The lake returns to the Diocese

The lake returns to the Diocese

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

"In the year 1917 the final lawsuit took place, at the Quarter sessions in Donegal, before County Court Judge Cooke, K.C. ..."

Margaret Gibbons, 1884-1969

Gibbons, Margaret, Guide to St. Patrick’s Purgatory, Lough Derg, p. 15

Talbot Press, Dublin and Cork

1933

Citation for the purposes of criticism

Monograph

English

Pilgrim guide

DD_0109

54.616218, -7.876212

"In the year 1917 the final lawsuit took place, at the Quarter sessions in Donegal, before County Court Judge Cooke, K.C. The hearing of the case occupied two days. In summing up the learned Judge gave it as his opinion that "the original Church to which the Island belonged has never laid aside its claim. It never offered or consented to acknowledge that anybody else could have dominion entirely over this holy ground." Accordingly, His Honour dismissed the case, and soon afterwards a consent was entered into by both parties - Sir John Leslie and the representatives of the Diocese of Clogher - according to the terms of which Sir John surrendered all claim to the ownership of Station Island, Lough Derg, and agreed, moreover, to convey to the Diocesan trustees in fee simple one acre of ground on the mainland surrounding the landing-stage, and moreover, that one acre of the lake bottom surrounding Station Island be likewise conveyed to trustees for building purposes."

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