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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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

"Suddenly the far-famed waters of Lough Derg appear close at hand"

"Suddenly the far-famed waters of Lough Derg appear close at hand..."

Tags: artificial land, Basilica, bedrock, building, costs, ferry, Margaret Gibbons, Station Island, vista, waiting rooms

"High, bleak, purple mountains"

"But we have not yet reached the island. We are still on the landing-stage looking up the long reaches of the lake (it covers and area of twenty square miles), noting the high, bleak, purple mountains which surround it, and the number of pretty…

Tags: beauty, colour, emotion, isolation, lake, Margaret Gibbons, mountains, vista, water

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