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Medievalism
Subject
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Lough Derg--Irish Identity--Medievalism--Nostalgia
Description
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A collection of items detailing the medievalisms of Lough Derg's pilgrimage, the continuing process of creating the Middle Ages through the lake and its islands.
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James L. Smith
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Digital Derg: A Deep Map
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2019
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CC BY, sui generis database
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Omeka Collection
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English
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Digital Collection
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Lough Derg
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"This country, above all others we have seen, is well supplied also with beautiful lakes, full of fish and very large. They are a kind of speciality here. There contains islands rising to some height and very beautiful. The lords of the land usually appropriate them as places of safety and refuge, as well as habitation. They are inaccessible except to boats."
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Monograph
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Title
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The lakes of Ireland
Subject
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Ireland--Gerald of Wales--Topography--Lakes
Description
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Gerald of Wales describes the number and disposition of Ireland's lakes
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Gerald of Wales
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Gerald of Wales: The History and Topography of Ireland, translated by John O'Meara, 1.4, p. 37
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Penguin, Hammondsworth
Date
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1982
Format
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Monograph
Language
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English translation of Latin
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Text
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54.616218, -7.876212
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DD_0046
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fishing
geography
Gerald of Wales
islands
lakes
positive description
topography
twelfth century
water
wildlife
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Text
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"…The story is told that in ancient times Lough Derg abounded in salmon and salmon-trout, just the same as its next neighbour, Lough Erne. The fishful lake gave an unfailing supply to the frugal table of the good monks, and little were the exertions needed in having always at hand a plentiful supply of this delicious and highly-prized fish. On a certain occasion the monks were expecting St. Patrick on his visitation, and had been out fishing all day, in order to have some salmon for the saint's repast However, they failed in catching any, and were sorely perplexed to find their hospitality thus put to so cruel a test ; which, when the saint had heard, he foretold that salmon would no more inhabit the waters of Lough Derg. And, as if to corroborate the truth of the foregoing incident, the legend goes on to say that about-sixty years ago a gentleman of the sceptical school, having heard the story as already narrated, put himself to great extremes in order to falsify the saint's prediction. He had salmon conveyed from a distance, carefully marked and deposited in the lake ; when lo! the very next morning the salmon were found in a net, which was placed in the River Derg to prevent their escape.
Little over forty years ago Dr. O'Donovan related the self-same legend ; and, if it be only to show how much these legends are altered and exaggerated, even in a short period of time, I shall give his version of it. He says: ‘No salmon come into the lake, though they come up to the very throat of the river. Two fishermen (who had a weir near the source of the Derg) cast two live salmon into the lake not many years ago, to see if they'd remain there ; and in order to know them they cut off a part of their fins and tails, but, on their return, they found the same salmon caught in their cochall, or net. This is attributed to the curse of St. Patrick.’
As a matter of fact, salmon cannot be found in Lough Derg. The lake, however, abounds in trout, and affords excellent fishing. In this respect perhaps no other lake in Ireland can compete with it During the summer and autumn a day seldom passes without witnessing a number of arrivals of those bent on this fine Waltonian sport ; and the followers of the angle are generally rewarded with a numerous ‘take,’ Trout weighing six or ^ight pounds are occasionally hauled in ; but the class most commonly caught do not exceed a pound in weight When a gentle ‘fresh’ is blowing, no more contemplative or enticing pastime could be desired than playing a well-trimmed ‘cast’ off the shoals and reefs, which are so numerous throughout the lake. And we can well imagine how the monks of Lough Derg in the olden time, albeit their prayerful and penitential lives, enjoyed ‘to their hearts' content’ this delightful recreation, as they sailed over its waters in their skin-covered currachs.
Eels, also, are to be found in Lough Derg. Near the mouth of the River Derg remains of an eel-weir may be noticed.
Of late years pike has found its way into the lake, some large fish of this class having been caught weighing over thirty pounds. These ‘fresh-water sharks’ up to this have made sad havoc on the trout of the lake, but it is satisfactory to find that large numbers of them, during the spawning season each year, are netted in the streams flowing into the lake, and in this way, it is hoped, they will be diminished. Through the surrounding mountains, foxes have been a similar source of destruction to hares and heathfowl ; their number, however, is very much reduced, as each year beyond a score of them are caught in traps."
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Title
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Interrogating the curse of St. Patrick
Subject
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Lough Derg--Folklore--St. Patrick--Interrogation
Description
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"…The story is told that in ancient times Lough Derg abounded in salmon and salmon-trout, just the same as its next neighbour, Lough Erne..."
Source
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Daniel O’Connor, Lough Derg and Its Pilgrimages: With Map and Illustrations, pp 72-4
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J. Dollard, Dublin
Date
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1879
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Digitised by archive.org, sponsored by Harvard University
Format
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Monograph
Language
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English
Type
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Pilgrim handbook
Text
Identifier
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DD_0030
Coverage
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54.616218, -7.876212
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Daniel O'Connor, 1843-1919
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Public domain
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http://archive.org/details/loughdergandits00ocogoog
Arctic Char (Salvelinus alpinus)
Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar)
Daniel O'Connor
eels
fishing
Folklore
John O'Donovan
mountains
Salmon
scientism
St. Patrick
trout
wildlife
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Text
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“Lough Derg consists of two large sheets of water, which may be designated the upper and lower lakes. The upper lake is connected with the lower by means of three channels formed by Saints' Island and an islet lying north-east of it, called by that name of bad omen, ‘The Wildgoose Lodge.’ The principal streams flowing into the lake are called the rivers Fluchlynn and Barderg, which fall into Lough Derg at its north-western extremity. The outlet is called the River Derg, which issues from the lake at the north-eastern shore, and pursues its winding way till it mingles with the ocean at Lough Foyle.
Lough Derg is bespangled with numerous and pretty islands, some crowned with stunted trees, some bared to the mountain breezes. The principal of these islands are Inishgoosk, alias Bilberry Island; Saints' Island, Station Island, Prior's Island, Allingham's Island, Ash Islands, Boat Islands, near the quay; Stormy Islands, Kelly's Isles, Goat Islands, near the River Fluchlynn; Derg More Island. Derg Beg Island, Trough Island and Bull's Island. Besides these, there are a good many other islets with no particular designation; and which, with few exceptions, are mere groups of barren rocks, where cranes, cormorants and sea-gulls nestle, imparting by their wild and plaintive screams a lonely and romantic charm to this island
hermitage. In the above enumeration Saints' Island seems to have been sometimes called St. Fintan's Island, and very often St. Dabheoc's Island. Inishgoosk would appear to be the most ancient name at present attached to any of these islands ; and it may be taken to mean the island of the cove, or creek, on account of its formation at its western extremity.”
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Title
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The archipelago of the lake
Subject
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Lough Derg--Islands--Archipelago--Description
Description
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“Lough Derg consists of two large sheets of water, which may be designated the upper and lower lakes..."
Source
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Daniel O’Connor, Lough Derg and Its Pilgrimages: With Map and Illustrations, pp. 25-6
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J. Dollard, Dublin
Date
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1879
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Digitised by archive.org, sponsored by Harvard University
Format
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Monograph
Language
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English
Type
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Pilgrim handbook
Text
Identifier
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DD_0028
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Daniel O'Connor, 1843-1919
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Public domain
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http://archive.org/details/loughdergandits00ocogoog
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54.616218, -7.876212
barrenness
cormorants
cranes
Daniel O'Connor
Inishgoosk
islands
lower lake
mountains
River Barderg
River Derg
River Fluchlynn
seagulls
upper lake
Wildgoose Lodge
wildlife