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Unimpressed by Lough Derg

A dismal scene of the view to the lake on the walk from Pettigo, originally included in Caesar Otway's 'Sketches in Ireland'

Tags: bogland, Caesar Otway, disappointment, hills, landscape, medievalism, mountains, negative, Pettigo, pilgrimage, Protestant critique, St. Patrick, Station Island, The Gothic, William Carleton

Timeline: 1891

Tags: chronology, events, Margaret Gibbons, pilgrimage, St. Joseph, St. Patrick, statue, timeline

The tradition of the Purgatorial Myth

A critique of St. Patrick's Purgatory and Catholic pilgrimage in general.

Tags: eighteenth century, John Richardson, legend, Purgatorial cave, purgatory, Rome, St. Patrick, Station Island

“The island called St. Patrick's Purgatory is altogether rocky, and rather level : without the compass of the island, in the water towards the north east, about two yards from the shore stand certain rocks..."

Tags: barefoot, Caesar Otway, Henry Jones, lake, nineteenth century, Protestant critique, second-hand accounts, seventeenth century, St. Patrick, Station Island, stones

The snake of Lough Patrick and Lough Peter

"There are no holy wells in this district but there are two holy lakes called Lough Patrick and Lough Peter. These lakes are in the townland of Drumlougher and form the boundary between County Monaghan and County Armagh. St Patrick's stone is in a…

Tags: cattle, County Donegal, County Monaghan, cure, Drumlougher, Folklore, hills, Lough Patrick, Lough Peter, miracle, Oral History, pilgrimage, snake, St. Patrick

The salmon of Lough Derg

"There is one strange fact connected with this lake - no salmon come into it, though they come up to the very point where the River Derg escapes out of it…"

Tags: Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar), empiricism, fauna, fishing, Folklore, John O'Donovan, letters, nineteenth century, ordnance survey, River Derg, Salmon, scientism, St. Patrick

The origin of Lough Derg's name

"There are two different opinions to account for the meaning of the denomination, Lough Derg..."

Tags: Annals of the Four Masters, blood, bogland, colour, Daniel O'Connor, etymology, Fionn mac Cumhaill, Folklore, John O'Donovan, pilgrimage, place names, Royal Irish Academy, St. Patrick, water, wine

The Orange Order in Pettigo

A description of the context surrounding the formation of the Orange Order district lodge and its relationship to Lough Derg

Tags: 1795 disaster, eighteenth century, etymology, Fionn mac Cumhaill, monster, Orange Order, Pettigo, Protestant critique, Protestantism, sectarian violence, serpent, St. Patrick

The moveable purgatory

"Before we landed I ascertained from my cautious conductor that the present Purgatorial Island which we had just left, was not the one always resorted to, nor indeed the one that was consecrated by St. Patrick..."

Tags: ambiguity, Caesar Otway, location, nineteenth century, Protestant critique, purgatory, Saints Island, St. Patrick, Station Island

The lough in the twelfth century

"On every side of the island lay the watery fields, winding themselves into inlets and across bays. Great sheets of water, unbroken save by a group of smaller islands that rode like ships that had run to seed and blossom in tropical seas, with the…

Tags: Augustinians, Celtic revival, daily life, Heather (Calluna vulgaris), landscape, literature, monasticism, mountains, Saints Island, Shane Leslie, St. Patrick, Station Island, twelfth century

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