"Encompassed with high barren Mountains of difficult Ascent"
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Title
"Encompassed with high barren Mountains of difficult Ascent"
Subject
Lough Derg--Travelogue--Dublin--Journey
Description
An eighteenth-century treatise describing a trip from Dublin to Lough Derg
Creator
Isaac Butler, 1689–1755
Source
Butler, Isaac, A Journey to Lough Derg, p. 136
Publisher
CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts
Date
c.1745
Contributor
CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts: a project of University College, Cork. Electronic edition compiled and proof-read by Beatrix Färber.
Rights
Citation for the purposes of criticism
Format
Electronic text transcription
Language
English
Type
Travelogue
Identifier
DD_0556
Coverage
54.6083, -7.8714
References
https://celt.ucc.ie//published/E740000-001
Text Item Type Metadata
Text
"Three miles North from Petigoe, encompassed with high barren Mountains of difficult Ascent, Lough-Derg is seated in the Valley, in the parish of Temple Carne, Barony of Tirhu & County of Donegall in Latitude 54 Degrees 10 min. North, it is almost 3 Miles long & 2 broad, there are several Islands in it, the most remarkable is on the South East Side of the Lough within a short Mile of the main Land & is called St. Patrick's Purgatory."
Original Format
Austin Cooper, A Journey to Lough Derg in Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, Ed. [Royal Irish Academy]. , Dublin , University Press (1892) volume 22 page 13–24; 126–136