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A famous account of a 1398 visit by Viscount Ramon de Perellós to Saint Patrick's Purgatory

"'If ever an otter is admissible,' said the Parson,' it is so on such a lake as this. You certainly never get a day's fair fishing here.'…"

"Most pilgrims develop for this rocky island and its harsh routine an affection that really defies explanation..."

"This shews that Saints island is the one on which the monastery, because the present station does not contain 10 acres. There is however a mistake in the phrase 'in media lacus' for Saints island is very near the land…"

"Although the transit to Station Island takes only ten minutes in normal conditions, there was not even this interval of calm all that day from nine o'clock in the morning until eight in the evening..."

An account of Lough Derg from a late-nineteenth-century pilgrim.