dowris

Updated: May 4, 2025

Henry first went salmon-fishing in the river Dowris, which flows from Kylemore Lake into the sea at Ballynakill Harbour, Kylemore was a mountain pass and nothing more.

Bernard Henry Becker - Disturbed Ireland: Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81.

The long unknown mangold is seen to flourish on spots which once nourished about a snipe to an acre. Root crops are very largely grown, and it is to these that the climate and reclaimed bog of Connemara are more particularly favourable; but there is abundance of grain at Currywongoan, at Greenmount, and at the home-farm at Dowris.

Bernard Henry Becker - Disturbed Ireland: Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81.