Handy little collection of lake based myths and legends. As usual this sort of thing suffers, because so many of the stories are repetitive or fragmentary. Particularly annoying are the little Christian add-ons to classic tales. Sometimes it works, as in the Oisin story: that comes to its proper end, but later he meet St Patrick and tells his tale, that works as an addition. Mostly though it's 'a Saint turned up at the very end and so they all went to Heaven, completely undermining the pathos of their tragedies and suffering.' Saints are really annoying. There's one good monk story, though, and some of the more interesting stuff turns up much more recently than the ancient legends, like the British officer who tried to flush out a lake monster by setting off an explosion, or the guy who took a picture of a lake monster and whose Dad was pals with Aleister Crowley. Indeed, the richest vein comes in the final section of assorted ephemera, poitin stills, Barisal guns, rare trout species, and the coda about water quality is well taken, but has been largely ignored, alas.