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View of Station Island with man in boat

View of Station Island from the shore near the ferry house with a man in a rowing boat in foreground

Tags: boating, Lawrence Collection, National Library of Ireland, nineteenth century, Photographs, Robert French, Station Island, vista, water, William Lawrence

View of Station Island with boats and Friars' Island

View from shore of the lake and Station Island in the distance with Friars' Island and boats

Tags: boating, Friars' Island, Lawrence Collection, National Library of Ireland, nineteenth century, Photographs, reflection, Robert French, Station Island, vista, water, William Lawrence

View of Station Island from east shore

View across lake from east including Friars' and Station Islands, including rock formations and shore

Tags: east shore, Friars' Island, islands, Lawrence Collection, National Library of Ireland, nineteenth century, Photographs, Robert French, Station Island, vista, William Lawrence

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: 1503

Tags: chronology, events, facilities, Margaret Gibbons, pilgrimage, reopening, Station Island, timeline, Vatican

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 Sanctuary, Station Island

Pilgrims waiting outside the Sanctuary on Station Island

Tags: Lawrence Collection, National Library of Ireland, nineteenth century, Photographs, pilgrims, Robert French, sanctuary, Station Island, William Lawrence, women's history

The sanctity of Lough Derg

"From Armagh it is almost one day's journey to a certain Island, which is slightly large called Mabeoch and beyond this Island to a small island in which is the Purgatory aforsaid..."

Tags: Augustinians, crime, lake, lake crossing, pilgrimage, purgatory, reliugious life, sanctity, Shane Leslie, Station Island

The purgatorial chapel

An account of the religious history of Lough Derg for the traveller.

Tags: chapel, J. B. Doyle, night vigil, pilgrimage, prayer, Station Island

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