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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

Hybernia Nunc Irlant

A map of Ireland including the prominent location of The Purgatory of Saint Patrick.

Tags: Bibliothèque nationale de France, cartography, Ireland, Map, pilgrimage, sixteenth century, St. Patrick, Ulster

Interrogating the curse of St. Patrick

"…The story is told that in ancient times Lough Derg abounded in salmon and salmon-trout, just the same as its next neighbour, Lough Erne..."

Tags: Arctic Char (Salvelinus alpinus), Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar), Daniel O'Connor, eels, fishing, Folklore, John O'Donovan, mountains, Salmon, scientism, St. Patrick, trout, wildlife

Knight Owen crosses to Saints Island

“When [Owen] had sufficiently recovered his strength he vowed to remain as a religious on Saint's Island for the rest of his life..."

Tags: causeway, Celtic revival, Knight Owen, miracle, Saints Island, Shane Leslie, St. Patrick, vision

Lough Derg in the rain

Jenny and Bobby arrive at Lough Derg in the rain and are greeted by the sight of the lake and the pilgrims waiting to cross

Tags: boating, cattle, doubt, impressions, Irish identity, literature, negative description, pilgrim crossing, rain, Sean O'Faolain, short stories, St. Patrick, twentieth century, weather

Pilgrims being transported to Station Island on Lough Derg

Pilgrims getting rowed to Station Island on Lough Derg, County Donegal, Ireland

Tags: etching, lake crossing, photography, pilgrimage, St. Patrick, Station Island

Saints Island on Lough Derg

Landscape etching of Saints Island on Lough Derg, County Donegal, Ireland

Tags: boating, etching, landscape, pilgrimage, Saints Island, St. Patrick

Secrets of Templecarne Graveyard

A description of the graveyard and its relationship with the lake

Tags: cattle, devotional activities, James Spencer Knox, lake, mountains, Pettigo, pilgrim path, pilgrim road, Protestant critique, ruins, sanctity, seventeenth century, Shane Leslie, St. Patrick, Station Island, Templecarne Graveyard, Termon Magrath

"About eight miles from the Four Masters’ School in Byrne’s mountain on the old foot-road across Croney to Lough Derg is a Holy Well called [Sliab Dub ?]. ( ½ ml. from the Donegal-Tyrone border)

Local tradition says that as Saint Patrick was going…

Tags: Annals of the Four Masters, Folklore, headache, healing, holy well, mountains, offering, pilgrim road, sore joints, St. Patrick, toothache

St. Patrick's well at Tullaghan

"St. Patrick’s Well at Tullaghan has a legend. St Patrick stopped the night in a house near a mountain. The woman told him not to look at the light on the mountain, but he went up and saw a serpent and when he struck it, St. Patrick’s Well sprang up.…

Tags: blood, Bundoran, County Donegal, etymology, Folklore, holy well, mountains, St. Patrick, Tullaghan

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