And I myself met once with a young man in the Burren Hills who remembered an old poet who made his poems in Irish and had met when he was young, the young man said, one who called herself Maive, and said she was a queen "among them," and asked him if he would have money or pleasure.

" THE MAN HE BROUGHT TO JUSTICE "Corly, that burned his house in Burren, was very bad, and it was O'Connell brought him to the gallows.

But others I have heard in the Workhouse, or to the north of Galway Bay, in Connemara, or on its southern coast, in Burren.

It is out beyond the hills of Burren I will cast my eye, till I'll see the three gates of Heaven!

XL. CROMWELL'S METHODS Loss of life during the eight years of war, Punishment of the vanquished, Executions, Wholesale scheme of eviction, The New Owners, "The Burren," Sale of women to the West Indian plantations, Dissatisfaction amongst the soldiers and debenture holders, Irish Cromwellians. XLI.

It happened, too, that some of the first batches of exiles were ordered into North Clare, to a district known as the Burren, whose peculiarity is that what little soil is to be found there has collected into rifts below the surface, or accumulated into pockets of earth at the feet of the hills, leaving the rest of the surface sheer rock, the very streams, whose edges would otherwise be green, being mostly carried underground.