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The stones of Station Island

“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 "wine" of Station Island

"In all, the pilgrims remain on the island nine days—they eat but once in the twenty-four hours, of oatmeal and water—they have liberty to refresh themselves with the water of the lake..."

Tags: Caesar Otway, drinking, Henry Jones, nineteenth century, Protestant critique, second-hand accounts, seventeenth century, water, wine

"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

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

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..."

Destroying Station Island

"And therefore we do hereby order and resolve that Letters shall be dispatched from this board unto the Rev. Father of God the Lord Bishop of Clogher, Sir John Dundarre High Sheriff of the County of Donegal, Edward Archdale and Leonard Blennerhasset…

Tags: 1632, Clogher, demolition, destruction of built heritage, James Magrath, land acquisition, legislation, penitential beds, Privy Council, Protestant critique, Reformation, seventeenth century, Shane Leslie, St. Patrick, Station Island, stations, superstition, suppression

Fish stocks in the lake

"In this Lough is great plenty of fish such as trouts, eels and salmon as I am told. Trouts may be had by angling in abundance from March till winter and at the head of the river between Knocnacoyne and Leanaght might a good eel fishing be had in the…

Tags: angling, Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar), eels, fishing, river mouth, Salmon, seventeenth century, Shane Leslie, trout

Secrets of Templecarne Graveyard

A description of the graveyard and its relationship with the lake

Tags: cattle, devotional activities, James Spencer Knox, lake, mountains, Pettigo, pilgrim path, pilgrim road, Protestant critique, ruins, sanctity, seventeenth century, Shane Leslie, St. Patrick, Station Island, Templecarne Graveyard, Termon Magrath

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

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