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"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

The extent of the Templecarn bogs

"Though the number of bogs in this district is considerable, yet few of them reach to any great extent..."

Tags: bogland, extent, fir, landscape, Lieutenant W. Lancey, North West Farming Society, oak, ordnance survey, Parish of Templecarne, Royal Irish Academy, Templecarne, Termon Magrath, trees

The appearance of Lough Derg

"Lough Derg is a large sheet of water surrounded by black bogs relieved only by few detached cabins and patches of cultivation and its groups of islands..."

Tags: agriculture, appearance, bogland, cultivation, islands, lake, Lieutenant W. Lancey, mountains, negative description, ordnance survey, Parish of Templecarne, quaking bog, remoteness, Royal Irish Academy, rural landscape, Templecarne

The dimensions of Lough Derg

"The lakes [of the Parish of Templecarn] amount to 110, of which Lough Derg is the most extensive..."

The bogs of Templecarn

"There is a vast extent of bog in Templecarn in which fir and other timber are found..."

Tags: blanket bog, bogland, ecosystem, environment, fir, landscape, Lieutenant W. Lancey, ordnance survey, Parish of Templecarne, quaking bog, Royal Irish Academy, Templecarne, water

"Such dismal and loansom Places are very apt to make frightful and melancholy Impessions upon the Minds for Weak and Ignorant"

A critique of St. Patrick's Purgatory and Catholic pilgrimage in general.

Tags: approach, bogland, eighteenth century, inaccessibility, John Richardson, mountains, Protestant critique, roads, rocks, terrain, wildness

Station island gazetteer entry

The entry for Lough Derg in an 1842 Irish gazetteer

Tags: Augustinians, barefoot, bogland, east shore, ferry, gazetteer, nineteenth century, ruins, Saints' Island

"I visited the far famed terrestrial purgatory of Lough Derg, but received no benefit from my turas except a severe cold, which I attribute more to the wet mountain bogs that surround the lake, and to the chillyness (chilliness) of the wind than to…

Tags: bogland, cold, complaint, criticism, crossing, John O'Donovan, letters, negative description, nineteenth century, ordnance survey, pilgrim, rain, sickness, weather

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 ugly terrain of Lough Derg