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“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..."

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

"A large-scale evacuation [of Pettigo] followed [the shelling] and the IRA men made their way to the hills to escape the bombardment..."

"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..."

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

"It was much too dark for any one to see where they were going, so that it seemed more by instinct than anything else that the boat touched the shore at the very spot where they had been taken in that morning…"

A description of the context surrounding the formation of the Orange Order district lodge and its relationship to Lough Derg
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