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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

Ramón de Perellós sets off for Saint Patrick's Purgatory

A famous account of a 1398 visit by Viscount Ramon de Perellós to Saint Patrick's Purgatory

Tags: Avignon, fourteenth century, itinerary, pilgrimage, purgatory, Ramon De Perellós, Travelogue

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

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

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

Map of Ulster with "Escheated" Counties, 1609

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

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

Map of the British Isles f. D1v

This is a map of the British Isles. It is a wood cut and is by the Venetian Pietro Coppo.

Tags: cartography, engraving, Ireland, islands, Map, Pietro Coppo, purgatory, sixteenth century, woodcut

Lough Erne, "The Windermere of Ireland"

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

Tags: approach, description, district, Irish Monthly, Lough Erne, pilgrimage, purgatory, road, 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

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