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The journey of five women returning to Ireland in 1922
"The adventure of a group of five women pilgrims [in 1922] were typical of the times."
The Franciscans
"The Franciscans took up the charge of St. Patrick's Purgatory when it was the most persecuted and derided institution of the Irish Church..."
The 1795 disaster
"The end of the eighteenth-century history of Lough Derg is sadly remembered because of a particularly bad boating accident..."
Templecarne: Patrick's first church?
"…Tirechan says that Patrick founded a Church in Tirhugh. Where now is the location of that church?..."
Seadavog Mountain
"Dabheoc's name is commemorated, too, in Seadavog mountain, a low peak to the west of his Seat on the southern shore of the lake..."
Saints' island and its soils
"The largest island in Lough Derg is Inishgoosk; it has no historical interest. The second largest island is Saints' Island, called St. Dabheoc's Island in early Christian times..."
Friars' Island
"Friars' Island is unmistakable, because it is the nearest to the ferry. Unfortunately, the origin of its name is unknown..."
Forty-six small islands
"Lough Derg is dotted with forty-six small islands, some of them graced with shrubs and occasional rowans or ash, but the greater number are only bare rocks projecting out of the water..."
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Burials on Friars' Island, in Templecarne, and further away
"About twenty of the victims were buried on Friars' Island, where fir-trees on a mound show their grave to-day..."
An omen of disaster prior to the 1795 accident
"As a boat was being loaded with passengers at eleven o'clock, an elderly man arrived at the shore and urgently signalled to his son to come away with him..."