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The IRA evacuates from Pettigo

"A large-scale evacuation [of Pettigo] followed [the shelling] and the IRA men made their way to the hills to escape the bombardment..."

Tags: 1922, boating, Donegal Town, escape, evacuation, hills, IRA, Irish Civil War, mountains, Pettigo

The Augustinians

"No record was kept of all the years that passed after the coming of the Danesmen till the Archbishop of Armagh sent a band of canons regular of the rule of Augustine..."

Tags: Augustinians, Celtic revival, hills, literature, mountains, Saints Island, Shane Leslie, St. Patrick, twelfth century

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

"Pettigo. (July 23, 1824). A country road leads in this direction a mile: after leaving which we passed over the mountains following a path, which the number of devotees who visit the Island, had marked too distinctly to be mistaken..."

Tags: aesthetics, crowds, heath, mountains, negative, negative description, nineteenth century, Pettigo, pilgrim path, pilgrim road, pilgrimage, pilgrims, Shane Leslie, view, vista, weather

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

The 1795 disaster

"But the most lamentable catastrophe of all happened here in 1795 — a catastrophe which for many years cast a gloom over the place..."

Tags: 1795 disaster, accidents, boating, Daniel O'Connor, disaster, drowning, mountains, pilgrim crossing, pilgrimage

St. Patrick's well at Tullaghan

"St. Patrick’s Well at Tullaghan has a legend. St Patrick stopped the night in a house near a mountain. The woman told him not to look at the light on the mountain, but he went up and saw a serpent and when he struck it, St. Patrick’s Well sprang up.…

Tags: blood, Bundoran, County Donegal, etymology, Folklore, holy well, mountains, St. Patrick, Tullaghan

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

Browse Items (50 total)

The IRA evacuates from Pettigo

The Augustinians

The archipelago of the lake

The approach to the lake

The appearance of Lough Derg

The 1795 disaster

St. Patrick's well at Tullaghan

St. Dabheoc's Seat and the old pilgrim road

Sliabh Dubh Holy Well

Secrets of Templecarne Graveyard