glenveagh

Updated: May 26, 2025

Trees and brushwood grew more closely to the house than a military engineer would have permitted, and I hazarded the opinion that it would be easy to "do him over," as it is called. But on talking to Mr. Stacpoole I quickly discover that the real reason why he is now alive is that ninety-nine out of a hundred of his enemies are as afraid of him as the Glenveagh folk up in Donegal are of Mr.

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

Happily the curtain had not fallen before we caught a grand passing glimpse of the romantic gorge of Glen Veagh, closed and commanded in the shadowy distance by the modern castle of Glenveagh, the mountain home of my charming country-woman, Mrs. Adair.

William Henry Hurlbert - Ireland Under Coercion (2nd ed.) (1 of 2) (1888)