The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1892-12-29
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NW NJ galore, ana as yOC
NkE@AA seem to have a fine
taste for moldy Ole
Nm ruins and the like
YOU have them there
TO your hearts content"
In half an hour was locked up in car on
the Cork ard Youghal line and bound for TIE
latter place, % miles away. That morning
the sun did me the favor to shine with al
open-faced July fervidness that reminded me
of home. My friend had counseled me tt
buy a ticket with the break privilege"
that is the right to get off and on at any
station you please, as long as you and youl
ticket live and keep company.
Such a ticket looks like a badly -used -four
dredger lid by the time you get through with
il, for the Irish conductor is very conscientious
about punching your ticket upon the slightest
provocation, but he does it SO politely that
you don't mind, if only the paper holds out.
have one of those ''stop over" tickets now,
on which / rode SIS miles and got off and on
five times, and I can see to read newspaper
through it.
At Dunkettle the third station out of Dub
lin, / got off and went to Glanmire a pretty
little village secluded at the head of a glen,
through which the Glanmire, a stream about
as big as q healthy millrace, worked its way
to the sea. On hill close by is fine tower
erected to the memory of Father Mathew.
At Carrigtohill is the ancient keep of Cloy-
dubh Castle, a seat of the Barrymore family.
The castle was built by Philip de Barry in the
18th century, and was a formidable place no
longer ago than $780, when Sir Walter Raleigh
undertook to seize it, but the Lord Barry of
that time disappointed him by burning it.
At Middletown, Just half way to Youghal,
-, Dr;s ~,
fusion, and were told that if it was the proper
season, and we had permission, plenty of
salmon and trout could be found in the
Anchora.
Curran, the great Irish orator, was educated
atMiddletOwn COLLEGE, picturesque stepping
stone on the hill of science. on the suburbs of
the town, not far from an overgTown dis
tillery. Close to this distillery is the spot
where Sir Walter Raleigh, single handed, held
the fort of the Anchora against Gen. Fitz-
gerald and his whole army, until his own
troops came up.
:" How many men did old Fitzgerald have
at his back" I asked of the genial citizen
who gave me this slice of history.
tWell, Sir, / disremember exactly; but
there was lashins of them" From which
gathered that Sir Walter was an excellent
man to keep away from when his back
was up.
Ny appetite gently suggesting that this was
good time to eat, / entered a very neat little
inn, where the inevitable young landlady
presented herself and asked:
viii you wish something to eat?"
"Yes; am suffering for a salmon"
"A salmoni' she exclaimed in auctioneer-
ing tones. Beg pardon, sir, but we have no
salmon and / don't know where / could get
you any nearer than Dublin"
Cant you get me one out of that alleged
river, Just across the street,"
"And he sent a year to Jail, even if there
was salmon there"
"What did your local professor of unneces-
sary mendacity mean by telling lie that the
Anchora was full of salmon?"
81 don't know who he is; but if anybody
told Won there was a salmon in the river he
lied awfully. They won't be there till the
season, and there is no one dares touch them
except the people from the big house,
"a rival hotel?"
'No, sir; Brooke Of Aghadoe's house. He
owns everything here between sky and sky
had to content myself by getting outside
Of o very nice section of chicken but / am
afraid I left an impression upon that young
woman that badly needed taken care of, as
she kept me under her eye until lodged
into car and went on to Youghal, which is
what is to be regarded in Ireland as "guite a
town, T" and boasts about 5000 people. 1t is
not far from the mouth of the Blackwater,
which is about a half mile wide and devel-
ops into spacious harbor, which will carry
any vessel that can get over the sandbar
Close TO the harbor is the old tower of Youghal
which local tradition says was originally a
lighthouse attached to nunnery The nuns
1aadf 20 NOT s1r, &c Ii
torches at night TO guide vessels into the
harbor. How the nuns knew when belated
vessel wanted TO come In local tradition fails
to state.
The town is stood up edgewise against the
side of hill and its streets afford unsurpassed
facilities for skinning ones shins. to say moth
ing of breaking ones neck on the rough steps
and loosely paved inclines This is the only
town In Ireland where found poorly-paved
streets, and this not the fault of the people.
but because theirs is nothing to which the
paving stones can be secured.
Nesr the top of the hill Is retired walk.
well adapted TO youthful spooning, from which
q charming view of the town and surrounding
country can be had, ard from which you can
see how old the place is Coming down one
Of the ladder-like lanes you find the Clock
gate tall, square building through which
b1e Lane oHntSllatiDgly passes by an afcilWay.
This building contains the town-clock and the
fre-bell, both of which are useless. because
there are never any fires, and nobody cares
what time il Is.
One Of the lions Of Youghal is Myrtle
Grove, the house occupied by Sir Walter
Raleigh when he was Mayor of Youghal from
1898 to 1889. 1t is very pretty creeper
covered, two-story stone cottage of the Eliza
bethan style, and in the queer, old-fashioned
garden were raised the first potatoes tina,
over grew IN Ireland, and which when firsI
cooked were thrown away as unfit Cor eating
From Youghsl a jaunting car carried u
ACROSS the Blackwater and nine miles out init
the country to AIdmOre. This is the place
where st. Declan carried on Christianity Ions
before st. Patrick struck Ireland ST. Declai
came here in the Spring of 402 and sat on
projecting rock, where a neat stone oratory
6oated over the sea from Rome TO him
There is no doubt about this, as / saw
the oratory myself There is holy wei
where the saint baptized his first converts
and it apparently took" well, for the Ard