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In my story, I shall make bold to turn my back on the Causeway, Dunluce Castle, the Mac Donnels, Banshees, and all, return to the beautiful neighborhood of Glenarm, and relate a little incident in the lives of some humble peasant people there. Some forty or fifty years ago, there lived at Glenarm, near the castle, a poor schoolmaster, named Philip O'Flaherty.
Many of the columns of the Causeway have been carried off and sold as pillars for mantels and though a notice is put up threatening any one with the rigor of the law, depredations are occasionally made. Returning, we left the road at Dunluce, and took a path which led along the summit of the cliffs.
Of the many castles and stout Irish strongholds it is hard to write in such a short paper as this. Those on the Boyne, such as Trim, for strong building and extent, excel in many ways. Carlingford, Carrickfergus, and Dunluce have by their size and picturesque situations ever appealed to visitors.
"But of that birth-place, I understand there is now no doubt?" said Eve, with more interest than she was herself conscious of betraying. "None whatever; I am a native of Philadelphia; that point was conclusively settled in my late visit to my aunt, Lady Dunluce, who was present at my birth." "Is Lady Dunluce also an American?"
"Paul is unquestionably the child referred to in the papers left by poor Monday, to the care of whose mother he was intrusted, until, in his fourth year, she yielded him to Mr. Powis, to get rid of trouble and expense, while she kept the annuity granted by Lady Dunluce.
The simple declaration of Captain Ducie concerning the family name of his mother, removed all doubt." "But, cousin Jack, did not the mention of Lady Dunluce, of the Ducies, and of Paul's connections, excite curiosity?" "Concerning what, dear? I could have no curiosity about a child of whose existence I was ignorant.
Monroe took Dunluce from Lord Antrim by the same stratagem by which Sir Phelim took Charlemont inviting himself as a guest, and arresting his host at his own table. A want of cordial co-operation between the Scotch commander and "the Undertakers" alone prevented them extinguishing, in one vigorous campaign, the northern insurrection.
From the Causeway we went to Dunluce Castle a grand old ruin, which stands on an insulated rock, a hundred feet above the sea. It is separated from the land by a chasm twenty feet wide, which is crossed by an arch only about eighteen inches broad. This castle was once the stronghold of a very powerful, proud, and warlike family the Mac Donnels.
Halfway down the crags are two or three pinnacles of rock called the Chimneys, and the stumps of several others can be seen, which, it is said, were shot off by a vessel belonging to the Spanish Armada in mistake for the towers of Dunluce Castle. The vessel was afterward wrecked in the bay below, which has ever since been called Spanish Bay, and in calm weather the wreck may be still seen.
He was twice wrecked. The first time all reached the shore in safety, and were protected by O'Niel, who was virtually the sovereign of the north of Ulster. He treated them kindly for a time. They then took to sea again, but were finally wrecked off Dunluce, and all on board save five perished miserably. Over eight thousand Spaniards died on the Irish coast.
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