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Location: Women's Dormitory, Station Island

Tags: commonly occurring location, Digital Derg Project, dormitory, Geolocation, James L. Smith, key location, Lough Derg, place names, women's dormitory, women's history

Lough Derg and its islands

"In the county of Donnegal, at the distance of four miles from Lough Earn, and in the midst of mountains and morasses, extending every way to a considerable distance..."

Tags: anticlericalism, Clogher, corruption, etymology, islands, mountains, Philip Skelton, pilgrimage, Protestant critique, Saints Island, Station Island

Lough Derg gazetteer entry

The entry for Lough Derg in an 1842 Irish gazetteer

Tags: gazetteer, Inishgoosk, islands, Lough Derg, Lough Erne, nineteenth century, Pettigo, Saints' Island

Lough Derg in the rain

Jenny and Bobby arrive at Lough Derg in the rain and are greeted by the sight of the lake and the pilgrims waiting to cross

Tags: boating, cattle, doubt, impressions, Irish identity, literature, negative description, pilgrim crossing, rain, Sean O'Faolain, short stories, St. Patrick, twentieth century, weather

Lough Derg in the Seventeenth Century

"The Liffer largens near its source and forms a lake in which there is an Island with a little Convent, near which there is a grotto narrow enough and full of spectres horrible to the view..."

Tags: hydrology, lake, purgatory, seventeenth century, Shane Leslie, Station Island

Lough Derg meets the sea

"[Lough Derg] and [the River Derg] empty themselves into the Mourne and finally mingle with the ocean at Magilligan…"

Tags: County Derry, County Donegal, County Tyrone, Derry, hydrology, Lieutenant W. Lancey, Magilligan, Northern Ireland, ordnance survey, River Derg, River Foyle, River Mourne, rivermouth, Royal Irish Academy, Templecarne, watershed

Lough Erne

"The coast of Lough Erne in this neighbourhood is low and a very small portion of it belongs to Templecarn. The general climate of Tyrhugh is moist and damp."

Tags: Barony of Tirhugh, climate, environment, Lieutenant W. Lancey, Lough Erne, ordnance survey, Parish of Templecarne, Royal Irish Academy, Templecarne

Lough Erne, "The Windermere of Ireland"

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

Tags: approach, description, district, Irish Monthly, Lough Erne, pilgrimage, purgatory, road, Station Island

Lough Eske and Ardnamona Wood Special Area of Conservation

The watershed, geology and wildlife of the Lough Eske and Ardnamona Wood Special Area of Conservation

Lough Golagh and Breesy Hill Special Area of Conservation

The watershed, geology and wildlife of the Lough Golagh and Breesy Hill Special Area of Conservation

Tags: Badger (Meles meles), biodiversity, Bitter-vetch (Lathyrus montanus), Black Bog-rush (Schoenus nigricans), blanket bog, Blue Moor-grass (Sesleria albicans), Bog Pondweed (Potamogeton polygonifolius), bogland, Bottle Sedge (Carex rostrata), Breesy Hill, cattle, Common Butterwort (Pinguicula vulgaris), Common Knapweed (Centaurea nigra), Common Reed (Phragmites australis), Common Tern (Sterna hirundo), Deergrass (Scirpus cespitosus), dryness, Early-purple Orchid (Orchis mascula), fauna, flora, gneiss, Great Fen-sedge (Cladium mariscus), Grey Heron, Gull, Hazel (Corylus avellana), Heather (Calluna vulgaris), Juniper (Juniperis communis), Kestrel, Lichens (Cladonia portentosa and C. uncialis), limestone, Lough Cam, Lough Finn, Lough Golagh, Lough Lee, Lough Unshin, ommon Club-rush (Scirpus lacustris), peat extraction, Purple Moor-grass (Molinia caerulea), Raven, Red Grouse, Sessile Oak (Quercus petraea), Shoreweed (Littorella uniflora), snipe, sphagnum moss, Spiked Water-milfoil (Myriophyllum spicatum), Stonechat, vicinity, Water Lobelia (Lobelia dortmanna), Woodpigeon.

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