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that it won't be long before Monarrogue and 

 Murphy's Bog are laid under contribution for 

 game again. 



CHAPTER III. 



THE BARONY OF THREENEHEILA WITHIN 

 DRUM.* 



THREENEHEILA in the red morning, when the 

 snow on the shadowy Galtees is tinged with a 

 crimson flush, and when the green waters of 

 the tide lap the hedge of the fir covert in 

 which the herons are yet snoozing, has not 

 that air of unfriendly desolation which marks 

 the Irish moorland generally. Cabins are plen- 

 tifully dotted over it. You have within view 

 a disestablished church, a police barrack, a 

 chapel, a national school-house, and a marine 

 village with a coastguard flag floating in the 

 vicinity of one of those archaeological conun- 

 drums, a round tower, about whose origin the 

 antiquarians have been quaintly speculative. 

 Threeneheila is celebrated for a saint who lived 



* Within " Drum " or " droun," i. e. within certain 

 heads (headlands), which formed boundary marks. 



