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Where to catch fish

"It is in the neighbourhood of [the islands beyond Station Island] that the fish are caught, and round them the boat made its slow circuit, as the fishermen, keeping accurate time, cast, with lines not above twice the length of their rods, the one to…

Tags: boating, Eagle's Rock Island, fishing, fly fishing, Henry Newland, Inishgoosk, lake, memoir, nineteenth century, upper lake

Waterlife, flora and fauna of the Lough Fad blanket bog to the south-west of Lough Derg

The location and characteristics of the Lough Fad Bog National Heritage Area (NHA)

Water-Horses

"Long ago the people used to send their horses to the mountain for the summer months.

One day a man was going to the mountain for his horse as he required him to do some work at home.

When he went up to the mountain he saw all the horses…

Tags: Croaghbrack townland, fairies, Folklore, horse, lake, Lough Kilraway, mountains, Oral History, supernatural, water, water horse

View of Station Island with man in boat

View of Station Island from the shore near the ferry house with a man in a rowing boat in foreground

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

View of Station Island with boats and Friars' Island

View from shore of the lake and Station Island in the distance with Friars' Island and boats

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

View of Station Island from east shore

View across lake from east including Friars' and Station Islands, including rock formations and shore

Tags: east shore, Friars' Island, islands, Lawrence Collection, National Library of Ireland, nineteenth century, Photographs, Robert French, Station Island, vista, William Lawrence

Unimpressed by Lough Derg

A dismal scene of the view to the lake on the walk from Pettigo, originally included in Caesar Otway's 'Sketches in Ireland'

Tags: bogland, Caesar Otway, disappointment, hills, landscape, medievalism, mountains, negative, Pettigo, pilgrimage, Protestant critique, St. Patrick, Station Island, The Gothic, William Carleton

Ultonia ; Hibernis Cui-Guilly ; Anglis Ulster

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

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

Travelling through Pettigo

An account of the town of Pettigo

Tags: Clogher, James Fraser, Kesh stream, Lough Erne, moorland, nineteenth century, Pettigo, River Termon, roads, transport

Timeline: 836

Tags: chronology, events, Margaret Gibbons, pilgrimage, timeline

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