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MUNSTER
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My last visit to Kerry was on a commission of
enquiry into fisheries which took us driving round
in motors to places off the usual track; and a railway
strike came in, to complete our survey of West
Munster. We had come up from Waterville, along
the backbone of the peninsula, crossing Bealach Oisin,
so that the coast road by Dingle Bay
now only by far-off memory of a forty-miles drive in a
is known to me
long car which the railway has for many years super-
seded. But I revived my memory of a bit of it,
coming up in the morning from Caragh Lake to Kil-
lorglin, where we held our court, at the outfall of the
Lowne which drains the lakes of Killarney. Opposite
us across the bay was that other mountainous region
of Corcaguiney, the Dingle Peninsula, which differs
from Iveragh in this, that from the high point of the
Reeks Iveragh slopes westward by a gradual de-
clension of peaks and ridges; whereas Corcaguiney
rises continuously westward and seaward till it reaches
its climax in Brandon Hill rising majestically from
the very
limit of the land. So rises Mweelrea at the
mouth of Killery, and I imagine that on a clear day
from Brandon's top you would see Mweelrea, and