Information about Lough Derg's one-day retreats, three-day pilgrimages, lakeshore Pilgrim Path and group tours and visits is available from loughderg.org, by emailing [email protected] or ...

Set in highly coveted lakeside location, Dromeela is ideal for families. ... Dolores McNamara, spent €1.7m of her €115m jackpot on Lough Derg Hall - a mansion on 38 acres in Ogonnelloe.

Portumna Castle and Demesne occupy a magnificent location on the shores of Lough Derg on the Shannon. Built between 1610 and 1618 by Richard Burke, of the famous de Burgo family of Norman descent.

Station Island, the location of the pilgrimage, is often referred to as Saint Patrick's Purgatory or simply Lough Derg. It has been under the custodianship of the Diocese of Clogher since 1780.

THE twin county-border towns of Killaloe and Ballina which straddle the lower end of Lough Derg combine in a tourism double act — which boasts an increasing diversity of restaurants giving it a ...

One of Ireland's holiest sites, Lough Derg in County Donegal, has cancelled its traditional three-day pilgrimage. Thousands of pilgrims visit St Patrick's Purgatory near Pettigo each summer. The ...

A long stretch of Tipperary's Lough Derg shoreline has been declared unfit for bathers because of high concentrations of algal bloom. In March, Lough Derg was cited by the Minister for the ...

LOUGH DERG, IRELAND — Every year, more than 10,000 pilgrims make their way to Lough Derg, to take part in an intense three-day pilgrimage, following a 1,000-year-old tradition of strict fasting ...

The woman, aged in her 50's, was swimming at Twomilegate, which is a popular leisure and swimming location on Lough Derg just outside the village of Killaloe. The incident happened at around 6 ...

The Lough Derg Monastery and St. Patrick's Basilica in Donegal, Ireland, are important places of pilgrimage to the Irish. The annual summer pilgrimage was canceled this year due to the COVID-19 ...

Something similar happened around 100 years ago. In 1921 about 250 detainees at a prison camp in Ballykinlar in Co. Down sought permission to perform the Lough Derg pilgrimage exercises in their camp.

A RECORD number of objections for a tourism-related development on Lough Derg have been lodged against plans to construct a €60 million marina scheme in Ballina. Figures provided by North ...