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"Primeval magic among the trees"

The poetry of Patrick Kavanagh's 'Lough Derg', detailing a visit in 1941

Tags: County Donegal, dawn, distraction, farming, landscape, mountains, Patrick Kavanagh, poetry, remoteness, renewal, revelation, rural landscape, twentieth century

"A boy was standing like a ballet dancer poised on the rock"

The poetry of Patrick Kavanagh's 'Lough Derg', detailing a visit in 1941

Tags: County Donegal, distraction, imagery, landscape, Patrick Kavanagh, pilgrimage, poetry, rural landscape, St. Patrick's Cross, twentieth century, vista

St. Patrick's well at Tullaghan

"St. Patrick’s Well at Tullaghan has a legend. St Patrick stopped the night in a house near a mountain. The woman told him not to look at the light on the mountain, but he went up and saw a serpent and when he struck it, St. Patrick’s Well sprang up.…

Tags: blood, Bundoran, County Donegal, etymology, Folklore, holy well, mountains, St. Patrick, Tullaghan

Castlederg to Lough Derg

A description of Lough Derg and its Pilgrimage in the American Donahoe's Magazine

Tags: Boston, Castlederg, County Derry, County Donegal, County Tyrone, Donahoe's Magazine, Killeter, nineteenth century, pilgrimage, road

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