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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

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

"All was as still as death"

Knox describes the deserted scene on Station Island

Tags: emptiness, isolation, James Spencer Knox, landing, nineteenth century, pilgrim crossing, pilgrims, Protestant critique, Travelogue, women's history

"I at length reached the goal of my long-nourished desire"

Knox describes the scene of crowds waiting to cross to Station Island

Tags: boating, crowds, James Spencer Knox, nineteenth century, pilgrim crossing, Protestant critique, Travelogue

"The pilgrims throng the shore opposite to the island"

Knox describes the practices of the pilgrimage as he has heard them

Tags: crowds, ferry house, James Spencer Knox, nineteenth century, pilgrim crossing, Protestant critique, Travelogue

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

Station Island boat leaving

A pilgrim boat leaving the shore, pilgrims boarding another crowded boat, and a crowd on shore

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

Pilgrims board their boats south-east of Station Island

Two boats of pilgrims pose for a photograph south-east of Station Island, with Station and Friar's island in background

Tags: boating, Friars' Island, Lawrence Collection, National Library of Ireland, nineteenth century, Photographs, pilgrim crossing, pilgrimage, Robert French, Station Island, vista, 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

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

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