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Laurent Vital learns of Purgatory in Kinsale

A sixteenth-century account by Laurent Vital of information gathered during the visit of Archduke Ferdinand to Kinsale

Tags: conversation, County Cork, Kinsale, pilgrimage, rumours, sixteenth century

Leprechauns and Mermaids

"Very few stories are told of mermaids in this district as it is too far from the sea. The mermaid or 'maigdean mara' is very attractive. Once upon a time a glan man who made a station in Lough Derg returned home by Bundoran. He spent a few hours…

Tags: Bundoran, County Cavan, County Donegal, drowning, Folklore, Glen, mermaid, Oral History, pilgrimage, supernatural

Lesser Clubmoss

A botanist's guide to the flora of Ulster

Tags: botany, flora, Lesser Clubmoss (Selaginella selaginoides), vicinity

Letter, James Hamilton Jnr, Strabane, Co. Tyrone, to [Marquess of Abercorn, London]

A report of the 55th Regiment displacing a group of entrenched squatters upon an island in Lough Derg for which they refuse to pay rent.

Tags: eighteenth century, Glaslough, islands, James Hamilton Jr, Leslie family, Lough Derg, military intervention, Public Record Office of Northern Ireland, regiment, report squatters

Letter, James Hamilton Jnr, Strabane, Co. Tyrone, to Marquess of Abercorn, General Post Office, Dublin. (To be forwarded).

A report including details of a gathering of pilgrims at Lough Derg with 20,000 attendees.

Tags: eighteenth century, James Hamilton Jr, Lough Derg, pilgrimage, Public Record Office of Northern Ireland, report

Tags: Ballintra River, blanket bog, bogland, forestry, gneiss, Lough Atarriff, Lough Fad, Lough Fad Bog NHA, Lough Nabrackmore., Lough Nacraghan, Lough Nageage, Lough Natragh, National Parks and Wildlife Service, peat, Pettigo, Waterfoot River, watershed

Location: Aghalurcher

A location from Guillebert de Lannoy's journey from Dublin to St. Patrick's Purgatory, as presented by Eileen Gardiner

Tags: Digital Derg Project, Eileen Gardiner, Geolocation, key location, Lough Derg, pilgrimage

Location: Ash Island, Lough Derg

Tags: Ash Island, Ash Island Townland, commonly occurring location, Digital Derg Project, Geolocation, James L. Smith, key location, Lough Derg, place names

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