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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

Saint Bridget's Chair

Caption: "Saint Bridget's Chair stands close to the water's edge, and which, it is said, whoever once sits, is ever after preserved from accident and sudden death."

Tags: accidents, Bridget's Chair, Philip Dixon Hardy, pilgrimage, prayer, shoreline, Station Island

Full immersion at the water station

"After quitting the prison, and before leaving the island, it was formerly the practice to go into the water, and, being stark naked, wash their whole bodies, and more particularly the head, to signify that they were entirely cleansed from their…

Tags: baptism, cleansing, discontinued practices, immersion, Philip Dixon Hardy, pilgrimage, Station Island, swimming, water station

The business of ferrying pilgrims to Station Island

"It is almost incredible what crowds visit this island annually, during the months of June, July, and August—it being no unusual thing to see from 900 to 1000 persons of both sexes upon it at one and the same time..."

Tags: boating, commercialism, crossing, crowds, infrastructure, international visitors, overcrowding, Philip Dixon Hardy, pilgrimage, Protestant critique, satire, Station Island

The ferry to Lough Derg

Frontispiece etching of the waiting pilgrims and ferry boats to Station Island from the south shore of Lough Derg

Tags: boating, crossing, crowds, ferry, landscape, pilgrimage, Station Island

An early description of the stations of Station Island

"An early writer describing the place, says — 'As soon as the pilgrims come within sight of the holy island, they pull off their shoes and stockings, and uncover their heads, and walk thus with their beads in one hand, and sometimes a cross in the…

Tags: prayer, second-hand accounts, St. Patrick, Station Island, stations, water, water station

Drinking the "wine" of Lough Derg

“‘I was considerably surprised when, upon my remarking, that with only one meal of bread and water in twenty four-hours, the pilgrims must become faint, the women with whom I was speaking, said, “Oh, no! the wine revives us, and gives us…

Tags: cauldron, drinking, nutrition, second-hand accounts, Station Island, stations, water, wine

A story of Ugolino's death on Station Island

"Upon an ill day was sin done on the island of the cave itself, and was long remembered as the beginning of many sorrows to Derg..."

Tags: blood, Celtic revival, murder, pilgrimage, Rome, Shane Leslie, St. Patrick, Station Island, storytelling, twelfth century, Ugolino

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

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

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