Browse Items · Digital Derg: A Deep Map

"The buildings give the impression of resting on the water"

"The lake surface is broken by numerous scattered islands, the greater number of which are just rocks without either historical or scenic interest..."

Tags: Alice Curtayne, artificial land, Basilica, building, illusion, islands, lake, lake bed, Saints Island, Station Island, twentieth century, water

Forty-six small islands

"Lough Derg is dotted with forty-six small islands, some of them graced with shrubs and occasional rowans or ash, but the greater number are only bare rocks projecting out of the water..."

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

View of Station Island from east shore

View across lake from east including Friars' and Station Islands, including rock formations and shore

Tags: east shore, Friars' Island, islands, Lawrence Collection, National Library of Ireland, nineteenth century, Photographs, Robert French, Station Island, vista, William Lawrence

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

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

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

"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

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

"I insisted that they should take me to an island"

Knox wishes to visit an island in the upper lake

Tags: boating, boatmen, elitism, islands, James Spencer Knox, nineteenth century, Protestant critique, Travelogue, upper lake

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