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"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…

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

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"This district is a primitive formation of quartz and gneiss with blue mountain limestone filled with organic remains on the margin of Lough Erne."

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"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..."

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"The chief proprieters are the representatives of the late Colonel Leslie, who hold 45 townlands out of 50..."

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

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"The Pettigo river rises about 5 miles north of Pettigo and runs in a southerly direction about a mile north of the village..."

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"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…

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An account of Lough Derg from a late-nineteenth-century pilgrim.

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

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