Browse Items (3 total) Browse All Browse by Tag Search Items Browse Map Tags: Croagh Patrick Sort by: Title Creator Date Added "St. Patrick most likely did visit the lake" An account of Lough Derg from a late-nineteenth-century pilgrim. Tags: ambiguity, authenticity, Croagh Patrick, description, Irish Monthly, pilgrimage, purgatory, St. Dabheoc, St. Patrick, Station Island How the demons came to Lough Derg "Some of the evil spirits settled on the Island of Swimmers to which they gave the name of demons. The demonaic island in truth is girded by an inland lake..." Tags: banishment, Croagh Patrick, demons, Folklore, Isle of Demons, Isle of Swimmers, myth, mythology, origin of purgatory, Shane Leslie, St. Dabheoc, St. Patrick, Station Island The Island of Swimmers "There is on the cliff of Cruachan looking out on the sea and the Western sun a very deep cave exhaling icy blasts all the time..." Tags: banishment, Croagh Patrick, demons, Folklore, Isle of Demons, Isle of Swimmers, myth, mythology, origin of purgatory, Shane Leslie, St. Patrick Output Formats atom, csv, dc-rdf, dcmes-xml, json, omeka-xml, rss2