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Portuguese portolan chart of Ireland

A portolan chart of Europe by Grazioso Benincasa, showing the Aegean

Tags: British Library, cartography, fifteenth century, Grazioso Benincasa, islands, purgatory

Location: Station Island, Lough Derg

Tags: commonly occurring location, Digital Derg Project, Geolocation, James L. Smith, key location, Lough Derg, place names, purgatory, sanctuary, Station Island, Station Island Townland

Ultonia ; Hibernis Cui-Guilly ; Anglis Ulster

A topographically-detailed seventeenth-century map of UIster by Joan Blaeu, 1654

Tags: Bibliothèque nationale de France, cartography, Ireland, politics, purgatory, seventeenth century, Ulster

Purgatory at Inis Cealtra

A nineteenth century translation of a German travelogue in Ireland.

Tags: dispute, Inis Cealtra, Lough Derg on the Shannon, purgatory

Provincia Ultoniae. The Province of Ulster

A map of the province of Ulster from 1646-1649

Tags: Bibliothèque nationale de France, cartography, Ireland, purgatory, seventeenth century, Ulster

Map of Ulster with "Escheated" Counties, 1609

Norden_Cotton Augustus I.ii f.44_Inset.PNG

This is a map of the six "escheated" counties of Ulster.

Tags: British Library, colonialism, John Norden, Map, plantation, politics, purgatory, seventeenth century, Ulster

"This shews that Saints island is the one on which the monastery, because the present station does not contain 10 acres. There is however a mistake in the phrase 'in media lacus' for Saints island is very near the land…"

Tags: etymology, John O'Donovan, Latin, letters, movement of Purgatory, nineteenth century, ordnance survey, origin of purgatory, purgatory, Saints' Island, Station Island

Gazetteer description of the pilgrim crossing

The entry for Lough Derg in an 1842 Irish gazetteer

Tags: austerity, gazetteer, John Parker Lawson, pilgrimage, purgatory, wine

The excavations of Ludovicus Pyrrhus

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

Tags: archaeology, Brittany, Caoranach, eighteenth century, excavation, investigation, John Richardson, Ludovicus Pyrrhus, purgatory

The tradition of the Purgatorial Myth