Browse Items (6 total) Browse All Browse by Tag Search Items Browse Map Tags: Fair Lake Sort by: Title Creator Date Added Situating Lough Derg A history of Lough Derg and its Antiquities. Tags: blood, Bundoran, commentary, Derg abban, dimensions, eighteenth century, Fair Lake, Fenian Cycle, Fionn mac Cumhaill, Folklore, Gerald of Wales, James Stephens, mica, moorland, railway, red, slate, St. Dabheoc, St. Fintan, Tirconnell, water "A very strange Story hath been invented" A critique of St. Patrick's Purgatory and Catholic pilgrimage in general. Tags: Caoranach, cattle, eighteenth century, etymology, Fair Lake, Fenian Cycle, Fionn mac Cumhaill, giants, imagination, John Richardson, legend, myth, Protestant critique, Red Lake, superstition "The mark of St. Patrick's knee" An account of Lough Derg from a late-nineteenth-century pilgrim. Tags: description, etymology, Fair Lake, Irish Monthly, miracle, monster, pilgrimage, purgatory, Red Lake, rocks, St. Patrick, Station Island Fionn Mac Cumhaill and the worm of Lough Derg O'Donovan's account from a local of the origin of Lough Derg's name in a story from the Fenian Cycle Tags: etymology, Fair Lake, Fenian Cycle, Fionn mac Cumhaill, John O'Donovan, lake, letters, mythology, nineteenth century, ordnance survey, Red Lake, worm "Lake of the Grouse"? "The antiquary, John O'Donovan…dismissed the name, Loch Dearg, and corrected it to Loch Derc, meaning the Lake of the Cave..." Tags: Alice Curtayne, birdlife, etymology, Fair Lake, grouse, John O'Donovan, Lake of the Cave, Lake of the Grouse, Red Lake, twentieth century Fair Lake, Lake of the Cave, Red Lake "The original name of the lake was Finn-loch - the Fair Lake. Those who have visited Lough Derg in the summer and looked on its natural beauties may well approve of the name given by our Pagan ancestors..." Tags: etymology, Fair Lake, Irish identity, Irish language, Lake of the Cave, Margaret Gibbons, monster, Red Lake, St. Patrick, stone carving Output Formats atom, csv, dc-rdf, dcmes-xml, json, omeka-xml, rss2
