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Gerald's description of purgatory

"There is a lake in Ulster which contains an island divided into two parts..."

Tags: geography, Gerald of Wales, islands, lakes, topography, twelfth century, water

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

Lough Derg and its islands

"In the county of Donnegal, at the distance of four miles from Lough Earn, and in the midst of mountains and morasses, extending every way to a considerable distance..."

Tags: anticlericalism, Clogher, corruption, etymology, islands, mountains, Philip Skelton, pilgrimage, Protestant critique, Saints Island, Station Island

Lough Derg gazetteer entry

The entry for Lough Derg in an 1842 Irish gazetteer

Tags: gazetteer, Inishgoosk, islands, Lough Derg, Lough Erne, nineteenth century, Pettigo, Saints' Island

Map of the British Isles f. D1v

This is a map of the British Isles. It is a wood cut and is by the Venetian Pietro Coppo.

Tags: cartography, engraving, Ireland, islands, Map, Pietro Coppo, purgatory, sixteenth century, woodcut

Portuguese portolan chart of Ireland

A portolan chart of Europe by Grazioso Benincasa, showing the Aegean

Tags: British Library, cartography, fifteenth century, Grazioso Benincasa, islands, purgatory

The appearance of Lough Derg

"Lough Derg is a large sheet of water surrounded by black bogs relieved only by few detached cabins and patches of cultivation and its groups of islands..."

Tags: agriculture, appearance, bogland, cultivation, islands, lake, Lieutenant W. Lancey, mountains, negative description, ordnance survey, Parish of Templecarne, quaking bog, remoteness, Royal Irish Academy, rural landscape, Templecarne

The archipelago of the lake

“Lough Derg consists of two large sheets of water, which may be designated the upper and lower lakes..."

Tags: barrenness, cormorants, cranes, Daniel O'Connor, Inishgoosk, islands, lower lake, mountains, River Barderg, River Derg, River Fluchlynn, seagulls, upper lake, Wildgoose Lodge, wildlife

The dimensions of Lough Derg

"The lakes [of the Parish of Templecarn] amount to 110, of which Lough Derg is the most extensive..."

The lakes of Ireland

Gerald of Wales describes the number and disposition of Ireland's lakes

Tags: fishing, geography, Gerald of Wales, islands, lakes, positive description, topography, twelfth century, water, wildlife

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