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

A dismal scene of the view to the lake on the walk from Pettigo, originally included in Caesar Otway's 'Sketches in Ireland'

"Pettigo. (July 23, 1824). A country road leads in this direction a mile: after leaving which we passed over the mountains following a path, which the number of devotees who visit the Island, had marked too distinctly to be mistaken..."

“From Pettigo to Lough Dergh, the distance is about three miles, over bog and mountain. It is a scramble all the way, endeavouring to avoid the marsh and bog land, that cannot, however, be avoided..."

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

"The Pettigo river rises about 5 miles north of Pettigo and runs in a southerly direction about a mile north of the village..."
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