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An account of the religious history of Lough Derg for the traveller.

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

Station Island is an island.

Station Island is on Logainm.ie: Station Island.

Station Island has an…

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The entry for Lough Derg in an 1842 Irish gazetteer

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Pot used to boil water to sustain pilgrims on pilgrimage

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

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It is traditionally believed that a monastic settlement was founded on the nearby Saint’s Island (formerly St. Dabheog's Island) in the fifth century by St. Patrick who installed Dabheoc as the first abbot (see…

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View of Station Island across Lough Derg

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"St. Patrick’s Well at Tullaghan has a legend. St Patrick stopped the night in a house near a mountain. The woman told him not to look at the light on the mountain, but he went up and saw a serpent and when he struck it, St. Patrick’s Well sprang up.…

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According to Margaret Stokes (1882), there was a 'Giant's Grave' at Carn. Her small-scale distribution map places it a short distance SE of Lough Derg. It is not known to what site she was referring, but it may have been the feature named 'St.…

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"To the west of St. Brigid's Chair, and about two furlongs from the shore of the lake, but somewhat further from the chair, is situated on the very summit of a mountain a carn-shaped eminence, on the summit of which is St. Dabheoc's Seat..."

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