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"The pilgrims throng the shore opposite to the island"

Knox describes the practices of the pilgrimage as he has heard them

Tags: crowds, ferry house, James Spencer Knox, nineteenth century, pilgrim crossing, Protestant critique, Travelogue

"I at length reached the goal of my long-nourished desire"

Knox describes the scene of crowds waiting to cross to Station Island

Tags: boating, crowds, James Spencer Knox, nineteenth century, pilgrim crossing, Protestant critique, Travelogue

"All was as still as death"

Knox describes the deserted scene on Station Island

Tags: emptiness, isolation, James Spencer Knox, landing, nineteenth century, pilgrim crossing, pilgrims, Protestant critique, Travelogue, women's history

Saints Island Quay Archaeological Survey

It is traditionally believed that a monastic settlement was founded here in the fifth century by St. Patrick who installed Dabheoc as the first abbot. There are forty-six islands in Lough Derg but only two of them are of archaeological interest. The…

Tags: Archaeological survey, boating, dryness, medieval, monasticism, pilgrim crossing, quay, Saints' Island, Saints' Island townland

Timeline: 1829

Tags: boating, boatmen, chronology, Clogher, closure, corruption, events, Margaret Gibbons, pilgrim crossing, pilgrimage, profiteering, timeline

"The Profit of a Ferry-Boat for wafting the Pilgrims over the Lake"

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

Tags: Armagh, Augustinians, boating, eighteenth century, islands, John Richardson, pilgrim crossing, profiteering, Saints' Island, St. Dabheoc, Station Island

Raymond de Perilleux and Lough Derg

A history of Lough Derg and its Antiquities. This extract comes from an 1836 story in the Dublin Penny Journal Count Raymond de Perilleaux's 1397 journey to the Purgatory.

Tags: aesthetics, beech, commentary, fiction, fourteenth century, James Stephens, murder, nineteenth century, oak, penny journal, pilgrim crossing, Raymond de Pereilleux, revenge, romance, Ugolino, vista