Browse Items · Digital Derg: A Deep Map

Location: Station Island Basilica

Tags: Basilica, Catholic Church, Catholicism, commonly occurring location, Digital Derg Project, Geolocation, Hiberno-romanesque architecture, James L. Smith, key location, Lough Derg, night vigil, place names, Station Island

"When any Superstitious Place is defaced or demolished, they repair it"

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

Tags: Catholicism, eighteenth century, John Richardson, pilgrimage, Protestant critique, superstition

"Here where thy saints have trod"

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

Tags: Catholic Church, Catholicism, description, Irish identity, Irish Monthly, narrative, pilgrimage, purgatory, reflection, Station Island, suppression, timelessness

The Friary

"The Friary is a townland on Killymard ([Cill O mBárd]) side of Lough Eske. It was here the Friars settled when banished from Donegal and ministered to the spiritual wants of the neigh-bouring districts.

There is now no sign of a church or…

Tags: Catholicism, County Donegal, Folklore, friars, Lough Eske, Oral History, religion, suppression, The Friary

"An Excursion into the Fifth Century"

The opening paragraph's of Alice Curtayne's 1932 pamphlet about Lough Derg

Tags: 1930s, Alice Curtayne, Catholicism, Irish Free State, National Identity, pilgrimage, twentieth century

"The unbroken stillness of this consecrated spot, was exchanged to bustle, noise, and jarring, of a countless multitude"

Knox reflects on the recent Catholic activities on the land under his feet

Tags: Catholicism, James Spencer Knox, juxtaposition, nineteenth century, Protestant critique, Protestantism, sectarianism, temporality, Travelogue

"A miracle! - A miracle!"

Knox criticises the superstitious hysteria for miraculous cures

Tags: Catholicism, crowds, cure, devotional activities, James Spencer Knox, miracle, nineteenth century, pilgrimage, Protestant critique, Travelogue

"Multitudes of the lower classes of the native Irish"

On the crowds of pilgrims travelling to the site and their motivations

Tags: Catholicism, class, elitism, James Spencer Knox, nineteenth century, pilgrimage, Protestant critique, Protestantism, Travelogue

The demographics of Templecarn

"Templecarn contains 794 families, 1,987 males, 2,185 females, 1,728 Established Church, 2,568 Roman Catholic, 97 Presbyterians, 4,393 total..."

Tags: Catholicism, demographics, gender, Lieutenant W. Lancey, Methodism, ordnance survey, Parish of Templecarne, Protestantism, religion, Royal Irish Academy, Templecarne

"In going there they are answering the call for blood"

"Most pilgrims develop for this rocky island and its harsh routine an affection that really defies explanation..."

Tags: Alice Curtayne, blood, Catholicism, cultural memory, essentialism, ethnohistory, exile, familiarity, Irish identity, medievalism, nostalgia, pilgrimage, Station Island, timelessness, twentieth century

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