Browse Items · Digital Derg: A Deep Map

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

Pilgrims at the water station

Tags: immersion, Lawrence Collection, National Library of Ireland, nineteenth century, Photographs, pilgrims, Robert French, Station Island, water, water station, 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

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

The brooks and rivulets of Templecarn

"The parish [of Templecarn] is well watered, possessing a considerable number of brooks and rivulets converging from north west and north east towards the south and finally falling into Lough Erne."

Tags: brook, hydrology, Lieutenant W. Lancey, Lough Erne, ordnance survey, Parish of Templecarne, rivers, rivulets, Royal Irish Academy, Templecarne, water

The dimensions of Lough Derg

"The lakes [of the Parish of Templecarn] amount to 110, of which Lough Derg is the most extensive..."

The bogs of Templecarn

"There is a vast extent of bog in Templecarn in which fir and other timber are found..."

Tags: blanket bog, bogland, ecosystem, environment, fir, landscape, Lieutenant W. Lancey, ordnance survey, Parish of Templecarne, quaking bog, Royal Irish Academy, Templecarne, water

The River Derg

"The river dividing the counties of Tyrone and Donegal on the north mearing of Templecarn receives the drainage of Lough Derg..."

Tags: County Donegal, County Tyrone, hydrology, lake, Lieutenant W. Lancey, Norther Ireland, ordnance survey, river, River Derg, Royal Irish Academy, Templecarne, water, watershed

"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

"The shaft on which this iron cross is set is precious, for it was salvaged from the lake"

"The pilgrim then walks to St. Patrick's Cross, a poor but cherished relic made of rude iron and set on a very ancient stone column..."

Tags: 1632, Alice Curtayne, destruction of built heritage, lake, pilgrimage, re-use, Reformation, seventeenth century, spoliation, St. Patrick's Cross, Station Island, stations, submerged objects, twentieth century, water

Browse Items (52 total)