Browse Items (22 total) Browse All Browse by Tag Search Items Browse Map Tags: Royal Irish Academy Previous Page Page of 3 Sort by: Title Creator Date Added John O'Donovan described the lake "Ballyshanny. (Nov. 1, 1835.) I visited the far-famed terrestrial Purgatory of Lough-Derg but received no benefit from my tours except a severe cold, which I attribute more to the wet mountain bogs that surround the Lake..." Tags: bogland, cold, hills, John O'Donovan, mountains, nineteenth century, ordnance survey, penitential beds, pilgrimage, Royal Irish Academy, Saints Island, Shane Leslie, Station Island, stations, weather The origin of Lough Derg's name "There are two different opinions to account for the meaning of the denomination, Lough Derg..." Tags: Annals of the Four Masters, blood, bogland, colour, Daniel O'Connor, etymology, Fionn mac Cumhaill, Folklore, John O'Donovan, pilgrimage, place names, Royal Irish Academy, St. Patrick, water, wine Previous Page Page of 3 Output Formats atom, csv, dc-rdf, dcmes-xml, json, omeka-xml, rss2
