The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1907-08-15
ON THE EMERALD ISLE
William MeBurney Writes Of His
Trip To Ireland.
Rallymena, Inc. July q.

Ballymena, Ire. July p.
Dear Friends:--I started on Thurs
day, on June 20, from New York and
landed on Friday week in Liverpool,
that is, eight days. / left Liverpool
in the evening and got to Belfast
next morning, rhen / got on the train
at Belfast and came to Ballymena. and
found some OF my friends in Bally-
mena and visited among them. Then
had visit in Portrush. ! took the
train from Ballymsna and went down,
/ got on the street car at Portrush
ana went down to Buslmills TO Giants
Causeway. That is distance OF
eight miles from Portrusn to Giant 5
Causeway. There is some rock at
the Causeway very nice to look at.
1t is very square JUST as II you would
cut piece of wood and set it on Its
edge and there is what Is called a
wishing chair, if you want to wish TO-
anything. Some of the rock is q,
s, and 10 feet high. walked around
the mountain and came to a place OF
rock, great number, all piled up. AID
1t was fifty feet hign. walked three
miles around 1t, but It is very
dangerous walk and some Of the rock
ia standing down in the water.
oraneemen On Parade.
came back TO Ballymena again a1d
on the 18th of July the Ofa1geme2
were all walking ami l went to see
them. There were great number OF
them. They walked five miles out to
a place called Conner and stayed in a
field for short time and took the
train back to Ballymena. | never saw
SO many people all walking along a
road. They had to lead the horses to
keep them from treadlng down the
people. | have been at Cullybackey.
1t Is two miles from where stop and
it is country town. Then | started
from Ballymena and went through
Broughshane. 1t is another small
country town ald | landed at Cain
Tough, another seaport town. l had
to get in mail car and saw Slenfsh
mountains and l saw Sherry Top and
on the top OF it there are the ruins
of an old Catholic church. So | had
another excursion down to Parkmore
in the railway car and took the mail
car to Cushondall and on my way go
ing. saw great waters coming from
the top of the mountains aid running
down. The mountains are very high
and | had a verv nice view of them,
and as l was coming back home
stopped at the tea house 1t Is large
house down at the Cleans for the &C.
commolations of visitors having tea
and ! walked up along the side of the
waterfall for a mile They are in the
GlennS and IT is a very nice place OF
bushes and waterfalls and It was a
very long mile and very dangerous.
The walks are all rallied to keep the
people from falling into the falls and
when got to the top of the hill was
very tired of my walk. | got on the
car and came back up to Parkmore
and got on the train at Parkmore
Incidents and Experiences.
/ was down at Ballymena AID Coler-
aine and was away today for a trip on
the mail car. went past a mountain
on my way to Carnlough where there
were five men out hunting and three
OF them were found dead from dose
of strong drink that they had taken
and there was a dog along with them.
He never left them and that was how
they found out about the men. There
was also a man walked from Bally-
money to Ballynena on two crutchcs
about seventeen miles. The roads
airs very good here in Ireland, just as
good as the streets in Oskaloosa.
was at Derry today. 1t is a very nice
place, a seaport town, where the ships
come in. The train ran along side
the water and we had very good
view. ] was around the quay and saw
where the ships land. A ship came
in with 100000 tons of Indian corn
from America and they were shipping
coal in. The men were emptying
them into sacks and carrying them on
their backs. There is also a bridge
over the river paved with cement aad
bricks. There are very nice large
buildings in Derry and I saw the soI-
diers' barracks. / am going to Dub
lin to see an exhibition and then | am
thinking OF coming home to America.
for j am tired of travelling. ! have
done good bit of it. l am sending
this letter TO you that you can pub
lisa it in the paper and have been a
good many other places. have been
going away some place almost every
day since | came over, will draw
10 close by bidding you goodbye at