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"Lough Derg is four miles from Pettigo ; for the first three miles there is a good high road, which runs for a considerable distance alongside a considerable stream, called the Tarmon Water; the last mile is through a wild mountain moor to the left. It will be necessary to take a guide and a pony from Pettigo, both of which can always be obtained at the little hotel. Part of this path runs along the steep acclivities of the rocky hills that rise from the moor, and in some instances it is no small trial to the nerves to keep your seat ; but it is best to allow the pony to take its own way, and to resign yourself to your fate the smallest interference on your part might precipitate the horse and his rider into the morass below.
A more wild and desolate scene cannot be imagined than that which presents itself upon gaining the high grounds near the lake. The expanse of water, although more than ten miles in circumference, has nothing pleasing in it embosomed in a waste of red swampy bogs, its shores are not enlivened by cultivation or beautified by the presence of a single tree. Its peat-stained, sluggish waters are broken here and there by a few unsightly islands, upon which nothing grows above the rank of the stunted juniper. At the far side, long ranges of low, un- interesting mountains, with the same brown swampy covering, dip down upon its shores, without grandeur ; it looks a very Stygian waste a dull and melancholy wilderness.
Such is the scene to which ‘the weary and heavy laden’ have come for ages to find rest for their souls, and such the place to which superstition leads her votaries from the broad daylight of the busy world, and the haunts of civilized man."
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396 p. illus. 17 cm.
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The ugly terrain of Lough Derg
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Lough Derg--Vicinity--Purgatory--Travel guide
Description
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An account of the religious history of Lough Derg for the traveller.
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J. B. Doyle
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Tours in Ulster: A hand-book to the antiquities and scenery of the north of Ireland.
By J. B. Doyle. With numerous illustrations, chiefly from the author's sketch-book, p. 361
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Hodges and Smith, Dublin
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1854
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Digitised by Google, sponsored by New York Public Library, archived on Hathi Trust digital library
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Public domain
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Handbook
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English
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Travel guide
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54.616218, -7.876212
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DD_0480
bogland
disappointment
J. B. Doyle
lake
negative description
nineteenth century
ugliness
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"One would suppose that at a shrine so ancient some venerable remains of the superstitions of our forefathers would be found but there are none everything is commonplace. The Holy or Station Island is literally covered with buildings : thatched huts, slated houses, chapels, cold, stiff, whitewashed buildings, looking as if only erected a few years ago not one object to lead the thoughts back to the olden times."
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396 p. illus. 17 cm.
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A disappointed description of Station Island
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Lough Derg--Vicinity--Purgatory--Travel guide
Description
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An account of the religious history of Lough Derg for the traveller.
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J. B. Doyle
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Tours in Ulster: A hand-book to the antiquities and scenery of the north of Ireland.
By J. B. Doyle. With numerous illustrations, chiefly from the author's sketch-book, p. 360
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Hodges and Smith, Dublin
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1854
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Digitised by Google, sponsored by New York Public Library, archived on Hathi Trust digital library
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English
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Travel guide
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54.6083, -7.8714
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DD_0479
built heritage
disappointment
J. B. Doyle
Lough Derg
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Station Island
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Alice Curtayne
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Lough Derg--Irish Identity--Alice Curtayne--Pilgrim Imaginary
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James L. Smith
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Digital Derg: A Deep Map
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2021
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CC BY, sui generis database
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English
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Lough Derg
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"Do not visit Saints' Island with expectation of finding carved stones, a clear ground plan of ancient buildings, or examples of early Christian masonry. There is nothing of the kind to be seen. You will find instead only stumps, bumps, and conquering armies of weeds, cruel in their strength. Pillaged now of whatever memorials it once had, the island has only a few trees scattered over its surface: rowans and hawthorns, not remarkable except that they are thickly draped with green-grey lichen; no holy well could have its surrounding bushes so festooned with rag-offerings as are those hoary trees with their lichen garlands. For the rest, briars are in possession, leaping unchecked almost from end to end of the island, to the exasperation of archaeologists, who indeed have shown a distaste for this venerable, but forbidding, ground. Even the famous antiquarian, O'Donovan, gave it only scant attention."
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"You will find instead only stumps, bumps, and conquering armies of weeds, cruel in their strength"
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"Do not visit Saints' Island with expectation of finding carved stones, a clear ground plan of ancient buildings, or examples of early Christian masonry..."
