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A description of the timeless nature of Lough Derg, a window into the early days of Irish Christianity

"But we have not yet reached the island. We are still on the landing-stage looking up the long reaches of the lake (it covers and area of twenty square miles), noting the high, bleak, purple mountains which surround it, and the number of pretty…

"A sunset on Lough Derg, under favourable circumstances, is, also, a spectacle of extraordinary grandeur..."