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"The stones become doubly slippery and the whole slope acquires a slithery and greasy surface"

"The stone circles [of the Penitential Beds] are small. When this sanctuary was demolished in the seventeenth century the despoilers left only the rude foundation stones protruding from the soil..."

Tags: Alice Curtayne, outcrops, penitential beds, pilgrimage, pilgrims, rain, rocks, slippery, Station Island, stations, stones, twentieth century, weather

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

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

An account of the stations

An account of the religious history of Lough Derg for the traveller.

Tags: description, J. B. Doyle, landing, nineteenth century, penitential beds, pilgrimage, prior, stations

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

"I had long experienced extreme anxiety to visit"

Knox describes the circumstances of his arrival

Tags: James Spencer Knox, nineteenth century, penitential beds, pilgrimage, Protestant critique, rain, Station Island, Travelogue, weather

"An incredible quantity of rags"

Knox describes the scattered bloodied rags showing traces of the bodily rigours of the pilgrimage

Tags: austerity, embodied experience, injury, James Spencer Knox, nineteenth century, penitential beds, Protestant critique, rags, Travelogue

"Every Body knows how excessively the Irish are addicted to Pilgrimage"

A critique of St. Patrick's Purgatory and Catholic pilgrimage in general.

Tags: eighteenth century, John Richardson, penitential beds, pilgrimage, Protestant critique, Station Island

Clogh-oir, the golden stone

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

Tags: Clogher, description, golden stone, Irish Monthly, penitential beds, pilgrimage, purgatory, St. Patrick's bed, Station Island

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