Chapter 24

'Cheerful at morn, he wakes from short repose,

Breasts the keen air, and carols as he goes.'

Oliver Goldsmith.

If you drive from Clifden to Oughterard by way of Maam Cross, and then on to Galway, you will pass through the O'Flahertys' country, one of whom, Murrough O'Flaherty, was governor of this country of Iar (western) Connaught. You wi