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Ferry boat house, Station Island

View of the nineteenth-century ferry boat house to Station Island

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

Ferry house and view of Station Island

View of the lake and Station Island from the ferry house

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

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

Gazetteer description of the 1795 disaster

The entry for Lough Derg in an 1842 Irish gazetteer

Tags: 1795 disaster, boating, disaster, drowning, gazetteer, John Parker Lawson, pilgrim crossing

Jenny crosses to Station Island

Jenny gets a sensory impression of the island as she approaches and encounters its contents and topography

Tags: barefoot, boating, building, impressions, literature, penitential beds, pilgrims crossing, Sean O'Faolain, short stories, Station Island, twentieth century, weather, wetness

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

Location: Landing Pier, Station Island

Tags: boating, commonly occurring location, Digital Derg Project, Geolocation, James L. Smith, key location, landing, Lough Derg, pilgrim crossing, place names

Lough Derg in the rain

Jenny and Bobby arrive at Lough Derg in the rain and are greeted by the sight of the lake and the pilgrims waiting to cross

Tags: boating, cattle, doubt, impressions, Irish identity, literature, negative description, pilgrim crossing, rain, Sean O'Faolain, short stories, St. Patrick, twentieth century, weather

Otway muses on the metaphor of birds

"Having thus given the modern and ancient state of this purgatory, it is time to think of leaving it; and I confess I prepared to turn my back on this strong hold of superstition, without a desire ever again to visit it..."

Tags: birdlife, boating, Caesar Otway, crossing, greed, hills, nineteenth century, pilgrimage, profiteering, Protestant critique

Photograph of Islets on Lough Derg south shore

The approach to Lough Derg Ferry House

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

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