DUNLUCE CASTLE 247

The most remarkable ruined Castle in Ireland--From its

situation it is the finest ruin of the kind in Europe--The

narrow causeway by which it is entered--Unusual thinness of

its walls--Was evidently erected before cannons were

perfected--An awful place in a storm--Giant's Causeway--

Dunseverick Castle--Meaning of the name _Dunluce_--Not

known by whom or when it was founded--Was once owned by the

MacQuillins--Sorley Boy--Terrible catastrophe that once

happened at Dunluce--Must have been built before the

fifteenth century.

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