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count “called the Gobbins,'”" which extend as far as Black-cave A , T-‘1I'.‘.1t"“:
xlucll Head, and are upwards of 200 feet in hcightlf ‘Upon the , f.IEi....Ei,,,1
Ipletai (8th of January, 1642, a party of soldiers from'Carricki-
I and - Fergus castle, then under the command of Munro, :1.
30,; e "Scotch puritan, -is said to have sallied forth from the
s the ‘garrison to this peninsula, and to have barbarously,mas-
mi it isacred, in cold blood,'thirty persons, Roman Catholics, then ,
3, residing upon the peninsula: this act -of atrocity. fwas ‘
idical ” -committed in retaliation for some outrage previously
the i wreaked upon those of their own party. After deliberately , ‘.3 ,
gulai -putting those wretched victiins of their revenge to a cruel “ E ,-
3 an 1 death, they are supposed to have thrown their bodiespover ‘. l
, but the Gobbins into the sea :- A - - ‘F I M
Si Ol " Now, to the hcughs of black polluted shade, ’ V‘ lliflf
which ’ “ He sees tlicllercc Monro, with gory blade, - s s
m at “ Sweep liken driving flame before the wind, ’.
mm), “ And headlong hurl the poor defcnceless hind.” , )
Dnzmnzond.
“nor -
[mm This melancholy and much-to-be-regretted occurrence
0,51, has both unintentionally and inadvertently been. miss
:5“! ".p represented, through the prejudice of one party,=and W
e to i ' the ignorance of another; but, fortunately, the depositions gr 4;f;T‘.;
mm. . of the relatives ‘and friends of the‘ deceased, preserved :"
um V. in the MS. room of the Library of Trinity College, Dublin, K‘
gym; 3 contain the ref'utation-of the partial, and the correction of 5
we , the ignorant historian.'l‘ At Portmuck are the ruins of an if
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xthis V ‘ 7 3.
mm: ' ’ i! This name appears to be derived from Gob, the mouth, and ben, --if
'Jl0l13 a promontory. ' ' ' ' f
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; 1 Vida Antrim Survey, p. 458-Drummond's Causeway, ‘p. 119-20-1 1 ' A
, and Notes to M‘Skimmin‘s History of Carrick-Fcrgusw-Vol. Depositions, lot: ‘ ‘xi ;
jjjflzl . tcrcd “ County Antrim,“ p. ‘.’7l6,‘Trinity College, Dublin. < -r . > r I‘ N‘
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