pages
...is from this neighbourhood that the produce of the western parts ot Cunnemara must be exported." " I do not hesitate for a moment to say, that the scenery,...Clifden, to the Killeries and Leenane, is the finest in Ii eland. In boldness of character, nothing at Killarney comes at all near to it ; and although the... | |
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