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Sliabh Dubh Holy Well

"About eight miles from the Four Masters’ School in Byrne’s mountain on the old foot-road across Croney to Lough Derg is a Holy Well called [Sliab Dub ?]. ( ½ ml. from the Donegal-Tyrone border)

Local tradition says that as Saint Patrick was going…

Tags: Annals of the Four Masters, Folklore, headache, healing, holy well, mountains, offering, pilgrim road, sore joints, St. Patrick, toothache

"A landscape that is usually a monotonous monochrome of either brown or grey tints"

"There is a lake called Lough Derg in County Donegal which has acquired extraordinary fame both in Christian history and in general literature..."

Tags: Alice Curtayne, colour, description, emotion, Heather (Calluna vulgaris), isolation, landscape, mountains, Rome, rural landscape, twentieth century, vista

"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

Seadavog Mountain

"Dabheoc's name is commemorated, too, in Seadavog mountain, a low peak to the west of his Seat on the southern shore of the lake..."

Tags: Alice Curtayne, Ballymacavany Townland, etymology, mountains, place name, Seeavog Townland, Seedavog Mountain, St. Dabheoc, St. Dabheoc's Seat, twentieth century

Burials on Friars' Island, in Templecarne, and further away

"About twenty of the victims were buried on Friars' Island, where fir-trees on a mound show their grave to-day..."

Tags: 1795 disaster, Alice Curtayne, burial, Connacht, drowning, Friars' Island, graveyard, mountains, pilgrim crossing, pilgrims, poverty, Station Island, Templecarne Graveyard, twentieth century

"A fantastic display of lightning which continued for nearly two hours"

"Fourteen years passed [from 1918] before there is mention in the records of another such violent upheaval of the waters…"

Tags: Alice Curtayne, lake, lightning, mountains, pilgrim crossing, sound, Station Island, storms, thunder, twentieth century, water, weather

"A mountain-locked lake that is just as secluded to-day as when Saint Patrick was attracted to its solitude"

A description of the timeless nature of Lough Derg, a window into the early days of Irish Christianity

Tags: Alice Curtayne, beauty, Croaghbrack townland, mountains, sunrise, sunset, timelessness, twentieth century, view, view east, view west, vista

"Recited in the open, while facing the airy spaciousness of mountain, sky and water"

"The repetition of the baptismal vow [before St. Brigid's Cross] is a reaching back again towards baptismal innocence and is the usual ritual of retreats..."

Tags: Alice Curtayne, baptism, contemplation, crowds, environment, isolation, landscape, mountains, pilgrimage, pilgrims, repetition, retreat, St. Brigid's Cross, Station Island, stations, timelessness, twentieth century, weather

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

A description of Lough Derg and its topography

“Lough Derg is a lonely sheet of water, extending from north to south, about six miles in length..."

Tags: Caesar Otway, Daniel O'Connor, geography, geology, hills, hydrology, lake, landscape, mountains, nineteenth century, positive description, River Derg, topography, watershed

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