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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

Ferry boat house, Station Island

View of the nineteenth-century ferry boat house to Station Island

Tags: boating, ferry house, Lawrence Collection, National Library of Ireland, nineteenth century, Photographs, pilgrim crossing, Robert French, Station Island, William Lawrence

Cardinal Michael Logue boards a boat at the Station Island ferry house, 1913

The Cardinal's delegation board a boat to Station Island, surrounded by crowd

Tags: boating, Cardinal Michael Logue, ferry house, Lawrence Collection, National Library of Ireland, nineteenth century, Photographs, pilgrim crossing, Robert French, Station Island, William Lawrence

Burials on Friars' Island, in Templecarne, and further away

"About twenty of the victims were buried on Friars' Island, where fir-trees on a mound show their grave to-day..."

Tags: 1795 disaster, Alice Curtayne, burial, Connacht, drowning, Friars' Island, graveyard, mountains, pilgrim crossing, pilgrims, poverty, Station Island, Templecarne Graveyard, twentieth century

Antonio Mannini prepares for his journey

Antonio Mannini prepares for his journey

Tags: Antonio Mannini, Augustinians, boating, fifteenth century, mountains, pilgrim crossing, pilgrimage, pilgrims, preparation, Shane Leslie

Antonio Mannini is rowed to the island

"The prior accompanied my as far as the water, and put me into the boat himself, first kissing me and giving me his blessing..."

Tags: Antonio Mannini, Augustinians, barefoot, boating, canon, crossing, fifteenth century, pilgrim crossing, prior, Shane Leslie, weather

An omen of disaster prior to the 1795 accident

"As a boat was being loaded with passengers at eleven o'clock, an elderly man arrived at the shore and urgently signalled to his son to come away with him..."

Tags: 1795 disaster, Alice Curtayne, boating, disaster, dream, drowning, eighteenth century, Folklore, omen, Oral History, pilgrim, pilgrim crossing, pilgrimage, supernatural, survivor, twentieth century

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

"We left the Island with dry skies but still carrying our fast with us"

"Then, with hearts refreshed, we turned to accomplish the three remaining Stations..."

Tags: boating, Catholic journalism, dryness, hills, Leslie family, pilgrim crossing, pilgrimage, pilgrims, Rome, Shane Leslie, The Tablet, timelessness, twentieth century, weather

"Water withers from the oars"

The poetry of Dennis Devlin

Tags: boating, Dennis Devlin, materiality, pilgrim crossing, poetry, social commentary, twentieth century, water, waves

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