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The coming of the Norsemen
"One soft autumn noon, the lough lay in a haze of golden mist. Behind the eastern clouds the sun puffed out some streaks of red, angry and livid in their broken setting, but softened and mellow ere they reached the hillsides of Ireland or rested on…
Tags: blood, Celtic revival, hills, literature, massacre, monasticism, myth, ninth century, Norse, Shane Leslie, St. Patrick, Vikings
The demon Corna
"When we were within half a bow-shot of the said island of the Purgatory I saw a bird blacker than coal take flight ; it had not a single plume or feather on its back..."
The heritage of prayer
"The three days of fasting, the night spent in prison, the prayers prayed in the cold water at the Pilgrimage to-day, are all in glorious descent from the time of the Culdees..."
Tags: Celtic revival, legacy, mythology, romance, saints, Saints Island, Shane Leslie, St. Patrick, water
The Island of Swimmers
"There is on the cliff of Cruachan looking out on the sea and the Western sun a very deep cave exhaling icy blasts all the time..."
The lake returns to the Diocese
"In the year 1917 the final lawsuit took place, at the Quarter sessions in Donegal, before County Court Judge Cooke, K.C. ..."
The landholders of the parish
"The chief proprieters are the representatives of the late Colonel Leslie, who hold 45 townlands out of 50..."
The legacy of the Druids
"It is a long passage of time since the men of Ireland first felt the mystery of those quiet little hills and looked for the unseen in the waters that lie at their feet, for the spiritual history of Derg stretches back into the dimmest age of…
Tags: Celtic revival, Druid, dryness, forest, hills, myth, pre-Christian, prehistory, Rome, Shane Leslie, St. Patrick, storytelling
The Leslies as landlords
"All the islands of Lough Derg and the eel rivers are let for 5 pounds…"
The Leslies of Glaslough
An account of the religious history of Lough Derg for the traveller.
The lough in the twelfth century
"On every side of the island lay the watery fields, winding themselves into inlets and across bays. Great sheets of water, unbroken save by a group of smaller islands that rode like ships that had run to seed and blossom in tropical seas, with the…