Mountains

Area: Mountains of Lough Derg

"Such dismal and loansom Places are very apt to make frightful and melancholy Impessions upon the Minds for Weak and Ignorant"

"A mere rock"

"Primeval magic among the trees"

"The little islands of Pan held in the crooked elbow of the lake"

"We pray to ourself. The metal moon, unspent"

"Wild and gloomy loneliness"

Geology of Templecarn

The appearance of Lough Derg

The landholders of the parish

The mountains and hills of Templecarn

The Pettigo River

"A fantastic display of lightning which continued for nearly two hours"

"A mountain-locked lake that is just as secluded to-day as when Saint Patrick was attracted to its solitude"

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

Burials on Friars' Island, in Templecarne, and further away

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

"High, bleak, purple mountains"

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

Seadavog Mountain

Water-Horses

John O'Donovan described the lake

Secrets of Templecarne Graveyard

The approach to the lake

The nature of granite outcrops

The slopes of the mountains

Antonio Mannini prepares for his journey

"Some dark spot in the midst of flowing silver"

"An easy passage may be found"

"See ye not here this rock some power secureth"

"Tempt the lake's dark wave"

"The dark place reserved for sin"

"The Mouth of a Horrible Cave"

"Without doubt to-day some pilgrim Roweth to this island shore."

Fionn mac Cumhaill escapes the monster's belly

Keeronagh, the Devil's mother

Lough Derg and its islands

The IRA evacuates from Pettigo

A description of Lough Derg and its topography

Interrogating the curse of St. Patrick

St. Dabheoc's Seat and the old pilgrim road

The 1795 disaster

The archipelago of the lake

The lough in the twelfth century

The northern shore of the lake

Unimpressed by Lough Derg

Sliabh Dubh Holy Well

The Augustinians

The journey from Pettigo to Lough Derg

St. Patrick's well at Tullaghan