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  • Tags: Saints' Island

Marked on the 2nd edition of the OS 6-inch map as a 'church in ruins', there is now no trace of the church above ground. In the surrounding graveyard (DG105-003003-), there are several grass-grown mounds. O'Connor (1879, 17) says that the church was…

"This shews that Saints island is the one on which the monastery, because the present station does not contain 10 acres. There is however a mistake in the phrase 'in media lacus' for Saints island is very near the land…"

The entry for Lough Derg in an 1842 Irish gazetteer

A description of Lough Derg and its Pilgrimage in the American Donahoe's Magazine
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