"Long ago filled up"

"Long ago filled up"

Lough Derg--Pilgrimage--Magazine--Narrative

An account of Lough Derg from a late-nineteenth-century pilgrim.

Matthew Russell, 1834-1912

'Lough Derg: By a Recent Pilgrim', The Irish Monthly: A Magazine of General Literature Sixth Yearly Volume, p.24

M.H. Gill & Son, Dublin

1878

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Public domain

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English

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DD_0437

54.608913,-7.870977

https://archive.org/details/irishmonthlyvol01unkngoog/page/n5

"The ‘cave’ of Station Island was long ago filled up, and a neat belfry of cut stone is now erected on the spot. Peter Lombard describes from hearsay what that 'cave' or 'prison' was in his time (1620) : ‘A few paces’ to the north of the church is the cave — a narrow building roofed with stone which could contain twelve or at most fourteen persons kneeling two- and-two. There was a small window, near which those were placed who were bound to read the Breviary.’ ‘Ware marks the spot on his map and gives the dimensions of the cave, 16 ½ feet long by 2 feet 1 inch wide. ‘The walls,’ he says, ‘were of freestone, the roof of large flags covered over with green turf.’ It must be borne in mind that this was only an artificial ‘cave,’ constructed, when the ‘station’ was transferred to this island, in imitation of the genuine cave on Saints' Island, which was the real St. Patrick's Purgatory."

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