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Jenny crosses to Station Island

Jenny gets a sensory impression of the island as she approaches and encounters its contents and topography

Tags: barefoot, boating, building, impressions, literature, penitential beds, pilgrims crossing, Sean O'Faolain, short stories, Station Island, twentieth century, weather, wetness

Jenny struggles with her emotions

Jenny struggles with her sense of spirituality as she completes the circuits of the penitentian beds

Tags: anguish, bogland, colour, discomfort, embodied experience, emotion, light, literature, mud, penitential beds, pilgrimage, Sean O'Faolain, short stories, smell, stations, subjectivity, twentieth century, water, weather, wetness

John O'Donovan described the lake

"Ballyshanny. (Nov. 1, 1835.) I visited the far-famed terrestrial Purgatory of Lough-Derg but received no benefit from my tours except a severe cold, which I attribute more to the wet mountain bogs that surround the Lake..."

Tags: bogland, cold, hills, John O'Donovan, mountains, nineteenth century, ordnance survey, penitential beds, pilgrimage, Royal Irish Academy, Saints Island, Shane Leslie, Station Island, stations, weather

Location: Penitential Beds, Station Island

Tags: commonly occurring location, Digital Derg Project, Geolocation, James L. Smith, key location, Lough Derg, penitential beds, place names, stations

Location: Tree, Penitential Beds, Station Island

Tags: beehive cells, circuits, commonly occurring location, Digital Derg Project, Geolocation, James L. Smith, key location, Lough Derg, material traces, materiality, penitential beds, place names, ruins, stone

Penitential beds and view of lake

View of waters past Sanctuary and penitential beds

Tags: Lawrence Collection, National Library of Ireland, nineteenth century, penitential beds, Photographs, pilgrims, Robert French, Station Island, vista, water, water station, William Lawrence

The ancient pilgrimage

An account of Lough Derg from a late-nineteenth-century pilgrim.

Tags: austerity, deprivation, description, hardship, Irish Monthly, penitential beds, pilgrimage, pilgrims, purgatory, Station Island, stations

The penitential beds with lake in background

View of the penitential beds on Station Island with view of lake

Tags: Lawrence Collection, National Library of Ireland, nineteenth century, penitential beds, Photographs, pilgrim, Robert French, Station Island, water, William Lawrence

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