Ease of travel to Lough Derg

Ease of travel to Lough Derg

Lough Derg--Ireland--Journal--Guide

A description of Lough Derg and its Pilgrimage in the American Donahoe's Magazine

'Lough Derg and Its Pilgrimages', in Donahoe's Magazine, vol. 4, p. 307

T.B. Noonan, Boston

1880

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Public domain

Article

English

Journal

DD_0494

54.616218, -7.876212

https://hdl.handle.net/2027/wu.89069291375

"Formerly a pilgrimage to Lough Derg must have been attended with much hardship and inconvenience, when we consider that pilgrims traveled, in many cases, barefoot, from the most remote parts of the kingdom. Considering, however, the facilities of traveling which we enjoy at the present day, the journey is now regarded as little more than a pleasant excursion trip. Good roads lead towards the lake, though, we regret to say, not to its shore ; a line of railway runs pretty close to it ; well-appointed cars in connection with each train ply between the lake and railway; in a word, pilgrims have nowadays little to complain of from fatigue or inconvenience, till they are landed on the island of Lough Derg."

60 v. ; ill. (part col.) ; 24 cm.