200 A TEAR OF LIBERTY ; OR, 



7. No boats allowed on the water except those provided by the lessees or 

 their manager. 



8. Gentlemen shall not permit their attendants to angle. 



9. All licences to be taken out in the Galway district ; they may be obtained 

 at Galway, Oughterard, Glendalough, Deeradda Lodge, Carna, Spiddal, Cur- 

 rafin, Tuam, and of Mr. Thomas Comely, at the lodge. 



10. Season tickets only will be transferable. 



11. Any ticket holder violating any of the above rules to forfeit his ticket. 



On the westernmost arm of Kilkerran Bay is a stream smaller than 

 either of those yet named probably less than half their size yet it 

 is the outlet and connecting link between two or three small lakes, 

 and beyond question would afiford good fishing for white trout in the 

 autumn. It appears, however, from want of accommodation to be 

 absolutely inaccessible, except from points too remote to make it of 

 any value. 



At the head of Birterbury Bay is a similar little river, which, like 

 the preceding, will doubtless soon be cultivated, and at small cost 

 give large retunis. Yonder is Eoundstone Bay, at the head of which 

 stands a thriving village of the same name, destined some day when 

 the science and enterprise, the engineering and agricultural skill of 

 the nineteenth century are brought to bear on the latent resources of 

 Connemara to play an important part in the import and export trade 

 of the district. Here poor Dick Martyn, in the hope of redeemiifg 

 his sinking fortunes, founded the village of Eoundstone, perhaps with 

 a portion of the 160,000/. advanced by the Law Life Assurance 

 Company on his family estate. I wonder whether any of the happy 

 careless spirits who now haunt Ballinahinch with '' a ticket " for a 

 week, fortnight, or month, ever pause to reflect on the awful mutation 

 in " the master's " fortunes, or the broken heart of the last of his 

 race ? It matters not, for both are now beyond the reach of human 

 sympathy or human selfishness. 



As a club water Ballinahinch is too well known to need any 

 remarks from me. It has so long been extensively frequented, that 

 it will be better to employ the space which yet remains in speaking 

 of other stations of less note. Connemara offers the best white 

 trout fishing in Ireland. From the Spiddal all round the extensive 



