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Boat keel on Station Island

Remains of a boat keel found propped up against a wall on Station Island

Tags: boating, keel, Lawrence Collection, National Library of Ireland, nineteenth century, Photographs, Robert French, Station Island, tradition, William Lawrence

Cardinal Michael Logue boards a boat at the Station Island ferry house, 1913

The Cardinal's delegation board a boat to Station Island, surrounded by crowd

Tags: boating, Cardinal Michael Logue, ferry house, Lawrence Collection, National Library of Ireland, nineteenth century, Photographs, pilgrim crossing, Robert French, Station Island, William Lawrence

Pilgrims board their boats south-east of Station Island

Two boats of pilgrims pose for a photograph south-east of Station Island, with Station and Friar's island in background

Tags: boating, Friars' Island, Lawrence Collection, National Library of Ireland, nineteenth century, Photographs, pilgrim crossing, pilgrimage, Robert French, Station Island, vista, William Lawrence

Station Island boat leaving

A pilgrim boat leaving the shore, pilgrims boarding another crowded boat, and a crowd on shore

Tags: boating, ferry house, Lawrence Collection, National Library of Ireland, nineteenth century, Photographs, pilgrim crossing, queue, Robert French, Station Island, William Lawrence

"It is in the neighbourhood of [the islands beyond Station Island] that the fish are caught, and round them the boat made its slow circuit, as the fishermen, keeping accurate time, cast, with lines not above twice the length of their rods, the one to…

Tags: boating, Eagle's Rock Island, fishing, fly fishing, Henry Newland, Inishgoosk, lake, memoir, nineteenth century, upper lake

Fishing in the Upper Lake

"There was at first quite success enough to test the goodness of the extempore flies, and though few fish of much more than a pound weight were taken, and those of a dull brown, out-of-season sort of character…"

Tags: boating, catch, fishing, fly fishing, Henry Newland, islands, memoir, nineteenth century, upper lake

"Sure it's an aigle!"

"'What bird is that ?' said the Captain, rousing himself. 'Sure it's an aigle!' said the men ; and, for want of something better to do, the whole party stood, sat, or reclined, watching the bird as it hovered uneasily round and round them..."

Tags: birdlife, boating, eagle, Eagle's Rock Island, eggs, fauna, fishing, Henry Newland, lake, memoir, nineteenth century, poaching, upper lake

"Shades of evening were adding solemnity to the landscape"

"By this time there began to be a stir among the boatmen, the sun had been for some while under the horizon, and the shades of evening were adding solemnity to the landscape…"

Tags: boating, fishing, fly fishing, Henry Newland, memoir, night, nineteenth century, sunset, weather

"This task was soon rendered less difficult by the rising of the moon"

"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…"

Tags: boating, fishing, Henry Newland, memoir, night, nineteenth century, Pettigo

Location: Ferry House, Lough Derg

Tags: boating, commonly occurring location, Digital Derg Project, ferry, ferry house, Geolocation, James L. Smith, key location, Lough Derg, place names

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