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The March of the Dead Maguires

An account of Lough Derg folklore on a fishing trip, explaining the strange circular currents of the lake in supernatural terms

Tags: fishing, Folklore, ghosts, Henry Newland, lake, Maguire family, memoir, mythology, nineteenth century, seventeenth century, Station Island, supernatural, water, weather

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

The seizure of Purgatory

"(June 8, 1632) Right Honorable. I have received a copy of a letter sent by my lord Balfour, directed to his Lordship, myself and others for seizing until his Majesty's use St Patrick's Purgatory..."

“The island called St. Patrick's Purgatory is altogether rocky, and rather level : without the compass of the island, in the water towards the north east, about two yards from the shore stand certain rocks..."

Tags: barefoot, Caesar Otway, Henry Jones, lake, nineteenth century, Protestant critique, second-hand accounts, seventeenth century, St. Patrick, Station Island, stones

The suppression of the pilgrimage

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

Tags: barefoot, destruction of built heritage, English Parliament, J. B. Doyle, nineteenth century, seventeenth century, suppression

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

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The March of the Dead Maguires

The Province of Ulster

The seizure of Purgatory

The stones of Station Island

The suppression of the pilgrimage

Ultonia ; Hibernis Cui-Guilly ; Anglis Ulster