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Templecarne Graveyard

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

Tags: 1795 disaster, disaster, graveyard, O'Connor, Templecarne Graveyard

Letter, Robert Jamison, Baronscourt, to [Marquess of Abercorn, London].

An account of the 1795 disaster from a report to the Marquess of Abercorn.

Tags: 1795 disaster, description, disaster, drowning, eighteenth century, Lough Derg, Marquess of Abercorn, pilgrimage, report, Robert Jamison

Templecarne Graveyard, County Donegal

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…

Tags: 1795 disaster, building survey, built heritage, burial, Folklore, Parish of Templecarne, Templecarne, Templecarne Graveyard

Timeline: 1795

Tags: 1795 disaster, chronology, events, Friars' Island, Margaret Gibbons, pilgrimage, timeline

Gazetteer description of the 1795 disaster

The entry for Lough Derg in an 1842 Irish gazetteer

Tags: 1795 disaster, boating, disaster, drowning, gazetteer, John Parker Lawson, pilgrim crossing

The Drowning of the Boat

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

Tags: 1795 disaster, boating, disaster, drowning, Friars' Island, local history, poetry, Station Island

Location: Templecarne Graveyard

Tags: 1795 disaster, commonly occurring location, Digital Derg Project, Geolocation, James L. Smith, key location, Lough Derg, place names, Templecarne Graveyard

Location: Friars' Island, Lough Derg

Tags: 1795 disaster, commonly occurring location, Digital Derg Project, Friars' Island, Geolocation, James L. Smith, key location, Lough Derg, place names

The 1795 disaster

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

Tags: 1795 disaster, accidents, boating, Daniel O'Connor, disaster, drowning, mountains, pilgrim crossing, pilgrimage

The Orange Order in Pettigo

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

Tags: 1795 disaster, eighteenth century, etymology, Fionn mac Cumhaill, monster, Orange Order, Pettigo, Protestant critique, Protestantism, sectarian violence, serpent, St. Patrick

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