Excerpt from The Manchester Quarterly, Vol. 23: A Journal of Literature and Art Sligo itself stands picturesquely at the mouth of Sligo River. It is a fair-sized town containing many handsome modern buildings and the fine ruin of its famous abbey. The most notable features of this once noble structure are the exquisitely moulded east window of the great church and the almost perfect Cloisters. Near the town in the two counties of Sligo and Leitrim is Lough Gill with its lovely wooded shores and its attendant troop of islands. Above the woodland gray limestone mountains tower in the distance and guard a vale of exceptional beauty. The road round the lake passes many monuments of great interest. First comes the comparatively m'odern seventeenth century Green Fort, with its four rounded bastions, which is said to have been made by Oliver Cromwell when he shattered the abbey with his cannon. The road therefrom leads through the finely timbered estate of Hazelwood and gives continual peeps of Lough Gill. Deep in a dell on the right is Calry Lough, a dark sheet of water, over which a little ruined church still sadly gazes, as it has gazed for many centuries. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.