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LEINSTER
"Hell Fire Club", built by young bloods in the wild
duelling and card-playing days of Dublin's gaiety.
Turn your back on this and follow to the left into
Glen Cullen (the Holly Glen), which, dividing Tibradden
from Featherbed, sweeps round behind Two Rock and
Three Rock, and so, if you keep steadily by the left,
brings you back into the suburbs and villadom after
a round of some sixteen miles. But you will have
traversed a glen as bare and lonely, as devoid of
any suggestion of a great city's nearness, as even
Connemara could show.
Very beautiful it is, too, up there, on a fine day;
and bilberries grow to perfection among the deep
heather on the slopes of Featherbed. When I was
last in it, instead of keeping to the left, we cut across
southward to the right by the first road out of the
valley, and from that height saw what is not often
seen—the coast of Wales clearly visible. Then, drop-
ping swiftly, we reached a road which, leading from
the city through Dundrum, traverses the Scalp—a fine
gorge of tumbled stone with fine woods effectively
planted; and so down a famous coaching road to the
pretty village of Enniskerry on the Dargle River,
down along that river to Bray—and the train.
and
So quick and so emphatic is the transition from
one region to the other — from the region of lonely
car drives to the snug neighbourhood of gas and