Rural Landscape

"A lonely and remote region"

"A boy was standing like a ballet dancer poised on the rock"

"Primeval magic among the trees"

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

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

Templecarn is a "barren subject"

The appearance of Lough Derg

The landholders of the parish

The mountains and hills of Templecarn

The trees of Templecarn

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

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

"One of the loneliest places on earth"

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

The slopes of the mountains