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The ugly terrain of Lough Derg
An account of the religious history of Lough Derg for the traveller.
The impression of Lough Derg on Jenny and Bobby
Jenny discusses her expectations of the place compared to the reality and hopes that it will not be too commercialized, like Lourdes
The general appearance of Templecarn
"The general appearance of Templecarn as an agricultural district is wild and unpromising..."
The approach to the lake
"Pettigo. (July 23, 1824). A country road leads in this direction a mile: after leaving which we passed over the mountains following a path, which the number of devotees who visit the Island, had marked too distinctly to be mistaken..."
The appearance of Lough Derg
"Lough Derg is a large sheet of water surrounded by black bogs relieved only by few detached cabins and patches of cultivation and its groups of islands..."
Templecarn is a "barren subject"
"The author of the following brief sketch, on first receiving a copy of the statistical queries, was for a considerable time in doubt whether to forward any answer to the inquiries proposed..."
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
John O'Donovan catches a cold
"I visited the far famed terrestrial purgatory of Lough Derg, but received no benefit from my turas except a severe cold, which I attribute more to the wet mountain bogs that surround the lake, and to the chillyness (chilliness) of the wind than to…
Feijoo's critique of Purgatory
An account of Lough Derg from a late-nineteenth-century pilgrim.
Bobby expresses his confusion
Bobby expresses his confusion at the extravagant embodied devotion and extreme austerity of the pilgrimage to Lough Derg and that it exposes a side of Jenny that he has never seen before.