Medievalism
Dublin Core
Title
Medievalism
Subject
Lough Derg--Irish Identity--Medievalism--Nostalgia
Description
A collection of items detailing the medievalisms of Lough Derg's pilgrimage, the continuing process of creating the Middle Ages through the lake and its islands.
Creator
James L. Smith
Publisher
Digital Derg: A Deep Map
Date
2019
Rights
CC BY, sui generis database
Format
Omeka Collection
Language
English
Type
Digital Collection
Coverage
Lough Derg
Collection Items
Hybernia Nunc Irlant
A map of Ireland including the prominent location of The Purgatory of Saint Patrick.
The lakes of Ireland
Gerald of Wales describes the number and disposition of Ireland's lakes
Station Island Archaeological Survey
It is traditionally believed that a monastic settlement was founded on the nearby Saint’s Island (formerly St. Dabheog's Island) in the fifth century by St. Patrick who installed Dabheoc as the first abbot (see…
Oral history and facts
A debate over the reliability of oral history, in which O'Donovan cites the heterogeneity of County Donegal local stories
"In nine cases out of ten, the legend is simply an attempt made by an unlettered, but imaginative people, to account for natural appearances by supernatural agency"
A description of the power given to unexplained natural phenomena in Irish folklore, and the character of the storytellers
Fionn Mac Cumhaill and the worm of Lough Derg
O'Donovan's account from a local of the origin of Lough Derg's name in a story from the Fenian Cycle
Dutch Map of Ulster with Purgatory
Curator's description: "In 1577, at the age of 63, Adriaen Coenensz from Scheveningen, a Dutch fishing port, started his Vis booc. Over a period of three years he collected all kind of information about the sea, the coasts, and coastal waters,…
"The water, the water of the seas and of lakes and of mist and rain, has all but made the Irish after its image"
Yeats' reflection on the affinity for bodies of water within the Irish poetic imagination and psyche
"Tempt the lake's dark wave"
Luis approaches Purgatory and meets Polonia
Unimpressed by Lough Derg
A dismal scene of the view to the lake on the walk from Pettigo, originally included in Caesar Otway's 'Sketches in Ireland'