I Notice That The People Here Have A Good Many Sheep.

They are not so very wretched as the mountaineers I saw in northern Donegal.

Poor they must be, to dig out a living from among these rocks and keep up a lord besides, but their lord has had a more human heart toward them than other lords over whose lands I have been.

XIII.

GREEN CASTLE - A LOOK INTO THE FORT - THE OLD AND THE NEW - MARS IN WAITING - A KIND WORD FOR THE LANDLORDS - IN TIME FOR AN EVICTION - FEMALE LAND LEAGUERS - THE "STUPID" IRISH - THE POLICE.

Went on an exploring expedition to the ruins of Green Castle. One authority told me it had been the castle of the chief of the clan Doherty, once ruling lord here in the clannish times. Another equally good authority told me it was built by De Burgo in the sixteenth century to hold the natives in awe. Whoever built it, the pride of its strength and the dread of its power have passed away forever. It is a very extensive ruin and covers a large tract of ground. It looks as if three solid, high, square buildings were set, not very regularly, end to end, the outer wall of one built in a semi-circle, and towers raised at every corner and every irregularity of the wall. Of course the roof was on the floor, turrets and towers have lost part of their height and stand, rent and ragged, tottering to their fall.

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