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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

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

Boating accidents on the lake

"Taking into account what angry storms sometimes sweep over the lake, lashing its waves into great fury, it is a merciful dispensation of Providence that more accidents have not occurred here..."

Tags: accidents, boating, Daniel O'Connor, disaster, storms

The 1795 disaster

"But the most lamentable catastrophe of all happened here in 1795 — a catastrophe which for many years cast a gloom over the place..."

Tags: 1795 disaster, accidents, boating, Daniel O'Connor, disaster, drowning, mountains, pilgrim crossing, pilgrimage

Otway muses on the metaphor of birds

"Having thus given the modern and ancient state of this purgatory, it is time to think of leaving it; and I confess I prepared to turn my back on this strong hold of superstition, without a desire ever again to visit it..."

Tags: birdlife, boating, Caesar Otway, crossing, greed, hills, nineteenth century, pilgrimage, profiteering, Protestant critique

The IRA evacuates from Pettigo

"A large-scale evacuation [of Pettigo] followed [the shelling] and the IRA men made their way to the hills to escape the bombardment..."

Tags: 1922, boating, Donegal Town, escape, evacuation, hills, IRA, Irish Civil War, mountains, Pettigo

Antonio Mannini prepares for his journey

Tags: Antonio Mannini, Augustinians, boating, fifteenth century, mountains, pilgrim crossing, pilgrimage, pilgrims, preparation, Shane Leslie

Antonio Mannini is rowed to the island

"The prior accompanied my as far as the water, and put me into the boat himself, first kissing me and giving me his blessing..."

Tags: Antonio Mannini, Augustinians, barefoot, boating, canon, crossing, fifteenth century, pilgrim crossing, prior, Shane Leslie, weather

The demon Corna

"When we were within half a bow-shot of the said island of the Purgatory I saw a bird blacker than coal take flight ; it had not a single plume or feather on its back..."

Tags: Augustinians, birdlife, boating, Corna, crossing, demons, miracle, pilgrim crossing, Shane Leslie, St. Patrick, Station Island, superstition, transformation

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