Destroying Station Island

Destroying Station Island

Lough Derg--Pilgrimage--Seizure--Parliament

"And therefore we do hereby order and resolve that Letters shall be dispatched from this board unto the Rev. Father of God the Lord Bishop of Clogher, Sir John Dundarre High Sheriff of the County of Donegal, Edward Archdale and Leonard Blennerhasset esp. and Archbald Areskon Clerk..."

Shane Leslie, 1885-1971

The Order of the Lords Justices and Council Anent Lough Derg and James Magrath, 1632, from Bishop Henry Jones' St Patrick's Purgatory, p. 129, Leslie, Shane, Saint Patrick's Purgatory: A Record from History and Literature, pp. 78-79

Burns Oats and Washbourne Ltd, London

1932

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54.6083, -7.8714

"And therefore we do hereby order and resolve that Letters shall be dispatched from this board unto the Rev. Father of God the Lord Bishop of Clogher, Sir John Dundarre High Sheriff of the County of Donegal, Edward Archdale and Leonard Blennerhasset esp. and Archbald Areskon Clerk or any three or more of them, whereof the said Lord Bishop and Sir John Dunbarre or Edward Tarleton to be always one. Requiring and authorizing them or any three or more of the aforesaid: by or before the third day of Ded. next to cause the Chapel and all the Irish houses now situate in that Island called St Patrick's Purgatory, all the buildings, pavements, walls, works, foundations, Circles, Caves, Cells and Vaults thereof of lime or stone or otherwise to be broken down, defaced and utterly demolished, and that allso called St Patrick's Bed, as also that rock or stone standing in the water there having a clift in it, which (as is vainly said) St Patrick made kneeling at his prayers : And also that stone covered there with water, which hath the point of a man's foot and which (as the seduced people do believe) St Patrick made with standing thereupon and likewose ll other things there, whereunto those superstitious people have used to go in Pilgrimage : and that they cause all the stones to be thrown into the Lough or water therein the Island standeth, saving only such of the stones of the said Chapel as James Magrath the proprietor of the land will forthwith carry clear out of the Island and make use of in some other place."

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