Location: Women's Dormitory, Station Island
Lough Derg--Mapping--Locations--Vicinity
James L. Smith
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English
Key location
DD_0533
54.608369,-7.871702
"All was as still as death"
Travelogues--James Spencer Knox--Lough Derg--Description
Knox describes the deserted scene on Station Island
James Spencer Knox, 1789-1862
Pastoral Annals. By an Irish Clergyman [i.e. James S. Knox], pp. 384
R. B. Seeley and W. Burnside, London
1840
Digitised by Google, sponsored by Princeton Library
Public domain
Monograph
English
Travelogue
DD_0271
54.608689,-7.870387
The Sanctuary, Station Island
Photography--National Library Ireland--Lough Derg--Nineteenth Century
Pilgrims waiting outside the Sanctuary on Station Island
French, Robert, 1841-1917 photographer
The Lawrence Photograph Collection
National Library of Ireland
[between ca. 1865-1914]
Lawrence, William, 1840-1932
Image Courtesy of the National Library of Ireland
Digitised negative
English captions
Photograph in collection
DD_0203
54.608860,-7.870598
Davog was a woman?
Lough Derg--Folklore--O'Donovan--Dabheoc's Seat
"Now let me at my old antagonist Oral tradition: The chair of Davog lies in the townland of Suidhe Dhabheog (Seeavoge) where in the living rock some impressions of elbows &c are strewn. Davog was a woman, who came to make the turas but she died during its progress and was revived by St Patrick that she might finish it..."
John O'Donovan, 1806-1861
Letter from John O'Donovan, Ballyshanny, 1st of November, 1835, p. 247, O’Donovan, John, Ordnance Survey Letters, Donegal: Letters Containing Information Relative to the Antiquities of the County of Donegal Collected during the Progress of the Ordnance Survey in 1835, p. 122
Four Masters Press, Dublin
1835 [2000]
Transcribed and edited by Michael Herity, MRIA
Citation for the purposes of criticism
Edited edition of letters
English with Irish text in Celtic script
Ordnance Survey Letters
DD_0175
54.596797,-7.859638
The journey of five women returning to Ireland in 1922
Lough Derg--Pilgrimage--Description--Alice Curtayne
"The adventure of a group of five women pilgrims [in 1922] were typical of the times."
Alice Curtayne, 1898-1981
Curtayne, Alice, Lough Derg: St. Patrick’s Purgatory, p. 145
Burns Oats and Washbourn, Ltd., London and Dublin
1944
Citation for the purposes of criticism
Monograph
English
History
DD_0143
54.708843,-7.593167