CHAPTER II. 



HOLLYMOUNT — MR LINDSAY'S FARMS DESCRIBED — " TURLOUGHS " LORD 



LUCANS FARMS BALLINROBE CONG CASTLEMAGARRET — PLAINS OF 



MAYO— CASTLEBAR — LORD LUCAN's ESTATE AND MANAGEMENT. 



Arriving at Holljmount on the evening of the 

 6th October, I had just light enough to see that this 

 was a very clean, well-built village, adjoining the 

 demesne of Mr Spencer Lindsay, whose hospitable 

 mansion was my headquarters for the next three days. 

 The park and grounds, intersected by the river Robe, 

 to which on both sides the rich pastures slope gently 

 down — the stream itself ornamented by the overhang- 

 ing branches of the trees, fine groups of which are also 

 scattered throughout the demesne, under the shelter of 

 whose spreading branches fat lazy sheep and cows were 

 browsing — with the spacious and comfortable mansion 

 on one hand, and the spire of the parish church in the 

 midst of a group of trees on the other, form quite an 

 English scene. Mr Lindsay's gardens are very exten- 

 sive and productive, but the dahlias and heliotropes had 

 been completely cut down by the sharp frost of the two 

 previous mornings. The church is a handsome building 

 fitted up with square seats of oak, and heated by a 

 stove. The congregation might number from 50 to 60. 



