"The buildings give the impression of resting on the water"

"The buildings give the impression of resting on the water"

Lough Derg--Pilgrimage--Description--Alice Curtayne

"The lake surface is broken by numerous scattered islands, the greater number of which are just rocks without either historical or scenic interest..."

Alice Curtayne, 1898-1981

Curtayne, Alice, Lough Derg: St. Patrick’s Purgatory, p. 2

Burns Oats and Washbourn, Ltd., London and Dublin

1944

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"The lake surface is broken by numerous scattered islands, the greater number of which are just rocks without either historical or scenic interest. The fame of this region centres around only two of the larger islands: Station Island, more correctly called the Island of Saint Patrick's Purgatory, and Saints' Island, two miles north-west of it. But it is to Station Island that the eyes of all newcomers to the lake shore are immediately attracted, because of its many clustered buildings, dominated by a great church with a green dome. Very little of this island surface is visible from the shore, and the buildings give the impression of resting on the water. As a fact, every available yard of the Island has long ago been built over. Most of the church rests upon piles driven into the bed of the lake; only its entrance porch is build upon the island."

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