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"There were boats at hand, and presence of mind, even among the onlookers, could have averted the tragedy"

"Ninety-three people were then crowded into an old and leaky boat, despite their protests. The fact that the boatmen were drunk made the passengers still more uneasy..."

Tags: 1795 disaster, accusation, Alice Curtayne, drinking, drowning, Friars' Island, inaction, incompetence, malfeasance, onlookers, Oral History, panic, pilgrim crossing, Station Island, twentieth century

An omen of disaster prior to the 1795 accident

"As a boat was being loaded with passengers at eleven o'clock, an elderly man arrived at the shore and urgently signalled to his son to come away with him..."

Tags: 1795 disaster, Alice Curtayne, boating, disaster, dream, drowning, eighteenth century, Folklore, omen, Oral History, pilgrim, pilgrim crossing, pilgrimage, supernatural, survivor, twentieth century

Burials on Friars' Island, in Templecarne, and further away

"About twenty of the victims were buried on Friars' Island, where fir-trees on a mound show their grave to-day..."

Tags: 1795 disaster, Alice Curtayne, burial, Connacht, drowning, Friars' Island, graveyard, mountains, pilgrim crossing, pilgrims, poverty, Station Island, Templecarne Graveyard, twentieth century

Friars' Island

"Friars' Island is unmistakable, because it is the nearest to the ferry. Unfortunately, the origin of its name is unknown..."

Tags: 1795 disaster, Alice Curtayne, drowning, eighteenth century, Friars' Island, graveyard, twentieth century

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

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

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

Location: Templecarne Graveyard

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

Templecarne Graveyard

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

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

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

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