282 SPORTING FOR MEN OF MODERATE MEANS 



to be very careful, for the wind comes off the 

 mountains in gusts and is very treacherous, and 

 accidents soon happen unless you have your weather 

 eye open. 



There is some capital snipe and duck shooting 

 on Lord Clanmorris's property, on the banks of the 

 Clare Galway river. I do not know if it is yet let, 

 or leave now given ; but I think it is not let. The 

 white trout fishing is first rate in Connemara, but 

 what a wild desolate place it is ! The salmon 

 fishing is said to be very good in the Clare Galway 

 river, but though I have seen plenty of fishermen 

 on it, and there are no end of fish, I never saw 

 very much done ; it is a sluggish river, and wants 

 a good curl on the water to get a rise. 



As I have said, I have had some of the best duck 

 and snipe shooting at Killaloe I ever enjoyed ; but 

 snipe and woodcock shooting depend a great deal on 

 the season. Some years there are any quantity, 

 another season comparatively few ; it is the same 

 everywhere. 



The golden plover shooting is very good all 

 round Galway, and if you know the " stands," that 

 is, where they roost of an evening, you can always 

 get two or three shots. I have seen killed on one 

 of the little islands on Lough Corrib, at one shot, 

 twenty-one, which were picked up, and I believe 



