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Derry and the Valley of the Foyle

An account of the outflow from Lough Derg reaching the ocean in the Foyle Valley at Derry

Tags: County Derry, County Donegal, Derry, Foyle Valley, River Foyle, River Mourne, watershed

Castlederg to Lough Derg

A description of Lough Derg and its Pilgrimage in the American Donahoe's Magazine

Tags: Boston, Castlederg, County Derry, County Donegal, County Tyrone, Donahoe's Magazine, Killeter, nineteenth century, pilgrimage, road

"The Friary is a townland on Killymard ([Cill O mBárd]) side of Lough Eske. It was here the Friars settled when banished from Donegal and ministered to the spiritual wants of the neigh-bouring districts.

There is now no sign of a church or…

Tags: Catholicism, County Donegal, Folklore, friars, Lough Eske, Oral History, religion, suppression, The Friary

The source of the River Termon

"There is a good deal of land [in the disctrict of Cullion] which is mountainous and some good land for the potato crop. There is a small wood growing in it. There is one river and a lake in the mountainous part. The river is the Termon river which…

Tags: border, County Donegal, County Tyrone, Folklore, Lough Erne, Oral History, river, River Termon, Scraghy, source, watershed

"A boy was standing like a ballet dancer poised on the rock"

The poetry of Patrick Kavanagh's 'Lough Derg', detailing a visit in 1941

Tags: County Donegal, distraction, imagery, landscape, Patrick Kavanagh, pilgrimage, poetry, rural landscape, St. Patrick's Cross, twentieth century, vista

"Primeval magic among the trees"

The poetry of Patrick Kavanagh's 'Lough Derg', detailing a visit in 1941

Tags: County Donegal, dawn, distraction, farming, landscape, mountains, Patrick Kavanagh, poetry, remoteness, renewal, revelation, rural landscape, twentieth century

"The little islands of Pan held in the crooked elbow of the lake"

The poetry of Patrick Kavanagh's 'Lough Derg', detailing a visit in 1941

Tags: County Donegal, distraction, embodied experience, islands, location, miracle, mountains, Patrick Kavanagh, penance, poetry, poverty, remoteness, repetition, rural landscape, spiritual experience, twentieth century, vista

Rivers of southern Templecarn

"The county boundary of Fermanagh runs in the centre of a stream 40 feet wide flowing from north east to south west for 10 miles and turning the mill above the village, passes through Pettigo and falls into Lough Erne at Burnfoot..."

Tags: Burnfoot, County Donegal, County Fermanagh, hydrology, Lieutenant W. Lancey, Lough Erne, Northern Ireland, ordnance survey, Parish of Templecarne, river, River Termon, Royal Irish Academy, Templecarne, watershed

Lough Derg meets the sea

"[Lough Derg] and [the River Derg] empty themselves into the Mourne and finally mingle with the ocean at Magilligan…"

Tags: County Derry, County Donegal, County Tyrone, Derry, hydrology, Lieutenant W. Lancey, Magilligan, Northern Ireland, ordnance survey, River Derg, River Foyle, River Mourne, rivermouth, Royal Irish Academy, Templecarne, watershed

The River Derg

"The river dividing the counties of Tyrone and Donegal on the north mearing of Templecarn receives the drainage of Lough Derg..."

Tags: County Donegal, County Tyrone, hydrology, lake, Lieutenant W. Lancey, Norther Ireland, ordnance survey, river, River Derg, Royal Irish Academy, Templecarne, water, watershed

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