some of them, too, at no very great distance from Warrenpoint. At either you may live for one-fourth the cost charged at houses of similar character in any English watering place, from Scarborough to Torquay; and while scarcely any of the latter equal, the great majority fall infinitely short of the "Victoria" and the 'Crown," in those items of healthfulness and variety of scene in the neighbourhood, which are supposed to be the main recommendation of watering places at all.

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And the most important consideration remains to be added; viz., families may be brought to Warrenpoint (and, indeed, the same remark is applicable to all such places in Ireland) without fear of detriment to the morals or the delicacy of the female portion of them;-a consideration that will be properly valued by parents in London and elsewhere, who now spend their month or six weeks annually at places round the coast, which they too often find are but a continuation of the most equivocal parts of the metropolis. In the society of Warrenpoint there may be a lack of the pinchbeck refinement, the tinsel gentility, observable at Gravesend, Ramsgate, or any other rendezvous of cits that would be thought distingué; but there is also, happily, a total lack of those ambiguous gentry, of both sexes, who find their way in large bodies to such localities, and whose real position never becomes known without creating contempt for their casual association with ourselves, and alarm for the possible consequences of their association with others.

In addition to the "Victoria" and the Crown," several other of the inns at Warrenpoint, M'Convill's, White's, and O'Hare's, are all well arranged, and managed with great regard to the comfort of the guests, as well also as with regard to economy.

On summer Sunday evenings the river is literally covered with boats, brimful of passengers, crossing over to recreate themselves along the shore of Omeath, and in the well laid out grounds attached to O'Hagan's excellent tavern; of which we here give

another and more distant view, taken from a spot lower down towards Carlingford, and which is a favourite with visitors to the Captain's.

Warrenpoint derives its name from the circumstance of an extensive rabbit warren having been here formerly.

There is a pretty and valuable Windmill, built by Mr. Robert Turner. The machinery is of cast metal, and constructed on the most approved plan. There is also a Distillery, but it has not been worked for several years. The quay is very convenient, and the large dock capable of receiving vessels of great burthen. A little northward of the quay is a patent slip, for repairing vessels upon, constructed by the liberality of Roger Hall, Esq., principal owner of Warrenpoint. It is one of the most complete things of the kind in Ireland. Leonard Watson, Esq., is the active and intelligent Agent at Lloyd's for Warrenpoint. There are several places of worship in the town, the most prominentas well from the elevation of its situation, as from the beauty of its design-being the Catholic Church, a chaste and handsome structure, by that eminent architect, Thomas J. Duff, Esq., erected, within the last ten years, on ground given for the purpose by George Ogle Godfrey, Esq., then of Newry. It is of the Gothic order, with very deep narrow windows, and is built in the form of a cross; the head of the cross being partly appropriated for a sacristy opening upon the altar, and partly for a parochial house, where two of the clergymen reside.

On the same eminence, and confronting the Catholic Chapel, is a very neat Protestant Church, also a modern structure in the Gothic style, but of great simplicity; it was erected in 1827. There are also two Presbyterian Meeting Houses; one of the synod of Ulster, and the other of the Remonstrant synod. Also a Primitive Methodist Chapel, and a Wesleyan Methodist Chapel. There is likewise a Dispensary, and other charitable institutions. Petty Sessions are held on alternate Mondays. There is a Constabulary Police Station and a Coast-guard Station here. Fairs are held on the last Friday of the month, and are well attended. The fishery in the Bay is productive, and gives employment to great numbers of the boatmen. We will treat more fully of the fisheries when we come to write of Carlingford.

Leaving this thriving and pleasant little town, we reach, at the distance of a mile, Narrow Water. The interjacent road in some parts is completely shaded by tall ash and other trees, which grow on either side, and interlace their leafy arms overhead.

NARROW WATER

Was originally a place of some consideration, having had several good houses situated contiguous to the Ferry, which here connects the road from Flurrybridge and that to Warrenpoint, as will be seen by our excellent road map. But these have all disappeared before the hand of modern improvement, except a pretty Water-mill, the Ferry-house, and two or three others. Latterly, Warrenpoint has been preferred as a situation for erecting houses.

And here, too, history again, with her thousand recollections, springs up to people the locale with the phantoms of the past, as if specially to heighten, as it were, the present charms of that placidly lovely landscape, by reminiscences of the turbulent and bloody deeds of which it was the site, and are here recalled by the presence of Narrow Water Castle

"Beneath whose battlements, within whose walls,
Power dwelt amid her passions :-in proud state
Each feudal chief upheld these armed halls,
Doing his evil will, nor less elate

Than mightier heroes of a longer date."

The building offers a perpetual theme for the pencil of the artist, and is taken from a great variety of points-the one shewn in the opposite sketch being perhaps the favourite, though the smaller drawing here

appended gives a good idea of the

structure.

The river which, above and below, is probably half a mile in width, is here suddenly narrowed by the projection of an enormous piece of rock; and on the hither side, the great Duke of Ormonde built this massive and warlike pile for the protection of the river in the troublous times succeeding the Restoration, about 1663. It has, however, the appearance of much greater antiquity; and tradition assigns it a date coeval with the neighbouring Castle of Carlingfordone of the numerous erections of King John. Probably some structure of Lackland's era was renovated by Charles's Viceroy, and adapted to the uses of artillery; for it is most unlikely that a spot so singularly well suited to the purposes of military defence,

NARROW WATER CASTLE, NEAR WARRENPOINT.-SECOND VIEW,

and commanding an entrance to Newry by land as well as by sea, should be neglected up to Ormonde's time. It must have been a place of great strength; and, in looking upon its discoloured and ominous walls, a passage which the most poetic of living Irish orators once applied to Wexford Castle, and which has been thought worthy of citation in Moore's History, will vividly occur to the spectator who may remember it-viz.:"Situate in the gorge of the mountain, and commanding the passage over the stream, whose waters are darkened with its shadow, it is invested with many melancholy associations, and imparts to the solemnity of the scene what I may call a political picturesque. From the fosse of the tower memory may take many a long and dismal retrospect. Years have flowed by like the waters it overshadows, and yet it is not changed-it stands as if it were the work of yesterday."... But let us not pursue the quotation to its political illustration. The castle consists of one square battlemented tower, built upon a rock, formerly insulated, the tide flowing completely round it; but on the landward side there has been for many years past a broad passage, connecting it with the road. The rampart on the seaward side is still beaten by the surges. Here is another view of it.

There is a legend connected with these ruins grim, now almost forgotten, which relates how some Irish " Glenara," through jealousy, imprisoned his young and beautiful wife, whom he had brought from the sunny land of Spain, in this rough fortress; how the whole night long she sat on the battlements "tuning her sad beart to music," perchance contrasting