"The Church never relinquished her hold upon the one grey rock"
Dublin Core
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
Text Item Type Metadata
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.