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Alice Curtayne, 1898-1981
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Curtayne, Alice, Lough Derg: St. Patrick’s Purgatory, p. 24
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Burns Oats and Washbourn, Ltd., London and Dublin
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1944
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Monograph
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English
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History
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Lough Derg--Pilgrimage--Description--Alice Curtayne
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54.6153, -7.8864
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DD_0130
Alice Curtayne
bramble
cultural memory
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destruction of built heritage
disappointment
inaccessibility
isolation
John O'Donovan
lichen
monasticism
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nostalgia
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ruins
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twentieth century
weeds
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Medievalism
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Lough Derg--Irish Identity--Medievalism--Nostalgia
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A collection of items detailing the medievalisms of Lough Derg's pilgrimage, the continuing process of creating the Middle Ages through the lake and its islands.
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James L. Smith
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Digital Derg: A Deep Map
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2019
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CC BY, sui generis database
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English
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Lough Derg
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"The road from the village of Petigo leading towards Lough Derg, runs along a river tumbling over rocks ; and then after proceeding for a time over a boggy valley, you ascend into a dreary and mountainous tract, extremely ugly in itself, but from which you have a fine view indeed of the greatest part of the lower lake of Lough Erne, with its many elevated islands, and all its hilly shores, green, wooded, and cultivated, with the interspersed houses of its gentry, and the comfortable cottages of its yeomanry — the finest yeomanry in Ireland : men living in comparative comfort, and having in their figures and bearing that elevation of character which a sense of loyalty and independence confers. I had at length, after travelling about three miles, arrived where the road was discontinued, and by the direction of my guide, ascended a mountain-path that brought me through a wretched village, and led to the top of a hill. Here my boy left me, and went to look for the man who was to ferry us to Purgatory, and on the ridge where I stood I had leisure to look around. To the south-west lay Lough Erne, with all its isles and cultivated shores ; to the north-west, Lough Derg, and truly never did I mark such a contrast. Lough Derg under my feet — the lake, the shores, the mountains, the accompaniments of all sorts presented the very landscape of desolation; its waters expanding in their highland solitude, amidst a wide waste of moors, without one green spot to refresh the eye, without a house or tree — all mournful in the brown hue of its far-stretching bogs, and the grey uniformity of its rocks ; the surrounding mountains even partook of the sombre character of the place ; their forms without grandeur, their ranges continuous and without elevation. The lake itself was certainly as fine as rocky shores and numerous islands could make it : but it was encompassed with such dreariness ; it was deformed so much by its purgatorial island ; the associations connected with it were of such a degrading character, that really the whole prospect before me struck my mind with a sense of painfulness, and I said to myself, 'I am already in purgatory.' A person who had never seen the picture that was now under my eye, who had read of a place consecrated by the devotion of ages, towards which the tide of human superstition had flowed for twelve centuries, might imagine that St. Patrick's Purgatory, secluded in its sacred island, would have all the venerable and gothic accompaniments of olden time : and its ivied towers and belfried steeples, its carved windows, and cloistered arches, its long dark aisles and fretted vaults, would have risen out of the water, rivalling Iona or Lindisfarn ; but nothing of the sort was to be seen. The island, about half a mile from the shore, presented nothing but a collection of hideous slated houses and cabins, which give you an idea that they were rather erected for the purposes of toll-houses or police stations than any thing else."
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Monograph
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Unimpressed by Lough Derg
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Lough Derg--Protestant critique--Negative description--William Carleton
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A dismal scene of the view to the lake on the walk from Pettigo, originally included in Caesar Otway's 'Sketches in Ireland'
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William Carleton, 1794-1869
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Carleton, William, 'The Lough Derg Pilgrim', in Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry, pp. 238-39
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W. Curry, jr. and Co., Dublin; W. S. Orr and Co., London
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1843
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Digitised by archive.org, sponsored by University of California Libraries
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Monograph
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English
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Description of Ireland
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DD_0026
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Public domain
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https://archive.org/details/traitsstoriesofi01carlrich
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54.600640, -7.846374
bogland
Caesar Otway
disappointment
hills
landscape
medievalism
mountains
negative
Pettigo
pilgrimage
Protestant critique
St. Patrick
Station Island
The Gothic
William Carleton