Browse Items · Digital Derg: A Deep Map

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'

Tags: bogland, Caesar Otway, disappointment, hills, landscape, medievalism, mountains, negative, Pettigo, pilgrimage, Protestant critique, St. Patrick, Station Island, The Gothic, William Carleton

Yeats' reflection on the affinity for bodies of water within the Irish poetic imagination and psyche

Tags: Folklore, Irish identity, mythology, religion, W. B. Yeats, water

"In a girdle of green, heathy hills,
In song-famed Donegal,
An islet stands in a lonely lake,
(A coffin in a pall)..."

Tags: barefoot, death, environment, history, nature, pilgrimage, poetry, Thomas D'Arcy McGee, tradition

Luis approaches Purgatory and meets Polonia

Tags: grimness, mountains, negative description, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, play, Spanish Golden Age

A map of Ireland including the prominent location of The Purgatory of Saint Patrick.

Tags: Bibliothèque nationale de France, cartography, Ireland, Map, pilgrimage, sixteenth century, St. Patrick, Ulster

O'Donovan's account from a local of the origin of Lough Derg's name in a story from the Fenian Cycle

Tags: etymology, Fair Lake, Fenian Cycle, Fionn mac Cumhaill, John O'Donovan, lake, letters, mythology, nineteenth century, ordnance survey, Red Lake, worm

A debate over the reliability of oral history, in which O'Donovan cites the heterogeneity of County Donegal local stories

Tags: debate, empiricism, Folklore, John O'Donovan, letters, nineteenth century, Oral History, ordnance survey, reliability, religion, scientism, tradition

An account of Lough Derg folklore on a fishing trip, explaining the strange circular currents of the lake in supernatural terms

Tags: fishing, Folklore, ghosts, Henry Newland, lake, Maguire family, memoir, mythology, nineteenth century, seventeenth century, Station Island, supernatural, water, weather

A description of the power given to unexplained natural phenomena in Irish folklore, and the character of the storytellers

Tags: colonialism, conversation, debate, dispute, fishing, Folklore, Henry Newland, Irish identity, memoir, mythology, negative description, nineteenth century, superstition, upper lake

A portolan chart of Europe by Grazioso Benincasa, showing the Aegean

Tags: British Library, cartography, fifteenth century, Grazioso Benincasa, islands, purgatory