Lough Golagh and Breesy Hill Special Area of Conservation
Lough Derg--Region--Lough Golagh--Nature Reserve
The watershed, geology and wildlife of the Lough Golagh and Breesy Hill Special Area of Conservation
National Parks and Wildlife Service, Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Ireland
Site Synopsis, Lough Golagh and Breesy Hill Special Area of Conservation (SAC) entry
National Parks and Wildlife Service, Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Ireland
16 December 2013
CC BY 4.0 International License
Special Area of Conservation (SAC) entry
English
Biodiversity database
DD_0335
54.528, -8.05344
Tamur Bog Special Area of Conservation
Lough Derg--Region--Tamur Bog--Nature Reserve
The watershed, geology and wildlife of the Tamur Bog Special Area of Conservation
National Parks and Wildlife Service, Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Ireland
Site Synopsis, Tamur Bog Special Area of Conservation (SAC) entry
National Parks and Wildlife Service, Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Ireland
27 November 2013
CC BY 4.0 International License
Special Area of Conservation (SAC) entry
English
Biodiversity database
DD_0334
54.5554, -7.96767
Croaghonagh Bog Special Area of Conservation
Lough Derg--Region--Croaghonagh Bog--Nature Reserve
The watershed, geology and wildlife of the Croaghonagh Bog Special Area of Conservation
National Parks and Wildlife Service, Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Ireland
Site Synopsis, Croaghonagh Bog Special Area of Conservation (SAC) entry
National Parks and Wildlife Service, Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Ireland
24 July 2013
CC BY 4.0 International License
Special Area of Conservation (SAC) entry
English
Biodiversity database
DD_0333
54.7399, -7.91178
Lough Nageage Special Area of Conservation
Lough Derg--Region--Lough Nageage--Nature Reserve
The watershed, geology and wildlife of the Lough Nageage Special Area of Conservation
National Parks and Wildlife Service, Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Ireland
Site Synopsis, Lough Nageage Special Area of Conservation (SAC) entry
National Parks and Wildlife Service, Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Ireland
13 December 2013
CC BY 4.0 International License
Special Area of Conservation (SAC) entry
English
Biodiversity database
DD_0331
54.6143, -7.73182
"Wild and gloomy loneliness"
Lough Derg--Henry Newland--Fishing--Scenery
"Lough Derg has certainly been well chosen as a spot of religious penitence and seclusion, for the character of its scenery harmonises well with such a feeling; it is that of wild and gloomy loneliness."
Henry Newland, 1804-1860
Newland, Henry, The Erne, Its Legends and Its Fly-Fishing, p. 220
Chapman and Hall, London
1851
Digitised by Internet Archive, originally from University of California
Public domain
xiv, 395 p. plates. 20 cm
English
Fishing memoirs
DD_0179
54.631629,-7.862233
"The Chair stands out sharply against the vandyke brown of hibernating heathers and the orange of wilted bracken"
Lough Derg--Pilgrimage--Description--Alice Curtayne
"Returning to the lake shore, another notable landmark there should be considered, Saint Brigid's Chair. It is a large rock, roughly-shaped like a high-backed chair, and its is prominent even among the large boulders surrounding it..."
Alice Curtayne, 1898-1981
Curtayne, Alice, Lough Derg: St. Patrick’s Purgatory, pp. 18-19
Burns Oats and Washbourn, Ltd., London and Dublin
1944
Citation for the purposes of criticism
Monograph
English
History
DD_0126
54.600466, -7.863156
"One of the loneliest places on earth"
Lough Derg--Pilgrimage--Description--Alice Curtayne
"[Lough Derg] is one of the loneliest places on earth. Its boulder-strewn shores, thirteen miles in circumference, seem to have retained all their original wildness..."
Alice Curtayne, 1898-1981
Curtayne, Alice, Lough Derg: St. Patrick’s Purgatory, p. 1
Burns Oats and Washbourn, Ltd., London and Dublin
1944
Citation for the purposes of criticism
Monograph
English
History
DD_0113
54.616218, -7.876212
"A landscape that is usually a monotonous monochrome of either brown or grey tints"
Lough Derg--Pilgrimage--Description--Alice Curtayne
"There is a lake called Lough Derg in County Donegal which has acquired extraordinary fame both in Christian history and in general literature..."
Alice Curtayne, 1898-1981
Curtayne, Alice, Lough Derg: St. Patrick’s Purgatory, p. 1
Burns Oats and Washbourn, Ltd., London and Dublin
1944
Citation for the purposes of criticism
Monograph
English
History
DD_0112
54.616218, -7.876212
The lough in the twelfth century
Lough Derg--History--Middle Ages--Augustinians
"On every side of the island lay the watery fields, winding themselves into inlets and across bays. Great sheets of water, unbroken save by a group of smaller islands that rode like ships that had run to seed and blossom in tropical seas, with the pine-masts budding over the green decks..."
Shane Leslie, 1885-1971
Leslie, Shane, Lough Derg in Ulster : The Story of St. Patrick’s Purgatory, pp. 47-48
Maunsel, Dublin
1909
Digitised by archive.org, sponsored by University of California Libraries
Public domain
Monograph
English
Religious History
Text
DD_0024
54.616218, -7.876212