Lough Derg gazetteer entry

Lough Derg gazetteer entry

Lough Derg--Vicinity--Geography--gazetteer

The entry for Lough Derg in an 1842 Irish gazetteer

John Parker Lawson, d. 1852

The gazetteer of Ireland, containing the latest information from the most authentic sources, p. 310

Edinburgh Print. & Pub. Co., Edinburgh

1842

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Gazetteer

English

Gazetteer

DD_0487

54.616218, -7.876212

"DERG (LOUGH), a lake noted in the annals of Irish superstition, in the parish of Templecarne, county of Donegal. It is about four miles north from Pettigoe, near the north shore of Lough Erne, and is bounded by an extensive dreary range of moorland hills, which stretch on the north-east to the luxuriant plain of the Finn, and connected with the hills of Tyrone. The shores are for the most part high and precipitous. The lake is said to cover 2140 statute acres, and contains the very small islands of Innishgoosk. Saint’s Island, and St Patrick’s Purgatory, or Station Island, and numerous islets, which, however, with few exceptions, are mere groups of barren rock."

xvi, 812 p. 18 cm.