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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

"Occasional freakish summer storms"

"Occasional freakish summer storms are peculiar to Lough Derg. Pilgrims often alighting at the shore on a tranquil summer day are often surprised at the unexpected commotion of the deeps and the dark yeasty appearance of the water..."

Tags: Alice Curtayne, cauldron, danger, lake, lake crossing, pilgrim crossing, rain, storms, summer, turbulence, twentieth century, water, weather

"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

"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 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

"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

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

"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

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

"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

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