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Updated: May 31, 2025
The steamer had a more than usually heavy cargo, and it was after four o'clock when we sailed from Kilronan. Again I saw the three low rocks sink down into the sea with a moment of inconceivable distress. It was a clear evening, and as we came out into the bay the sun stood like an aureole behind the cliffs of Inishmaan.
The silence is broken; I can hear far off, as if over water, a faint murmur of Gaelic. In the afternoon the sun came out and I was rowed over for a visit to Kilronan.
As is usual on Saturday, the steamer had a large cargo of flour and porter to discharge at Kilronan, and, as it was nearly four o'clock before the tide could float her at the pier, I felt some doubt about our passage to Galway.
He exhibited at the 1908 Kennel Club show a most promising young dog in Felixstowe Kilronan, with which he was second to Mrs. Shewell's Ch. Cotswold, of whom he is now kennel companion. At the same show Miss Clifford, of Ryde, exhibited a good hound in Wildcroft, another of Dermot Astore's sons, and other supporters of the breed are Lady Kathleen Pilkington, Mr. T. Hamilton Adams, Mr.
'We'll have time to walk round the garden once more. You have no idea what a pleasure it is for me to see you to talk with you like this. And, talking of Mary, they walked slowly, forgetful of everything but each other. A bell rang. 'I must be going; it will be late before I get home. 'Which way are you going? Round by Kilronan or across the Bridge of Keel? 'I came by Kilronan.
I returned to the middle island this morning, in the steamer to Kilronan, and on here in a curagh that had gone over with salt fish. As I came up from the slip the doorways in the village filled with women and children, and several came down on the roadway to shake hands and bid me a thousand welcomes.
There is a vague depression over the family this year, because of the two sons who have gone away, Michael to the mainland, and another son, who was working in Kilronan last year, to the United States. A letter came yesterday from Michael to his mother.
After my weeks in Inishmaan, Kilronan seemed an imposing centre of activity. The half-civilized fishermen of the larger island are inclined to despise the simplicity of the life here, and some of them who were standing about when I landed asked me how at all I passed my time with no decent fishing to be looking at.
'You see, he'll only allow a portion of the abbey to be roofed. 'You don't mean that he is so senile and superstitious as that? Then the reason of his opposition really is that he believes his death to be implicit in the roofing of Kilronan. 'Yes; he thinks that; and the priests turned out of the main road. 'How beautiful it looks! and Father Oliver stopped to admire.
Gannets are passing up and down above the sound, swooping at times after a mackerel, and further off I can see the whole fleet of hookers coming out from Kilronan for a night's fishing in the deep water to the west. As I lie here hour after hour, I seem to enter into the wild pastimes of the cliff, and to become a companion of the cormorants and crows.
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