Browse Items (50 total) Browse All Browse by Tag Search Items Browse Map Tags: mountains Page of 5 Next Page Sort by: Title Creator Date Added Area: Mountains of Lough Derg Tags: commonly occurring location, Digital Derg Project, Geolocation, James L. Smith, key location, Lough Derg, mountains, place names "Such dismal and loansom Places are very apt to make frightful and melancholy Impessions upon the Minds for Weak and Ignorant" A critique of St. Patrick's Purgatory and Catholic pilgrimage in general. Tags: approach, bogland, eighteenth century, inaccessibility, John Richardson, mountains, Protestant critique, roads, rocks, terrain, wildness "A mere rock" An account of Lough Derg from a late-nineteenth-century pilgrim. Tags: aesthetics, description, Irish Monthly, moorland, mountains, negative description, pilgrimage, purgatory, sheep, Station Island "We pray to ourself. The metal moon, unspent" The poetry of Dennis Devlin Tags: colour, Dennis Devlin, devotional activities, landscape, moon, mountains, night, poetry, prayer, twentieth century "Primeval magic among the trees" The poetry of Patrick Kavanagh's 'Lough Derg', detailing a visit in 1941 Tags: County Donegal, dawn, distraction, farming, landscape, mountains, Patrick Kavanagh, poetry, remoteness, renewal, revelation, rural landscape, twentieth century "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 "Wild and gloomy loneliness" "Lough Derg has certainly been well chosen as a spot of religious penitence and seclusion, for the character of its scenery harmonises well with such a feeling; it is that of wild and gloomy loneliness." Tags: arbutus, colour, description, fauna, fishing, flora, fly fishing, Heather (Calluna vulgaris), Henry Newland, isolation, loneliness, memoir, mountains, myrica, nineteenth century, remoteness, wildness The Pettigo River "The Pettigo river rises about 5 miles north of Pettigo and runs in a southerly direction about a mile north of the village..." Tags: Lieutenant W. Lancey, Lough Erne, mountains, North West Farming Society, ordnance survey, Parish of Templecarne, Pettigo, river, River Ominey, Royal Irish Academy, Templecarne, Termon Magrath The mountains and hills of Templecarn "Of mountains and hills there is a great number. The whole face of the country indeed consists of hills separated by narrow valleys..." Tags: agriculture, cattle, Croaghbrack, Croaghbrack townland, Crocknacunny, hills, Lieutenant W. Lancey, Mindilpier, mountains, North West Farming Society, ordnance survey, Parish of Templecarne, pasturage, Royal Irish Academy, rural landscape, Rusheen, Templecarne, Termon Magrath The landholders of the parish "The chief proprieters are the representatives of the late Colonel Leslie, who hold 45 townlands out of 50..." Tags: Colonel John Leslie, demographics, economics, land acquisition, Leslie family, Lieutenant W. Lancey, mountains, ordnance survey, Parish of Templecarne, pasturage, rents, Royal Irish Academy, rural landscape, Templecarne Page of 5 Next Page Output Formats atom, csv, dc-rdf, dcmes-xml, json, omeka-xml, rss2
