Talk:Waterville, County Kerry
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From The Parliamentary Gazetteer of Ireland printed in 1846 and copied from the digitized copy released by the google book search link :
WATERVILLE, a village in the barony of Iveragh, co. Kerry, Munster. It stands on the brief stream which flows from Lough Currane to Ballinskelligs bay, and on the coast-road from Cahirciveen to Kenmare, 4 miles north-north-west of Derrynane- abbey, and 8 1/2 south of Cahirciveen. The surrounding scenery is so varied and superb, and the facilities for 'wild sports' and angling are so many and diversified, that tourists and sportsmen are attracted to the village in spite of both the remoteness of its situation and the excessive ruggedness of its approaches. A small inn at the village affords accommodation to tourists, and is used as a central point by anglers. Waterville-house, the seat of James Butler, Esq., adjoins the village at the end of a strand upwards of a mile in length, and amidst grounds which command noble views, on the one hand, of Lough Currane, surrounded by its stern and lofty mountains, and, on the other, of Ballinskelligs bay, overhung by grand heights, and lashed into fury by the tempestuous winds, the tremendous onsets, and the stupendous billows of the Atlantic. The new line of road from Cahirciveen to Kenmare gradually winds up the mountain south of Waterville for upwards of 3 miles toward Derrynane- abbey ; and, on attaining the lofty summit, it commands a most imposing view of the adjacent coast, and its sublimely featured sea-board. The author of " The Sportsman in Ireland," speaking of successively Lough Currane, the village of Waterville, and the stream from the lake to Ballinskelligs bay, says: " At first the stranger is impressed with an idea that the lake is nothing more than an arm of the sea ; the fall is only ten or twelve feet from it to the bay, but sufficient to protect it from the influence of the tide, and affording for the whole tribe of the genus salmo an easy transition from the salt to the fresh water. A small cluster of cottages which forms the newly arisen village of Waterville, and situated at the very edge of the fall, covers from the view the mansion of Mr. Butler, whose property the short but productive river is, and whose house is almost attached to the profitable fishery. I walked down to the weirs, the produce of which, I am informed, amounts to £700 or £800 per annum. In four traps it is not uncommon to take from 500 to 600 fish nightly in the full salmon season, and perhaps a more astonishing sight could not be presented than the shoal of these creatures, one over the other, constituting, in their confined cells, almost a solid mass ; the boiling stream which rushes through the base of their prison-house, keeping them not only alive, but perfectly well till the arrival of the higglers, who take them alive upon the mountains, and to the towns many miles distant." At Waterville is a branch of the West-Cove dispensary, within the Poor-law union of Kenmare. Pop. of the village not specially returned.
Douglas.kastle (talk) 01:40, 17 December 2007 (UTC)
