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Where to catch fish

"It is in the neighbourhood of [the islands beyond Station Island] that the fish are caught, and round them the boat made its slow circuit, as the fishermen, keeping accurate time, cast, with lines not above twice the length of their rods, the one to…

Tags: boating, Eagle's Rock Island, fishing, fly fishing, Henry Newland, Inishgoosk, lake, memoir, nineteenth century, upper lake

View of Station Island with man in boat

View of Station Island from the shore near the ferry house with a man in a rowing boat in foreground

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

View of Station Island with boats and Friars' Island

View from shore of the lake and Station Island in the distance with Friars' Island and boats

Tags: boating, Friars' Island, Lawrence Collection, National Library of Ireland, nineteenth century, Photographs, reflection, Robert French, Station Island, vista, water, William Lawrence

View of Station Island from east shore

View across lake from east including Friars' and Station Islands, including rock formations and shore

Tags: east shore, Friars' Island, islands, Lawrence Collection, National Library of Ireland, nineteenth century, Photographs, Robert French, Station Island, vista, William Lawrence

Travelling through Pettigo

An account of the town of Pettigo

Tags: Clogher, James Fraser, Kesh stream, Lough Erne, moorland, nineteenth century, Pettigo, River Termon, roads, transport

The ugly terrain of Lough Derg

An account of the religious history of Lough Derg for the traveller.

Tags: bogland, disappointment, J. B. Doyle, lake, negative description, nineteenth century, ugliness

The suppression of the pilgrimage

An account of the religious history of Lough Derg for the traveller.

Tags: barefoot, destruction of built heritage, English Parliament, J. B. Doyle, nineteenth century, seventeenth century, suppression

The stones of Station Island

“The island called St. Patrick's Purgatory is altogether rocky, and rather level : without the compass of the island, in the water towards the north east, about two yards from the shore stand certain rocks..."

Tags: barefoot, Caesar Otway, Henry Jones, lake, nineteenth century, Protestant critique, second-hand accounts, seventeenth century, St. Patrick, Station Island, stones

The slopes of the mountains

"The Lough, which is said to be about nine miles in circumference, is situated in the midst of high hills, which rise on all sides without the slightest appearance of cultivation..."

Tags: aesthetics, barrenness, hills, isolation, loneliness, mountains, nineteenth century, rural landscape, Shane Leslie

The Sanctuary, Station Island

Pilgrims waiting outside the Sanctuary on Station Island

Tags: Lawrence Collection, National Library of Ireland, nineteenth century, Photographs, pilgrims, Robert French, sanctuary, Station Island, William Lawrence, women's history

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