Illustrations - On an Irish Jaunting-Car through Donegal and Connemara

Samuel Gamble Bayne

On an Irish Jaunting-Car through Donegal and Connemara

1902

Illustrations

"The Real Thing"

Rathmullen Abbey, County Donegal

Carnisk Bridge and Salmon-Leap (in low water), near Ramelton, County Donegal

In the Great Arch, "Seven Arches," Port Salon, County Donegal

Dunree Fort, Lough Swilly, County Donegal

Temple Arch, Horn Head, County Donegal

"Mcswine's Gun," Horn Head, County Donegal

Glen Veigh, County Donegal

Natives of County Donegal

A Turf Creel, Carrick, County Donegal

Salmon-leap, Ballyshannon, County Donegal

Going to the Bog for Turf, Bundoran, County Donegal

Lord Ardilaun's Castle, Cong, County Mayo

Cong Abbey, County Mayo

Water-fall in the Marquis of Sligo's Demesne, Westport, County Mayo

Kylemore Castle and Private Chapel, County Galway

Devil's Mother Mountain, Aasleagh Falls, and Salmon-leap on Erriff River, County Galway

The Fishery, Achill Island, Slievemore in the Distance

Cathedral Cliffs at Menawn, Achill Island

Achill Head, County Mayo

Boys fishing, near Recess, County Galway

A Connemara Tinker

The Landing of the Cow, Aran Islands

On our Way to Dun Aengus, Aran Islands

"We take to the Water in a Curragh." Aran Islands

Curraghs, Aran Islands

The Cloisters, Adare Abbey, County Limerick

She sat and drove on a low-back car

The Kettle is boiling for our Tea

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Samuel Gamble Bayne was born in Ramelton, County Donegal, and educated at Queen's University in Belfast. At the age of twenty-five he left for America with a view to making his fortune. He invested in an oil well in Pennsylvania and later founded a bank which subsequently came to be the JP Morgan Chase bank in New York. By the time this book was written he was wealthy enough to be referred to as a billionaire. His account of the tour through the north, west and south of Ireland is a pleasant snapshot of how that part of the country was in the early part of the 20th century. He describes what is to be seen, gives some background history and, through the illustrations especially, provides wonderful glimpses of the area's social history.

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