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A Coloured Map of Great Britain and Ireland; Drawn on Vellum, in the period 1534-1546

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A map of the British Isles dating from the period 1534-46 and by an unknown draughtsman.

Tags: British Library, cartography, Ireland, islands, lake, Map, purgatory, sixteenth century, Ulster

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

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

"The green islands that were his morning hope
and his evening despair"

The poetry of Patrick Kavanagh's 'Lough Derg', detailing a visit in 1941

Tags: contemplation, inner landscape, islands, Jansenism, lake, landscape, Patrick Kavanagh, poetry, redemption, twentieth century, vista, water

"The little islands of Pan held in the crooked elbow of the lake"

The poetry of Patrick Kavanagh's 'Lough Derg', detailing a visit in 1941

Tags: County Donegal, distraction, embodied experience, islands, location, miracle, mountains, Patrick Kavanagh, penance, poetry, poverty, remoteness, repetition, rural landscape, spiritual experience, twentieth century, vista

"Two islands which have made it famous"

An account of Lough Derg from a late-nineteenth-century pilgrim.

Tags: description, history, Irish Monthly, islands, pilgrimage, purgatory, Station Island, suppression

The Leslies as landlords

"All the islands of Lough Derg and the eel rivers are let for 5 pounds…"

Tags: Colonel John Leslie, economics, eels, islands, land acquisition, Leslie family, Lieutenant W. Lancey, ordnance survey, Parish of Templecarne, rent, Royal Irish Academy, Templecarne

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

"Eagles build in the islands of Lough Derg"

"Eagles build in the islands of Lough Derg, in places apparently very accessible to man..."

Tags: Badger (Meles meles), birdlife, Croaghbrack townland, curlews, eagle, Eagle's Rock Island, fauna, grouse, hares, islands, kites, lake, Lieutenant W. Lancey, ordnance survey, partridges, Royal Irish Academy, snipe, Templecarne, upper lake

The dimensions of Lough Derg

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

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