Lower coast gazette., 1910-04-16

D~astOral country with green heiuo an"
oocks and herds and blisSful-hearteu
inhabitants living in enjoyment OF the
fruits and the beauties OF this happy
valley In the valley was a well tnat
never went dry. This well was kept
covered by a slab and when water
was drawn from it the slab must d.
WAYS be placed above again-other
wise. the people were warned, the re-
suit would be evil.
A girl, while in the act OF drawing
water, was visited by her lover, WIZ
had tramped over the mountains 10
see her. Rejoiced at the unexpected
visit, she, leaving her can by the wen
and the we'll uncovered. wandered
away with him and sat down. Both
lover and beloved were very soon
oyertaken and drowned by the raging
waters that arose from out OF the uh.
covered well. The waters continued
rising and roaring till all of the great
valley was filled with three lakes, ana
Hocks. herds and inhabitants had per
lSnpO-dHu lIuS DCSdh AN
Killarney.
II is hardly true, though, to say thaI
the inhabitants and their Hooks per,
ished. They still live in an enchanted
land beneath the waters or the iake'
and on lovely summer evenings
people at picturesque Aghadoe, over
looking the lower lake, have some
times seen the sunken valley rise up
to the surface Of the water. It's lhilaDl-
tants dancing, frolicking and canaan
playing.
Aghadoe. by the way, seems 10 me
one of the loveliest spots around the
lakes. It Is situated far up on a steep
and weIl-wooded hillside, from when
q charming, most extensive view OF
lake and wood and mountain and val
lev are to be obtained. Here are the
ruins of an old church and the re-
mains of an ancient graveyard where
in MANY a head that was once hlgh
in Kerry now lies low.
Climbing up to Aghadoe through
the thick wood is a narrow, over
grown, and now disused, but green
and lovely little boreen that goes ny
the name of Observation-Disclosures
way of the dead-and whether TINS
means that it is the way by Whlch
the dead were carried to the grave
ward or that by which the ghosts &c
downward to the lake, do not kno"
That charming Irish poet, Dr. JONI
Todhunter, celebrated Aghadoe IN d
delightful poem from which Gull
few verses:
There's a glen in Aghadoe, Aghadoe
Aghadoe, :,
There's a green and silent glade IL
Aghadoe, =.
planet in the sky, =.
Ger that sweet and silent glen Il
Aghadoe.
There's a glen in Aghadoe, Ashadoe
Aghadoe, =.
There's a deep and secret glen l
Aghadoe, -
Where | hid him from the eyes OF u
redcoats and their spies
That wear the trouble came to AShauo'
For they tracked me to that glen !
Aghadoe, Aghadoe,
When the price was on MS heau
Aghadoe,
oar the mountain through the wood g
stole to him with food,
When in hiding lone he lay IN Agnauo
But they never took him living in Ash'
doe, Aghadoe,
With the bullets in his breast in Agh;
doe,
There he Law, the head-my breast keel
the warmth where once 'twou
Gone to win the traitors gold, fro
Aghadoe,
7 walked to Mallow Town from Aghadc
Aghadoe,
Brought his head from the gaors ga
to Aghadoe. .
Then | covered him with fern, ana Pill
on him the cairn,
Like an Irish king he sleeps
AShadoe.
Oh, to creep into that cairn in Aghat'
Aghadoe,
There to rest upon his breast
Aghadoe,
Sure your dog for you could die with
truer heart than l.
Your own love cold on your cairn
Aghadoe.
Killarney and its %neighborho
abounds in ruins. Two of the flint
and most remarkable are ROSS C
flo" where the McCaura once kept
gal state with warders on the wall,
where now are housed the owl
bat. and ivy only guards the wal
and "Muckross abbey" which, fol
ruin, is in very fair state of preser
tion indeed. MUCK. JsS abbey is tr
beautiful and of high interest b
TO the antiquarian and to the m
lover of the picturesque. The gra
under the shadow Of its walls, too,
reminders Of many a romance. A
cent grave was pointed out TO me
being that of a young man with
family who had gone away to Amel
and there had been engaged Il
wealthy and beautiful American
Preparatory to his marriage ne CT
to visit home, took I'll and died,
was here buried. A few weeks !
the American girl whom he had lo
arrived upon the scene. Despite
prtests and %entreaties OF every
she insisted upon his grave b
opened, that she might look on
face. Though the people knew tn
was an unlucky thing to do, they
at length to consent, so insistens
the maiden. Within a few weeks
Girl sickened and died and the
Uttla SON of the man who had op