"All around it is the glint and stir of water"
Lough Derg--Pilgrimage--Description--Alice Curtayne
"Many pilgrims surveying the crowds during the night vigil promise themselves that, on their following night of freedom, they will look down from their cubicle windows at the fascination of the scene, when the people emerge and group themselves in the loggias..."
Alice Curtayne, 1898-1981
Curtayne, Alice, Lough Derg: St. Patrick’s Purgatory, p. 176
Burns Oats and Washbourn, Ltd., London and Dublin
1944
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"A mountain-locked lake that is just as secluded to-day as when Saint Patrick was attracted to its solitude"
Lough Derg--Pilgrimage--Description--Alice Curtayne
A description of the timeless nature of Lough Derg, a window into the early days of Irish Christianity
Alice Curtayne, 1898-1981
Curtayne, Alice, Lough Derg: St. Patrick’s Purgatory, p. 167
Burns Oats and Washbourn, Ltd., London and Dublin
1944
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The approach to the lake
Lough Derg--Vista--Approach--Description
"Pettigo. (July 23, 1824). A country road leads in this direction a mile: after leaving which we passed over the mountains following a path, which the number of devotees who visit the Island, had marked too distinctly to be mistaken..."
Shane Leslie, 1885-1971
Anon., Excursions in Ulster, 1824, Leslie, Shane, Saint Patrick's Purgatory: A Record from History and Literature, p. 127
Burns Oats and Washbourne Ltd, London
1932
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