Browse Items · Digital Derg: A Deep Map

The approach to the lake

"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 nature of granite outcrops

"Ballyshannon. (July 25, 1824.) Soon after leaving Pettigo going towards Lough Derg, the limestone ceases and the mineral productions change entirely..."

Tags: aesthetics, approach, barrenness, emotion, geology, granite, limestone, mineral, mountains, nineteenth century, outcrops, pilgrim path, Shane Leslie, silver

A 54 page report lifting the suspension of John Goodwin

A summary of a case initially arising from a confession given to a widow during the Lough Derg pilgrimage.

Tags: Clogher, confession, conversation, dispute, John Goodwin, misconduct, nineteenth century, report, sacrament, Vatican

The movement of Purgatory

"It is said, that the passage into Purgatory was first found in [Saints Island] ; but it being near the shore, and a bridge from the main land into it, which gave the people free and ready access..."

Tags: anticlericalism, corruption, movement of Purgatory, nineteenth century, Philip Dixon Hardy, Protestant critique, Saints Island

Place name of Termon Magrath

An account of the place name origin for Termon Magrath and the River Termon

Tags: Aircheannach, Annals of the Four Masters, Castle Magrath, Church of St. Dabheoc, Erenagh, Lough Erne, Magrath family, nineteenth century, P. W. Joyce, Pettigo, River Termon, Termon Dabheoc, Termon Magrath, termoners

"The Church never relinquished her hold upon the one grey rock"

"Throughout all the perversions and confiscations [of the Reformation], however, the Church never relinquished her hold upon the one grey rock which then was Station Island..."

Tags: Catholic Church, Clogher, Diocese of Clogher, law, Leslie family, Margaret Gibbons, nineteenth century, ownership, pilgrim crossing, pilgrimage, pilgrims, Reformation, Sir John Leslie, Station Island, suppression