Browse Items · Digital Derg: A Deep Map

"We left the Island with dry skies but still carrying our fast with us"

"Then, with hearts refreshed, we turned to accomplish the three remaining Stations..."

Tags: boating, Catholic journalism, dryness, hills, Leslie family, pilgrim crossing, pilgrimage, pilgrims, Rome, Shane Leslie, The Tablet, timelessness, twentieth century, weather

"We seemed to stand in a dim place where two worlds meet"

"With the fall of night the world slipped away. We seemed to stand in a dim place where two worlds meet. At intervals we walked into the misty starlight and stamped a little warmth into our feet..."

Tags: aesthetics, Catholic journalism, cold, Leslie family, light, mist, pilgrimage, pilgrims, Shane Leslie, sound, Station Island, The Tablet, twentieth century, wather

The ruins of Saints Island

"The ground-works of many ruins can still be traced to Saint Daveog's Island on Olean na Naomh or Island of the Saints) and a paved way (via strata) or old road can still be traced..."

Tags: bridge, John O'Donovan, nineteenth century, ordnance survey, pilgrim path, Royal Irish Academy, ruins, Saints Island, Seeavog Townland, Shane Leslie, St. Dabheoc, Templecarne Graveyard

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 slopes of the mountains

"The Lough, which is said to be about nine miles in circumference, is situated in the midst of high hills, which rise on all sides without the slightest appearance of cultivation..."

Tags: aesthetics, barrenness, hills, isolation, loneliness, mountains, nineteenth century, rural landscape, Shane Leslie

The approach to the lake

"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..."

Tags: aesthetics, crowds, heath, mountains, negative, negative description, nineteenth century, Pettigo, pilgrim path, pilgrim road, pilgrimage, pilgrims, Shane Leslie, view, vista, weather

The nature of granite outcrops

"Ballyshannon. (July 25, 1824.) Soon after leaving Pettigo going towards Lough Derg, the limestone ceases and the mineral productions change entirely..."

Tags: aesthetics, approach, barrenness, emotion, geology, granite, limestone, mineral, mountains, nineteenth century, outcrops, pilgrim path, Shane Leslie, silver

Secrets of Templecarne Graveyard

A description of the graveyard and its relationship with the lake

Tags: cattle, devotional activities, James Spencer Knox, lake, mountains, Pettigo, pilgrim path, pilgrim road, Protestant critique, ruins, sanctity, seventeenth century, Shane Leslie, St. Patrick, Station Island, Templecarne Graveyard, Termon Magrath

Fauna surrounding the lake

"In describing the seventeenth-century Fauna, Knox makes note of wolf and red deer at Lough Derg. 'The deer come some times from Barnesmore to this Estate but having no coverts they do not stay in it,' whereas 'the wolves are but rare in the country…

Tags: fauna, James Spencer Knox, lake, red deer, Shane Leslie, Termon Magrath, wolves

Fish stocks in the lake

"In this Lough is great plenty of fish such as trouts, eels and salmon as I am told. Trouts may be had by angling in abundance from March till winter and at the head of the river between Knocnacoyne and Leanaght might a good eel fishing be had in the…

Tags: angling, Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar), eels, fishing, river mouth, Salmon, seventeenth century, Shane Leslie, trout

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