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Derg More Island Townland

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

Derg More Island is an island.

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

Derg More…

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

Derry and the Valley of the Foyle

An account of the outflow from Lough Derg reaching the ocean in the Foyle Valley at Derry

Tags: County Derry, County Donegal, Derry, Foyle Valley, River Foyle, River Mourne, watershed

Destroying Station Island

"And therefore we do hereby order and resolve that Letters shall be dispatched from this board unto the Rev. Father of God the Lord Bishop of Clogher, Sir John Dundarre High Sheriff of the County of Donegal, Edward Archdale and Leonard Blennerhasset…

Tags: 1632, Clogher, demolition, destruction of built heritage, James Magrath, land acquisition, legislation, penitential beds, Privy Council, Protestant critique, Reformation, seventeenth century, Shane Leslie, St. Patrick, Station Island, stations, superstition, suppression

Donegal Town to Lough Derg

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

Tags: Daniel O'Connor, Donegal Town, nineteenth century, pilgrim path, pilgrimage

Donegal Town to Lough Derg

A description of Lough Derg and its Pilgrimage in the Boston-Based Catholic Donahoe's Magazine, repeating observations in O'Connor's pilgrim guide

Tags: approaches, Boston, Donahoe's Magazine, Donegal Town, nineteenth century, pilgrim paths, pilgrimage, River Fluchlynn

Drinking the "wine" of Lough Derg

“‘I was considerably surprised when, upon my remarking, that with only one meal of bread and water in twenty four-hours, the pilgrims must become faint, the women with whom I was speaking, said, “Oh, no! the wine revives us, and gives us…

Tags: cauldron, drinking, nutrition, second-hand accounts, Station Island, stations, water, wine

Dutch Map of Ulster with Purgatory

Curator's description: "In 1577, at the age of 63, Adriaen Coenensz from Scheveningen, a Dutch fishing port, started his Vis booc. Over a period of three years he collected all kind of information about the sea, the coasts, and coastal waters,…

Eagle's eggs

"It so happened, that the Parson had marked the very clump in which the bird had pitched, and had taken the bearings accurately. Guiding his course by these, he scrambled over huge, loose, mossy stones, so large, so irregular, and so unconnected with…

Tags: birdlife, dryness, eagle, eggs, fauna, fishing, Henry Newland, lake, memoir, nesting, nineteenth century, poaching, upper lake

Ease of travel to Lough Derg

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

Tags: barefoot, Boston, convenience, Donahoe's Magazine, infrastructure, nineteenth century, pilgrimage, travel

Fair Lake, Lake of the Cave, Red Lake

"The original name of the lake was Finn-loch - the Fair Lake. Those who have visited Lough Derg in the summer and looked on its natural beauties may well approve of the name given by our Pagan ancestors..."

Tags: etymology, Fair Lake, Irish identity, Irish language, Lake of the Cave, Margaret Gibbons, monster, Red Lake, St. Patrick, stone carving

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