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A sixteenth-century account by Laurent Vital of information gathered during the visit of Archduke Ferdinand to Kinsale

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

This map of the British Isles is by Gerard De Jode

A map of the British Isles dating from the period 1534-46 and by an unknown draughtsman.

"Among all the prodigies and all the great miracles which happened at Loch Derg, it is told in particular in those latter times..."

"I think it good to begin with St Patrick his Purgatory, partly because it is most notoriously known and partly the more that some writers as the author of Polychronicon and other, that were miscarried by him, seem to make a great doubt where they…

"The record of many others who followed the same perilous quest survives. The Sire de Beaujeu, Louis de Sue, Louis of France, Malatesta of Hungary, and, not least, there came in the reign of King Henry VIII. the Cardinal Legate to England, who made a…

A map of Ireland including the prominent location of The Purgatory of Saint Patrick.