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The lake returns to the Diocese

"In the year 1917 the final lawsuit took place, at the Quarter sessions in Donegal, before County Court Judge Cooke, K.C. ..."

Tags: Catholic Church, Clogher, compromise, control, court case, Diocese of Clogher, lake, law, Leslie family, Margaret Gibbons, ownership, Sir John Leslie, Station Island, twentieth century, water

The dimensions of Lough Derg

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

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

St Peter's Island and St Peter's Well

"St. Peter's Island and St. Peter's well are situated about a half a mile due North of the village of Mountcharles. They are in the townland of Turras Hill. The little Island is in the centre of the lake, but since the erection of the waterworks in…

Tags: Augustinians, Catholicism, exile, Folklore, hills, holy well, island, lake, Mountcharles, seventeenth century, St. Peter's Island, Turras Hill, vanished island

Secrets of Templecarne Graveyard

A description of the graveyard and its relationship with the lake

Tags: cattle, devotional activities, James Spencer Knox, lake, mountains, Pettigo, pilgrim path, pilgrim road, Protestant critique, ruins, sanctity, seventeenth century, Shane Leslie, St. Patrick, Station Island, Templecarne Graveyard, Termon Magrath

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

Lough Ultan Crannog Archaeological Survey

An apparently natural island 29m × 15m in Lough Ultan appears to have some evidence of structural remains on its NNW side.

The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities…

Tags: Archaeological survey, crannog, island, lake, Lough Ultan, vicinity

Lough Nageage Special Area of Conservation

The watershed, geology and wildlife of the Lough Nageage Special Area of Conservation

Tags: Ash (Fraxinus excelsior), Bell Heather (Erica cinerea), Bilberry (Vaccinium myrtillus), biodiversity, Birch (Betula spp.), Black Bog-rush (Schoenus nigricans), bogland, Bracken (Pteridium aquilinum), cattle, Common Cottongrass (Eriophorum angustifolium), Compact Rush (Juncus conglomeratus), Deergrass (Scirpus cespitosus), fauna, flora, Gorse (Ulex europaeus), Hard Fern (Blechnum spicant), Heath Bedstraw (Galium saxatile), Heath Rush (Juncus squarrosus), Heather (Calluna vulgaris), Jointed Rush (J. articulatus), lake, Lesser Spearwort (Ranunculus flammula), Lichen (C. portentosa), Lichen (Cladonia uncialis), Lough Nageage, Oak (Quercus spp.), occasional Cross-leaved Heath (Erica tetralix), Purple Moor-grass (Molinia caerulea), sphagnum moss, Tormentil (Potentilla erecta), vicinity, Water Horsetail (Equisetum fluviatile), White Beak-sedge (Rhynchospora alba), White-clawed Crayfish (Austropotamobius pallipes)

Lough Nageage Crannog Archaeological Survey

Dimensions 26m NE-SW, 11m NW-SE. An oval island in Lough Nageage apparently artificially constructed of stones although possibly on a natural rock base. At the N end is a stone wall, .8m high and 1.3m wide, partially under water. Bisecting the island…

Tags: Archaeological survey, crannog, lake, Lough Nageage, vicinity

Lough Eske and Ardnamona Wood Special Area of Conservation

The watershed, geology and wildlife of the Lough Eske and Ardnamona Wood Special Area of Conservation

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