Browse Items · Digital Derg: A Deep Map

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

Gazetteer description of view from lake shore

The entry for Lough Derg in an 1842 Irish gazetteer

Tags: description, gazetteer, lake, nineteenth century, pilgrimage, vista

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

Station Island, View from Ferry House

An account of the religious history of Lough Derg for the traveller.

Tags: ferry house, J. B. Doyle, nineteenth century, pilgrims, sketch, Station Island, vista, water

"A huge quarry"

An account of Lough Derg from a late-nineteenth-century pilgrim.

Tags: approach, bogland, commercialism, crossing, description, Irish Monthly, pilgrimage, purgatory, road, Station Island, vista, walk

"The green islands that were his morning hope
and his evening despair"

The poetry of Patrick Kavanagh's 'Lough Derg', detailing a visit in 1941

Tags: contemplation, inner landscape, islands, Jansenism, lake, landscape, Patrick Kavanagh, poetry, redemption, twentieth century, vista, water

"A boy was standing like a ballet dancer poised on the rock"

The poetry of Patrick Kavanagh's 'Lough Derg', detailing a visit in 1941

Tags: County Donegal, distraction, imagery, landscape, Patrick Kavanagh, pilgrimage, poetry, rural landscape, St. Patrick's Cross, twentieth century, vista

"The little islands of Pan held in the crooked elbow of the lake"

The poetry of Patrick Kavanagh's 'Lough Derg', detailing a visit in 1941

Tags: County Donegal, distraction, embodied experience, islands, location, miracle, mountains, Patrick Kavanagh, penance, poetry, poverty, remoteness, repetition, rural landscape, spiritual experience, twentieth century, vista

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

View of Station Island from east shore

View across lake from east including Friars' and Station Islands, including rock formations and shore

Tags: east shore, Friars' Island, islands, Lawrence Collection, National Library of Ireland, nineteenth century, Photographs, Robert French, Station Island, vista, William Lawrence

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