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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

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

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

"Being far from the ocean when the stormy wind rose..."

Tags: 1795 disaster, boating, disaster, drowning, Friars' Island, local history, poetry, Station Island

"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

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

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

Tags: 1795 disaster, commonly occurring location, Digital Derg Project, Friars' Island, Geolocation, James L. Smith, key location, Lough Derg, place names

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

"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