As soon as its water touched him he assumed the form of a goose, and he went swimming over the surface of the lough, and disappeared on Garrod Island.
"The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries"
W. Y. Evans Wentz
The curious custom among early Irish Christians, of retiring for a time to a cave, seems to show the lasting into historical times of the pagan cave-ritual now surviving at lough Derg only.
"The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries"
W. Y. Evans Wentz
The lough is still enchanted, but once in seven years the spell passes off it, and it then appears like dry land to any one that is fortunate enough to behold it.
"The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries"
W. Y. Evans Wentz