Browse Items · Digital Derg: A Deep Map

Hybernia Nunc Irlant

A map of Ireland including the prominent location of The Purgatory of Saint Patrick.

Tags: Bibliothèque nationale de France, cartography, Ireland, Map, pilgrimage, sixteenth century, St. Patrick, Ulster

Pilgrims being transported to Station Island on Lough Derg

Pilgrims getting rowed to Station Island on Lough Derg, County Donegal, Ireland

Tags: etching, lake crossing, photography, pilgrimage, St. Patrick, Station Island

Saints Island on Lough Derg

Landscape etching of Saints Island on Lough Derg, County Donegal, Ireland

Tags: boating, etching, landscape, pilgrimage, Saints Island, St. Patrick

Historical Traditions

A folklore account of St. Patrick and the salmon of Lough Derg

Tags: Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar), County Donegal, Cullion, Folklore, Gortnessy, Oral History, Salmon, St. Patrick

St. Patrick's well at Tullaghan

"St. Patrick’s Well at Tullaghan has a legend. St Patrick stopped the night in a house near a mountain. The woman told him not to look at the light on the mountain, but he went up and saw a serpent and when he struck it, St. Patrick’s Well sprang up.…

Tags: blood, Bundoran, County Donegal, etymology, Folklore, holy well, mountains, St. Patrick, Tullaghan

Sliabh Dubh Holy Well

"About eight miles from the Four Masters’ School in Byrne’s mountain on the old foot-road across Croney to Lough Derg is a Holy Well called [Sliab Dub ?]. ( ½ ml. from the Donegal-Tyrone border)

Local tradition says that as Saint Patrick was going…

Tags: Annals of the Four Masters, Folklore, headache, healing, holy well, mountains, offering, pilgrim road, sore joints, St. Patrick, toothache

Another fictitious Lough Derg, Coronea, County Cavan

"A little tract, that bears the title of 'Hindooism in Ireland,' notices a Station which was some time since established at Coronea, county of Cavan..."

Tags: baptism, Coronea, dryness, St. Patrick, stations, substitution, water, water station

An early description of the stations of Station Island

"An early writer describing the place, says — 'As soon as the pilgrims come within sight of the holy island, they pull off their shoes and stockings, and uncover their heads, and walk thus with their beads in one hand, and sometimes a cross in the…

Tags: prayer, second-hand accounts, St. Patrick, Station Island, stations, water, water station

A story of Ugolino's death on Station Island

"Upon an ill day was sin done on the island of the cave itself, and was long remembered as the beginning of many sorrows to Derg..."

Tags: blood, Celtic revival, murder, pilgrimage, Rome, Shane Leslie, St. Patrick, Station Island, storytelling, twelfth century, Ugolino

The legacy of the Druids

"It is a long passage of time since the men of Ireland first felt the mystery of those quiet little hills and looked for the unseen in the waters that lie at their feet, for the spiritual history of Derg stretches back into the dimmest age of…

Tags: Celtic revival, Druid, dryness, forest, hills, myth, pre-Christian, prehistory, Rome, Shane Leslie, St. Patrick, storytelling

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