Genealogy Ebooks As daily alterations are making in the various departments of Trade, together with many local improvements in the Channel Islands, it is a matter of primary importance to the Stranger to have an accurate detail, according to the present existence of things, without being compelled to wade through a mass of obsolete and irrelevant matter. The leading feature of this Work is to give within its limits as much crude matter as the space will permit, admitting nothing trivial, and omitting nothing which the scientific traveller may wish to ascertain.…]]> Tory contains three lakes, two of them, Lough Ayes and Lough Ahooey of considerable size ; the other is named Lough A-her. The Commissioners of Irish lights erected a light-house here in 1882, which is of great service to mariners, and has greatly diminished the number of shipwrecks, caused by the position of the island in the direct course, vessels entering or departing by the North Channel. It is visible in clear weather at the distance of 17 nautical miles, the lantern standing 122 feet above the level of the sea at high-water.]]> In the following account of the Social and Church life of Christian Ireland, I have, as far as possible, let the old records tell their own story, refraining from unnecessary comment. My object is not to discuss the position and religious beliefs of the Irish Church, but to show the practical effect of its influence on the daily life of the people. There will always be questions connected with the discipline and doctrines of the Irish Church which will be answered differently according to the stand-point from which we set out to examine them. So…]]>