"Such dismal and loansom Places are very apt to make frightful and melancholy Impessions upon the Minds for Weak and Ignorant"

"Such dismal and loansom Places are very apt to make frightful and melancholy Impessions upon the Minds for Weak and Ignorant"

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. 2

J. Hyde, Dublin

1727

Digitised by Collections numérisées - Université de Rennes 2

Public domain

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English

Religious treatise

DD_0462

54.6083, -7.8714

"[Lough Derg] is almost inaccessible by Horsemen, even in Summer, because of great Bogs, Rocks, and Precipices with which it is environed on all Sides. Such dismal and loansom Places are very apt to make frightful and melancholy Impessions upon the Minds for Weak and Ignorant; and, therefore, it is very probably, that it was pitched upon, as a convenient Place for passing so grand an Imposture upon them."

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