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Lough Derg or Loch Derg (Irish: Loch Dearg) [2] is a lake in County Donegal, Republic of Ireland. It is near the border with Northern Ireland and lies about 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) north of the border village of Pettigo. It is best known for St Patrick's Purgatory, a site of pilgrimage on Station Island in the lake.
St Patrick's Purgatory is an ancient pilgrimage site on Station Island in Lough Derg, County Donegal, Ireland. According to legend, the site dates from the fifth century, when Christ showed Saint Patrick a cave, sometimes referred to as a pit or a well , on Station Island that was an entrance to Purgatory . [ 2 ]
Lough Derg is the name of two lakes in Ireland: Lough Derg (Shannon) a large lake on the River Shannon, bordering counties Clare, Galway and Tipperary Lough Derg, County Donegal a small lake, a place of Christian pilgrimage
Many of the modern Catholic pilgrimage rituals at Lough Derg are focused on devotion to St. Dabheog: including the short hike to a pre-Christian Bronze Age burial site (known as Dabheog's Chair or Seat) on a hill overlooking Lough Derg, and the meditation upon one of the beehive cells on Station Island which is dedicated to the saint. [7]
Lough Bunny in The Burren Fishing boats on Inchiquin, Lough Corrib. Lough Cullin, County Mayo under Nephin Lough Dan Donegal's Lough Derg and Station Island Lough Derravaragh and Knockeyon Derryclare Lough Mayo's Doo Lough and Delphi Pass Glanmore Lake Glenbeg Lough Glencar Lough and Benbulbin Lough Gur Lough Inagh and the Twelve Bens Lough Key and Castle Island Kylemore Lough and Diamond Hill ...
Lough Derg, historically Lough Dergart (Irish: Loch Deirgeirt), [1] is a freshwater lake in the Shannon River Basin, Ireland. It is the third-biggest on the island of Ireland (after Lough Neagh and Lough Corrib ) and the second largest lake in the Republic of Ireland.
Lough Derg Monastery — Station Island: Franciscan Friars founded 1763; dissolved 1781, passed to the clergy of the Diocese of Clogher [6] Lough Eske Franciscan Friars Minor, Conventual, place of refuge 17th century from Donegal Magherabeg Friary: Franciscan Friars, Third Order Regular founded after/c.1430 by Niall Garbh [notes 6] O'Donnell ...
The R233 road connects Pettigo with Lough Derg. In June 1922, at the tail end of the Irish War of Independence, Pettigo in what became the new Irish Free State, and Belleek, which was now in Northern Ireland were occupied by a 100-strong Irish Republican Army unit who had arrived there from Donegal.