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the party proceeded on foot round the rugged headland which 

 fronts the Atlantic so boldly, keeping for the most part to the top 

 of the cliffs, though some adventurous spirits descended the cliffs to 

 the rock)- beach below. The greater number of the party climbed 

 to the highest point of the headland to enjoy the magnificent 

 prospect. The walk was continued round the headland until 

 Classie Bawn Harbour was reached, where lunch was served at 

 1-30 p.m. in front of the Coastguard Station. After lunch and 

 after a group had been photographed beside the vertebra o c a 

 huge whale, the party scattered — geologists, botanists, zoologists, 

 and archaeologists finding ample opportunities for work — and • 

 the afternoon passed all too quickly. At 5-30, afternoon tea 

 was served before the Coastguard Station, and the return drive 

 commenced, Rundoran being reached in time for dinner at 7-30. 



After dinner, a short business meeting was held, Mr. William 

 Gray, M.R.T.A., in the chair. Resolutions of sympathy for recent 

 bereavement were passed to the President, Mr. N. H. Foster, 

 M.B.O.U., and to Mrs. Thomas Anderson. 



On Tuesday morning, the party drove to Ballyshannon, 

 passing on the way Ballymacward Castle, the ancestral home of 

 the Colleen Bawn, who left "her father's dwelling, his houses and 

 free land" for love of Willie Reilly. When crossing the Erne at 

 Ballyshannon a memorial tablet was seen in the east wall of 

 the bridge to the poet, Willie Allingham, who was born at Bally- 

 shannon. Allingham, who chronicled the beauties of his native 

 place in pleasingly simple verse, died in 1889. Ballyshannon is 

 a town of historic importance, and in 1597 was the scene of a 

 disastrous defeat of the English by Red Hugh O'Donnell. 



Leaving Ballyshannon with its beautiful falls and interesting 

 salmon fisheries behind, Abbey Assaroe, founded in 11 74, was 

 soon reached. Few traces of the Abbey remain beyond fragments 

 of its sculpture built into the churchyard wall or used to mark 

 nameless graves, and an effort should certainly be made to collect 

 and preserve such vestiges of the building as remain. 



