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| MOVILLE, COUNTY DONEGAL.-This favorite watering place is situated some nineteen miles from Londonderry, on the Donegal shore of magnificent Lough Foyle, in the ancient peninsula of Innishowen-the country of the Clan O'Dogherty. Moville is also a calling station for the steam-packets from Glasgow, Montreal, New York and Liverpool, which here receive their telegraphic instructions, and take on additional passengers. The town is very beautifully placed, and, from the heights above it, a grand view of the diversified highland, forest and ocean scenery, peculiar to this portion of Ireland, can be obtained. Almost in the centre of the peninsula rises the imposing Slieve Snacht (Snow Mountain) over 2,000 feet in height, and five miles from the City of Derry, stands the royal hill of Aileach, crowned by what has been described as "a cyclopean fort," supposed to have been once a temple of the Sun and, later, down to about the twelfth century, the palace of the Kings of Ulster. It has a circular wall over eighty feet in diameter and sixteen feet thick. Most of the walls are over a dozen feet in height, indicating that they were, in ancient times, of majestic altitude. Sir Cahir O'Dogherty, Chief of Innishown, rebelled against James I., and was killed by a chance shot, after a brilliant but brief career, in 1608. |
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