"A mountain-locked lake that is just as secluded to-day as when Saint Patrick was attracted to its solitude"

"A mountain-locked lake that is just as secluded to-day as when Saint Patrick was attracted to its solitude"

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

A description of the timeless nature of Lough Derg, a window into the early days of Irish Christianity

Alice Curtayne, 1898-1981

Curtayne, Alice, Lough Derg: St. Patrick’s Purgatory, p. 167

Burns Oats and Washbourn, Ltd., London and Dublin

1944

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"[The pilgrim] will embark on a mountain-locked lake that is just as secluded to-day as when Saint Patrick was attracted to its solitude. The physical features of the landscape have remained practically unaltered through the centuries. Its lonely aspect is the same as in the fifth century; the eye may still rest on all that Patrick saw: in the west, Croagh-Breac (the Speckled Stack); in the east, Kinangoe; behind the one the same solemn sunsets still gild the sky, above the other appear the same fresh dawns." (p. 167)

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