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The Sanctuary, Station Island

Pilgrims waiting outside the Sanctuary on Station Island

Tags: Lawrence Collection, National Library of Ireland, nineteenth century, Photographs, pilgrims, Robert French, sanctuary, Station Island, William Lawrence, women's history

The Landing, Station Island

The boats and pilgrims at the landing on Station Island

Tags: boating, landing, Lawrence Collection, National Library of Ireland, nineteenth century, Photographs, pilgrims, Robert French, Station Island, William Lawrence

The journey of five women returning to Ireland in 1922

"The adventure of a group of five women pilgrims [in 1922] were typical of the times."

Tags: 1922, Alice Curtayne, Castlederg, civil war, County Fermanagh, County Tyrone, disruption, Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, Pettigo, pilgrimage, pilgrims, train, twentieth century, Victoria Bridge, women's history

"Pettigo. (July 23, 1824). A country road leads in this direction a mile: after leaving which we passed over the mountains following a path, which the number of devotees who visit the Island, had marked too distinctly to be mistaken..."

Tags: aesthetics, crowds, heath, mountains, negative, negative description, nineteenth century, Pettigo, pilgrim path, pilgrim road, pilgrimage, pilgrims, Shane Leslie, view, vista, weather

The ancient pilgrimage

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

Tags: austerity, deprivation, description, hardship, Irish Monthly, penitential beds, pilgrimage, pilgrims, purgatory, Station Island, stations

Station Island, View from Ferry House

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

Tags: ferry house, J. B. Doyle, nineteenth century, pilgrims, sketch, Station Island, vista, water

Pilgrims at the water station

Tags: immersion, Lawrence Collection, National Library of Ireland, nineteenth century, Photographs, pilgrims, Robert French, Station Island, water, water station, William Lawrence

Pilgrims arriving at Lough Derg

Pilgrims arriving at the Ferry House, Lough Derg

Tags: ferry house, Lawrence Collection, National Library of Ireland, nineteenth century, Photographs, pilgrims, Robert French, Station Island, transportation, 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

Burials on Friars' Island, in Templecarne, and further away

"About twenty of the victims were buried on Friars' Island, where fir-trees on a mound show their grave to-day..."

Tags: 1795 disaster, Alice Curtayne, burial, Connacht, drowning, Friars' Island, graveyard, mountains, pilgrim crossing, pilgrims, poverty, Station Island, Templecarne Graveyard, twentieth century

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