Isolation

"A lonely and remote region"

"All was as still as death"

"Low rocks, a few weasels, lake"

"For this is Lough Derg, St. Patrick’s Purgatory"

"Wild and gloomy loneliness"

Becalmed on the Lake

Templecarn is a "barren subject"

The trees of Templecarn

"Recited in the open, while facing the airy spaciousness of mountain, sky and water"

"Rip Van Winkle whose experience is reversed"

"Unconcernedly the Easter sunshine poured down on that scene of desertion and decay"

"You will find instead only stumps, bumps, and conquering armies of weeds, cruel in their strength"

"A landscape that is usually a monotonous monochrome of either brown or grey tints"

"He always looked for the most inaccessible place in every district"

"High, bleak, purple mountains"

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

"One of the loneliest places on earth"

"Rolling, tawny bogland framed the blue water"

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

Forty-six small islands

The slopes of the mountains