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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

View of Station Island with man in boat

View of Station Island from the shore near the ferry house with a man in a rowing boat in foreground

Tags: boating, Lawrence Collection, National Library of Ireland, nineteenth century, Photographs, Robert French, Station Island, vista, water, William Lawrence

View of Station Island with boats and Friars' Island

View from shore of the lake and Station Island in the distance with Friars' Island and boats

Tags: boating, Friars' Island, Lawrence Collection, National Library of Ireland, nineteenth century, Photographs, reflection, Robert French, Station Island, vista, water, William Lawrence

The River Derg

"The river dividing the counties of Tyrone and Donegal on the north mearing of Templecarn receives the drainage of Lough Derg..."

Tags: County Donegal, County Tyrone, hydrology, lake, Lieutenant W. Lancey, Norther Ireland, ordnance survey, river, River Derg, Royal Irish Academy, Templecarne, water, watershed

The penitential beds with lake in background

View of the penitential beds on Station Island with view of lake

Tags: Lawrence Collection, National Library of Ireland, nineteenth century, penitential beds, Photographs, pilgrim, Robert French, Station Island, water, William Lawrence

The origin of Lough Derg's name

"There are two different opinions to account for the meaning of the denomination, Lough Derg..."

Tags: Annals of the Four Masters, blood, bogland, colour, Daniel O'Connor, etymology, Fionn mac Cumhaill, Folklore, John O'Donovan, pilgrimage, place names, Royal Irish Academy, St. Patrick, water, wine

The Oratory, Station Island

View of the Station Island Oratory over the water

Tags: Lawrence Collection, National Library of Ireland, nineteenth century, oratory, Photographs, Robert French, Station Island, vista, water, William Lawrence

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

The March of the Dead Maguires

An account of Lough Derg folklore on a fishing trip, explaining the strange circular currents of the lake in supernatural terms

Tags: fishing, Folklore, ghosts, Henry Newland, lake, Maguire family, memoir, mythology, nineteenth century, seventeenth century, Station Island, supernatural, water, weather

The lakes of Ireland

Gerald of Wales describes the number and disposition of Ireland's lakes

Tags: fishing, geography, Gerald of Wales, islands, lakes, positive description, topography, twelfth century, water, wildlife

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