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Rowing boats leaving the ferry house

Three boats of pilgrims setting out from the ferry house

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

Rowers in front of Friars' Island

View of Friars' Island with rowers in foreground

Tags: boating, Friars' Island, Lawrence Collection, National Library of Ireland, nineteenth century, Photographs, Robert French, rowers, Station Island, water, William Lawrence

Rivers Pettigo, Omna and Scillies

A topographical dictionary entry for County Donegal and the Barony of Tirhugh

Tags: description, gazetteer, Ireland, Lough Erne, River Finn, River Omna, River Pettigo, River Scillies, Samuel Lewis, Topographical dictionary

Rivers of southern Templecarn

"The county boundary of Fermanagh runs in the centre of a stream 40 feet wide flowing from north east to south west for 10 miles and turning the mill above the village, passes through Pettigo and falls into Lough Erne at Burnfoot..."

Tags: Burnfoot, County Donegal, County Fermanagh, hydrology, Lieutenant W. Lancey, Lough Erne, Northern Ireland, ordnance survey, Parish of Templecarne, river, River Termon, Royal Irish Academy, Templecarne, watershed

River Derg gazetteer entry

The entry for the River Derg in an 1842 Irish gazetteer

Tags: Carry Mouth, gazetteer, John Parker Lawson, Newtown Stewart, River Derg, River Strule, Strabane

Raymond de Perilleux and Lough Derg

A history of Lough Derg and its Antiquities. This extract comes from an 1836 story in the Dublin Penny Journal Count Raymond de Perilleaux's 1397 journey to the Purgatory.

Tags: aesthetics, beech, commentary, fiction, fourteenth century, James Stephens, murder, nineteenth century, oak, penny journal, pilgrim crossing, Raymond de Pereilleux, revenge, romance, Ugolino, vista

Rathnacross Fairy Fort

"There is a circular fence of earth on top of a hill in the school district. It is known as Rathnacross and is situated in the townland of Drumawark.

There is a hole in the middle of it where a Celtic cross stood but it is broken now and the…

Tags: Drumawark Townland, fairy fort, Folklore, High Cross, hills, marker, pilgrim road, pilgrimage, Rathnacross

Rathnacross Archaeological Survey

Rathnacross (DG105-002001-), a circular area enclosed by a stone and earthen bank c. 0.5m high. A gap in the NE sector affords the only possible site for an entrance. There is a semicircular hollow (2.5m in diam. and 0.8m deep) in the SE quadrant…

Tags: Archaeological survey, Drumawark Townland, High Cross, pilgrim road, pilgrimage, Rathnacross, Station Island

Ramón de Perellós sets off for Saint Patrick's Purgatory

A famous account of a 1398 visit by Viscount Ramon de Perellós to Saint Patrick's Purgatory

Tags: Avignon, fourteenth century, itinerary, pilgrimage, purgatory, Ramon De Perellós, Travelogue

Questioning the boatman

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

Tags: boatmen, Cholera, demographics, ferry house, interview, J. B. Doyle, numbers, pilgrimage

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