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A visit in the reign of Henry VIII

"The record of many others who followed the same perilous quest survives. The Sire de Beaujeu, Louis de Sue, Louis of France, Malatesta of Hungary, and, not least, there came in the reign of King Henry VIII. the Cardinal Legate to England, who made a…

Tags: baptism, Celtic revival, Clogher, English visitors, famous visitors, immersion, mythology, pilgrims, romance, Shane Leslie, sixteenth century, St. Patrick, water

"The water, the water of the seas and of lakes and of mist and rain, has all but made the Irish after its image"

Yeats' reflection on the affinity for bodies of water within the Irish poetic imagination and psyche

Tags: Folklore, Irish identity, mythology, religion, W. B. Yeats, water

"He who bathes, no Stygian flood need fear."

"Spirituum hic thermae, his Lethaea piacula : qui se Balneat hic, Stygii non timer amnis aquas / Here souls may bathe : Lethe's atonements here : And he who bathes, no Stygian flood need fear."

Tags: bathing, Latin, Petrus Cadellus, seventeenth century, Shane Leslie, water, water station

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

"One might well imagine it to be the golden portal to some bright realm"

"A sunset on Lough Derg, under favourable circumstances, is, also, a spectacle of extraordinary grandeur..."

Tags: aesthetics, beauty, Daniel O'Connor, natural effect, nineteenth century, sun, water, weather

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

"The buildings give the impression of resting on the water"

"The lake surface is broken by numerous scattered islands, the greater number of which are just rocks without either historical or scenic interest..."

Tags: Alice Curtayne, artificial land, Basilica, building, illusion, islands, lake, lake bed, Saints Island, Station Island, twentieth century, water

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