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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

"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 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

"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

"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

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

"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..."

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

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