Browse Items · Digital Derg: A Deep Map

View of Station Island with boats and Friars' Island

View from shore of the lake and Station Island in the distance with Friars' Island and boats

Tags: boating, Friars' Island, Lawrence Collection, National Library of Ireland, nineteenth century, Photographs, reflection, Robert French, Station Island, vista, water, William Lawrence

View of Station Island with man in boat

View of Station Island from the shore near the ferry house with a man in a rowing boat in foreground

Tags: boating, Lawrence Collection, National Library of Ireland, nineteenth century, Photographs, Robert French, Station Island, vista, water, William Lawrence

Penitential beds and view of lake

View of waters past Sanctuary and penitential beds

Tags: Lawrence Collection, National Library of Ireland, nineteenth century, penitential beds, Photographs, pilgrims, Robert French, Station Island, vista, water, water station, William Lawrence

A rower and Station Island with detail of rocks and water

View of Station Island with rower in foreground, detail of water and shore

Tags: boating, Lawrence Collection, National Library of Ireland, nineteenth century, Photographs, pilgrim, Robert French, rower, Station Island, vista, water, William Lawrence

A man in a boat with Station Island in the background

View of Station Island with a rower in the foreground

Tags: boating, Lawrence Collection, National Library of Ireland, nineteenth century, Photographs, pilgrimage, reflection, Robert French, Station Island, vista, water, William Lawrence

The Oratory, Station Island

View of the Station Island Oratory over the water

Tags: Lawrence Collection, National Library of Ireland, nineteenth century, oratory, Photographs, Robert French, Station Island, vista, water, William Lawrence

Station Island and its reflection

View of Station Island across Lough Derg

Tags: Lawrence Collection, National Library of Ireland, nineteenth century, Photographs, reflection, Robert French, Station Island, vista, water, William Lawrence

"All around it is the glint and stir of water"

"Many pilgrims surveying the crowds during the night vigil promise themselves that, on their following night of freedom, they will look down from their cubicle windows at the fascination of the scene, when the people emerge and group themselves in…

Tags: Alice Curtayne, Basilica, breeze, crowds, darkness, environment, illusion, lake, lights, motion, night vigil, ocean, pilgrimage, pilgrims, sound, Station Island, stations, twentieth century, view, vista, water, wind

"A mountain-locked lake that is just as secluded to-day as when Saint Patrick was attracted to its solitude"

A description of the timeless nature of Lough Derg, a window into the early days of Irish Christianity

Tags: Alice Curtayne, beauty, Croaghbrack townland, mountains, sunrise, sunset, timelessness, twentieth century, view, view east, view west, vista

"Floating on some miracle raft"

"Down below [Dabheoc's Seat], Station Island rose up in imperial grandeur against its background of low hills..."

Tags: Alice Curtayne, Basilica, colour landscape, hills, illusion, Isle of Patmos, light vision, miracle, revelation, St. Dabheoc, St. Dabheoc's Seat, St. John, Station Island, twentieth century, vista

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