"Wild and gloomy loneliness"

"Wild and gloomy loneliness"

Lough Derg--Henry Newland--Fishing--Scenery

"Lough Derg has certainly been well chosen as a spot of religious penitence and seclusion, for the character of its scenery harmonises well with such a feeling; it is that of wild and gloomy loneliness."

Henry Newland, 1804-1860

Newland, Henry, The Erne, Its Legends and Its Fly-Fishing, p. 220

Chapman and Hall, London

1851

Digitised by Internet Archive, originally from University of California

Public domain

xiv, 395 p. plates. 20 cm

English

Fishing memoirs

DD_0179

54.631629,-7.862233

http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc2.ark:/13960/t4qj7g05s

"Lough Derg has certainly been well chosen as a spot of religious penitence and seclusion, for the character of its scenery harmonises well with such a feeling; it is that of wild and gloomy loneliness. There are no trees to be seen, and very little cultivation of any kind. It is surrounded by heavy, round-headed mountains, or rather gigantic hills, covered with heather, which, with its red stalks and purple blossoms, casts a dull, dusky, red reflexion on the water, and gives to the lake its name. There are a few islands besides the Purgatory, and these are not without their beauty ; but they are still of the same wild, savage character as the coasts, — rocky, heath-covered, and abounding in myrica and arbutus."

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