Browse Items · Digital Derg: A Deep Map

Station Island boat leaving

A pilgrim boat leaving the shore, pilgrims boarding another crowded boat, and a crowd on shore

Tags: boating, ferry house, Lawrence Collection, National Library of Ireland, nineteenth century, Photographs, pilgrim crossing, queue, Robert French, Station Island, William Lawrence

Pilgrims setting out from Pettigo

Several carriages and traps departing Pettigo for Lough Derg

Tags: carriage, Lawrence Collection, National Library of Ireland, nineteenth century, Pettigo, Photographs, pilgrimage, Robert French, Station Island, transport, William Lawrence

Bog Pimpernel

A botanist's guide to the flora of Ulster

Tags: Bog Pimpernel (Anagallis tenella), botany, flora, vicinity

Lesser Clubmoss

A botanist's guide to the flora of Ulster

Tags: botany, flora, Lesser Clubmoss (Selaginella selaginoides), vicinity

Hard rush

A botanist's guide to the flora of Ulster

Tags: botany, flora, Hard rush (Juncus inflexus), vicinity

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

Gerald's description of purgatory

"There is a lake in Ulster which contains an island divided into two parts..."

Tags: geography, Gerald of Wales, islands, lakes, topography, twelfth century, water

ANGLIAE, SCOTIAE & HIBERNIAE NOVA DESCRIPTIO

This map of the British Isles is by Gerard De Jode

Tags: cartography, engraving, Gerard de Jode, Map, purgatory, sixteenth century, Ulster

Portuguese portolan chart of Ireland

A portolan chart of Europe by Grazioso Benincasa, showing the Aegean

Tags: British Library, cartography, fifteenth century, Grazioso Benincasa, islands, purgatory

"Lough Derg has certainly been well chosen as a spot of religious penitence and seclusion, for the character of its scenery harmonises well with such a feeling; it is that of wild and gloomy loneliness."

Tags: arbutus, colour, description, fauna, fishing, flora, fly fishing, Heather (Calluna vulgaris), Henry Newland, isolation, loneliness, memoir, mountains, myrica, nineteenth century, remoteness, wildness

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Station Island boat leaving

Pilgrims setting out from Pettigo

Bog Pimpernel

Lesser Clubmoss

Hard rush

The lakes of Ireland

Gerald's description of purgatory

ANGLIAE, SCOTIAE & HIBERNIAE NOVA DESCRIPTIO

Portuguese portolan chart of Ireland

"Wild and gloomy loneliness"