Barrenness

Templecarn is a "barren subject"

The trees of Templecarn

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

"Those trackless hills enfold the lake as though to hide it."

The nature of granite outcrops

The slopes of the mountains

"Some dark spot in the midst of flowing silver"

The archipelago of the lake

The journey from Pettigo to Lough Derg