"The Church never relinquished her hold upon the one grey rock"

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Title

"The Church never relinquished her hold upon the one grey rock"

Subject

Lough Derg--Description--1940s--Margaret Gibbons

Description

"Throughout all the perversions and confiscations [of the Reformation], however, the Church never relinquished her hold upon the one grey rock which then was Station Island..."

Creator

Margaret Gibbons, 1884-1969

Source

Gibbons, Margaret, Guide to St. Patrick’s Purgatory, Lough Derg, p. 14

Publisher

Talbot Press, Dublin and Cork

Date

1933

Rights

Citation for the purposes of criticism

Format

Monograph

Language

English

Type

Pilgrim guide

Identifier

DD_0108

Coverage

54.6083, -7.8714

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Text

"Throughout all the perversions and confiscations [of the Reformation], however, the Church never relinquished her hold upon the one grey rock which then was Station Island. Year by year came Catholic pilgrims to do pennance, and Catholic priests to break then the Bread of Life. Again and again attempts to stop the influx and to eject the pilgrims, to interfere with the ferry, and to assert proprietary rights, were made by several generations of the Leslie family. But in vain. Then law was requisitioned in 1881, but an agreement was come to out of court. Sir John Leslie withdrew his claim to the soil of the island, the Catholic Bishop of Clogher recognising his right to the waters of the lake only. Thus matters stood until 1910. Again the Leslie claim was urged, and again it was successfully repudiated by representatives of the Catholic Diocese of Clogher."

Original Format

Guide booklet

Collection

Citation

Margaret Gibbons, 1884-1969, “"The Church never relinquished her hold upon the one grey rock",” Digital Derg: A Deep Map, accessed March 29, 2024, https://digitalderg.eu/items/show/125.

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