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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

Timeline: 1795

Tags: 1795 disaster, chronology, events, Friars' Island, Margaret Gibbons, pilgrimage, timeline

Pilgrims board their boats south-east of Station Island

Two boats of pilgrims pose for a photograph south-east of Station Island, with Station and Friar's island in background

Tags: boating, Friars' Island, Lawrence Collection, National Library of Ireland, nineteenth century, Photographs, pilgrim crossing, pilgrimage, Robert French, Station Island, vista, William Lawrence

View of Station Island from east shore

View across lake from east including Friars' and Station Islands, including rock formations and shore

Tags: east shore, Friars' Island, islands, Lawrence Collection, National Library of Ireland, nineteenth century, Photographs, Robert French, Station Island, vista, William Lawrence

View of Station Island with boats and Friars' Island

View from shore of the lake and Station Island in the distance with Friars' Island and boats

Tags: boating, Friars' Island, Lawrence Collection, National Library of Ireland, nineteenth century, Photographs, reflection, Robert French, Station Island, vista, water, William Lawrence

Friars' Island detail

Inset view of Friars' Island, Lough Derg

Tags: Friars' Island, Lawrence Collection, National Library of Ireland, nineteenth century, Photographs, Robert French, Station Island, William Lawrence

Rowers in front of Friars' Island

View of Friars' Island with rowers in foreground

Tags: boating, Friars' Island, Lawrence Collection, National Library of Ireland, nineteenth century, Photographs, Robert French, rowers, Station Island, water, William Lawrence

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

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

"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

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