Shane Leslie

"We left the Island with dry skies but still carrying our fast with us"

"We seemed to stand in a dim place where two worlds meet"

Fauna surrounding the lake

Fish stocks in the lake

John O'Donovan described the lake

Secrets of Templecarne Graveyard

The approach to the lake

The nature of granite outcrops

The ruins of Saints Island

The slopes of the mountains

"There is a pool or lake saith he in the parts of Ulster that invironeth an Island"

A great thunder

Antonio Mannini is rowed to the island

Antonio Mannini prepares for his journey

Destroying Station Island

How the demons came to Lough Derg

The demon Corna

The Island of Swimmers

The miracle of the floating crosses

The seizure of Purgatory

"Fainting heart and failing eye, Aching head and footstep weary"

"He who bathes, no Stygian flood need fear."

"That's the Red Lake unless I mistake"

"The fame of that place has been so scattered through European parts that it seems to go on wings"

Lough Derg in the Seventeenth Century

The sanctity of Lough Derg

A poetic description of the Dissolution of the Monasteries as a storm

A poetic vision of Mary

A visit in the reign of Henry VIII

The heritage of prayer

Knight Owen crosses to Saints Island

The lough in the twelfth century

"On the red tideless water is writ the destiny of Ireland"

A story of Ugolino's death on Station Island

The Augustinians

The coming of the Norsemen

The legacy of the Druids