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.. if Passing the small neglected hamlet of Waterfoot, at
t 7 lg ' zthe-mouth of the Glenarif? river, the caves of Red Bay are
i V f :1-cached-: tlieyare excavations, probably formed at some
‘remote period by the inroads of the tide, which is now
-excluded, by the embankment in front, in a species" of
‘soft red sand-stone. There are three of tolerable mag-
nitude, one of which is very appropriatelyiconvertedinto
va Smith's forge, and ‘affords a very Cyclopian appearance.
A second is reported, in all probability with suflicient
reason, to have been the residence of a female, whose
trade was the sale of .illicit spirits. The third is. not
converted to any important purpose.
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ruined Castle of Red Bay, upon a similar argillaceous
-conglomerate. Beneath thebank are three distinct exca-
vations of considerable dimensions; one of which was not
long since used to dispense the blessings of education in,
by a poor school-master, but is now degraded into a
nightly sheep-,-pen. The new road here passes outside the
cliff, close ‘to the shore; and in excavating the red clay to
-"continue this new (line, a lofty gothic arch-way has been
fantastically cut in the bank, through which the road to
Cushendall passes. The castle, which is now ‘totally
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-Antrim family derive this barony; but of its former ex-
-tenteor style of architecture, nothing -importantvcan now
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‘-From Red-BayCastle the scenery changes very much:
the dreary wilderness ofGlenarifi‘ is exchanged for a ‘rich,
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On the extreme end ‘of the southern cliff‘ stands the .
zruined, rstandsin a very commanding, but very exposed, N
situation. It was built by the Bissetts, from whom the
