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"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 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

"A mere rock"

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

Tags: aesthetics, description, Irish Monthly, moorland, mountains, negative description, pilgrimage, purgatory, sheep, Station Island

"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

"An easy passage may be found"

"This mighty mountain, rock bestrown,
Full well the dreaded secret knows;
But no one to its centre goes
By any path o'er land alone..."

Tags: grimness, mountains, negative description, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, play, Spanish Golden Age

"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

"Primeval magic among the trees"

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

Tags: County Donegal, dawn, distraction, farming, landscape, mountains, Patrick Kavanagh, poetry, remoteness, renewal, revelation, rural landscape, twentieth century

"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

"See ye not here this rock some power secureth"

"SCENE XIX.
POLONIA. — THE SAME..."

Tags: grimness, hills, mountains, negative description, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, play, Spanish Golden Age

"Some dark spot in the midst of flowing silver"

A description of the lake taken from O'Connor's account of an 1836 story in the Dublin Penny Journal Count Raymond de Perilleaux's 1397 journey to the Purgatory

Tags: aesthetics, barrenness, beech, Daniel O'Connor, fourteenth century, hills, lake, lake crossing, medieval, mountains, oak, Raymond de Pereilleux, silver, trees, Ugolino

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