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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

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 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

"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

"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

"Rolling, tawny bogland framed the blue water"

"Turning back from [St. Dabheoc's Seat] to look down on Lough Derg, the aerial view of Station Island is exquisite..."

Tags: Alice Curtayne, birdlife, bogland, climate, colour, isolation, lake, larks, quaking bog, silence, St. Dabheoc's Seat, Station Island, twentieth century, view north, vista, weather, wind

"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

"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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