Browse Items · Digital Derg: A Deep Map

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

Templecarne Graveyard

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

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

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

The 1795 disaster

"The end of the eighteenth-century history of Lough Derg is sadly remembered because of a particularly bad boating accident..."

Tags: 1795 disaster, accusation, Alice Curtayne, boating, disaster, drinking, drowning, eighteenth century, Friars' Island, malfeasance, pilgrim, pilgrim crossing, poteen, 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

"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

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

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

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

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

Browse Items (15 total)