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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

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

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

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

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

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

"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..."

"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

"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

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