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| MOUNTAIN SCENE IN WICKLOW. -The foregoing is a typical forest and mountan scene in the county Wicklow-Sugar Loaf Mountain, as it is absurdly called, dominating the varied and magnificent landscape. The Wicklow highlands are not in general, as bold and striking as the ranges of Kerry, Galway and Mayo, where peak succeeds peak along the grim and gaunt sierras. Sugar Loaf is however, an exception to the rule in the mountain regions of "old Kilmantan," for its hoary head can be seen for miles on miles both from the sea and on the land. In those rocky and wooded glens that lie along its base, many a brave "rebel" and bold outlaw, from Fiach MacHugh O'Byrne to Captain Michael Dwyer, made his secure retreat. In 1793, one of the proud refrains of the insurgent songs, chanted by stalwart legions of dauntless peasants, with pikes upon their broad shoulders, was:- We'll march o'er Wicklow mountains, Through Wexford and Kildare, And still will fight for liberty And will the laurel wear! Next to Wexford, Wicklow was the theater of the most desperate fighting of that eventful year, which gave to Irish history the gallant victory of Ballyellis, and the unfortuante repulse of Arklow. |
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