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The salmon of Lough Derg

"There is one strange fact connected with this lake - no salmon come into it, though they come up to the very point where the River Derg escapes out of it…"

Tags: Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar), empiricism, fauna, fishing, Folklore, John O'Donovan, letters, nineteenth century, ordnance survey, River Derg, Salmon, scientism, St. Patrick

The ruins of Saints Island

"The ground-works of many ruins can still be traced to Saint Daveog's Island on Olean na Naomh or Island of the Saints) and a paved way (via strata) or old road can still be traced..."

Tags: bridge, John O'Donovan, nineteenth century, ordnance survey, pilgrim path, Royal Irish Academy, ruins, Saints Island, Seeavog Townland, Shane Leslie, St. Dabheoc, Templecarne Graveyard

The quality of Lough Derg's road access

A description of Lough Derg and its Pilgrimage in the American Donahoe's Magazine

Tags: bogland, Boston, Donahoe's Magazine, landowners, nineteenth century, Pettigo, pilgrimage, road, taxes

The poteen shack

"The only picturesque object I observed, as we rowed towards shore, was a little island in the centre of the Lough, on which there was a hut..."

Tags: Caesar Otway, distillery, lake, landscape, nineteenth century, poteen, Protestant critique

The penitential beds with lake in background

View of the penitential beds on Station Island with view of lake

Tags: Lawrence Collection, National Library of Ireland, nineteenth century, penitential beds, Photographs, pilgrim, Robert French, Station Island, water, William Lawrence

The Oratory, Station Island

View of the Station Island Oratory over the water

Tags: Lawrence Collection, National Library of Ireland, nineteenth century, oratory, Photographs, Robert French, Station Island, vista, water, William Lawrence

The O'Donnells and Lough Derg

A history of Lough Derg and its Antiquities.

Tags: commentary, James Stephens, middle ages, nineteenth century, O'Donnell family, patronage, pilgrimage

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

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

"Before we landed I ascertained from my cautious conductor that the present Purgatorial Island which we had just left, was not the one always resorted to, nor indeed the one that was consecrated by St. Patrick..."

Tags: ambiguity, Caesar Otway, location, nineteenth century, Protestant critique, purgatory, Saints Island, St. Patrick, Station Island

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