"That's the Red Lake unless I mistake"

"That's the Red Lake unless I mistake"

Lough Derg--Pilgrimage--Depiction--Poetry

"Now it seems there's a place they call Purgat're, so I must write it, my verse not admitting the O. But as for the venue I vow I'm perplext To say it's in this world or if in the next, Or whether in both for 'tis very well known That St Patrick at least has got one of his own In a tight little Island that stands in Lake Call'd Lough Derg : that's the Red Lake unless I mistake."

Shane Leslie, 1885-1971

Thomas Ingoldsby, The Ingoldsby Legends, The Lay of the Old Woman Clothed in Grey, Leslie, Shane, Saint Patrick's Purgatory: A Record from History and Literature, p. xxxii

Burns Oats and Washbourne Ltd, London

1932

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English

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DD_0074

54.6083, -7.8714

https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/i/ingoldsby/thomas/ingoldsby_legends/chapter42.html

"Now it seems there's a place they call Purgat're, so I must write it, my verse not admitting the O. But as for the venue I vow I'm perplext To say it's in this world or if in the next, Or whether in both for 'tis very well known That St Patrick at least has got one of his own In a tight little Island that stands in Lake Call'd Lough Derg : that's the Red Lake unless I mistake."

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