"Surrounded by Wild and Barren Mountains"

"Surrounded by Wild and Barren Mountains"

Lough Derg--Protestant critique--Treatise--Purgatory

A critique of St. Patrick's Purgatory and Catholic pilgrimage in general.

John Richardson, 1664-1747

The Great Folly, superstition and idolatry of Pilgrimages in Ireland, especialy of that to St. Patrick's Purgatory: together with an account of the loss that the publick sustaineth thereby, truly and impartially represented, p. 1

J. Hyde, Dublin

1727

Digitised by Collections numérisées - Université de Rennes 2

Public domain

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English

Religious treatise

DD_0461

54.6083, -7.8714

"In the Southern Part of the County of Donegaul, near the Borders of Tyrone and Fermanagh, in the Latitude 54. 10. there is a Lake, now called by the Native Loghderg, about three Miles long, and two broad. It is surrounded with wild and barren Mountains, some of which have their Names from those Saints, who are supposed to have continued there in prayer for the Pilgrims; and that so long, that the Print of one of their Knees is still to be seen in a big Stone, and is adored by the Votaries as a precious Relick."

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