The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1917-10-18
Y 7 HENEVET you make the
NV trip out from Cork. Ireland.
v " to Barney Castle. be sure
Ia turn "a cold shnutlar nm.

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v to Barney Castle. be sure
to turn Il cold shoulder up
on the modern trnimvny and upon the
motor car. The only way to go
Is by the outside car" or haunting
car, for this Is so entirely Irish.
Up you will Chamber to the rather
rickcty step of I'll" car, thence to
the swinging platform for the feet, up
on which you must mnneuvcr In some
way to turn about ana take your seat.
Probably you and your ncighbor-if
You have one on your side of the car
Will laugh n great deal and clutch each
other cNcitediy II you have the seat
TO yourself, you must curl one knee
up before You, In somewhat III" way
II Oma does in riding sidcsnddl",
brace yourself against the iron end tn
tie seat and cling tightly. There's II
knnCL In riding IN an outside cur which
II needs II little time 10 acquire. But.
no matter, you are on-SWinglng
trGrnd corners and jOlting ovcr the
cohhlcStoncs, through the city, ncroSs
a river and out into the sweet green
valley Of the Lee which leads 20 the
village nf Blnrncy. II 1t Is spring, III"
trees are NIL daintily, iluiily pale
green, the yellow prlmroses nrc begin.
ming to show themselves and. perhaps.
there l. here and there Il hedge of bril-
liant golden gorse. Birds are singing
;ll around YOU. too. II the river rip
pies gently over It's stones: but tn"
probabilities are that your driver will
talk so much that you will not hear
the music Of the river.
lie will tell you NIL about how II was
Cormac MacCurthy, back in the iif.
tccnth century, who built Barney cas-
tie; and how, although the place now
belongs tn II local landowner, all the
MucCarthys of the countryside still
feel that they own the place and are
certain thai II will one day come back
into the hands of the family. Every
MacCnri.y who plows Il field, within
sight Of the old Jagged keep of Blnr-
ney c%nStlc, looks NJ, ~ II with pride
aud n sense of rlgltful ownership.
kioslns the elarney Stone.
or course, everyone lpows that he
who kisses the Blnrney'stonc Is sup
posed to gain the gift Of eloquence.
The legend goes that the original Cor
mac Mccarthy the Strong one day res
cued Il from the lake; and this
woina was 81 grateful that h Of
Tered, by way Of showing her thanks.
In give Corinuc II golden tongue. But,
she made one condition In order To
get Il. he must kiss II particular stone.
five feet below the top of the parapet
NJ Barney Castle. ". orally, Cormac
leaped up the winding steps of the
keep, two steps ut n time, ran around
the path which encircled the inner
court, lowered himself to where he
could reach the stone which the woin-
an had indicated, and hastily kissed II.
Presumably he was afterwards pos
ScSsed of marvellous "loqucncc, and this
Is the reason why all other visitors 10
Binrncy have wanted TO kiss that
stone. too-if they are both daring uu1
steady-headcd. For this lent Is not al
together an easy one.
But, by this time, your driver has
p"t sot ''"h W w = u" Nv
railway station. bidding you cross the
tracks and take a path through the
woods. close by q tiny stream. In II
few moments you come u into an
open field. where, sure enough, n Mae
earthly Is hoeing the rows; and there,
before you. looms the great keep of
Barney Castle. The keep Is practi-
rnlly all that remains today, though
around Its foot there huddle numer-
Gus %crumbling walls and %archways,
which show that there were other
buildings. too. Not fur AWAY Ii Blair.
ney Lake, about which the man hoeing
the rows tells you "A curious story.
''Two a. the gentry" he Is saying.
war one while jist afther discussln'
how deep was Blarncy Lake. Wan o.
thin said 1t was bottomless, an the
other wan he allowed how that was
noways possible NJ all. So they agreed
they'd sind down two divers This
thing they done prislntly, the gentry
themselves a.standln' by the lakeside
and a%watchln'. Down whit them div
ers, but they niver come up at all (;
and, though the gentry klpt a.watchln'
and a-waitln', niver did they see thin
divers again. But, afther eight weeks
IL was, they had n letter from thin,
AMI they was In Australia. They were
sol"
Up on the Castle.
And Sc you leave the MucCarthy, so