The moveable purgatory

The moveable purgatory

Lough Derg--Travelogues--Caesar Otway--Critique

"Before we landed I ascertained from my cautious conductor that the present Purgatorial Island which we had just left, was not the one always resorted to, nor indeed the one that was consecrated by St. Patrick..."

Caesar Otway, 1780-1842

Otway, Caesar, Sketches in Ireland: Descriptive of Interesting, and Hitherto Unnoticed Districts, in the North and South, pp. 178-79

W. Curry, jun. and co.; [etc., etc.], Dublin; First published, in part, in the Christian examiner. cf. Pref. A series of letters signed "C. O.", the first four entitled "Sketches in Donegal", the last five "Sketches in the south of Ireland."

1827

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1 p., ℓ., iv, vi, 411 p. 19 cm.

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Description and travel

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http://hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.33433066646450

"Before we landed I ascertained from my cautious conductor that the present Purgatorial Island which we had just left, was not the one always resorted to, nor indeed the one that was consecrated by St. Patrick; and as it appears that the Romish schoolmen are not agreed as to the precise spot where purgatory is located: so the Romish priesthood, until that knotty point is settled, have arrogated to themselves the right of changing the position of Patrick's Purgatory. The clerk of the present purgatory confessed that the present island has been used for that purpose, but comparatively at a late period; and he pointed out an island due north of the present station, which is called the Saint's Island, and which he said was the one St. Patrick sanctified, and wherein he opened a passage to the real purgatory under ground."

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