Browse Items · Digital Derg: A Deep Map

The River Derg

"The river dividing the counties of Tyrone and Donegal on the north mearing of Templecarn receives the drainage of Lough Derg..."

Tags: County Donegal, County Tyrone, hydrology, lake, Lieutenant W. Lancey, Norther Ireland, ordnance survey, river, River Derg, Royal Irish Academy, Templecarne, water, watershed

A description of the pilgrim road from Rathnacross to Saints Island.

Tags: bridge, Drumawark Townland, High Cross, pilgrim road, pilgrimage, Rathnacross, Saints Island

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

Tags: bogland, Boston, Donahoe's Magazine, landowners, nineteenth century, Pettigo, pilgrimage, road, taxes

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

Tags: chapel, J. B. Doyle, night vigil, pilgrimage, prayer, Station Island

A detailed map of Ulster by William Petty, 1685

Tags: Bibliothèque nationale de France, cartography, Ireland, military, purgatory, seventeenth century, survey, Ulster

A description of the fishlife found in Lough Derg

Tags: Arctic Char (Salvelinus alpinus), Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar), biodiversity, conservation, fishing, fishlife, Lough Derg SPA, National Parks and Wildlife Service, Salmon

"The only picturesque object I observed, as we rowed towards shore, was a little island in the centre of the Lough, on which there was a hut..."

Tags: Caesar Otway, distillery, lake, landscape, nineteenth century, poteen, Protestant critique

An account of the town of Pettigo

"The Pettigo river rises about 5 miles north of Pettigo and runs in a southerly direction about a mile north of the village..."

Tags: Lieutenant W. Lancey, Lough Erne, mountains, North West Farming Society, ordnance survey, Parish of Templecarne, Pettigo, river, River Ominey, Royal Irish Academy, Templecarne, Termon Magrath

View of the penitential beds on Station Island with view of lake

Tags: Lawrence Collection, National Library of Ireland, nineteenth century, penitential beds, Photographs, pilgrim, Robert French, Station Island, water, William Lawrence