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Boat Island Townland

Boat Island is in the Electoral Division of Pettigoe, in Civil Parish of Templecarn, in the Barony of Tirhugh, in the County of Donegal

Boat Island is an island.

Boat Island is on Logainm.ie: Boat Island.

Boat Island has an area of:

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Boat keel on Station Island

Remains of a boat keel found propped up against a wall on Station Island

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

Boating accidents on the lake

"Taking into account what angry storms sometimes sweep over the lake, lashing its waves into great fury, it is a merciful dispensation of Providence that more accidents have not occurred here..."

Tags: accidents, boating, Daniel O'Connor, disaster, storms

Bobby describes Station Island

Bobby, attempting to make peace with Jenny as she performs the pilgrimage, discusses the power of Station Island

Tags: austerity, lake, literature, medievalism, monasticism, negative description, religiosity, remoteness, Sean O'Faolain, short stories, timelessness, twentieth century

Bobby expresses his confusion

Bobby expresses his confusion at the extravagant embodied devotion and extreme austerity of the pilgrimage to Lough Derg and that it exposes a side of Jenny that he has never seen before.

Tags: car journey, confusion, Irish identity, literature, negative description, pilgrims, religiosity, Sean O'Faolain, short stories, twentieth century

Bobby interrogates Jenny about her motivations

As they drive towards Lough Derg, Bobby interrogates Jenny as to her motivations for wishing to visit Lough Derg this year of all years. She responds that it is a particularly Irish form of religious devotion and expression.

Tags: car journey, European pilgrim sites, Fatima, Irish identity, Lisieux, literature, Lourdes, motivation, pilgrimage, religiosity, Sean O'Faolain, short stories, twentieth century