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"Tradition, when jealously guarded and carefully handed down is a reliable source of information"

"With the destruction of the buildings in Lough Derg and the expulsion of the Franciscans in 1632, all the records of its glorious part were also destroyed..."

"In nine cases out of ten, the legend is simply an attempt made by an unlettered, but imaginative people, to account for natural appearances by supernatural agency"

A description of the power given to unexplained natural phenomena in Irish folklore, and the character of the storytellers

Tags: colonialism, conversation, debate, dispute, fishing, Folklore, Henry Newland, Irish identity, memoir, mythology, negative description, nineteenth century, superstition, upper lake

The March of the Dead Maguires

An account of Lough Derg folklore on a fishing trip, explaining the strange circular currents of the lake in supernatural terms

Tags: fishing, Folklore, ghosts, Henry Newland, lake, Maguire family, memoir, mythology, nineteenth century, seventeenth century, Station Island, supernatural, water, weather

Lines Written on St Patrick's Purgatory Lough Derg

A poem by J. Patton on Lough Derg from the Schools' Collection

Tags: ammateur, emotion, environment, Folklore, nostalgia, Oral History, pilgrimage, poetry, religious identity, Station Island

"A spreading hawthorn tree"

Knox visits a lone tree on an island, a home of fairies in local folklore

Tags: fairies, Folklore, Hawthorn, James Spencer Knox, nineteenth century, Protestant critique, Sidhe, Travelogue, tree

"What we saw was the great serpent or fish"

Knox describes the fear of his Irish boatmen at the appearance of a lake monster, which he sees as a rock just above the waterline

Tags: elitism, Folklore, James Spencer Knox, lake, monster, nineteenth century, Protestant critique, rock, serpent, superstition, Travelogue

"They told the marvellous incidents of the voyage to their listening friends"

Knox stands on the rock to demonstrate his powers of deduction, an event which results in much storytelling upon the return to shore

Tags: credulity, elitism, ferry house, Folklore, James Spencer Knox, nineteenth century, Protestant critique, scientism, sectarianism, storytelling, Travelogue

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

The snake of Lough Patrick and Lough Peter

"There are no holy wells in this district but there are two holy lakes called Lough Patrick and Lough Peter. These lakes are in the townland of Drumlougher and form the boundary between County Monaghan and County Armagh. St Patrick's stone is in a…

Tags: cattle, County Donegal, County Monaghan, cure, Drumlougher, Folklore, hills, Lough Patrick, Lough Peter, miracle, Oral History, pilgrimage, snake, St. Patrick

Leprechauns and Mermaids

"Very few stories are told of mermaids in this district as it is too far from the sea. The mermaid or 'maigdean mara' is very attractive. Once upon a time a glan man who made a station in Lough Derg returned home by Bundoran. He spent a few hours…

Tags: Bundoran, County Cavan, County Donegal, drowning, Folklore, Glen, mermaid, Oral History, pilgrimage, supernatural

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