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residence by the Duchess of Buckingham, the widow of the 

 Earl of Antrim. It is still the property of the MacDonnells, 

 Earls of Antrim, who allow people to visit and inspect the 

 home of their ancestors. The land-side buildings, occupied 

 only in times of quietness, were walled in, and converged to 

 a point at the drawbridge, which was spanned by a single 

 arch over a deep chasm, all of which bears a remarkable 

 likeness to a sketch of the entrance to the castle in Aii/ie of 



Geiersfein. The visitor should notice the banshee's tower, 

 the old ovens, and the artificial channel on the north side, 

 so that supplies could be taken in from the water side if the 

 castle were hard pressed on the land side. From this water- 

 way a natural tunnel runs to the lower level of the chasm 

 above referred to. 



It may not be uninteresting or out of place to notice here 

 the small church a few hundred yards to the south of the 

 castle, whose graveyard heaves with the mould of many 

 noble but ill-fated sons of Spain, who perished in the wrecked 

 galleons of the Armada on the stern headlands of this coast. 



Dundrum Castle, Co. Down, built by Sir John de Courci 

 for the Knights Templars, has a character of its own, defiantly 



