MAP OF THE GREAT SOUTHERN AND WESTERN RAILWAY AND ITS CONNECTIONS IN IRELAND 6 MAP SHOWING CONNECTIONS OF THE GREAT SOUTHERN AND WESTERN RAILWAY IN GREAT BRITAIN 7 MAP OF DUBLIN CITY 14 MAP OF ENVIRONS OF DUBLIN 15 MAP OF CORK CITY 72 MAP OF ENVIRONS OF CORK 73 PICTORIAL MAP OF KILLARNEY DISTRICT 132 CONTENTS. Page INTRODUCTION 8 DUBLIN AND DISTRICT-- DUBLIN 15 DUBLIN DISTRICT 24 LIMERICK AND DISTRICT-- LIMERICK 46 LIMERICK DISTRICT 53 THE SHANNON LAKES 67 CORK AND DISTRICT-- CORK 73 CORK DISTRICT 85 THE RIVER BLACKWATER, YOUGHAL, &C. 98 WATERFORD AND DISTRICT 112 KILLARNEY AND GLENGARRIFF 133 LAKES AND FJORDS OF KERRY 175 COUNTY CLARE 221 GALWAY AND DISTRICT 235 CONNEMARA AND SLIGO 245 SUMMER AND WINTER RESORTS 256 NATURAL HISTORY OF THE SOUTH AND WEST OF IRELAND 260 SPORTS-- CYCLING 278 GOLF 291 RIVER FISHING 295 LAKE FISHING 299 SHOOTING 303 INDEX 306 ADVERTISEMENTS 309 Introduction. Travelling through Ireland in the good old times was at best a precarious and inconvenient diversion. Those who had to do so regretted the necessity, and those who had not, praised Providence. Many "persons of quality," to use Dr. Johnson's phrase, have written narratives of their adventures and experiences in "the most damnable country." No man of position, even early in the nineteenth century, would dream of travelling threescore miles from his residence without having signed and sealed his last will and testament. The highways were beset by "Gentlemen of the Road," such as that fascinating felon, "Brennan on the Moor," of whom the ballad tells-- "A brace of loaded pistols he carried night and day."