The trees of Templecarn
Lough Derg--Ordnance Survey--Description--Lieutenant Lancey
"Of woods, nurseries or plantations [Templecarn] is at present completely destitute, thought there is every appearance of it having been formerly well supplied with timber..."
Lieutenant W. Lancey, 1835
Replies to Queries on Termon Magrath District from North West Farming Society, Parish of Templecarn, in Institute of Irish Studies, and Royal Irish Academy, Parishes of County Donegal / Edited by Angélique Day and Patrick McWilliams. II 1835-6, Mid, West and South Donegal., Ordnance Survey Memoirs of Ireland; v.39, pp. 164-65
Institute of Irish Studies in association with The Royal Irish Academy, Belfast
1835-6 [1997]
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Templecarn is a "barren subject"
Lough Derg--Ordnance Survey--Description--Lieutenant Lancey
"The author of the following brief sketch, on first receiving a copy of the statistical queries, was for a considerable time in doubt whether to forward any answer to the inquiries proposed..."
Lieutenant W. Lancey, 1835
Replies to Queries on Termon Magrath District from North West Farming Society, Parish of Templecarn, in Institute of Irish Studies, and Royal Irish Academy, Parishes of County Donegal / Edited by Angélique Day and Patrick McWilliams. II 1835-6, Mid, West and South Donegal., Ordnance Survey Memoirs of Ireland; v.39, p. 159
Institute of Irish Studies in association with The Royal Irish Academy, Belfast
1835-6 [1997]
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"Those trackless hills enfold the lake as though to hide it."
Lough Derg--Pilgrimage--Description--Alice Curtayne
"It is remarkable how completely the exterior world is shut out. Those trackless hills enfold the lake as though to hide it..."
Alice Curtayne, 1898-1981
Curtayne, Alice, Lough Derg: St. Patrick’s Purgatory, p. 2
Burns Oats and Washbourn, Ltd., London and Dublin
1944
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History
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"No road, and not even a defined path, goes around the lake"
Lough Derg--Pilgrimage--Description--Alice Curtayne
"Only one main road leads to the lake, that from the small town of Pettigo, four miles distant. This road ends at the ferry, where there is a house and a few other buildings..."
Alice Curtayne, 1898-1981
Curtayne, Alice, Lough Derg: St. Patrick’s Purgatory, pp. 1-2
Burns Oats and Washbourn, Ltd., London and Dublin
1944
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The slopes of the mountains
Lough Derg--Mountains--Description--Vista
"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..."
Shane Leslie, 1885-1971
Anon., Excursions in Ulster, 1824, Leslie, Shane, Saint Patrick's Purgatory: A Record from History and Literature, p. 127
Burns Oats and Washbourne Ltd, London
1932
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The nature of granite outcrops
Lough Derg--Geology--Description--Imagination
"Ballyshannon. (July 25, 1824.) Soon after leaving Pettigo going towards Lough Derg, the limestone ceases and the mineral productions change entirely..."
Shane Leslie, 1885-1971
Anon., Excursions in Ulster, 1824, Leslie, Shane, Saint Patrick's Purgatory: A Record from History and Literature, p. 128
Burns Oats and Washbourne Ltd, London
1932
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"Some dark spot in the midst of flowing silver"
Lough Derg--Pilgrimage--Depiction--Penny Journal
A description of the lake taken from O'Connor's account of an 1836 story in the Dublin Penny Journal Count Raymond de Perilleaux's 1397 journey to the Purgatory
Daniel O'Connor, 1843-1919
Daniel O’Connor, Lough Derg and Its Pilgrimages: With Map and Illustrations, p. 97
J. Dollard, Dublin
1879
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Pilgrim handbook
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The archipelago of the lake
Lough Derg--Islands--Archipelago--Description
“Lough Derg consists of two large sheets of water, which may be designated the upper and lower lakes..."
Daniel O'Connor, 1843-1919
Daniel O’Connor, Lough Derg and Its Pilgrimages: With Map and Illustrations, pp. 25-6
J. Dollard, Dublin
1879
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Pilgrim handbook
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The journey from Pettigo to Lough Derg
Lough Derg--Pilgrimage--Pilgrim Path--Pettigo
“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..."
Philip Dixon Hardy, 1794-1875
Hardy, Philip Dixon, The Holy Wells of Ireland : Containing an Authentic Account of Those Various Places of Pilgrimage and Penance Which Are Still Annually Visited by Thousands of the Roman Catholic Peasantry. With a Minute Description of the Patterns and Stations Periodically Held in Various Districts of Ireland, p. 14-15
Hardy & Walker, Dublin
1840
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Holy wells
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