Hybernia Nunc Irlant
Map--Sixteenth century--Ireland--Purgatory
A map of Ireland including the prominent location of The Purgatory of Saint Patrick.
Lafréri, Antoine (1512-1577)
Bibliothèque nationale de France, département Cartes et plans, CPL GE DD-2987 (2612)
1500-99 (est. 1550-60)
Tooley, "Maps in Italian Atlases of the Sixteenth Century", in Imago Mundi, 3, 1939, p. 34, [318]
Public Domain
https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb40618265s; https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb40618264f
34 x 25 cm
Latin
Manuscript map
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Pilgrims being transported to Station Island on Lough Derg
Lough Derg--Station Island--Pilgrimage--Boating--Transportation
Pilgrims getting rowed to Station Island on Lough Derg, County Donegal, Ireland
William Frederick Wakeman (1822-1900)
Scanned from D. Canon O'Connor: St. Patrick's Purgatory, Lough Derg, James Duffy and Co., Dublin 1903, plate facing p. 208
James Duffy and Co., Dublin
Etching: during the life of W.F. Wakeman
Wikimedia commons
Public domain
Print book
English
Pilgrimage
Still Image
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Saints Island on Lough Derg
Lough Derg--Saints Island--Landscape depiction--Etching
Landscape etching of Saints Island on Lough Derg, County Donegal, Ireland
William Frederick Wakeman (1822-1900)
Scanned from D. Canon O'Connor: St. Patrick's Purgatory, Lough Derg, James Duffy and Co., Dublin 1903, plate facing p. 141.
James Duffy and Co., Dublin
Etching: during the life of W.F. Wakeman
Wikimedia commons
Public domain
Print book
English
Pilgrimage
Still Image
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54.6153, -7.8864
Rathnacross Fairy Fort
Lough Derg--Folklore--Fairy Fort--Rathnacross
"There is a circular fence of earth on top of a hill in the school district. It is known as Rathnacross and is situated in the townland of Drumawark.
There is a hole in the middle of it where a Celtic cross stood but it is broken now and the remains of it are in Carne graveyard. The cross was a land-mark on the way to Lough Derg and it was also a mark of the boundary of the Terman lands which once belonged to the monks who lived on the island of Lough Day.
Some men have dug up some clay in the centre of the circle and have found blackened flag stones where beacon fires had been lit. These fires were also used as a land mark.
All the people travelled on foot to Lough Derg at that time and used an old road which passes Rathnacross.
The fairy-people were supposed to live in this rath and it was said that if a person spoke to them he would be taken away on a white horse and never be let down off him."
Ernest Crawford
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1030, Page 341
National Folklore Collection, UCD
1937-39
duchas.ie, hosting and crowd-sourced transcription
CC BY-NC 4.0 International License
Transcribed text and digitised manuscript
English
Oral history, folklore
Oral History
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The Rathnacross to Saints Island pilgrim road
Lough Derg--Pilgrim road--Rathnacross--Saints Island
A description of the pilgrim road from Rathnacross to Saints Island.
Peter Harbison
Harbison, Peter, Pilgrimage in Ireland: The Monuments and the People, p. 58
Syracuse University Press
1995
Citation for the purposes of criticism
Academic monograph
English
History
Text
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54.581320,-7.814409
Saint Bridget's Chair
Holy Wells--Travelogues--Philip Dixon Hardy--Etching
Caption: "Saint Bridget's Chair stands close to the water's edge, and which, it is said, whoever once sits, is ever after preserved from accident and sudden death."
Engraved for Philip Dixon Hardy, 1794-1875
Hardy, Philip Dixon, The Holy Wells of Ireland : Containing an Authentic Account of Those Various Places of Pilgrimage and Penance Which Are Still Annually Visited by Thousands of the Roman Catholic Peasantry. With a Minute Description of the Patterns and Stations Periodically Held in Various Districts of Ireland.
Hardy & Walker, Dublin
1840
Digitised by archive.org, sponsored by Boston Public Library
Public domain
Monograph
English
Holy wells
Text
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54.600466, -7.863156
Full immersion at the water station
Lough Derg--Station Island--Pilgrimage--Immersion
"After quitting the prison, and before leaving the island, it was formerly the practice to go into the water, and, being stark naked, wash their whole bodies, and more particularly the head, to signify that they were entirely cleansed from their sins..."
Philip Dixon Hardy, 1794-1875
Hardy, Philip Dixon, The Holy Wells of Ireland : Containing an Authentic Account of Those Various Places of Pilgrimage and Penance Which Are Still Annually Visited by Thousands of the Roman Catholic Peasantry. With a Minute Description of the Patterns and Stations Periodically Held in Various Districts of Ireland, p. 7
Hardy & Walker, Dublin
1840
Digitised by archive.org, sponsored by Boston Public Library
Public domain
Monograph
English
Holy wells
Text
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The business of ferrying pilgrims to Station Island
Lough Derg--Station Island--Pilgrimage--Criticism
"It is almost incredible what crowds visit this island annually, during the months of June, July, and August—it being no unusual thing to see from 900 to 1000 persons of both sexes upon it at one and the same time..."
Philip Dixon Hardy, 1794-1875
Hardy, Philip Dixon, The Holy Wells of Ireland : Containing an Authentic Account of Those Various Places of Pilgrimage and Penance Which Are Still Annually Visited by Thousands of the Roman Catholic Peasantry. With a Minute Description of the Patterns and Stations Periodically Held in Various Districts of Ireland, pp. 6-7
Hardy & Walker, Dublin
1840
Digitised by archive.org, sponsored by Boston Public Library
Public domain
Monograph
English
Holy wells
Text
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54.606912, -7.860865
The ferry to Lough Derg
Lough Derg--Pilgrimage--Ferry--Etching
Frontispiece etching of the waiting pilgrims and ferry boats to Station Island from the south shore of Lough Derg
Engraved for Philip Dixon Hardy, 1794-1875
Hardy, Philip Dixon, The Holy Wells of Ireland : Containing an Authentic Account of Those Various Places of Pilgrimage and Penance Which Are Still Annually Visited by Thousands of the Roman Catholic Peasantry. With a Minute Description of the Patterns and Stations Periodically Held in Various Districts of Ireland, frontispiece
Hardy & Walker, Dublin
1840
Digitised by archive.org, sponsored by Boston Public Library
Public domain
Monograph
English
Holy wells
Still Image
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54.606912, -7.860865
A scriptural account of immersion in Lough Derg
Lough Derg--Pilgrimage--Liturgy--Baptism
"'As soon as we leave the grave or vault, we immediately plunge ourselves into the water, washing our heads and bodies to signify that we are washed and cleansed from the filth of sin, and have broke the dragon’s head in the waters..."
An anonymous correspondent ("B. D.") of Philip Dixon Hardy, 1794-1875
Hardy, Philip Dixon, The Holy Wells of Ireland : Containing an Authentic Account of Those Various Places of Pilgrimage and Penance Which Are Still Annually Visited by Thousands of the Roman Catholic Peasantry. With a Minute Description of the Patterns and Stations Periodically Held in Various Districts of Ireland, p. 13
Hardy & Walker, Dublin
1840
Digitised by archive.org, sponsored by Boston Public Library
Public domain
Monograph
English
Holy wells
Text
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54.609062, -7.871015