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"A melancholy silence shrouded the scene"

"I remember a strange Easter Sunday spent on Saints' Island, not indeed with any hope of finding archaeological confirmation of its history, but simply in communing with the past..."

"Eagles build in the islands of Lough Derg"

"Eagles build in the islands of Lough Derg, in places apparently very accessible to man..."

Tags: Badger (Meles meles), birdlife, Croaghbrack townland, curlews, eagle, Eagle's Rock Island, fauna, grouse, hares, islands, kites, lake, Lieutenant W. Lancey, ordnance survey, partridges, Royal Irish Academy, snipe, Templecarne, upper lake

"If I had my will, every otter-fisher should be solemnly ducked"

"'If ever an otter is admissible,' said the Parson,' it is so on such a lake as this. You certainly never get a day's fair fishing here.'…"

Tags: British Parliament, conversation, fauna, fishing, Henry Newland, lake, legislation, memoir, nineteenth century, otters, overfishing, upper lake

"Low rocks, a few weasels, lake"

The poetry of Dennis Devlin

Tags: Dennis Devlin, fauna, isolation, poetry, religious identity, rocks, timelessness, topography, twentieth century, weasels

"Sure it's an aigle!"

"'What bird is that ?' said the Captain, rousing himself. 'Sure it's an aigle!' said the men ; and, for want of something better to do, the whole party stood, sat, or reclined, watching the bird as it hovered uneasily round and round them..."

Tags: birdlife, boating, eagle, Eagle's Rock Island, eggs, fauna, fishing, Henry Newland, lake, memoir, nineteenth century, poaching, upper lake

"Unconcernedly the Easter sunshine poured down on that scene of desertion and decay"

"The land [of Saints' Island] was cultivated at one time. The marks of the furrows were clearly to be seen at the early season of which I speak..."

Tags: agriculture, Alice Curtayne, building, decay, easter, fauna, flora, isolation, lichen, monastery, moss, overgrown, ruins, Saints Island, twentieth century, weeds

"Wild and gloomy loneliness"

"Lough Derg has certainly been well chosen as a spot of religious penitence and seclusion, for the character of its scenery harmonises well with such a feeling; it is that of wild and gloomy loneliness."

Tags: arbutus, colour, description, fauna, fishing, flora, fly fishing, Heather (Calluna vulgaris), Henry Newland, isolation, loneliness, memoir, mountains, myrica, nineteenth century, remoteness, wildness

Eagle's eggs

"It so happened, that the Parson had marked the very clump in which the bird had pitched, and had taken the bearings accurately. Guiding his course by these, he scrambled over huge, loose, mossy stones, so large, so irregular, and so unconnected with…

Tags: birdlife, dryness, eagle, eggs, fauna, fishing, Henry Newland, lake, memoir, nesting, nineteenth century, poaching, upper lake

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

Lough Golagh and Breesy Hill Special Area of Conservation

The watershed, geology and wildlife of the Lough Golagh and Breesy Hill Special Area of Conservation

Tags: Badger (Meles meles), biodiversity, Bitter-vetch (Lathyrus montanus), Black Bog-rush (Schoenus nigricans), blanket bog, Blue Moor-grass (Sesleria albicans), Bog Pondweed (Potamogeton polygonifolius), bogland, Bottle Sedge (Carex rostrata), Breesy Hill, cattle, Common Butterwort (Pinguicula vulgaris), Common Knapweed (Centaurea nigra), Common Reed (Phragmites australis), Common Tern (Sterna hirundo), Deergrass (Scirpus cespitosus), dryness, Early-purple Orchid (Orchis mascula), fauna, flora, gneiss, Great Fen-sedge (Cladium mariscus), Grey Heron, Gull, Hazel (Corylus avellana), Heather (Calluna vulgaris), Juniper (Juniperis communis), Kestrel, Lichens (Cladonia portentosa and C. uncialis), limestone, Lough Cam, Lough Finn, Lough Golagh, Lough Lee, Lough Unshin, ommon Club-rush (Scirpus lacustris), peat extraction, Purple Moor-grass (Molinia caerulea), Raven, Red Grouse, Sessile Oak (Quercus petraea), Shoreweed (Littorella uniflora), snipe, sphagnum moss, Spiked Water-milfoil (Myriophyllum spicatum), Stonechat, vicinity, Water Lobelia (Lobelia dortmanna), Woodpigeon.

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