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Rathnacross Fairy Fort

"There is a circular fence of earth on top of a hill in the school district. It is known as Rathnacross and is situated in the townland of Drumawark.

There is a hole in the middle of it where a Celtic cross stood but it is broken now and the…

Tags: Drumawark Townland, fairy fort, Folklore, High Cross, hills, marker, pilgrim road, pilgrimage, Rathnacross

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

The IRA evacuates from Pettigo

"A large-scale evacuation [of Pettigo] followed [the shelling] and the IRA men made their way to the hills to escape the bombardment..."

Tags: 1922, boating, Donegal Town, escape, evacuation, hills, IRA, Irish Civil War, mountains, Pettigo

The dimensions of Lough Derg

"The lakes [of the Parish of Templecarn] amount to 110, of which Lough Derg is the most extensive..."

The mountains and hills of Templecarn

"Of mountains and hills there is a great number. The whole face of the country indeed consists of hills separated by narrow valleys..."

Tags: agriculture, cattle, Croaghbrack, Croaghbrack townland, Crocknacunny, hills, Lieutenant W. Lancey, Mindilpier, mountains, North West Farming Society, ordnance survey, Parish of Templecarne, pasturage, Royal Irish Academy, rural landscape, Rusheen, Templecarne, Termon Magrath

St Peter's Island and St Peter's Well

"St. Peter's Island and St. Peter's well are situated about a half a mile due North of the village of Mountcharles. They are in the townland of Turras Hill. The little Island is in the centre of the lake, but since the erection of the waterworks in…

Tags: Augustinians, Catholicism, exile, Folklore, hills, holy well, island, lake, Mountcharles, seventeenth century, St. Peter's Island, Turras Hill, vanished island

"See ye not here this rock some power secureth"

"SCENE XIX.
POLONIA. — THE SAME..."

Tags: grimness, hills, mountains, negative description, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, play, Spanish Golden Age

The journey from Pettigo to Lough Derg

“From Pettigo to Lough Dergh, the distance is about three miles, over bog and mountain. It is a scramble all the way, endeavouring to avoid the marsh and bog land, that cannot, however, be avoided..."

Tags: barefoot, barrenness, bogland, hills, impressions, landscape, marsh, mountains, Pettigo, Philip Dixon Hardy, pilgrim road, pilgrimage, quaking bog, second-hand accounts

The legacy of the Druids

"It is a long passage of time since the men of Ireland first felt the mystery of those quiet little hills and looked for the unseen in the waters that lie at their feet, for the spiritual history of Derg stretches back into the dimmest age of…

Tags: Celtic revival, Druid, dryness, forest, hills, myth, pre-Christian, prehistory, Rome, Shane Leslie, St. Patrick, storytelling

The coming of the Norsemen

"One soft autumn noon, the lough lay in a haze of golden mist. Behind the eastern clouds the sun puffed out some streaks of red, angry and livid in their broken setting, but softened and mellow ere they reached the hillsides of Ireland or rested on…

Tags: blood, Celtic revival, hills, literature, massacre, monasticism, myth, ninth century, Norse, Shane Leslie, St. Patrick, Vikings

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