Browse Items (19 total) Browse All Browse by Tag Search Items Browse Map Tags: eighteenth century Page of 2 Next Page Sort by: Title Creator Date Added Friars' Island "Friars' Island is unmistakable, because it is the nearest to the ferry. Unfortunately, the origin of its name is unknown..." Tags: 1795 disaster, Alice Curtayne, drowning, eighteenth century, Friars' Island, graveyard, twentieth century The Franciscans "The Franciscans took up the charge of St. Patrick's Purgatory when it was the most persecuted and derided institution of the Irish Church..." Tags: Alice Curtayne, Catholicism, eighteenth century, Franciscans, neglect, penal times, pilgrimage, Protestant critique, purgatory, ruin, secret worship, seventeenth century, Station Island, suppression, twentieth century The 1795 disaster "The end of the eighteenth-century history of Lough Derg is sadly remembered because of a particularly bad boating accident..." Tags: 1795 disaster, accusation, Alice Curtayne, boating, disaster, drinking, drowning, eighteenth century, Friars' Island, malfeasance, pilgrim, pilgrim crossing, poteen, Station Island, twentieth century 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 The Orange Order in Pettigo A description of the context surrounding the formation of the Orange Order district lodge and its relationship to Lough Derg Tags: 1795 disaster, eighteenth century, etymology, Fionn mac Cumhaill, monster, Orange Order, Pettigo, Protestant critique, Protestantism, sectarian violence, serpent, St. Patrick A Map of the Island of Purgatory Map from a critique of St. Patrick's Purgatory and Catholic pilgrimage in general. Tags: eighteenth century, etching, John Richardson, Lough Derg, Map, morality, Protestant critique, Station Island, treatise Letter, James Hamilton Jnr, Strabane, Co. Tyrone, to [Marquess of Abercorn, London] A report of the 55th Regiment displacing a group of entrenched squatters upon an island in Lough Derg for which they refuse to pay rent. Tags: eighteenth century, Glaslough, islands, James Hamilton Jr, Leslie family, Lough Derg, military intervention, Public Record Office of Northern Ireland, regiment, report squatters Letter, James Hamilton Jnr, Strabane, Co. Tyrone, to Marquess of Abercorn, General Post Office, Dublin. (To be forwarded). A report including details of a gathering of pilgrims at Lough Derg with 20,000 attendees. Tags: eighteenth century, James Hamilton Jr, Lough Derg, pilgrimage, Public Record Office of Northern Ireland, report Letter, Robert Jamison, Baronscourt, to [Marquess of Abercorn, London]. An account of the 1795 disaster from a report to the Marquess of Abercorn. Tags: 1795 disaster, description, disaster, drowning, eighteenth century, Lough Derg, Marquess of Abercorn, pilgrimage, report, Robert Jamison "Every Body knows how excessively the Irish are addicted to Pilgrimage" A critique of St. Patrick's Purgatory and Catholic pilgrimage in general. Tags: eighteenth century, John Richardson, penitential beds, pilgrimage, Protestant critique, Station Island Page of 2 Next Page Output Formats atom, csv, dc-rdf, dcmes-xml, json, omeka-xml, rss2
