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"Briars encompass it so thickly, and with such aggressiveness, one cannot approach within five or six feet of the mound"

"In the middle of this desolation [on Saints' Island] is an enclosure thickly overgrown with briars, to which barriers of nettles almost prohibit entrance..."

Tags: 'Celtic' monasticism, Alice Curtayne, bramble, burial, graveyard, inaccessibility, monastery, monasticism, overgrown, Saints' Island, St. Dabheoc, tomb, twentieth century, weeds

"On prizing up a few loose stones, one exposes heaps of enormous bluebell bulbs, white and skull-like in shape"

The rampant flora overgrowing Saints' Island

"You will find instead only stumps, bumps, and conquering armies of weeds, cruel in their strength"

"Do not visit Saints' Island with expectation of finding carved stones, a clear ground plan of ancient buildings, or examples of early Christian masonry..."

Tags: Alice Curtayne, bramble, cultural memory, cultural trauma, destruction of built heritage, disappointment, inaccessibility, isolation, John O'Donovan, lichen, monasticism, negative description, nostalgia, overgrown, ruins, sadness, twentieth century, weeds

"Unconcernedly the Easter sunshine poured down on that scene of desertion and decay"

"The land [of Saints' Island] was cultivated at one time. The marks of the furrows were clearly to be seen at the early season of which I speak..."

Tags: agriculture, Alice Curtayne, building, decay, easter, fauna, flora, isolation, lichen, monastery, moss, overgrown, ruins, Saints Island, twentieth century, weeds

"A melancholy silence shrouded the scene"

"I remember a strange Easter Sunday spent on Saints' Island, not indeed with any hope of finding archaeological confirmation of its history, but simply in communing with the past..."

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"Briars encompass it so thickly, and with such aggressiveness, one cannot approach within five or six feet of the mound"

"On prizing up a few loose stones, one exposes heaps of enormous bluebell bulbs, white and skull-like in shape"

"You will find instead only stumps, bumps, and conquering armies of weeds, cruel in their strength"

"Unconcernedly the Easter sunshine poured down on that scene of desertion and decay"

"A melancholy silence shrouded the scene"