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Cashelenny Stone Circle Archaeological Survey

The following description is derived from Cody (2000). The ‘stone circle complex at Cashelenny, County Donegal, is sited on bog-grown upland some 10 km. north-east of Pettigo . . . . The site was known to Oliver Davies who conducted fieldwork in…

Tags: Archaeological survey, bogland, Cashelenny, quaking bog, Stone circle, vicinity

Cashelnavean Bog Natural Heritage Area

A description of the Cashelnavean Bog Natural Heritage Area (NHA)

Tags: Bell Heather (Erica cinerea), Bilberry (Vaccinium myrtillus), biodiversity, Black Bog-rush (Schoenus nigricans), blanket bog, Bog Asphodel (Narthecium ossifragum), Bog Myrtle (Myrica gale), Bog Pondweed (Potamogeton polygonifolius), Bog Sedge (Carex limosa), Bogbean (Menyanthes trifoliata), bogland, Bottle Sedge (Carex rostrata), Common Cottongrass (Eriophorum angustifolium), Common Reed (Phragmites australis), conifer plantations, Cross-leaved Heath (Erica tetralix), Crowberry (Empetrum nigrum), Deergrass (Scirpus caespitosus), dryness, Great Sundew (D. anglica), Heath Bedstraw (Galium saxatile), Heath Rush (Juncus squarrosus), Juniper (Juniperus communis), Lesser Bladderwort (Utricularia minor), Ling Heather (Calluna vulgaris), Purple Moor-grass, Purple Moor-grass (Molinia caerulea), Round-leaved Sundew (Drosera rotundifolia), sphagnum moss, Star Sedge (Carex echinata), Tormentil (Potentilla erecta), vicinity, White Beak-sedge (Rhynchospora alba)

Castlederg to Lough Derg

A description of Lough Derg and its Pilgrimage in the American Donahoe's Magazine

Tags: Boston, Castlederg, County Derry, County Donegal, County Tyrone, Donahoe's Magazine, Killeter, nineteenth century, pilgrimage, road

Castlederg to Lough Derg Pilgrim Path

A description by O'Connor of the pilgrim path from Castlederg to Lough Derg

Tags: border, Castlederg, County Tyrone, Norther Ireland, pilgrim path, pilgrimage, River Derg

Clogh-oir, the golden stone

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

Tags: Clogher, description, golden stone, Irish Monthly, penitential beds, pilgrimage, purgatory, St. Patrick's bed, Station Island

Croaghbrack Townland

Croaghbrack is in the Electoral Division of Templecarn, in Civil Parish of Templecarn, in the Barony of Tirhugh, in the County of Donegal

Croaghbrack is on Logainm.ie: Croaghbrack.

Croaghbrack has an area of:

-6,974,912 m² / 697.49…

Tags: Barony of Tirhugh, Croaghbrack townland, townland

Croaghonagh Bog Special Area of Conservation

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

Crocknacunny Townland

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

The Irish name for Crocknacunny is Cnoc na Coinne

Crocknacunny is on Logainm.ie:…

Tags: Barony of Tirhugh, Crocknacunny Townland, Parish of Templecarne, townland

Davog was a woman?

"Now let me at my old antagonist Oral tradition: The chair of Davog lies in the townland of Suidhe Dhabheog (Seeavoge) where in the living rock some impressions of elbows &c are strewn. Davog was a woman, who came to make the turas but she died…

Tags: fifth century, Folklore, gender, John O'Donovan, letters, nineteenth century, Oral History, ordnance survey, St. Dabheoc, St. Dabheoc's Seat, St. Patrick, women's history

Derg Beg Island Townland

Derg Beg Island is in the Electoral Division of Templecarn, in Civil Parish of Templecarn, in the Barony of Tirhugh, in the County of Donegal

Derg Beg Island is an island.

Derg Beg Island is on Logainm.ie: Derg Beg Island.

Derg Beg Island…

Tags: Barony of Tirhugh, Derg Beg Island, Derg Beg Island Townland, island, Parish of Templecarne, townland

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