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"Now let me at my old antagonist Oral tradition: The chair of Davog lies in the townland of Suidhe Dhabheog (Seeavoge) where in the living rock some impressions of elbows &c are strewn. Davog was a woman, who came to make the turas but she died…

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

"The same or a similar monster inhabits the lake yet (still) and was seen not many months ago. It guards a crock of gold which lies buried in the ancient island of the Purgatory…"

"There is one strange fact connected with this lake - no salmon come into it, though they come up to the very point where the River Derg escapes out of it…"

The entry for Lough Derg in an 1842 Irish gazetteer

The entry for Lough Derg in an 1842 Irish gazetteer

The entry for Lough Derg in an 1842 Irish gazetteer

The entry for the River Derg in an 1842 Irish gazetteer