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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

Lough Eske and Ardnamona Wood Special Area of Conservation

The watershed, geology and wildlife of the Lough Eske and Ardnamona Wood Special Area of Conservation

Lough Derg and its islands

"In the county of Donnegal, at the distance of four miles from Lough Earn, and in the midst of mountains and morasses, extending every way to a considerable distance..."

Tags: anticlericalism, Clogher, corruption, etymology, islands, mountains, Philip Skelton, pilgrimage, Protestant critique, Saints Island, Station Island

Keeronagh, the Devil's mother

"They here shew a bass relief of Keeronagh, the devil's mother, rudely done on a coinstone of one of the chapels, a figure somewhat resembling that of a wolf, with a monstrous long tail and a forked tongue..."

Tags: blood, Caoranach, Clogher, Dabheoc's seat, etymology, Fionn mac Cumhaill, Folklore, Keeronagh, monster, mountains, mythology, Philip Skelton, pilgrimage, Protestant critique, stonework

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

Fictitious Lough Derg in the Chapel of Monea, Diocese of Clogher

"We cannot permit the circumstance of a Roman Catholic priest constructing a fictitious Lough Dearg in his Chapel for the use of his people, when prevented going to the real one, to pass without a word or two of remark..."

Tags: baptism, charlatanism, Clogher, fakery, miracle, Monea, Rome, water, water station

Destroying Station Island

"And therefore we do hereby order and resolve that Letters shall be dispatched from this board unto the Rev. Father of God the Lord Bishop of Clogher, Sir John Dundarre High Sheriff of the County of Donegal, Edward Archdale and Leonard Blennerhasset…

Tags: 1632, Clogher, demolition, destruction of built heritage, James Magrath, land acquisition, legislation, penitential beds, Privy Council, Protestant critique, Reformation, seventeenth century, Shane Leslie, St. Patrick, Station Island, stations, superstition, suppression

Clogh-oir, the golden stone

An account of Lough Derg from a late-nineteenth-century pilgrim.

Tags: Clogher, description, golden stone, Irish Monthly, penitential beds, pilgrimage, purgatory, St. Patrick's bed, Station Island

Barnesmore Bog Natural Heritage Area

A description of the Barnesmore Bog Natural Heritage Area (NHA)

Tags: Badger (Meles meles), Bell Heather (Erica cinerea), Bilberry (Vaccinium myrtillus), biodiversity, Black Bog-rush, Black Bog-rush (Schoenus nigricans), Bladderwort (Utricularia sp.), Bog Asphodel (Narthecium ossifragum), Bog Pondweed (Potamogeton polygonifolius), Bog Sedge (Carex limosa), Bog-myrtle (Myrica gale), Bogbean (Menyanthes trifoliata), bogland, Bottle Sedge (Carex rostrata), Bracken (Pteridium aquilinum), Broad-leaved Pondweed (Potamogeton natans), Bulbous Rush (Juncus Bulbosus), Carnation Sedge (Carex panicea), Clogher, Common Butterwort (Pinguicula vulgaris), Common Cottongrass (Eriophorum angustifolium), Common Frog, Cross-leaved Heath (Erica tetralix), Deergrass (Scirpus cespitosus), Devil’s-bit Scabious (Succisa pratensis), dryness, Fir Clubmoss (Huperzia selago), Golden Plover, Great Sundew (D. anglica), Green-ribbed Sedge, Green-ribbed Sedge (Carex binervis), Hard Fern (Blechnum spicant), Heath Bedstraw (Galium saxatile), Heath Grass (Danthonia decumbens), Heath Milkwort (Polygala serpyllifolia), Irish Hare, Lesser Spearwort, Ling Heather, Ling Heather (Calluna vulgaris), Marsh Pennywort (Hydrocotyle vulgaris), Marsh Thistle (Cirsium palustre), Marsh Violet, Mat Grass (Nardus stricta), Peregrine Falcon, Purple Moor-grass, Purple Moor-grass (Molinia caerulea), quaking bog, Quillwort (Isoetes lacustris), Red Grouse, Round-leaved Sundew (Drosera rotundifolia), Royal Fern (Osmunda regalis), Sheep’s Fescue (Festuca ovina), Shoreweed (Littorella uniflora), sphagnum moss, Star Sedge (Carex echinata), Sweet Vernal-grass (Anthoxanthum odoratum), Tormentil, Tormentil (Potentilla erecta), Velvet Bent (Agrostis canina), Water Horsetail (Equisetum fluviatile), Wood Sorrel (Oxalis acetosella), wood-rushes (Luzula multiflora L. sylvatica)

A visit in the reign of Henry VIII

"The record of many others who followed the same perilous quest survives. The Sire de Beaujeu, Louis de Sue, Louis of France, Malatesta of Hungary, and, not least, there came in the reign of King Henry VIII. the Cardinal Legate to England, who made a…

Tags: baptism, Celtic revival, Clogher, English visitors, famous visitors, immersion, mythology, pilgrims, romance, Shane Leslie, sixteenth century, St. Patrick, water

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