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Destroying Station Island

"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…

Tags: 1632, Clogher, demolition, destruction of built heritage, James Magrath, land acquisition, legislation, penitential beds, Privy Council, Protestant critique, Reformation, seventeenth century, Shane Leslie, St. Patrick, Station Island, stations, superstition, suppression

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

"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

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 completes the stations

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

Tags: embodied experience, emotion, literature, penitential beds, physical discomfort, place, repetition, Sean O'Faolain, setting, short stories, stations, twentieth century, water

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

"Women and men in bare feet turn again"

The poetry of Patrick Kavanagh's 'Lough Derg', detailing a visit in 1941

Tags: discomfort, embodied experience, Patrick Kavanagh, penitential beds, pilgrimage, poetry, poverty, salvation, twentieth century

"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

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