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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..."

Tags: agriculture, Alice Curtayne, Augustinians, farming, monastery, monasticism, North West Farming Society, ruins, Saints' Island, soil, twentieth century

"A melancholy silence shrouded the scene"

"I remember a strange Easter Sunday spent on Saints' Island, not indeed with any hope of finding archaeological confirmation of its history, but simply in communing with the past..."

Station island gazetteer entry

The entry for Lough Derg in an 1842 Irish gazetteer

Tags: Augustinians, barefoot, bogland, east shore, ferry, gazetteer, nineteenth century, ruins, Saints' Island

"The Profit of a Ferry-Boat for wafting the Pilgrims over the Lake"

A critique of St. Patrick's Purgatory and Catholic pilgrimage in general.

Tags: Armagh, Augustinians, boating, eighteenth century, islands, John Richardson, pilgrim crossing, profiteering, Saints' Island, St. Dabheoc, Station Island

Timeline: 1130

Tags: Augustinians, chronology, events, Margaret Gibbons, pilgrimage, timeline

"If there was no appearance of the pilgrim, he was given up for lost"

An account of Lough Derg from a late-nineteenth-century pilgrim.

Tags: Augustinians, description, Irish Monthly, monasticism, pilgrimage, Purgatorial cave, purgatorial legend, purgatory, Station Island, trials of purgatory

Feijoo's critique of Purgatory

An account of Lough Derg from a late-nineteenth-century pilgrim.

Tags: Augustinians, description, disputation, disrepute, Feijoo, Irish Monthly, monasticism, negative description, pilgrimage, polemic, purgatory, St. Patrick, Station Island, treatise

St Peter's Island and St Peter's Well

"St. Peter's Island and St. Peter's well are situated about a half a mile due North of the village of Mountcharles. They are in the townland of Turras Hill. The little Island is in the centre of the lake, but since the erection of the waterworks in…

Tags: Augustinians, Catholicism, exile, Folklore, hills, holy well, island, lake, Mountcharles, seventeenth century, St. Peter's Island, Turras Hill, vanished island

The Augustinians

"No record was kept of all the years that passed after the coming of the Danesmen till the Archbishop of Armagh sent a band of canons regular of the rule of Augustine..."

Tags: Augustinians, Celtic revival, hills, literature, mountains, Saints Island, Shane Leslie, St. Patrick, twelfth century

The lough in the twelfth century

"On every side of the island lay the watery fields, winding themselves into inlets and across bays. Great sheets of water, unbroken save by a group of smaller islands that rode like ships that had run to seed and blossom in tropical seas, with the…

Tags: Augustinians, Celtic revival, daily life, Heather (Calluna vulgaris), landscape, literature, monasticism, mountains, Saints Island, Shane Leslie, St. Patrick, Station Island, twelfth century

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