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Station Island Archaeological Survey

It is traditionally believed that a monastic settlement was founded on the nearby Saint’s Island (formerly St. Dabheog's Island) in the fifth century by St. Patrick who installed Dabheoc as the first abbot (see…

Tags: Archaeological survey, Clogher, description, Station Island, summary

"We passed over level ground through country pleasing enough to the eye"

An sixteenth-century letter describing a trip to Lough Derg

Tags: Clogher, Francesco Chiericati, Isabella d'Este Gonzaga, itinerary, pilgrimage, purgatory, sixteenth century, Travelogue

Travelling through Pettigo

An account of the town of Pettigo

Tags: Clogher, James Fraser, Kesh stream, Lough Erne, moorland, nineteenth century, Pettigo, River Termon, roads, transport

From Magrath to Leslie

"The Monastery of Lough Derg, like most other Irish monasteries, was endowed with extensive lands at an early date by neighbouring chieftains..."

Tags: Clogher, confiscation, fifteenth century, Leslie family, Magrath family, Margaret Gibbons, monastery, ownership, patronage, seventeenth century, Termon Magrath

"The Church never relinquished her hold upon the one grey rock"

"Throughout all the perversions and confiscations [of the Reformation], however, the Church never relinquished her hold upon the one grey rock which then was Station Island..."

Tags: Catholic Church, Clogher, Diocese of Clogher, law, Leslie family, Margaret Gibbons, nineteenth century, ownership, pilgrim crossing, pilgrimage, pilgrims, Reformation, Sir John Leslie, Station Island, suppression