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top, is a small mound or cairn, at which the pilgrims rest and 

 attend to their devotions, and where those turn who are 

 unable to ascend to the summit. On the top is a shelter 

 surmounted by a crude cross, and a very large number of 

 cairns are all round the top — each with its own religious 

 history. On the Ordnance Survey map the shelter is marked, 

 " Temple Patrick." 



Having engaged two conveyances, we left Westport about 

 2 P.M., driving through the private grounds of the Marquess 

 of Sligo. In these grounds we picked (Enanthe crocata, L. ; 

 and a specimen of Senecio aquaticus, Huds. ; very large and 

 luxuriant. After leaving these gxounds, the road lay along 

 the shore. On the walls on the side of the road we saw 

 abundance of Cotyledon Umbilicus, L. ; Ceterach o^cinarum, 

 Desv. ; and Asplenium TricJiomanes, L. Having reached the 

 foot of the mountain, we left our conveyances at a small 

 village till our return. We ascended at first by the side of 

 a small stream, and very soon saw abundance of Jasione 

 montaTia, L. ; Anagallis tenella, L. ; and that most lovely of 

 heaths, Dabeocict 'polifolia, Don, a plant which many of us 

 picked for the first time. On our way up the mountain we 

 picked some fine specimens of white Erica Tctralix, L. ; and 

 white Erica cinerea, L. We kept the footpath the most of 

 the way to the top. The last 500 feet is a very steep climb. 

 About 500 feet below the summit we found Saxifraga 

 umhrosa, L., and on the summit it was very abundant. 

 Armeria vulgaris, Willd., was also very abundant on the 

 summit. Five members of the Club were at the top of 

 Croagh Patrick, and were well rewarded for all their toils 

 by the magnificent view from the summit. The day was 

 particularly fine, and consequently our view very extensive. 

 To the north lay Clew Bay, studded with its " hundred 

 islands." Clare Island, at the mouth of Clew Bay, was well 

 seen, and in the far north was seen Achill Island, famed for 

 its " mountain and ocean scenery of wildest character." To 

 the south were seen the twelve Pins of Connemara, with 

 " mighty Mweelrea," the highest of the range, a mountain 

 2688 feet high, situated on the north of Killary Bay. 



Of the five members who went to the top three descended 

 by a most rugged and difficult path, the greater part of the 

 way being oyer loose stones. They got no plants of any 



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