"In the end, all were obliged to return to the mainland and wait in the ferry house until the storm subsided"

"In the end, all were obliged to return to the mainland and wait in the ferry house until the storm subsided"

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

"Although the transit to Station Island takes only ten minutes in normal conditions, there was not even this interval of calm all that day from nine o'clock in the morning until eight in the evening..."

Alice Curtayne, 1898-1981

Curtayne, Alice, Lough Derg: St. Patrick’s Purgatory, pp. 141-42

Burns Oats and Washbourn, Ltd., London and Dublin

1944

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"Although the transit to Station Island takes only ten minutes in normal conditions, there was not even this interval of calm all that day from nine o'clock in the morning until eight in the evening. The lake shore was packed with waiting pilgrims, most of them fasting. On the following Thursday, June 13th, a storm broke over the lake again. The large boat, the 'St. Patrick,' left the mainland for Station Island during the morning with thirty-one pilgrims, of whom seventeen were women. The Prior steered the boat. The storm rapidly increased in violence and the boat was compelled to put in for shelter behind Rough Island. A smaller boat then went over and the Prior and a few men returned. Later the marooned passengers were divided up between lighter craft in the hope that the small boats would make headway against the wind and waves. Even this plan did not work. The smaller boats made several ineffective attempts to get across to the Island. In the end, all were obliged to return to the mainland and wait in the ferry house until the storm subsided. The pilgrims did not land on Station Island until eleven o'clock that night."

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