Browse Items (6 total) Browse All Browse by Tag Search Items Browse Map Tags: rocks Sort by: Title Creator Date Added Location: St. Brigid's Chair, Lough Derg Tags: commonly occurring location, Digital Derg Project, Geolocation, James L. Smith, key location, Lough Derg, place names, prayer, rocks, shoreline, St. Brigid's Chair, vista Geology of Templecarn "This district is a primitive formation of quartz and gneiss with blue mountain limestone filled with organic remains on the margin of Lough Erne." Tags: geology, geomorphology, gneiss, Lieutenant W. Lancey, limestone, Lough Erne, mountains, ordnance survey, outcrops, quarts, rocks, Royal Irish Academy, Templecarne "The stones become doubly slippery and the whole slope acquires a slithery and greasy surface" "The stone circles [of the Penitential Beds] are small. When this sanctuary was demolished in the seventeenth century the despoilers left only the rude foundation stones protruding from the soil..." Tags: Alice Curtayne, outcrops, penitential beds, pilgrimage, pilgrims, rain, rocks, slippery, Station Island, stations, stones, twentieth century, weather "The mark of St. Patrick's knee" An account of Lough Derg from a late-nineteenth-century pilgrim. Tags: description, etymology, Fair Lake, Irish Monthly, miracle, monster, pilgrimage, purgatory, Red Lake, rocks, St. Patrick, Station Island "Such dismal and loansom Places are very apt to make frightful and melancholy Impessions upon the Minds for Weak and Ignorant" A critique of St. Patrick's Purgatory and Catholic pilgrimage in general. Tags: approach, bogland, eighteenth century, inaccessibility, John Richardson, mountains, Protestant critique, roads, rocks, terrain, wildness "Low rocks, a few weasels, lake" The poetry of Dennis Devlin Tags: Dennis Devlin, fauna, isolation, poetry, religious identity, rocks, timelessness, topography, twentieth century, weasels Output Formats atom, dc-rdf, dcmes-xml, json, mobile-json, omeka-xml, rss2
