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The Leslies of Glaslough

An account of the religious history of Lough Derg for the traveller.

Tags: bogland, County Monaghan, Glaslough, J. B. Doyle, landowners, Leslie family, nineteenth century, profiteering, rent

The road from Pettigo to Donegal Town

An account of the town of Pettigo

Tags: Donegal Town

Letter, James Hamilton Jnr, Strabane, Co. Tyrone, to [Marquess of Abercorn, London]

A report of the 55th Regiment displacing a group of entrenched squatters upon an island in Lough Derg for which they refuse to pay rent.

Tags: eighteenth century, Glaslough, islands, James Hamilton Jr, Leslie family, Lough Derg, military intervention, Public Record Office of Northern Ireland, regiment, report squatters

"A huge quarry"

An account of Lough Derg from a late-nineteenth-century pilgrim.

Tags: approach, bogland, commercialism, crossing, description, Irish Monthly, pilgrimage, purgatory, road, Station Island, vista, walk

Timeline: 1917

Tags: Catholic Church, chronology, Diocese of Clogher, dispute, events, legal dispute, Leslie family, litigation, Margaret Gibbons, ownership, pilgrimage, resolution, Sir John Leslie, timeline

Timeline: 1881

Tags: Catholic Church, chronology, Diocese of Clogher, events, legal dispute, Leslie family, litigation, Margaret Gibbons, ownership, pilgrimage, Sir John Leslie, timeline

Saints Island Enclosure Archaeological Survey

It is traditionally believed that a monastic settlement was founded here in the fifth century by St. Patrick who installed Dabheoc as the first abbot. There are forty-six islands in Lough Derg but only two of them are of archaeological interest. The…

Tags: Archaeological survey, dryness, enclosure, monastery, monasticism, Saints' Island

The Leslies as landlords

"All the islands of Lough Derg and the eel rivers are let for 5 pounds…"

Tags: Colonel John Leslie, economics, eels, islands, land acquisition, Leslie family, Lieutenant W. Lancey, ordnance survey, Parish of Templecarne, rent, Royal Irish Academy, Templecarne

The landholders of the parish

"The chief proprieters are the representatives of the late Colonel Leslie, who hold 45 townlands out of 50..."

Tags: Colonel John Leslie, demographics, economics, land acquisition, Leslie family, Lieutenant W. Lancey, mountains, ordnance survey, Parish of Templecarne, pasturage, rents, Royal Irish Academy, rural landscape, Templecarne

The lake returns to the Diocese

"In the year 1917 the final lawsuit took place, at the Quarter sessions in Donegal, before County Court Judge Cooke, K.C. ..."

Tags: Catholic Church, Clogher, compromise, control, court case, Diocese of Clogher, lake, law, Leslie family, Margaret Gibbons, ownership, Sir John Leslie, Station Island, twentieth century, water

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