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The entry for Lough Derg in an 1842 Irish gazetteer

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An account of the 1795 disaster from a report to the Marquess of Abercorn.

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"Being far from the ocean when the stormy wind rose..."

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"About twenty of the victims were buried on Friars' Island, where fir-trees on a mound show their grave to-day..."

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"Ninety-three people were then crowded into an old and leaky boat, despite their protests. The fact that the boatmen were drunk made the passengers still more uneasy..."

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"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..."

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"The end of the eighteenth-century history of Lough Derg is sadly remembered because of a particularly bad boating accident..."

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"Friars' Island is unmistakable, because it is the nearest to the ferry. Unfortunately, the origin of its name is unknown..."

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"Very few stories are told of mermaids in this district as it is too far from the sea. The mermaid or 'maigdean mara' is very attractive. Once upon a time a glan man who made a station in Lough Derg returned home by Bundoran. He spent a few hours…

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"But the most lamentable catastrophe of all happened here in 1795 — a catastrophe which for many years cast a gloom over the place..."

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