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Title: The famous cities of Ireland
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Gwynn, Stephen Lucius, 1864-1950
Subjects: Cities and towns
Publisher: Dublin, Maunsel & Co., New York, The Macmillan Co.
Contributing Library: Boston College Libraries
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y of the hills near Dublin, whether theoutlying mass of Howth to the east, or all that huddleof rounded heights which approach the city on thewest, you can see the vast central plain spreading farand wide. West and north-west, nothing breaks thelow horizon; but on a clear day you will see to thenorth a long low serrated range, the CarlingfordHills, and beyond them, faint in the far distance, allthe peaks and shoulders of the Mourne Mountains,stretching some twenty miles inland from the sea.With them Ulster begins. All the level land, the grass of Meath, the arablesoil of Louth, was easily overrun by whoever heldDublin; though to the west of it bogs and woodsoffered a place of refuge, full of military difficulties.The natural route to the North has always led, as itleads to-day, along the unindented coast to abridge over the Boyne at Drogheda—DroicheadAtha, the bridge of the ford—and thence straightnorth for another twenty miles to Dundalk, wherethe mountain barrier blocks the way.
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en. II DUNDALK 49 Here, roads diverge. One line of the railwaystrikes north-west, following the valley of the Innyriver into Monaghan and so to Fermanagh, andfinally through Tyrone into the County of Derry—acountry of many rivers and little lakes among uneven,marshy ground; poor, inhospitable, and tenanted bya hardy race of men. The other branch, which is themain one, passing Dundalk, carries the traveller upa steep gradient into a wild, narrow gorge, the Moyrypass, which skirts the western end of the Carlingfordrange, and as it rises brings you on to a bleak moor.Here Slieve Gullion mountain on your left makes apart of County Armagh, and on your right is CountyDown, with Slieve Donard and all his brethren ofMourne. This is the Gap of the North; it leadsinto the true Ulster, that north-eastern region ofIreland which has always held somewhat aloof andapart from the rest—which is in many ways moreaboriginal than any other part of the country, andwhich was fiercely and indomitably Ir

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