The boatmen describes the "wine" of Purgatory
Lough Derg--Vicinity--Purgatory--Travel guide
An account of the religious history of Lough Derg for the traveller.
J. B. Doyle
Tours in Ulster: A hand-book to the antiquities and scenery of the north of Ireland.
By J. B. Doyle. With numerous illustrations, chiefly from the author's sketch-book, pp. 364-66
Hodges and Smith, Dublin
1854
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Public domain
Handbook
English
Travel guide
DD_0484
54.609244,-7.871791
"I had long experienced extreme anxiety to visit"
Travelogues--James Spencer Knox--Lough Derg--Description
Knox describes the circumstances of his arrival
James Spencer Knox, 1789-1862
Pastoral Annals. By an Irish Clergyman [i.e. James S. Knox], p.
R. B. Seeley and W. Burnside, London
1840
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Public domain
Monograph
English
Travelogue
DD_0269
54.608913,-7.870977
Lough Derg in the rain
Literature--Twentieth Century--Sean O'Faolain--Lough Derg
Jenny and Bobby arrive at Lough Derg in the rain and are greeted by the sight of the lake and the pilgrims waiting to cross
Sean O'Faolain, 1900-1991
The Lovers of the Lake', in The Collected Stories of Sean O'Faolain, Vol. 2, pp. 18-43, here p. 23
Constable and Company, London
1981
Citation for the purposes of criticism
Edited edition
English
Collection of short stories
DD_0236
54.606912, -7.860865
John O'Donovan catches a cold
Lough Derg--Ordnance Survey--Description--John O'Donovan
"I visited the far famed terrestrial purgatory of Lough Derg, but received no benefit from my turas except a severe cold, which I attribute more to the wet mountain bogs that surround the lake, and to the chillyness (chilliness) of the wind than to any lack of devotion in myself..."
John O'Donovan, 1806-1861
Letter from John O'Donovan, Ballyshanny, 1st of November, 1835, p. 243-44, O’Donovan, John, Ordnance Survey Letters, Donegal: Letters Containing Information Relative to the Antiquities of the County of Donegal Collected during the Progress of the Ordnance Survey in 1835s, pp. 120-21
Four Masters Press, Dublin
1835 [2000]
Transcribed and edited by Michael Herity, MRIA
Citation for the purposes of criticism
Edited edition of letters
English with Irish text in Celtic script
Ordnance Survey Letters
DD_0172
54.6083, -7.8714
"The stones become doubly slippery and the whole slope acquires a slithery and greasy surface"
Lough Derg--Pilgrimage--Description--Alice Curtayne
"The stone circles [of the Penitential Beds] are small. When this sanctuary was demolished in the seventeenth century the despoilers left only the rude foundation stones protruding from the soil..."
Alice Curtayne, 1898-1981
Curtayne, Alice, Lough Derg: St. Patrick’s Purgatory, p. 170
Burns Oats and Washbourn, Ltd., London and Dublin
1944
Citation for the purposes of criticism
Monograph
English
History
DD_0148
54.608913,-7.870977
"Occasional freakish summer storms"
Lough Derg--Pilgrimage--Description--Alice Curtayne
"Occasional freakish summer storms are peculiar to Lough Derg. Pilgrims often alighting at the shore on a tranquil summer day are often surprised at the unexpected commotion of the deeps and the dark yeasty appearance of the water..."
Alice Curtayne, 1898-1981
Curtayne, Alice, Lough Derg: St. Patrick’s Purgatory, p. 141
Burns Oats and Washbourn, Ltd., London and Dublin
1944
Citation for the purposes of criticism
Monograph
English
History
DD_0138
54.606912, -7.860865