Browse Items · Digital Derg: A Deep Map

From Magrath to Leslie

"The Monastery of Lough Derg, like most other Irish monasteries, was endowed with extensive lands at an early date by neighbouring chieftains..."

Tags: Clogher, confiscation, fifteenth century, Leslie family, Magrath family, Margaret Gibbons, monastery, ownership, patronage, seventeenth century, Termon Magrath

The Invasions of England and Ireland with al their civil ware since the conquest

A map of the topography and military activity in Ireland

Tags: battle, Bibliothèque nationale de France, cartography, Ireland, military, purgatory, seventeenth century, Ulster

The invasions of England and Ireland performed by John Speed, graven by Renold Elstrak

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A seventeenth-century political map of Ireland from 1603-1625 capturing Lough Derg and Purgatory

Tags: Bibliothèque nationale de France, cartography, Ireland, John Speed, Map, military, politics, seventeenth century, Ulster

A 1603 description of Lough Derg

"An inquisition taken at Donegal in the 1st year of [James I in 1603] may throw some light upon the time of this removal: In the parts of Ulster near the territory calle O'Donnell's Countrie, are the walls and monuments of a certain Monastery or…

Tags: abandonment, description, destruction of built heritage, dissolution, John O'Donovan, letters, neglect, nineteenth century, ordnance survey, ruin, seventeenth century, Station Island, suppression

Map of Ulster with "Escheated" Counties, 1609

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This is a map of the six "escheated" counties of Ulster.

Tags: British Library, colonialism, John Norden, Map, plantation, politics, purgatory, seventeenth century, Ulster

Provincia Ultoniae. The Province of Ulster

A map of the province of Ulster from 1646-1649

Tags: Bibliothèque nationale de France, cartography, Ireland, purgatory, seventeenth century, Ulster

Ultonia ; Hibernis Cui-Guilly ; Anglis Ulster

A topographically-detailed seventeenth-century map of UIster by Joan Blaeu, 1654

Tags: Bibliothèque nationale de France, cartography, Ireland, politics, purgatory, seventeenth century, Ulster

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 March of the Dead Maguires

An account of Lough Derg folklore on a fishing trip, explaining the strange circular currents of the lake in supernatural terms

Tags: fishing, Folklore, ghosts, Henry Newland, lake, Maguire family, memoir, mythology, nineteenth century, seventeenth century, Station Island, supernatural, water, weather

"Tradition, when jealously guarded and carefully handed down is a reliable source of information"

"With the destruction of the buildings in Lough Derg and the expulsion of the Franciscans in 1632, all the records of its glorious part were also destroyed..."

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