Few in search of the beautiful know anything about them; are best known to fishermen--Not many places of historic interest in Westmeath--Loch Ouel--Turgesius, the Dane, drowned in it by Malachy the First--Legend about Malachy's daughter--Lover's poem about her--Quotation from the Book of Leinster about Turgesius--Loch Sheelin; beauty of its name--Beauty of Celtic place names--Beauty of the name Lorraine. KELLS IN MEATH 271 Its ancient name--Its great antiquity--Fertility of the country round it--The tower of Lloyd--Tailltean; its immense antiquity--The Irish Olympia--Proofs of the general authenticity of early Irish history--Sir Wm. Wilde's opinion of Irish chronology--Assemblies held in Tailltean in recent times--Early Christian Monuments--Kells often burned and plundered by the Danes--The Book of Kells and the Tara Brooch. CUCHULAINN'S DUN AND CUCHULAINN'S COUNTRY 281 Scandalous desecration of his _dun_; its situation and vast size; its existence another proof of the general truth of Irish history--Cuchulainn, the Irish Hercules--Origin of his name--Nothing told about his size or stature--Total ignorance about Cuchulainn in his birth-place; immensity of the literature in which he figures--Literary industry of early Irish monks--Cuchulainn loved by women; his abduction of Eimer; his _liaison_ with Fann; the tract about him in the Book of the Dun Cow--Fann's rhapsody--"Cuchulainn's Death" from the Book of Leinster; beauty of the view from his _dun_--Numerous antiquities of the County Louth--The Cooley and Mourne mountains--Neglect of the scenery of Louth and Down. THE WILD WEST COAST 299 Its magnificence; comparison between it and the coasts of Norway; its mild climate--Bantry Bay--The cliffs of Moher-- Half Ireland has been swallowed by the sea--Constant erosion by the waves--Killary Harbour--Clew Bay, the queen of Irish Sea lochs; comparison between it and other bays-- Croagh Patrick--Achill and its cliffs--Antiquities at Carrowmore--Loch Gill--Sligo--Slieve League--Loch Swilly-- Grandeur of the scenery from Cape Clear to Inishowen; its wonderful variety; its mild climate and wild flowers--Ten people visit the coasts of Norway for one that visits the west coast of Ireland--Want of passenger steamers on the west coast; its beauties can only be seen to advantage from the sea--Few safe harbours on the Donegall coast. DUBLIN AND ITS ENVIRONS 325