Browse Items · Digital Derg: A Deep Map

Tievetooey is in the Electoral Division of Templecarn. Tievetooey is in the Civil Parish of Templecarn. We don't know what Barony Tievetooey is in. Tievetooey is in Co. Donegal

Tievetooey is on Logainm.ie: Tievetooey.

Tievetooey has an area…

Tags: Barony of Tirhugh, Parish of Templecarne, Tievetooey Townland, townland

The waves of the Lough

“…[T]here were times, some of which are fresh in my memory, when the pilgrims' boat ran considerable risk from the waves, and when the skill and energy of such experienced boatmen as Pat M'Kane, of Seeavoc, were taxed to the utmost..."

Tags: commercialism, danger, Daniel O'Connor, improvements, lake, tourism, weather

The ugly terrain of Lough Derg

An account of the religious history of Lough Derg for the traveller.

Tags: bogland, disappointment, J. B. Doyle, lake, negative description, nineteenth century, ugliness

The trees of Templecarn

"Of woods, nurseries or plantations [Templecarn] is at present completely destitute, thought there is every appearance of it having been formerly well supplied with timber..."

The tradition of the Purgatorial Myth

A critique of St. Patrick's Purgatory and Catholic pilgrimage in general.

Tags: eighteenth century, John Richardson, legend, Purgatorial cave, purgatory, Rome, St. Patrick, Station Island

The suppression of the pilgrimage

An account of the religious history of Lough Derg for the traveller.

Tags: barefoot, destruction of built heritage, English Parliament, J. B. Doyle, nineteenth century, seventeenth century, suppression

The stones of Station Island

“The island called St. Patrick's Purgatory is altogether rocky, and rather level : without the compass of the island, in the water towards the north east, about two yards from the shore stand certain rocks..."

Tags: barefoot, Caesar Otway, Henry Jones, lake, nineteenth century, Protestant critique, second-hand accounts, seventeenth century, St. Patrick, Station Island, stones

The source of the River Termon

"There is a good deal of land [in the disctrict of Cullion] which is mountainous and some good land for the potato crop. There is a small wood growing in it. There is one river and a lake in the mountainous part. The river is the Termon river which…

Tags: border, County Donegal, County Tyrone, Folklore, Lough Erne, Oral History, river, River Termon, Scraghy, source, watershed

Browse Items (616 total)

Timeline: 1130

Timeline: 1050

Tievetooey Townland