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  • Collection: The 1795 disaster

"Taking into account what angry storms sometimes sweep over the lake, lashing its waves into great fury, it is a merciful dispensation of Providence that more accidents have not occurred here..."

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An etching of Templecarne Graveyard, where victims of the 1795 disaster were buried.

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Graveyard on irregular-plan, laid out c. 1600. Now out of use. Contains a collection of multidenominational cut stone gravemarkers (upstanding, recumbent, and table-type memorials) mainly dating from c. 1750 to c. 1900. Two ashlar limestone…

"But the most lamentable catastrophe of all happened here in 1795 — a catastrophe which for many years cast a gloom over the place..."

"Being far from the ocean when the stormy wind rose..."

A description of the context surrounding the formation of the Orange Order district lodge and its relationship to Lough Derg
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