Crossword-Solution: MUCKROSS 8 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 16

Entertainments and fetes have been given the young couple, and it is rumored that the Queen is about to purchase for them the beautiful "Muckross" estate near Killarney.

Like "Muckross," the "Pleasant Point of Wild Swine," the name Torc is called after the wild boars, which in former years went "gerasening" over its slopes.

Glena means "the valley of good fortune," and a name more suggestive of happier thoughts than weird Glownamorra across the lake--"the glen of the dead." [Illustration: _Photo, Lawrence, Dublin._ Muckross Abbey, Killarney.] A mile's drive through the pleasant demesne lands of Muckross brings us to the water's edge at Castlelough Bay, in the middle lake, on a promontry of which the ruins of ~Muckross Abbey~ are to be seen.

All impressive is the desolate majesty of Muckross, whatever time it is visited! "But the gay beams of lightsome day Gild but to flout the ruins grey." At night, when the pale ghost of the moon looks across the lake, when the mountains are shrouded in shadows, when the waters are lulling the slumbering land, "And the owlet hoots o'er the dead man's grave," the solemnity of the scene surpasses even that of fair Melrose, by the distant Tweed, of which Sir Walter Scott tells.

From the Muckross, a short detour will, if desired, lead to Flesk Castle, standing on a finely wooded hill above the wide sweeping river.