were wrecked. o'n this rock-bound banks of the River E:me it is set coast. Hoguey presents many features of interest and around it may be ~een fine examples of the fi.rst stages in the formation of earth pillars deeply eroded in bou~der clay. In the Ballyshannon direction is found the ruins of Finner Church, which probably marks the site of the church of St. Neinnid, first Abbot of Inismacsaint and Archbishop of Domnach Mor Eitne. To the west of the town are the ruins of Dun Caitibrie and nearby Leag an Aifrinn (the hoaow of the Mass) where Mass was celebrated during Penal Days. At Magheracar (the plain of the field of slaughter) there is a stream, known as Srutan-na-Fola (the stream ot blood) indicating that a sanguinary batt:e may have been fought here. An older name for the district is Cabhlach Dun (the F'ort of the Fleet). Public !Services- The post office faces Chapel Road and is open on week days from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Banking facilities are provided by some of the major banks. Situated on the main road from Sligo to Derry Bundoran is we:l served by road transport (G.N.R. and Erne Bus Service). The railway station is the terminus of the !branch which connects, at Bundoran Junction, with the line to Enniskillen and Omagh. BALLYSHANNON Four miles f.rom Bundoran lies Ballyshannon (Beal Atha Seanaigh-the mouth of the Ford of Seanaigh) one of the lar,gest towns in the county. Beautifully situated on the steeply rising in a region of charming scenery and contains much of interest. The civic affairs of the town are administered by the county manager and the Town Commissioners assisted by the town surveyor and town clerk. Primarily a market and fair town, of r~cent years much thought has been devoted to its industrial development as a rather high pool of male unemploved is available. A voluntary body, the Industrial Deve:opment Association, is endea•vouring to interest industrialists in the facilities offered in the town. Half a mile upriver from the town is situated the massLve dam of the Cathleen Falls hydroelectric .Power station," just completed and put into commission {1952), which holds back the waters of a g!·eat artificial lake {1,000 acres in extent). Some two miles a1bove that again is the sma]ler dam of the C~iff hydroelectric station. completed last yea.r. In the construction of these two stations, under the general description of the Erne scheme, millions of pounds were spent by the E.<S.B. to cope with the country's ever-expanding demand for electrical power. The scheme is a monument to the genius of native enterprise and ability as the works, apart from the installation of some of the machinery undertaken by the manufacturers, was wholly that of Irish engineers. The scheme took six years to complete. There is a ·.!tOOd water supply in the town and the sewerage system is satisfactory. Hecently completecl housing schemes (.local authority, E.S.B. ·.·and some 341.
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