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The monk of Eymstadt

An account of the Dutch monk's visit to Lough Derg and his charges of usury.

Tags: archaeology, fifteenth century, Folklore, Heemstede, misconduct, monk, purgatory, suppression, William Pinkerton

The Province of Ulster

A detailed map of Ulster by William Petty, 1685

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

A Coloured Map of Great Britain and Ireland; Drawn on Vellum, in the period 1534-1546

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A map of the British Isles dating from the period 1534-46 and by an unknown draughtsman.

Tags: British Library, cartography, Ireland, islands, lake, Map, purgatory, sixteenth century, Ulster

Nautical Chart Of Western Europe, Ca. 1400-1425

This chart, from an atlas by an unknown chartmaker probably working in Venice, shows an awareness of most of the eastern and southern coastlines of the British Isles stemming from voyages of Venetian galleys to the area since 1300.

Tags: British Library, cartography, fifteenth century, Ireland, Map, purgatory

The miracle of the floating crosses

"Among all the prodigies and all the great miracles which happened at Loch Derg, it is told in particular in those latter times..."

Tags: Clan O'Donnell, cross, Hugh O'Donnell, lake, miracle, purgatory, Shane Leslie, sixteenth century, Station Island, Tirconnell, vision, water

"There is a pool or lake saith he in the parts of Ulster that invironeth an Island"

"I think it good to begin with St Patrick his Purgatory, partly because it is most notoriously known and partly the more that some writers as the author of Polychronicon and other, that were miscarried by him, seem to make a great doubt where they…

Tags: Gerald of Wales, Isle of Demons, lake, Polychronicon, Protestant critique, purgatory, Ranulph Higden, Raphael Holinshed, Shane Leslie, sixteenth century, St. Patrick, Station Island, superstition

A great thunder

"Now when I was shut in and had taken notice of the greatness of the Cave which I conceive to be about four cubits, I found the inner part thereof to turn and extend under me weak and shaking that it seemed as though it could not bear a man..."

Tags: miracle, pilgrimage, pilgrims, prison house, purgatory, Shane Leslie, supernatural, thunder

The sanctity of Lough Derg

"From Armagh it is almost one day's journey to a certain Island, which is slightly large called Mabeoch and beyond this Island to a small island in which is the Purgatory aforsaid..."

Tags: Augustinians, crime, lake, lake crossing, pilgrimage, purgatory, reliugious life, sanctity, Shane Leslie, Station Island

Lough Derg in the Seventeenth Century

"The Liffer largens near its source and forms a lake in which there is an Island with a little Convent, near which there is a grotto narrow enough and full of spectres horrible to the view..."

Tags: hydrology, lake, purgatory, seventeenth century, Shane Leslie, Station Island

"That's the Red Lake unless I mistake"

"Now it seems there's a place they call Purgat're, so I must write it, my verse not admitting the O. But as for the venue I vow I'm perplext To say it's in this world or if in the next, Or whether in both for 'tis very well known That St Patrick at…

Tags: description, doggerel, humour, lake, poetry, purgatory, Shane Leslie, Station Island, Thomas Ingoldsby

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