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Frontispiece etching of the waiting pilgrims and ferry boats to Station Island from the south shore of Lough Derg

"Though the number of bogs in this district is considerable, yet few of them reach to any great extent..."

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

"Being far from the ocean when the stormy wind rose..."

An account of the town of Pettigo

An account of the river Derg

"When we were within half a bow-shot of the said island of the Purgatory I saw a bird blacker than coal take flight ; it had not a single plume or feather on its back..."

"Templecarn contains 794 families, 1,987 males, 2,185 females, 1,728 Established Church, 2,568 Roman Catholic, 97 Presbyterians, 4,393 total..."