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

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

"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..."

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

"And therefore we do hereby order and resolve that Letters shall be dispatched from this board unto the Rev. Father of God the Lord Bishop of Clogher, Sir John Dundarre High Sheriff of the County of Donegal, Edward Archdale and Leonard Blennerhasset…

As Jenny completes the stations at the penitential beds, she reflects on the power of repetition and prayer and feels the elements
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