A 1603 description of Lough Derg

A 1603 description of Lough Derg

Lough Derg--Ordnance Survey--Description--John O'Donovan

"An inquisition taken at Donegal in the 1st year of [James I in 1603] may throw some light upon the time of this removal: In the parts of Ulster near the territory calle O'Donnell's Countrie, are the walls and monuments of a certain Monastery or Priory..."

John O'Donovan, 1806-1861

Letter from John O'Donovan, Ballyshanny, 1st of November, 1835, p. 244, 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. 121

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_0174

54.6083, -7.8714

"An inquisition taken at Donegal in the 1st year of [James I in 1603] may throw some light upon the time of this removal: In the parts of Ulster near the territory called O'Donnell's Countrie, are the walls and monuments of a certain Monastery or Priory, late house of the Canonical friars called the Priory of Loughdarge alias commonly called 'St Patrick's Purgatory' which Priory now is very much on the decay and has these many years past been totally abandoned and dissolved. The aforesaid Priory lies and is situate in a certain small island in the middle of a lake called Loughdarg, about fifteen miles from the village of Donnagall aforesaid."

Hand written letters held in Royal Irish Academy