"Rich in legendary, historic, and poetic association"

"Rich in legendary, historic, and poetic association"

Lough Derg--Pilgrimage--Magazine--Narrative

An account of Lough Derg from a late-nineteenth-century pilgrim.

Matthew Russell, 1834-1912

'Lough Derg: By a Recent Pilgrim', The Irish Monthly: A Magazine of General Literature Sixth Yearly Volume, p.20

M.H. Gill & Son, Dublin

1878

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Public domain

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English

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DD_0430

54.501980, -8.189766

https://archive.org/details/irishmonthlyvol01unkngoog/page/n5

"The tourist, as well as the pilgrim, can afford to pay a visit to Lough Derg. The road from Bundoran to Pettigoe runs through a district of great natural beauty, and rich in legendary, historic, and poetic associations. By road or rail the journey is a pleasant one, but we should recommend the former : it affords more time and opportunity to observe and admire the various beauties of lake and river, plain and sea and mountain. The entire distance is only twenty miles to Pettigoe, and four more to the lake itself. For the first few miles, from Bundoran to Ballyshannon, the road passes through a fertile and gently undulating limestone plain between Lough Melvin and the sea, famous in our early history as Magh-Ceidne — the plain of the tribute — where the Nemedians paid their annual tribute of cattle, com, and children to their Fomorian conquerors. As we reached the crest of the hill overlooking Ballyshannon, the gray mist of an autumn morning was slowly lifting, but, after a few minutes, the sun came out in splendour, and revealed all the beauties of that smiling valley —

'Where the sunny waters fall
At Assaroe, near Erna's shore.'"

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