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

"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 Lough Derg from a late-nineteenth-century pilgrim.

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