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Hybernia Nunc Irlant

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

Tags: Bibliothèque nationale de France, cartography, Ireland, Map, pilgrimage, sixteenth century, St. Patrick, 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

"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

The miracle of the floating crosses

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

Tags: Clan O'Donnell, cross, Hugh O'Donnell, lake, miracle, purgatory, Shane Leslie, sixteenth century, Station Island, Tirconnell, vision, water

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

ANGLIAE, SCOTIAE & HIBERNIAE NOVA DESCRIPTIO

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This map of the British Isles is by Gerard De Jode

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

Map of the British Isles f. D1v

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

Tags: cartography, engraving, Ireland, islands, Map, Pietro Coppo, purgatory, sixteenth century, woodcut

Preface to Laurent Vital's visit to Kinsale in Ireland

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

Tags: County Cork, Kinsale, pilgrimage, rumours, sixteenth century

Laurent Vital learns of Purgatory in Kinsale

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

Tags: conversation, County Cork, Kinsale, pilgrimage, rumours, sixteenth century

Laurent Vital hears of a pilgrimage to Donegal

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

Tags: County Cork, Kinsale, pilgrimage, rumours, sixteenth century

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