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"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..."

"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

"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

A poetic description of the Dissolution of the Monasteries as a storm

"Then the great winter swept over the land, and, with the winter, the flail that scourged Ireland spared not Derg..."

Tags: Act of Parliament, Augustinians, Celtic revival, dissolution, mythology, Reformation, romance, Shane Leslie, St. Patrick

Antonio Mannini is rowed to the island

"The prior accompanied my as far as the water, and put me into the boat himself, first kissing me and giving me his blessing..."

Tags: Antonio Mannini, Augustinians, barefoot, boating, canon, crossing, fifteenth century, pilgrim crossing, prior, Shane Leslie, weather

Antonio Mannini prepares for his journey

Tags: Antonio Mannini, Augustinians, boating, fifteenth century, mountains, pilgrim crossing, pilgrimage, pilgrims, preparation, Shane Leslie

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

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

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

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

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