The 1795 disaster

The 1795 disaster

Lough Derg--Pilgrimage--Description--Alice Curtayne

"The end of the eighteenth-century history of Lough Derg is sadly remembered because of a particularly bad boating accident..."

Alice Curtayne, 1898-1981

Curtayne, Alice, Lough Derg: St. Patrick’s Purgatory, pp. 104-5

Burns Oats and Washbourn, Ltd., London and Dublin

1944

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English

History

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"The end of the eighteenth-century history of Lough Derg is sadly remembered because of a particularly bad boating accident. It happened on the 12th of July, 1795, at a period when the transport of pilgrims was not under the control of the church authorities. In those days a 'shebeen' was kept near the ferry and on special occasions such as the 'Twelfth,' poteen circulated freely among the Protestant boatmen. The day happened to be Sunday and an unusual number of people came to be ferried across, many of then being local residents anxious just to hear Mass on the island."

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