Lough Derg in the Seventeenth Century

Lough Derg in the Seventeenth Century

Lough Derg--Seventeenth Century--Description--Negative

"The Liffer largens near its source and forms a lake in which there is an Island with a little Convent, near which there is a grotto narrow enough and full of spectres horrible to the view..."

Shane Leslie, 1885-1971

Blaeu, 1648, Leslie, Shane, Saint Patrick's Purgatory: A Record from History and Literature p. xlvi

Burns Oats and Washbourne Ltd, London

1932

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"The Liffer largens near its source and forms a lake in which there is an Island with a little Convent, near which there is a grotto narrow enough and full of spectres horrible to the view, of which it is ridiculously said that Ulysses made it in order to converse with demons. The inhabitants name this Island Ellan u frugatory, that is to say the Purgatory of Patrick... Besides this place was called Reglis in the lifetime of Patrick so I think that it is the Regia of Ptolemy, and even the situation in which the geographer place it gives that interpretation... There where the Liffer is augmented by various streams and approaches the sea it largens straitway into a Lake which Ptolemy called Logia and which is nowadays called Lough Foyle and Lough Derg."

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