7§ Scenery and Antiquities of 



in foam landward on the gale. There is a cave here extending 

 backward for 60 feet and 30 feet wide at the entrance. 

 Mackerel is the principal fishing, which are cured and exported 

 to America. Herrings, haddock, whiting and cod are also 

 plentiful In addition to its good fish supply, it is well provided 

 in the season with excellent mutton, and a plentiful supply of 

 fowls, which the peasants bring to the doors of the various 

 lodges for sale. Board and lodgings can be had at the best 

 hotels at £2) V^^ week, and apartments with cooking and 

 attendance can be had at a reasonable rate. There is a good 

 bath house where hot and cold sea water baths may be had. 

 The roads are good for cycling, and most attractive scenery all 

 the way to Loop Head, a distance of some 15 miles. Return 

 journey may be made by Carrigaholt, situate on the north side 

 of the Shannon estuary. It has the additional advantage of a 

 water supply of the purest and coolest from a holy well, the 

 patron saint of which is Senanus, or St. Senan, as he is some- 

 times called. There is a little distance further off a second holy 

 well called Tober Kee, after the saint who gave his name to 

 Kilkee. It is a picturesque sight to see the people with pitchers 

 of water on their heads and others praying around the well. 

 On the east end of the town there is an ancient chambered rath 

 surrounded by a moat about twenty feet broad. In a field at 

 the rere of Moore's Hotel there is a fallen cromlech, whilst on 

 Bishop's Island there is an ancient beehive oratory. All the 

 way on the Atlantic side of the peninsula, which extends from 

 Kilkee to Loop Head, are a series of most interesting views of 

 cliffs and headlands and sea caves, and huge rock monoliths 

 standing up isolated in the water, and defying all the fury of 

 the Atlantic. Dunlicky Castle is an object of great interest. 

 Built on a promontory, which is joined to the land by a very 

 narrow neck, in ancient times it was impregnable. The natives 

 have a legend that it was owned by pirates, who decoyed 

 vessels in here, and had an armed sloop in hiding to fall on the 

 hapless vessel when it came in. A mile beyond Dunlicky is 

 the pretty fishing village of Goleen. Standing above Golecn 



