Approaching Church Island
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Marshy water meadows lie between the visitor to Church Island and the Strand at Lough Beg. A beautiful and romantic place, this landscape features in many of the poet's earlier works. The poem The Strand at Lough Beg is an elegy to his murdered cousin Colum McCartney, in which he writes of "the lowland clays and waters of Lough Beg/ Church Island's spire,its soft treeline of yew.
