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Fionn mac Cumhaill escapes the monster's belly

"…Fin M’Coul stood before the monster; but instead of innocently submitting to be sucked in like a common man, Fin, famed as he was above all the Fions for feats of agility, took a hop, step, and leap, and fairly and clearly jumped down its…

Tags: blood, Caesar Otway, colour, dryness, evacuation, Fionn mac Cumhaill, Folklore, hills, lake, monster, mountains, nineteenth century, St. Patrick, superstition

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

"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

"Some dark spot in the midst of flowing silver"

A description of the lake taken from O'Connor's account of an 1836 story in the Dublin Penny Journal Count Raymond de Perilleaux's 1397 journey to the Purgatory

Tags: aesthetics, barrenness, beech, Daniel O'Connor, fourteenth century, hills, lake, lake crossing, medieval, mountains, oak, Raymond de Pereilleux, silver, trees, Ugolino

"Fainting heart and failing eye, Aching head and footstep weary"

"Fainting heart and failing eye,
Aching head and footstep weary !
Courage, for the Lake is night
There beyond the hilltop dreary..."

Tags: approach, emotion, hills, lake, negative description, poetry, Shane Leslie, vision

The slopes of the mountains

"The Lough, which is said to be about nine miles in circumference, is situated in the midst of high hills, which rise on all sides without the slightest appearance of cultivation..."

Tags: aesthetics, barrenness, hills, isolation, loneliness, mountains, nineteenth century, rural landscape, Shane Leslie

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..."

Tags: bogland, cold, hills, John O'Donovan, mountains, nineteenth century, ordnance survey, penitential beds, pilgrimage, Royal Irish Academy, Saints Island, Shane Leslie, Station Island, stations, weather

"We left the Island with dry skies but still carrying our fast with us"

"Then, with hearts refreshed, we turned to accomplish the three remaining Stations..."

Tags: boating, Catholic journalism, dryness, hills, Leslie family, pilgrim crossing, pilgrimage, pilgrims, Rome, Shane Leslie, The Tablet, timelessness, twentieth century, weather

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

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

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