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A disappointed description of Station Island

An account of the religious history of Lough Derg for the traveller.

Tags: built heritage, disappointment, J. B. Doyle, Lough Derg, nineteenth century, Station Island

A great thunder

"Now when I was shut in and had taken notice of the greatness of the Cave which I conceive to be about four cubits, I found the inner part thereof to turn and extend under me weak and shaking that it seemed as though it could not bear a man..."

Tags: miracle, pilgrimage, pilgrims, prison house, purgatory, Shane Leslie, supernatural, thunder

A man in a boat with Station Island in the background

View of Station Island with a rower in the foreground

Tags: boating, Lawrence Collection, National Library of Ireland, nineteenth century, Photographs, pilgrimage, reflection, Robert French, Station Island, vista, water, William Lawrence

A Map of the Island of Purgatory

Map from a critique of St. Patrick's Purgatory and Catholic pilgrimage in general.

Tags: eighteenth century, etching, John Richardson, Lough Derg, Map, morality, Protestant critique, Station Island, treatise

A poetic description of the Dissolution of the Monasteries as a storm

"Then the great winter swept over the land, and, with the winter, the flail that scourged Ireland spared not Derg..."

Tags: Act of Parliament, Augustinians, Celtic revival, dissolution, mythology, Reformation, romance, Shane Leslie, St. Patrick

A poetic vision of Mary

"From the watchers below a great cry still reaches to the Lady of Heaven, to Mary, the joy of the Gael, whose feet rest on Iona..."

Tags: Celtic revival, lakes, mythology, prosopopoeia, raiment, romance, Shane Leslie, St. Patrick, stars, Virgin Mary

A rower and Station Island with detail of rocks and water

View of Station Island with rower in foreground, detail of water and shore

Tags: boating, Lawrence Collection, National Library of Ireland, nineteenth century, Photographs, pilgrim, Robert French, rower, Station Island, vista, water, William Lawrence

A scriptural account of immersion in Lough Derg

"'As soon as we leave the grave or vault, we immediately plunge ourselves into the water, washing our heads and bodies to signify that we are washed and cleansed from the filth of sin, and have broke the dragon’s head in the waters..."

Tags: baptism, Christ, exegesis, immersion, pilgrimage, Red Sea, scripture, second-hand accounts, typology, water, water station

A story of Ugolino's death on Station Island

"Upon an ill day was sin done on the island of the cave itself, and was long remembered as the beginning of many sorrows to Derg..."

Tags: blood, Celtic revival, murder, pilgrimage, Rome, Shane Leslie, St. Patrick, Station Island, storytelling, twelfth century, Ugolino

A traveller's guide to Lough Derg

An account of the religious history of Lough Derg for the traveller.

Tags: J. B. Doyle

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