258 APPENDIX. 



V. 



MR. COOPER'S EXPERIMENT AT BALLISODARE. 



This undertaking, which was really an experiment, shows 

 how great difficulties can be overcome by perseverance, and 

 how a fishery can be created where none has previously 

 existed. Mr. Cooper owns two rivers, the Owenmore and 

 the Arrow, which unite some two-and-a-half miles from 

 the sea and form the Ballisodare River. On these rivers 

 are three falls : the lowest, which is a succession of falls 

 over high ledges of rock, is within a short distance of 

 the sea ; the next, which is a short distance above it, is 

 called the Upper Ballisodare Fall. This fall is impracti- 

 cable to fish, though fish had been known to surmount 

 the lower one occasionally, but not often. The entire 

 height of the two falls is about seventy feet. The highest, 

 which is on the Owenmore, near the village of Collooney, 

 has but one fall ; but this one is higher than either of the 

 falls which comprise the lower one and the Upper Balli- 

 sodare Fall, and is entirely impracticable. 



The ladder applied to the Upper Ballisodare Fall was 

 at first brought out into the lower water too far down the 

 stream from the fall, so that the fish in running up missed 



