"High, bleak, purple mountains"

"High, bleak, purple mountains"

Lough Derg--Description--1940s--Margaret Gibbons

"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 islets with which its surface is covered."

Margaret Gibbons, 1884-1969

Gibbons, Margaret, Guide to St. Patrick’s Purgatory, Lough Derg, p. 11

Talbot Press, Dublin and Cork

1933

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"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 islets with which its surface is covered."

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