Nineteenth Century

"An anecdote of the bard Carolan"

"Of all our Acquo Sanctificato, Lough Derg is the most celebrated"

A boat trip to Saints Island

Castlederg to Lough Derg

Donegal Town to Lough Derg

Ease of travel to Lough Derg

Gazetteer description of view from lake shore

Pettigo to Lough Derg

Station island gazetteer entry

The afforestation of Lough Derg, and its geese

The quality of Lough Derg's road access

A disappointed description of Station Island

An account of the stations

Lough Derg gazetteer entry

Place name of Termon Magrath

Raymond de Perilleux and Lough Derg

The boatmen describes the "wine" of Purgatory

The History and Suppression of Lough Derg

The Leslies of Glaslough

The O'Donnells and Lough Derg

The suppression of the pilgrimage

The ugly terrain of Lough Derg

Travelling through Pettigo

A 54 page report lifting the suspension of John Goodwin

Station Island, View from Ferry House

Donegal Town to Lough Derg

"A rock, which, rising to the surface of the water, the breeze had exposed"

"A spreading hawthorn tree"

"He had swallowed up a very wicked man"

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

"So ended my pilgrimage to Lough Derg"

"They told the marvellous incidents of the voyage to their listening friends"

"They would make a Jonas of me against my will"

"What we saw was the great serpent or fish"

"A lonely and remote region"

"A miracle! - A miracle!"

"All was as still as death"

"An incredible quantity of rags"

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

"I gazed on the distant borders of the Lake"

"I had long experienced extreme anxiety to visit"

"Multitudes of the lower classes of the native Irish"

"So far shalt thou go, and no farther, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed"

"So long as the Church of Rome finds dupes"

"The lake itself changes its wonted blue into a dull brown colour"

"The pilgrims throng the shore opposite to the island"

"The unbroken stillness of this consecrated spot, was exchanged to bustle, noise, and jarring, of a countless multitude"

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

Pilgrims setting out from Pettigo

Station Island boat leaving

Station Island Boiler

View of Station Island from east shore

View of Station Island with boats and Friars' Island

A rower and Station Island with detail of rocks and water

Boarding a pilgrim boat

Ferry house and view of Station Island

Friars' Island detail

Penitential beds and view of lake

Pilgrims at the stations

Pilgrims at the water station, north view

Pilgrims resting, and view of Sanctuary and shoreline

Rowing boats leaving the ferry house

The landing pier, Station Island

The penitential beds with lake in background

View of Station Island with man in boat

"Fare thee well, Lough Derg"

A man in a boat with Station Island in the background

Photograph of a crowd at the Ferry House, Lough Derg, Co. Donegal

Photograph of Islets on Lough Derg south shore

Photograph of Lough Derg, Co. Donegal

Photograph of Station Island

Pilgrims arriving at Lough Derg

Pilgrims at the water station

Rowers in front of Friars' Island

Station Island and its reflection

The Landing, Station Island

The Oratory, Station Island

The Sanctuary, Station Island

"I do not think even Paddy could do much in protecting this lake"

"If I had my will, every otter-fisher should be solemnly ducked"

"In media lacus"

"In nine cases out of ten, the legend is simply an attempt made by an unlettered, but imaginative people, to account for natural appearances by supernatural agency"

"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"

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

"Wild and gloomy loneliness"

A 1603 description of Lough Derg

Becalmed on the Lake

Davog was a woman?

Eagle's eggs

Fionn Mac Cumhaill and the worm of Lough Derg

Fishing in the Upper Lake

John O'Donovan catches a cold

Oral history and facts

The March of the Dead Maguires

The monster guards a crock of gold

The salmon of Lough Derg

Where to catch fish

"The Church never relinquished her hold upon the one grey rock"

"One might well imagine it to be the golden portal to some bright realm"

John O'Donovan described the lake

The approach to the lake

The nature of granite outcrops

The ruins of Saints Island

The slopes of the mountains

Fionn mac Cumhaill escapes the monster's belly

Saints Island is too close to shore

Sketches of greedy monks

The moveable purgatory

The movement of Purgatory

"I felt ashamed for human nature"

A description of Lough Derg and its topography

Otway muses on the metaphor of birds

The "wine" of Station Island

The poteen shack

The stones of Station Island