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The 1795 disaster

"But the most lamentable catastrophe of all happened here in 1795 — a catastrophe which for many years cast a gloom over the place..."

Tags: 1795 disaster, accidents, boating, Daniel O'Connor, disaster, drowning, mountains, pilgrim crossing, pilgrimage

The "wine" of Station Island

"In all, the pilgrims remain on the island nine days—they eat but once in the twenty-four hours, of oatmeal and water—they have liberty to refresh themselves with the water of the lake..."

Tags: Caesar Otway, drinking, Henry Jones, nineteenth century, Protestant critique, second-hand accounts, seventeenth century, water, wine

Termon McGrath Castle and Settlement Archaeological Survey

Located on the NW side of a tower house (DG105-014001-) and associated with a settlement cluster (DG105-014002-). The lands of Termon McGrath were granted to James, son of Archbishop Myler McGrath in 1610 (Hill 1877, 183-4). In 1611 Carew records…

Tags: civil war, Magrath family, McGrath Castle, ownership, politics, ruins, seventeenth century, Termon Magrath, vicinity

Templecarne: Patrick's first church?

"…Tirechan says that Patrick founded a Church in Tirhugh. Where now is the location of that church?..."

Tags: Alice Curtayne, ancient church, Barony of Tirhugh, building, fifth century, myth, ruins, speculation, St. Patrick, Templecarne, Templecarne Graveyard, twentieth century

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

Templecarne Graveyard

An etching of Templecarne Graveyard, where victims of the 1795 disaster were buried.

Tags: 1795 disaster, disaster, graveyard, O'Connor, Templecarne Graveyard

Templecarn is a "barren subject"

"The author of the following brief sketch, on first receiving a copy of the statistical queries, was for a considerable time in doubt whether to forward any answer to the inquiries proposed..."

Tags: agriculture, barrenness, commerce, dryness, isolation, Lieutenant W. Lancey, manufacturing, negative description, North West Farming Society, ordnance survey, Parish of Templecarne, potential, Royal Irish Academy, rural landscape, Templecarne, Termon Magrath

Templecarn Graveyard Archaeological Survey

Marked on the 2nd edition of the OS 6-inch map as a 'church in ruins', there is now no trace of the church above ground. In the surrounding graveyard (DG105-003003-), there are several grass-grown mounds. O'Connor (1879, 17) says that the church was…

Tags: Archaeological survey, High Cross, Parish of Templecarne, pilgrim path, Saints' Island, Templecarne Graveyard

Tamur Bog Special Area of Conservation

The watershed, geology and wildlife of the Tamur Bog Special Area of Conservation

Tags: Ash (Fraxinus excelsior), Badger (Meles meles), Bilberry (Vaccinium myrtillus), biodiversity, Black Bog-rush (Schoenus nigricans), blanket bog, Bog moss (Sphagnum spp.), Bog Sedge (Carex limosa), Bogbean (Menyanthes trifoliata), bogland, Bottle Sedge (Carex rostrata), Broad Buckler-fern (Dryopteris dilatata)., cattle, Common Club-rush (Scirpus lacustris), Common Frog, Common Lizard, Common Reed (Phragmites australis), Common Valerian (Valeriana officinalis), Cranberry (Vaccinium oxycoccos), Cross-leaved Heath (Erica tetralix), Deergrass (Scirpus cespitosus), Downy Birch (Betula pubescens), dryness, False Oat-grass (Arrhenatherum elatius), Greenland White-fronted Goose, Hare’s-tail Cottongrass (Eriophorum vaginatum), Hawthorn (Crataegus monogyna), Heather (Calluna vulgaris), Honeysuckle (Lonicera periclymenum), Irish Hare, Lesser Bladderwort (Utricularia minor), Marsh Pennywort (Hydrocotyle vulgaris)., Marsh Thistle (Cirsium palustre), Otter, Perfoliate Pondweed (Potamogeton perfoliatus), Purple Moor-grass (Molinia caerulea), Rhododendron (Rhododendron ponticum), Rhyncehosporion Vegetation, Rowan (Sorbus aucuparia), Shoreweed (Littorella uniflora), Soft Rush, Soft Rush (Juncus effusus), sphagnum moss, Tamur bog, vicinity, Water Horsetail (Equisetum fluviatile), Water Lobelia (Lobelia dortmanna), White Beak-sedge (Rhynchospora alba), Wild Angelica (Angelica sylvestris), Willow (Salix spp.), Yellow Water-lily (Nuphar lutea)

Strabane on the Mourne

An account of the journey from Strabane to Derry and the surrounding scenery and features

Tags: Canal, County Tyrone, River Finn, River Mourne, River Strule, Strabane, Urban life

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