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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

"He always looked for the most inaccessible place in every district"

"Think of [Saint Patrick] located somewhere near Templecarne for several months and thus surrounded. The lake would certainly invite him with its promise of refuge and sanctuary..."

Tags: Alice Curtayne, Catholicism, church, fifth century, hermitage, isolation, Parish of Templecarne, pilgrimage, purgatory, ruins, speculation, St. Patrick, Templecarne, Templecarne Graveyard, twentieth century

"On prizing up a few loose stones, one exposes heaps of enormous bluebell bulbs, white and skull-like in shape"

The rampant flora overgrowing Saints' Island

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..."

Tags: Alice Curtayne, Catholicism, eighteenth century, Franciscans, neglect, penal times, pilgrimage, Protestant critique, purgatory, ruin, secret worship, seventeenth century, Station Island, suppression, twentieth century

"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

"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

Sketches of greedy monks

Caesar Otway imagines the avaricious monks of Station Island in the Middle Ages

Tags: anticlericalism, Caesar Otway, Catholicism, contempt, imagination, nineteenth century, Protestant critique, satire, sketches

"Tradition, when jealously guarded and carefully handed down is a reliable source of information"

"With the destruction of the buildings in Lough Derg and the expulsion of the Franciscans in 1632, all the records of its glorious part were also destroyed..."

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

"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

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