Browse Items · Digital Derg: A Deep Map

Location: Landing Pier, Station Island

Tags: boating, commonly occurring location, Digital Derg Project, Geolocation, James L. Smith, key location, landing, Lough Derg, pilgrim crossing, place names

A boat trip to Saints Island

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

Tags: boating, Boston, Donahoe's Magazine, nineteenth century, pilgrim crossing, Saints' Island

Gazetteer description of the 1795 disaster

The entry for Lough Derg in an 1842 Irish gazetteer

Tags: 1795 disaster, boating, disaster, drowning, gazetteer, John Parker Lawson, pilgrim crossing

Raymond de Perilleux and Lough Derg

A history of Lough Derg and its Antiquities. This extract comes from an 1836 story in the Dublin Penny Journal Count Raymond de Perilleaux's 1397 journey to the Purgatory.

Tags: aesthetics, beech, commentary, fiction, fourteenth century, James Stephens, murder, nineteenth century, oak, penny journal, pilgrim crossing, Raymond de Pereilleux, revenge, romance, Ugolino, vista

"The Profit of a Ferry-Boat for wafting the Pilgrims over the Lake"

A critique of St. Patrick's Purgatory and Catholic pilgrimage in general.

Tags: Armagh, Augustinians, boating, eighteenth century, islands, John Richardson, pilgrim crossing, profiteering, Saints' Island, St. Dabheoc, Station Island

Timeline: 1829

Tags: boating, boatmen, chronology, Clogher, closure, corruption, events, Margaret Gibbons, pilgrim crossing, pilgrimage, profiteering, timeline

Saints Island Quay Archaeological Survey

It is traditionally believed that a monastic settlement was founded here in the fifth century by St. Patrick who installed Dabheoc as the first abbot. There are forty-six islands in Lough Derg but only two of them are of archaeological interest. The…

Tags: Archaeological survey, boating, dryness, medieval, monasticism, pilgrim crossing, quay, Saints' Island, Saints' Island townland