"You will find instead only stumps, bumps, and conquering armies of weeds, cruel in their strength"
Dublin Core
Title
"You will find instead only stumps, bumps, and conquering armies of weeds, cruel in their strength"
Subject
Lough Derg--Pilgrimage--Description--Alice Curtayne
Description
"Do not visit Saints' Island with expectation of finding carved stones, a clear ground plan of ancient buildings, or examples of early Christian masonry..."
Creator
Alice Curtayne, 1898-1981
Source
Curtayne, Alice, Lough Derg: St. Patrick’s Purgatory, p. 24
Publisher
Burns Oats and Washbourn, Ltd., London and Dublin
Date
1944
Rights
Citation for the purposes of criticism
Format
Monograph
Language
English
Type
History
Identifier
DD_0130
Coverage
54.6153, -7.8864
Text Item Type Metadata
Text
"Do not visit Saints' Island with expectation of finding carved stones, a clear ground plan of ancient buildings, or examples of early Christian masonry. There is nothing of the kind to be seen. You will find instead only stumps, bumps, and conquering armies of weeds, cruel in their strength. Pillaged now of whatever memorials it once had, the island has only a few trees scattered over its surface: rowans and hawthorns, not remarkable except that they are thickly draped with green-grey lichen; no holy well could have its surrounding bushes so festooned with rag-offerings as are those hoary trees with their lichen garlands. For the rest, briars are in possession, leaping unchecked almost from end to end of the island, to the exasperation of archaeologists, who indeed have shown a distaste for this venerable, but forbidding, ground. Even the famous antiquarian, O'Donovan, gave it only scant attention."
Original Format
Monograph
Collection
Citation
Alice Curtayne, 1898-1981, “"You will find instead only stumps, bumps, and conquering armies of weeds, cruel in their strength",” Digital Derg: A Deep Map, accessed March 29, 2024, https://digitalderg.eu/items/show/147.