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A boat trip to Saints Island

A description of Lough Derg and its Pilgrimage in the American Donahoe's Magazine

Tags: boating, Boston, Donahoe's Magazine, nineteenth century, pilgrim crossing, Saints' Island

A man in a boat with Station Island in the background

View of Station Island with a rower in the foreground

Tags: boating, Lawrence Collection, National Library of Ireland, nineteenth century, Photographs, pilgrimage, reflection, Robert French, Station Island, vista, water, William Lawrence

A rower and Station Island with detail of rocks and water

View of Station Island with rower in foreground, detail of water and shore

Tags: boating, Lawrence Collection, National Library of Ireland, nineteenth century, Photographs, pilgrim, Robert French, rower, Station Island, vista, water, William Lawrence

An omen of disaster prior to the 1795 accident

"As a boat was being loaded with passengers at eleven o'clock, an elderly man arrived at the shore and urgently signalled to his son to come away with him..."

Tags: 1795 disaster, Alice Curtayne, boating, disaster, dream, drowning, eighteenth century, Folklore, omen, Oral History, pilgrim, pilgrim crossing, pilgrimage, supernatural, survivor, twentieth century

Antonio Mannini is rowed to the island

"The prior accompanied my as far as the water, and put me into the boat himself, first kissing me and giving me his blessing..."

Tags: Antonio Mannini, Augustinians, barefoot, boating, canon, crossing, fifteenth century, pilgrim crossing, prior, Shane Leslie, weather

Antonio Mannini prepares for his journey

Tags: Antonio Mannini, Augustinians, boating, fifteenth century, mountains, pilgrim crossing, pilgrimage, pilgrims, preparation, Shane Leslie

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

Boating accidents on the lake

"Taking into account what angry storms sometimes sweep over the lake, lashing its waves into great fury, it is a merciful dispensation of Providence that more accidents have not occurred here..."

Tags: accidents, boating, Daniel O'Connor, disaster, storms