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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

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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

A 1603 description of Lough Derg

"An inquisition taken at Donegal in the 1st year of [James I in 1603] may throw some light upon the time of this removal: In the parts of Ulster near the territory calle O'Donnell's Countrie, are the walls and monuments of a certain Monastery or…

Tags: abandonment, description, destruction of built heritage, dissolution, John O'Donovan, letters, neglect, nineteenth century, ordnance survey, ruin, seventeenth century, Station Island, suppression

The invasions of England and Ireland performed by John Speed, graven by Renold Elstrak

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A seventeenth-century political map of Ireland from 1603-1625 capturing Lough Derg and Purgatory

Tags: Bibliothèque nationale de France, cartography, Ireland, John Speed, Map, military, politics, seventeenth century, Ulster

The Invasions of England and Ireland with al their civil ware since the conquest

A map of the topography and military activity in Ireland

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

From Magrath to Leslie

"The Monastery of Lough Derg, like most other Irish monasteries, was endowed with extensive lands at an early date by neighbouring chieftains..."

Tags: Clogher, confiscation, fifteenth century, Leslie family, Magrath family, Margaret Gibbons, monastery, ownership, patronage, seventeenth century, Termon Magrath

"The pilgrimage was again resumed"

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

Tags: description, destruction of built heritage, English Parliament, Irish Monthly, pilgrimage, purgatory, seventeenth century, Station Island, suppression

St Peter's Island and St Peter's Well

"St. Peter's Island and St. Peter's well are situated about a half a mile due North of the village of Mountcharles. They are in the townland of Turras Hill. The little Island is in the centre of the lake, but since the erection of the waterworks in…

Tags: Augustinians, Catholicism, exile, Folklore, hills, holy well, island, lake, Mountcharles, seventeenth century, St. Peter's Island, Turras Hill, vanished island

"He who bathes, no Stygian flood need fear."

"Spirituum hic thermae, his Lethaea piacula : qui se Balneat hic, Stygii non timer amnis aquas / Here souls may bathe : Lethe's atonements here : And he who bathes, no Stygian flood need fear."

Tags: bathing, Latin, Petrus Cadellus, seventeenth century, Shane Leslie, water, water station

"The fame of that place has been so scattered through European parts that it seems to go on wings"

"It is more certain than certainty that in the northern shore of Ireland a place horrible by its terrors was found by him and is generally called St Patrick's Purgatory. The fame of that place has been so scattered through European parts that it…

Tags: Europe, fame, miracle, reputation, seventeenth century, Shane Leslie, Thyraeus

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