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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

Ultonia ; Hibernis Cui-Guilly ; Anglis Ulster

A topographically-detailed seventeenth-century map of UIster by Joan Blaeu, 1654

Tags: Bibliothèque nationale de France, cartography, Ireland, politics, purgatory, seventeenth century, Ulster

Purgatory at Inis Cealtra

A nineteenth century translation of a German travelogue in Ireland.

Tags: dispute, Inis Cealtra, Lough Derg on the Shannon, purgatory

Provincia Ultoniae. The Province of Ulster

A map of the province of Ulster from 1646-1649

Tags: Bibliothèque nationale de France, cartography, Ireland, purgatory, seventeenth century, Ulster

Map of Ulster with "Escheated" Counties, 1609

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This is a map of the six "escheated" counties of Ulster.

Tags: British Library, colonialism, John Norden, Map, plantation, politics, purgatory, seventeenth century, Ulster

Oral history and facts

A debate over the reliability of oral history, in which O'Donovan cites the heterogeneity of County Donegal local stories

Tags: debate, empiricism, Folklore, John O'Donovan, letters, nineteenth century, Oral History, ordnance survey, reliability, religion, scientism, tradition

"Though my letters are wild as the mountains in which they were written"

"Though my letters are wild as the mountains in which they were written, still do I feel myself very sober in thought, and exceedingly (excessive) in love with truth even to the prejudice of all national feelings…"

Tags: detachment, emotion, empiricism, environment, Folklore, John O'Donovan, letters, nineteenth century, Oral History, ordnance survey, region, remoteness, wildness

John O'Donovan catches a cold

"I visited the far famed terrestrial purgatory of Lough Derg, but received no benefit from my turas except a severe cold, which I attribute more to the wet mountain bogs that surround the lake, and to the chillyness (chilliness) of the wind than to…

Tags: bogland, cold, complaint, criticism, crossing, John O'Donovan, letters, negative description, nineteenth century, ordnance survey, pilgrim, rain, sickness, weather

"In media lacus"

"This shews that Saints island is the one on which the monastery, because the present station does not contain 10 acres. There is however a mistake in the phrase 'in media lacus' for Saints island is very near the land…"

Tags: etymology, John O'Donovan, Latin, letters, movement of Purgatory, nineteenth century, ordnance survey, origin of purgatory, purgatory, Saints' Island, Station Island

A 1603 description of Lough Derg

"An inquisition taken at Donegal in the 1st year of [James I in 1603] may throw some light upon the time of this removal: In the parts of Ulster near the territory calle O'Donnell's Countrie, are the walls and monuments of a certain Monastery or…

Tags: abandonment, description, destruction of built heritage, dissolution, John O'Donovan, letters, neglect, nineteenth century, ordnance survey, ruin, seventeenth century, Station Island, suppression

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