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eastern direction by Plaiskin. Here, then, we shall com-
- mence our description of the great object of inquiry, the
Causeway itself; and for this place the various theories -,
BALLINTOY. ' V . 87
63;, three fairs held here in each year, and it has the advan- ‘. F ’
gh‘ -tage of a tolerable bay. >
10. . From Ballintoy to Bushmills there is no object of at-
tention or interest to detain the traveller, with the excep- , ,3“ , ".
Ta tion probably of Dunseverick Castle, an ancient for- e ““
be "tress situated on an insulated rock, which is moulder- '
me’; ing away with such rapidity, that the work of art in
to this case appears a more durable structure than that of
of - nature. There is very little of the military or ecclesias-
he tical history of this county yet collected. The wretched
ml. epitome of its monastic history, contained in Archdall, is
my scarcely sufficient for the purposes of a catalogue; and
ire even the learned Dr.Lannigan’s ecclesiastical history, a yet
be: ’ more recent work, says but little on the same subject. Of
“St the castles along the eastern and northern coasts, very
33, little information can now be collected’; and of this ruin
(1-1. we find only one sentence in Camden, viz. that it was
the p given to Sorlcy-Boy, about the year 1570; after which
the time it became the residence of O’Cahan, an Irish chief
0&1 from the banks of the river Bann, from whom the county
ig‘: of Coleraine was denominated O’Cahan’s country; he was
tly friend and ally of Sorley-Boy, who, together w1tl1 Bryan
in‘ Carrough united their forces with his to oppose the deputy
ml Sir John l’errot. ‘
he The tourist may now proceed without delay to Bush- ‘.
ml mills, about one mile from the Causeway, where there IS a is e 1
mt comfortable little inn ; this is to be considered the Cause- ‘I :
U5, way inn, being the nearest place of rest or refreshment. V ' ,
i From Bushmills, then, the tourist is supposed to make an -N 4 i-
excursion to the Causeway, and along the coast ‘m an 1
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