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Location and characteristics of the Lough Fad blanket bog to the south-west of Lough Derg

The location and characteristics of the Lough Fad Bog National Heritage Area (NHA)

Tags: Ballintra River, blanket bog, bogland, forestry, gneiss, Lough Atarriff, Lough Fad, Lough Fad Bog NHA, Lough Nabrackmore., Lough Nacraghan, Lough Nageage, Lough Natragh, National Parks and Wildlife Service, peat, Pettigo, Waterfoot River, watershed

Pettigo Plateau Nature Reserve

The watershed, geology and wildlife of the Pettigo Plateau Nature Reserve

Tags: bogland, conifer plantations, Dunragh Loughs, gneiss, heath, lakes, Lough Barderg, Lough Golagh, Pettigo plateau, Pettigo Plateau Nature Reserve, pools, schist

The presence of Arctic Char in the lake in the 1990s

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

Nesting sites of the Lesser Black-backed Gull and other birdlife on Inishgoosk

A description of the birdlife found on Lough Derg and Inishgoosk Island

Tags: biodiversity, birdlife, bogland, Brownhall, Common Gull (Larus canus), Durnesh Lough, Goldeneye, Greenland White-fronted Goose, Greylag Goose, Herring Gull, Inishgoosk, Lesser Black-backed Gull, Lough Derg SPA, Mallard, National Parks and Wildlife Service, nesting, Pettigo plateau, seagulls, Tufted Duck

Templecarne Graveyard, County Donegal

Graveyard on irregular-plan, laid out c. 1600. Now out of use. Contains a collection of multidenominational cut stone gravemarkers (upstanding, recumbent, and table-type memorials) mainly dating from c. 1750 to c. 1900. Two ashlar limestone…

Tags: 1795 disaster, building survey, built heritage, burial, Folklore, Parish of Templecarne, Templecarne, Templecarne Graveyard

St Peter's Island and St Peter's Well

"St. Peter's Island and St. Peter's well are situated about a half a mile due North of the village of Mountcharles. They are in the townland of Turras Hill. The little Island is in the centre of the lake, but since the erection of the waterworks in…

Tags: Augustinians, Catholicism, exile, Folklore, hills, holy well, island, lake, Mountcharles, seventeenth century, St. Peter's Island, Turras Hill, vanished island

Feijoo's critique of Purgatory

An account of Lough Derg from a late-nineteenth-century pilgrim.

Tags: Augustinians, description, disputation, disrepute, Feijoo, Irish Monthly, monasticism, negative description, pilgrimage, polemic, purgatory, St. Patrick, Station Island, treatise

"Here where thy saints have trod"

An account of Lough Derg from a late-nineteenth-century pilgrim.

Tags: Catholic Church, Catholicism, description, Irish identity, Irish Monthly, narrative, pilgrimage, purgatory, reflection, Station Island, suppression, timelessness

The ancient pilgrimage

An account of Lough Derg from a late-nineteenth-century pilgrim.

Tags: austerity, deprivation, description, hardship, Irish Monthly, penitential beds, pilgrimage, pilgrims, purgatory, Station Island, stations

"The pilgrimage was again resumed"

An account of Lough Derg from a late-nineteenth-century pilgrim.

Tags: description, destruction of built heritage, English Parliament, Irish Monthly, pilgrimage, purgatory, seventeenth century, Station Island, suppression

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