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Where to catch fish

"It is in the neighbourhood of [the islands beyond Station Island] that the fish are caught, and round them the boat made its slow circuit, as the fishermen, keeping accurate time, cast, with lines not above twice the length of their rods, the one to…

Tags: boating, Eagle's Rock Island, fishing, fly fishing, Henry Newland, Inishgoosk, lake, memoir, nineteenth century, upper lake

Water-Horses

"Long ago the people used to send their horses to the mountain for the summer months.

One day a man was going to the mountain for his horse as he required him to do some work at home.

When he went up to the mountain he saw all the horses…

Tags: Croaghbrack townland, fairies, Folklore, horse, lake, Lough Kilraway, mountains, Oral History, supernatural, water, water horse

The waves of the Lough

“…[T]here were times, some of which are fresh in my memory, when the pilgrims' boat ran considerable risk from the waves, and when the skill and energy of such experienced boatmen as Pat M'Kane, of Seeavoc, were taxed to the utmost..."

Tags: commercialism, danger, Daniel O'Connor, improvements, lake, tourism, weather

The ugly terrain of Lough Derg

An account of the religious history of Lough Derg for the traveller.

Tags: bogland, disappointment, J. B. Doyle, lake, negative description, nineteenth century, ugliness

The stones of Station Island

“The island called St. Patrick's Purgatory is altogether rocky, and rather level : without the compass of the island, in the water towards the north east, about two yards from the shore stand certain rocks..."

Tags: barefoot, Caesar Otway, Henry Jones, lake, nineteenth century, Protestant critique, second-hand accounts, seventeenth century, St. Patrick, Station Island, stones

The sanctity of Lough Derg

"From Armagh it is almost one day's journey to a certain Island, which is slightly large called Mabeoch and beyond this Island to a small island in which is the Purgatory aforsaid..."

Tags: Augustinians, crime, lake, lake crossing, pilgrimage, purgatory, reliugious life, sanctity, Shane Leslie, Station Island