Dunluce Castledetails

“Dunluce castle is situated about two miles from Bushmills, a neat little village in the county of Antrim, on the estate of Sir F. W. M‘Naghten, and about the same distance from the grand national curiosity, the Giants’ Causeway, many parts of which can be seen from its turrets.” (p. 181)

“Dunlace was soon afterwards deserted, and fell to desolation; but it is impossible, even at this advanced period, to visit this beautiful ruin without melancholy feelings. Those walls, that formerly resounded with the noise of revelry, and the clang of warfare, now echo with the cries of the raven and the sea-gull; and the place where the martial banner floated in victory and defiance is now overgrown with moss and ivy; all furnishing a melancholy memento of that rapidly approaching period, when

“The cloudcapt towers, the gorgeous palaces,
The solemn temples, the great globe itself,
Yea, all that it inherit, shall dissolve;
And, like the basless fabric of a vision,
Leave not a wreck behind.
James F. Lanktree.” (p. 183)