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| KILKEE, CO. CLARE. -From having been a mere straggling fishing village, Kilkee-Gaelic St. Caiedehe's, or Kee's, church-has, within sixty years, become one of the favorite watering places of the Three Kingdoms. It is about forty miles distant from Kilrush, by water, but only nine miles by road across the peninsula on which it is built. A steam packet connects Kilrush with the city of Limerick, and, recently, other means of communication make Kilkee accessible to all who desire to visit one of the most charming health resorts in the world. Irish bridal couples affect Kilkee almost as much as American "happy pairs" affect Niagra Falls. The town consists of two wide streets, which intersect, and there are many minor streets and lanes. The "West End," inhabited by the Kilkee "400," is handsomely laid out in squares and terraces, and this is the section in which foreign tourists, who are numerous every season, take up their temporary abode. The sketch shows the town, which forms a kind of horseshoe around the head of its bay. Some of the finest cliff scenery in Ireland is in this neighborhood, and the bathing beach is without a rival on that portion of the Irish coast. The giant Rocks of Dungana, which stretch across the bay, forming a natural breakwater, are among "the sights" of the place. |
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