Browse Items · Digital Derg: A Deep Map

"If I had my will, every otter-fisher should be solemnly ducked"

"'If ever an otter is admissible,' said the Parson,' it is so on such a lake as this. You certainly never get a day's fair fishing here.'…"

Tags: British Parliament, conversation, fauna, fishing, Henry Newland, lake, legislation, memoir, nineteenth century, otters, overfishing, upper lake

"I do not think even Paddy could do much in protecting this lake"

"'And as parliament is usually dead slow,' added the Captain, 'it is much to be wished that Paddy, in the meanwhile, would take the affair [of Otter fishing] into his own hands : he is just the boy to do it well.'…"

Tags: colonialism, conversation, debate, fishing, Henry Newland, Irish identity, lake, legislation, memoir, nineteenth century, otters, overfishing, upper lake

The March of the Dead Maguires

An account of Lough Derg folklore on a fishing trip, explaining the strange circular currents of the lake in supernatural terms

Tags: fishing, Folklore, ghosts, Henry Newland, lake, Maguire family, memoir, mythology, nineteenth century, seventeenth century, Station Island, supernatural, water, weather

Inishgoosk Townland

Inishgoosk is in the Electoral Division of Templecarn, in Civil Parish of Templecarn, in the Barony of Tirhugh, in the County of Donegal Inishgoosk is an island. Inishgoosk is on Logainm.ie: Inishgoosk. Inishgoosk has an area of: 55,836 m² / 5.58…

Tags: Barony of Tirhugh, Inishgoosk, island, lake, Parish of Templecarne, townland

Saints Island Townland

Saints Island is in the Electoral Division of Templecarn, in Civil Parish of Templecarn, in the Barony of Tirhugh, in the County of Donegal

The Irish name for Saints Island is Oileán na Naomh

Saints Island is an island.

Saints Island is on…

Tags: Barony of Tirhugh, island, lake, Parish of Templecarne, Saints' Island townland, townland

The ugly terrain of Lough Derg

An account of the religious history of Lough Derg for the traveller.

Tags: bogland, disappointment, J. B. Doyle, lake, negative description, nineteenth century, ugliness

"What we saw was the great serpent or fish"

Knox describes the fear of his Irish boatmen at the appearance of a lake monster, which he sees as a rock just above the waterline

Tags: elitism, Folklore, James Spencer Knox, lake, monster, nineteenth century, Protestant critique, rock, serpent, superstition, Travelogue

Fionn Mac Cumhaill and the worm of Lough Derg

O'Donovan's account from a local of the origin of Lough Derg's name in a story from the Fenian Cycle

Tags: etymology, Fair Lake, Fenian Cycle, Fionn mac Cumhaill, John O'Donovan, lake, letters, mythology, nineteenth century, ordnance survey, Red Lake, worm

Gazetteer description of view from lake shore

The entry for Lough Derg in an 1842 Irish gazetteer

Tags: description, gazetteer, lake, nineteenth century, pilgrimage, vista

Water-Horses

"Long ago the people used to send their horses to the mountain for the summer months.

One day a man was going to the mountain for his horse as he required him to do some work at home.

When he went up to the mountain he saw all the horses…

Tags: Croaghbrack townland, fairies, Folklore, horse, lake, Lough Kilraway, mountains, Oral History, supernatural, water, water horse

Browse Items (51 total)