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"The green islands that were his morning hope
and his evening despair"

The poetry of Patrick Kavanagh's 'Lough Derg', detailing a visit in 1941

Tags: contemplation, inner landscape, islands, Jansenism, lake, landscape, Patrick Kavanagh, poetry, redemption, twentieth century, vista, water

"The lake waves caught the concrete stilts of the Basilica"

The poetry of Patrick Kavanagh's 'Lough Derg', detailing a visit in 1941

Tags: Basilica, embodied experience, foundations, lake, Patrick Kavanagh, poetry, sadness, twentieth century, water, waves

Lough Eske and Ardnamona Wood Special Area of Conservation

The watershed, geology and wildlife of the Lough Eske and Ardnamona Wood Special Area of Conservation

Lough Nageage Special Area of Conservation

The watershed, geology and wildlife of the Lough Nageage Special Area of Conservation

Tags: Ash (Fraxinus excelsior), Bell Heather (Erica cinerea), Bilberry (Vaccinium myrtillus), biodiversity, Birch (Betula spp.), Black Bog-rush (Schoenus nigricans), bogland, Bracken (Pteridium aquilinum), cattle, Common Cottongrass (Eriophorum angustifolium), Compact Rush (Juncus conglomeratus), Deergrass (Scirpus cespitosus), fauna, flora, Gorse (Ulex europaeus), Hard Fern (Blechnum spicant), Heath Bedstraw (Galium saxatile), Heath Rush (Juncus squarrosus), Heather (Calluna vulgaris), Jointed Rush (J. articulatus), lake, Lesser Spearwort (Ranunculus flammula), Lichen (C. portentosa), Lichen (Cladonia uncialis), Lough Nageage, Oak (Quercus spp.), occasional Cross-leaved Heath (Erica tetralix), Purple Moor-grass (Molinia caerulea), sphagnum moss, Tormentil (Potentilla erecta), vicinity, Water Horsetail (Equisetum fluviatile), White Beak-sedge (Rhynchospora alba), White-clawed Crayfish (Austropotamobius pallipes)

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 lake returns to the Diocese

"In the year 1917 the final lawsuit took place, at the Quarter sessions in Donegal, before County Court Judge Cooke, K.C. ..."

Tags: Catholic Church, Clogher, compromise, control, court case, Diocese of Clogher, lake, law, Leslie family, Margaret Gibbons, ownership, Sir John Leslie, Station Island, twentieth century, water

"High, bleak, purple mountains"

"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…

Tags: beauty, colour, emotion, isolation, lake, Margaret Gibbons, mountains, vista, water

The appearance of Lough Derg

"Lough Derg is a large sheet of water surrounded by black bogs relieved only by few detached cabins and patches of cultivation and its groups of islands..."

Tags: agriculture, appearance, bogland, cultivation, islands, lake, Lieutenant W. Lancey, mountains, negative description, ordnance survey, Parish of Templecarne, quaking bog, remoteness, Royal Irish Academy, rural landscape, Templecarne

"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

The dimensions of Lough Derg

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

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