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Title: Guide to Galway, Connemara and the West of Ireland
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Lang, Robert Turnbull, 1870-
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Publisher: London : A.C. Black
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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ing forms of the Con-nemara Mountains are seen in the distance to great advantage.According to fable the word Corrib is corrupted from the GiantOrbsens name. This giant, it is said, was killed by Uliin,another giant, in a great fight at Moycullen for the sovereigntyof Connaught; and it was when his grave was being dug thatthe waters of the lake gushed out and overspread their presentsurface. About ten miles from Galway the lake contracts considerably,so as almost to give the idea of two lakes. The lower reach thusproduced has very few islands upon it, but the upper expansehas so many as to have given rise to the saying that there was anisland for every day of the year. Steaming up the Corrib river we pass, on the right, 1 milefrom Galway, Menlough Castle (Sir Valentine Blake) now inruins. A little beyond this the Clare-Galway river enters thelake. Clare-Galway is 5 miles up this stream. An account of its ruins, byMessrs. Kelly and Westropp, may be found in the Ant. Handbook, 1897. The
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