Penelope's Irish Experiences by Kate Douglas Wiggin

'On Lough Neagh's banks, as the fisherman strays, When the cool, calm eve's declining. He sees the round towers of other days Beneath the waters shining. ' Thomas Moore.

A Dublin car-driver told me one day that he had just taken a picnic-party to the borders of a lake, where they had had tea in a tramcar which had been placed there for such purposes. Francesca and I were amused at the idea, but did not think of it again until we drove through the La Touche estate, on one of the first days after our arrival at Devorgilla. We left Salemina at Rosnaree House with Aunt La Touche and the children, and proceeded to explore the grounds, with the view of deciding on certain improvements to be made when the property passes, so to speak, into our hands.