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"There is a pool or lake saith he in the parts of Ulster that invironeth an Island"

"I think it good to begin with St Patrick his Purgatory, partly because it is most notoriously known and partly the more that some writers as the author of Polychronicon and other, that were miscarried by him, seem to make a great doubt where they…

Tags: Gerald of Wales, Isle of Demons, lake, Polychronicon, Protestant critique, purgatory, Ranulph Higden, Raphael Holinshed, Shane Leslie, sixteenth century, St. Patrick, Station Island, superstition

The miracle of the floating crosses

"Among all the prodigies and all the great miracles which happened at Loch Derg, it is told in particular in those latter times..."

Tags: Clan O'Donnell, cross, Hugh O'Donnell, lake, miracle, purgatory, Shane Leslie, sixteenth century, Station Island, Tirconnell, vision, water

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

Secrets of Templecarne Graveyard

A description of the graveyard and its relationship with the lake

Tags: cattle, devotional activities, James Spencer Knox, lake, mountains, Pettigo, pilgrim path, pilgrim road, Protestant critique, ruins, sanctity, seventeenth century, Shane Leslie, St. Patrick, Station Island, Templecarne Graveyard, Termon Magrath

Inishgoosk Townland

Inishgoosk is in the Electoral Division of Templecarn, in Civil Parish of Templecarn, in the Barony of Tirhugh, in the County of Donegal Inishgoosk is an island. Inishgoosk is on Logainm.ie: Inishgoosk. Inishgoosk has an area of: 55,836 m² / 5.58…

Tags: Barony of Tirhugh, Inishgoosk, island, lake, Parish of Templecarne, townland

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

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

"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 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

"Those trackless hills enfold the lake as though to hide it."

"It is remarkable how completely the exterior world is shut out. Those trackless hills enfold the lake as though to hide it..."

Tags: Alice Curtayne, barrenness, hills, isolation, lake, mountains, rhetoric, rural landscape, timelessness, tradition, twentieth century, water

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