Folklore

The monk of Eymstadt

Situating Lough Derg

Lines Written on St Patrick's Purgatory Lough Derg

The Friary

Sibby's moat

The source of the River Termon

"A spreading hawthorn tree"

"They told the marvellous incidents of the voyage to their listening friends"

"What we saw was the great serpent or fish"

Templecarne Graveyard, County Donegal

"In nine cases out of ten, the legend is simply an attempt made by an unlettered, but imaginative people, to account for natural appearances by supernatural agency"

"Though my letters are wild as the mountains in which they were written"

Davog was a woman?

Oral history and facts

The March of the Dead Maguires

The monster guards a crock of gold

The salmon of Lough Derg

An omen of disaster prior to the 1795 accident

"Tradition, when jealously guarded and carefully handed down is a reliable source of information"

Water-Horses

The snake of Lough Patrick and Lough Peter

Leprechauns and Mermaids

St Peter's Island and St Peter's Well

How the demons came to Lough Derg

The Island of Swimmers

"The water, the water of the seas and of lakes and of mist and rain, has all but made the Irish after its image"

Fionn mac Cumhaill escapes the monster's belly

Keeronagh, the Devil's mother

The comedy of fantastical myth

Interrogating the curse of St. Patrick

The origin of Lough Derg's name

Rathnacross Fairy Fort

Sliabh Dubh Holy Well

Historical Traditions

St. Patrick's well at Tullaghan