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A poetic vision of Mary
"From the watchers below a great cry still reaches to the Lady of Heaven, to Mary, the joy of the Gael, whose feet rest on Iona..."
Tags: Celtic revival, lakes, mythology, prosopopoeia, raiment, romance, Shane Leslie, St. Patrick, stars, Virgin Mary
A story of Ugolino's death on Station Island
"Upon an ill day was sin done on the island of the cave itself, and was long remembered as the beginning of many sorrows to Derg..."
A visit in the reign of Henry VIII
"The record of many others who followed the same perilous quest survives. The Sire de Beaujeu, Louis de Sue, Louis of France, Malatesta of Hungary, and, not least, there came in the reign of King Henry VIII. the Cardinal Legate to England, who made a…
Antonio Mannini is rowed to the island
"The prior accompanied my as far as the water, and put me into the boat himself, first kissing me and giving me his blessing..."
Antonio Mannini prepares for his journey
Antonio Mannini prepares for his journey
Destroying Station Island
"And therefore we do hereby order and resolve that Letters shall be dispatched from this board unto the Rev. Father of God the Lord Bishop of Clogher, Sir John Dundarre High Sheriff of the County of Donegal, Edward Archdale and Leonard Blennerhasset…
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
Fish stocks in the lake
"In this Lough is great plenty of fish such as trouts, eels and salmon as I am told. Trouts may be had by angling in abundance from March till winter and at the head of the river between Knocnacoyne and Leanaght might a good eel fishing be had in the…
How the demons came to Lough Derg
"Some of the evil spirits settled on the Island of Swimmers to which they gave the name of demons. The demonaic island in truth is girded by an inland lake..."
John O'Donovan described the lake
"Ballyshanny. (Nov. 1, 1835.) I visited the far-famed terrestrial Purgatory of Lough-Derg but received no benefit from my tours except a severe cold, which I attribute more to the wet mountain bogs that surround the Lake..."