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Fauna surrounding the lake

"In describing the seventeenth-century Fauna, Knox makes note of wolf and red deer at Lough Derg. 'The deer come some times from Barnesmore to this Estate but having no coverts they do not stay in it,' whereas 'the wolves are but rare in the country…

Tags: fauna, James Spencer Knox, lake, red deer, Shane Leslie, Termon Magrath, wolves

Feijoo's critique of Purgatory

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

Tags: Augustinians, description, disputation, disrepute, Feijoo, Irish Monthly, monasticism, negative description, pilgrimage, polemic, purgatory, St. Patrick, Station Island, treatise

Ferry boat house, Station Island

View of the nineteenth-century ferry boat house to Station Island

Tags: boating, ferry house, Lawrence Collection, National Library of Ireland, nineteenth century, Photographs, pilgrim crossing, Robert French, Station Island, William Lawrence

Ferry house and view of Station Island

View of the lake and Station Island from the ferry house

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

Fictitious Lough Derg in the Chapel of Monea, Diocese of Clogher

"We cannot permit the circumstance of a Roman Catholic priest constructing a fictitious Lough Dearg in his Chapel for the use of his people, when prevented going to the real one, to pass without a word or two of remark..."

Tags: baptism, charlatanism, Clogher, fakery, miracle, Monea, Rome, water, water station

Fionn Mac Cumhaill and the worm of Lough Derg

O'Donovan's account from a local of the origin of Lough Derg's name in a story from the Fenian Cycle

Tags: etymology, Fair Lake, Fenian Cycle, Fionn mac Cumhaill, John O'Donovan, lake, letters, mythology, nineteenth century, ordnance survey, Red Lake, worm

Fionn mac Cumhaill escapes the monster's belly

"…Fin M’Coul stood before the monster; but instead of innocently submitting to be sucked in like a common man, Fin, famed as he was above all the Fions for feats of agility, took a hop, step, and leap, and fairly and clearly jumped down its…

Tags: blood, Caesar Otway, colour, dryness, evacuation, Fionn mac Cumhaill, Folklore, hills, lake, monster, mountains, nineteenth century, St. Patrick, superstition

Fish stocks in the lake

"In this Lough is great plenty of fish such as trouts, eels and salmon as I am told. Trouts may be had by angling in abundance from March till winter and at the head of the river between Knocnacoyne and Leanaght might a good eel fishing be had in the…

Tags: angling, Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar), eels, fishing, river mouth, Salmon, seventeenth century, Shane Leslie, trout

Fishing in the Upper Lake

"There was at first quite success enough to test the goodness of the extempore flies, and though few fish of much more than a pound weight were taken, and those of a dull brown, out-of-season sort of character…"

Tags: boating, catch, fishing, fly fishing, Henry Newland, islands, memoir, nineteenth century, upper lake

Flora of the Lough Fad blanket bog to the south-west of Lough Derg

The flora of the Lough Fad Bog National Heritage Area (NHA)

Tags: Bilberry (Vaccinium myrtillus), Bog Asphodel (Narthecium ossifragum), Bog Pimpernel (Anagallis tenella), Bog-myrtle (Myrica gale), bogland, Bottle Sedge (Carex rostrata), Broad-leaved Pondweed (Potamogeton natans), Carnation Sedge (Carex panicea), Common Butterwort (Pinguicula vulgaris), Common Cottongrass (Eriophorum angustifolium), Crossleaved Heath (Erica tetralix), Deergrass (Scirpus cespitosus), Devil’s-bit Scabious (Succisa pratensis), Hylocomium splendens (moss), Jointed Rush (Juncus articulatus), Leucobryum glaucum, Lichens (Cladonia portentosa and C. uncialis), Ling Heather (Calluna vulgaris), Lough Fad, Lough Fad Bog NHA, National Parks and Wildlife Service, Oblong-leaved Sundew (Drosera intermedia), peat, Purple Moor-grass (Molinia caerulea), Racomitrium lanuginosum, Selfheal (Prunella vulgaris), Sphagnum auriculatum, Sphagnum capillifolium, Sphagnum compactum, Sphagnum imbricatum, sphagnum moss, Sphagnum papillosum, Sphagnum recurvumon, Sphagnum subnitens, Star Sedge (Carex echinata), swallow hole, Sweet Vernal-grass (Anthoxanthum odoratum), Tormentil (Potentilla erecta), Wavy Hair-grass (Deschampsia flexuosa), White Beak-sedge (Rhynchospora alba), Wild Thyme (Thymus praecox), Yorkshire Fog (Holcus lanatus)

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