"No road, and not even a defined path, goes around the lake"

"No road, and not even a defined path, goes around the lake"

Lough Derg--Pilgrimage--Description--Alice Curtayne

"Only one main road leads to the lake, that from the small town of Pettigo, four miles distant. This road ends at the ferry, where there is a house and a few other buildings..."

Alice Curtayne, 1898-1981

Curtayne, Alice, Lough Derg: St. Patrick’s Purgatory, pp. 1-2

Burns Oats and Washbourn, Ltd., London and Dublin

1944

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"Only one main road leads to the lake, that from the small town of Pettigo, four miles distant. This road ends at the ferry, where there is a house and a few other buildings. No road, and not even a defined path, goes around the lake. There are the remains of some ruined homesteads on the southern shores; but in all that rolling expanse of barren hill and moorland, in which this water is set, only a couple of houses are visible. These dwellings look like white dots in the hills; they are far away from one another and approached by paths invisible from and distance, so that they seem to emphasize the uninhabited character of this whole region."

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