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The Landing, Station Island

The boats and pilgrims at the landing on Station Island

Tags: boating, landing, Lawrence Collection, National Library of Ireland, nineteenth century, Photographs, pilgrims, Robert French, Station Island, William Lawrence

The landing pier, Station Island

View of the landing site, Station Island

Tags: boating, landing, Lawrence Collection, National Library of Ireland, nineteenth century, Photographs, pilgrimage, Robert French, Station Island, William Lawrence

The landholders of the parish

"The chief proprieters are the representatives of the late Colonel Leslie, who hold 45 townlands out of 50..."

Tags: Colonel John Leslie, demographics, economics, land acquisition, Leslie family, Lieutenant W. Lancey, mountains, ordnance survey, Parish of Templecarne, pasturage, rents, Royal Irish Academy, rural landscape, Templecarne

The lakes of Ireland

Gerald of Wales describes the number and disposition of Ireland's lakes

Tags: fishing, geography, Gerald of Wales, islands, lakes, positive description, topography, twelfth century, water, wildlife

The lake returns to the Diocese

"In the year 1917 the final lawsuit took place, at the Quarter sessions in Donegal, before County Court Judge Cooke, K.C. ..."

Tags: Catholic Church, Clogher, compromise, control, court case, Diocese of Clogher, lake, law, Leslie family, Margaret Gibbons, ownership, Sir John Leslie, Station Island, twentieth century, water

The journey of five women returning to Ireland in 1922

"The adventure of a group of five women pilgrims [in 1922] were typical of the times."

Tags: 1922, Alice Curtayne, Castlederg, civil war, County Fermanagh, County Tyrone, disruption, Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, Pettigo, pilgrimage, pilgrims, train, twentieth century, Victoria Bridge, women's history

The journey from Pettigo to Lough Derg

“From Pettigo to Lough Dergh, the distance is about three miles, over bog and mountain. It is a scramble all the way, endeavouring to avoid the marsh and bog land, that cannot, however, be avoided..."

Tags: barefoot, barrenness, bogland, hills, impressions, landscape, marsh, mountains, Pettigo, Philip Dixon Hardy, pilgrim road, pilgrimage, quaking bog, second-hand accounts

The Island's gift

Jenny awakes to feel the gift of Station Island: a sense of equality in bodily experience

Tags: austerity, embodied experience, emotion, literature, pilgrimage, remoteness, revelation, Sean O'Faolain, short stories, sleep, timelessness, twentieth century, women's dormitory

The Island of Swimmers

"There is on the cliff of Cruachan looking out on the sea and the Western sun a very deep cave exhaling icy blasts all the time..."

Tags: banishment, Croagh Patrick, demons, Folklore, Isle of Demons, Isle of Swimmers, myth, mythology, origin of purgatory, Shane Leslie, St. Patrick

The IRA evacuates from Pettigo

"A large-scale evacuation [of Pettigo] followed [the shelling] and the IRA men made their way to the hills to escape the bombardment..."

Tags: 1922, boating, Donegal Town, escape, evacuation, hills, IRA, Irish Civil War, mountains, Pettigo

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