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Secrets of Templecarne Graveyard

A description of the graveyard and its relationship with the lake

Tags: cattle, devotional activities, James Spencer Knox, lake, mountains, Pettigo, pilgrim path, pilgrim road, Protestant critique, ruins, sanctity, seventeenth century, Shane Leslie, St. Patrick, Station Island, Templecarne Graveyard, Termon Magrath

Fauna surrounding the lake

"In describing the seventeenth-century Fauna, Knox makes note of wolf and red deer at Lough Derg. 'The deer come some times from Barnesmore to this Estate but having no coverts they do not stay in it,' whereas 'the wolves are but rare in the country…

Tags: fauna, James Spencer Knox, lake, red deer, Shane Leslie, Termon Magrath, wolves

"So ended my pilgrimage to Lough Derg"

Knox advises Protestant travellers to visit Loug Derg and see Catholic folly

Tags: Catholic Church, elitism, James Spencer Knox, negative description, nineteenth century, Protestant critique, Protestantism, recommendations, sectarianism, 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

"A rock, which, rising to the surface of the water, the breeze had exposed"

Knox reveals that the "serpent" is a rock

Tags: debunking, elitism, James Spencer Knox, negative description, nineteenth century, Protestant critique, scientism, superstition, Travelogue

"They would make a Jonas of me against my will"

Knox reasons that the boatmen would prefer that the monster eat the heretic reverend rather than them

Tags: elitism, James Spencer Knox, monster, nineteenth century, Protestant critique, sectarianism, serpent, superstition, Travelogue

"He had swallowed up a very wicked man"

Knox asks questions about the monster, which appears to devour sinners but largely emerges just above the water

Tags: elitism, James Spencer Knox, mentalities, morality, nineteenth century, Protestant critique, sacrifice, sectarianism, superstition, Travelogue

"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

"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

"I insisted that they should take me to an island"

Knox wishes to visit an island in the upper lake

Tags: boating, boatmen, elitism, islands, James Spencer Knox, nineteenth century, Protestant critique, Travelogue, upper lake

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