Boating

Location: Ferry House, Lough Derg

Location: Landing Pier, Station Island

A boat trip to Saints Island

Gazetteer description of the 1795 disaster

"The Profit of a Ferry-Boat for wafting the Pilgrims over the Lake"

Timeline: 1829

Saints Island Quay Archaeological Survey

"I insisted that they should take me to an island"

"I at length reached the goal of my long-nourished desire"

"Monks in convents of coracles"

"The penance wheel turned round again"

"Water withers from the oars"

Jenny crosses to Station Island

Lough Derg in the rain

Boat keel on Station Island

Cardinal Michael Logue arrives at Station Island, 1913

Cardinal Michael Logue boards a boat at the Station Island ferry house, 1913

Ferry boat house, Station Island

Pilgrims board their boats south-east of Station Island

Station Island boat leaving

View of Station Island with boats and Friars' Island

A rower and Station Island with detail of rocks and water

Ferry house and view of Station Island

The landing pier, Station Island

View of Station Island with man in boat

A man in a boat with Station Island in the background

Photograph of Islets on Lough Derg south shore

Rowers in front of Friars' Island

The Landing, Station Island

The Drowning of the Boat

"Shades of evening were adding solemnity to the landscape"

"Sure it's an aigle!"

"This task was soon rendered less difficult by the rising of the moon"

Fishing in the Upper Lake

Where to catch fish

An omen of disaster prior to the 1795 accident

The 1795 disaster

"We left the Island with dry skies but still carrying our fast with us"

Antonio Mannini is rowed to the island

Antonio Mannini prepares for his journey

The demon Corna

The seizure of Purgatory

The IRA evacuates from Pettigo

Boating accidents on the lake

Otway muses on the metaphor of birds

The 1795 disaster

The business of ferrying pilgrims to Station Island

The ferry to Lough Derg

Saints Island on Lough Derg