"Briars encompass it so thickly, and with such aggressiveness, one cannot approach within five or six feet of the mound"

"Briars encompass it so thickly, and with such aggressiveness, one cannot approach within five or six feet of the mound"

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

"In the middle of this desolation [on Saints' Island] is an enclosure thickly overgrown with briars, to which barriers of nettles almost prohibit entrance..."

Alice Curtayne, 1898-1981

Curtayne, Alice, Lough Derg: St. Patrick’s Purgatory, p. 26

Burns Oats and Washbourn, Ltd., London and Dublin

1944

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"In the middle of this desolation [on Saints' Island] is an enclosure thickly overgrown with briars, to which barriers of nettles almost prohibit entrance: this is said to be the site of the original Celtic monastery. A mound within it is pointed out as Saint Dabheoc's grave. This was the bitterest moment in our voyage of exploration, for the holy place where Dabheoc rests is the most abandoned and inaccesible in the whole island. Briars encompass it so thickly, and with such aggressiveness, one cannot approach within five or six feet of the mound. Such is the reputed burial place of the first Abbot of Lough Derg."

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