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| ON THE KENMARE ROAD, CO. KERRY. -Not in all the world, perhaps, is there a more charming highway than that called "the Kenmare road," which runs for a distance of seventeen miles from Glengariff to the town after which it is named. The route is almost entirely through the mountain passes, and by the margin of romantic waters, which mirror the diversified beauties of nature so lavishly bestowed on that section of Kerry. Several tunnels allow the passage of the causeway under the spurs of the highland ranges. That shown above is known as Turner's Rock tunnel, which is near the Sheen river. The coloring of the landscape and the forms of the mountains in this region are extremely beautiful, and, by reason of the contrast of sylvan mildness with savage intensity of feature, strike the beholder at the same time with admiration and a feeling almost of awe. It is singular that this delightful section of Ireland has found so few poets, to sing its glories, and it is only in our own day, that prose writers have begun to acknowledge its delights. Had Scott been an Irishman, he would have made the whole Kenmare and Glengariff country immortal in literature. That is not entirely neglected in this respect is due to the loving genius of Thomas Davis, Edward Walsh and a few other writers of the "Young Ireland" era. |
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