Notebook – Diary of travels to Iona and Ireland
Reference code
FOW/01/44
Title
Notebook – Diary of travels to Iona and Ireland
Date
June-July 1893
Level of description
Item
Extent and format
1 volume
Scope and content
Travel diary related to excursions to Iona (June 1893) and Ireland (July 1893).
Iona: Notes from William Reeves’ ‘Life of Saint Columba, founder of Hy’ (1874); observations on Colliculus Angelorum [Cnoc Angel], St Aran’s Chapel, Maclean’s Cross, Cladh an Diseart and other sights; an account of the ‘Episode of the Staff’; drawings of the view of ‘Monticellulus’ from the sea, the Laithrichean, or Foundations ruins near Port-a-Churraich.
Ireland: accounts of visits to Dublin (Trinity College Library - Books of Kells, Durrow, Armagh, Liber Hymnorum) and surrounding area (St Columba’s House, Mellifont Abbey, New Grange Tumulus, St Kevin’s Kitchen); Aran Islands (Teampall Bheanáin, St Enda’s Monastery, Black Fort, Dun Eochla, Church of the Four Beauties); Hill of Tara.
Includes drawings of churches, ruins, landscapes, and notes from Pocock’s Irish Tour, 1752 (Ed. Stokes, 1891).
Iona: Notes from William Reeves’ ‘Life of Saint Columba, founder of Hy’ (1874); observations on Colliculus Angelorum [Cnoc Angel], St Aran’s Chapel, Maclean’s Cross, Cladh an Diseart and other sights; an account of the ‘Episode of the Staff’; drawings of the view of ‘Monticellulus’ from the sea, the Laithrichean, or Foundations ruins near Port-a-Churraich.
Ireland: accounts of visits to Dublin (Trinity College Library - Books of Kells, Durrow, Armagh, Liber Hymnorum) and surrounding area (St Columba’s House, Mellifont Abbey, New Grange Tumulus, St Kevin’s Kitchen); Aran Islands (Teampall Bheanáin, St Enda’s Monastery, Black Fort, Dun Eochla, Church of the Four Beauties); Hill of Tara.
Includes drawings of churches, ruins, landscapes, and notes from Pocock’s Irish Tour, 1752 (Ed. Stokes, 1891).
Creator
Fowler, Joseph Thomas (1833-1924), clergyman, Hebrew scholar and antiquary