John O'Donovan described the lake

John O'Donovan described the lake

Lough Derg--Description--Royal Irish Academy--John O'Donovan

"Ballyshanny. (Nov. 1, 1835.) I visited the far-famed terrestrial Purgatory of Lough-Derg but received no benefit from my tours except a severe cold, which I attribute more to the wet mountain bogs that surround the Lake..."

Shane Leslie, 1885-1971

John O'Donovan, Ordnance Survey Letters to Dublin, 1835, Leslie, Shane, Saint Patrick's Purgatory: A Record from History and Literature, p. 130

Burns Oats and Washbourne Ltd, London

1932

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"Ballyshanny. (Nov. 1, 1835.) I visited the far-famed terrestrial Purgatory of Lough-Derg but received no benefit from my tours except a severe cold, which I attribute more to the wet mountain bogs that surround the Lake and to the chilliness of the wind than to any lack of devotion in myself, for I viewed the Station Island with a good deal of veneration not on account of its antiquity but for its preserving a sort of model of the Sacred Crosses and Penitential Beds, which anciently existed on Saint Daveog's Island, which was visited not many half-centuries ago by French and Spanish Knights and other men of distinction."

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