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"Full of robbers and rascals"

An sixteenth-century letter describing a trip to Lough Derg

Tags: Francesco Chiericati, Isabella d'Este Gonzaga, itinerary, pilgrimage, purgatory, sixteenth century, Travelogue

"Innumerable different visions appear to them"

An sixteenth-century letter describing a trip to Lough Derg

Tags: Francesco Chiericati, Isabella d'Este Gonzaga, itinerary, pilgrimage, purgatory, sixteenth century, Travelogue

"Salt fish, hides, cattle, and Irish hobby-horses"

An sixteenth-century letter describing a trip to Lough Derg

Tags: Francesco Chiericati, Isabella d'Este Gonzaga, itinerary, pilgrimage, purgatory, sixteenth century, Travelogue

"There is a pool or lake saith he in the parts of Ulster that invironeth an Island"

"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…

Tags: Gerald of Wales, Isle of Demons, lake, Polychronicon, Protestant critique, purgatory, Ranulph Higden, Raphael Holinshed, Shane Leslie, sixteenth century, St. Patrick, Station Island, superstition

"They conveyed us across to the rock one by one"

An sixteenth-century letter describing a trip to Lough Derg

Tags: Francesco Chiericati, Isabella d'Este Gonzaga, itinerary, pilgrimage, purgatory, sixteenth century, Travelogue

"This place I could not see, because I was unwilling to look into it"

An sixteenth-century letter describing a trip to Lough Derg

Tags: Francesco Chiericati, Isabella d'Este Gonzaga, itinerary, pilgrimage, purgatory, sixteenth century, Travelogue

"We passed over level ground through country pleasing enough to the eye"

An sixteenth-century letter describing a trip to Lough Derg

Tags: Clogher, Francesco Chiericati, Isabella d'Este Gonzaga, itinerary, pilgrimage, purgatory, sixteenth century, Travelogue

A Coloured Map of Great Britain and Ireland; Drawn on Vellum, in the period 1534-1546

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

Tags: British Library, cartography, Ireland, islands, lake, Map, purgatory, sixteenth century, Ulster

A visit in the reign of Henry VIII

"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…

Tags: baptism, Celtic revival, Clogher, English visitors, famous visitors, immersion, mythology, pilgrims, romance, Shane Leslie, sixteenth century, St. Patrick, water

ANGLIAE, SCOTIAE & HIBERNIAE NOVA DESCRIPTIO

This map of the British Isles is by Gerard De Jode

Tags: cartography, engraving, Gerard de Jode, Map, purgatory, sixteenth century, Ulster

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