Water

Location: Water Station, Station Island

Situating Lough Derg

"Lakes, Ponds, Wells, Trees, Stones, Crosses, Images, and Relicks"

Station Island, View from Ferry House

"A clear barometer"

"The lake itself changes its wonted blue into a dull brown colour"

"The green islands that were his morning hope and his evening despair"

"The lake waves caught the concrete stilts of the Basilica"

"Water withers from the oars"

Jenny completes the stations

Jenny struggles with her emotions

The impression of Lough Derg on Jenny and Bobby

View of Station Island with boats and Friars' Island

A rower and Station Island with detail of rocks and water

Penitential beds and view of lake

Pilgrims at the stations

The penitential beds with lake in background

View of Station Island with man in boat

A man in a boat with Station Island in the background

Pilgrims at the water station

Rowers in front of Friars' Island

Station Island and its reflection

The Oratory, Station Island

The March of the Dead Maguires

The brooks and rivulets of Templecarn

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

"All around it is the glint and stir of water"

"Occasional freakish summer storms"

"The shaft on which this iron cross is set is precious, for it was salvaged from the lake"

The bogs of Templecarn

The dimensions of Lough Derg

The River Derg

"High, bleak, purple mountains"

"The buildings give the impression of resting on the water"

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

The lake returns to the Diocese

Water-Horses

"One might well imagine it to be the golden portal to some bright realm"

The miracle of the floating crosses

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

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

A visit in the reign of Henry VIII

Gerald's description of purgatory

The heritage of prayer

The lakes of Ireland

The "wine" of Station Island

The origin of Lough Derg's name

A scriptural account of immersion in Lough Derg

An early description of the stations of Station Island

Another fictitious Lough Derg, Coronea, County Cavan

Drinking the "wine" of Lough Derg

Fictitious Lough Derg in the Chapel of Monea, Diocese of Clogher