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Jenny discusses her expectations of the place compared to the reality and hopes that it will not be too commercialized, like Lourdes

Jenny and Bobby arrive at Lough Derg in the rain and are greeted by the sight of the lake and the pilgrims waiting to cross

Bobby expresses his confusion at the extravagant embodied devotion and extreme austerity of the pilgrimage to Lough Derg and that it exposes a side of Jenny that he has never seen before.

As they drive towards Lough Derg, Bobby interrogates Jenny as to her motivations for wishing to visit Lough Derg this year of all years. She responds that it is a particularly Irish form of religious devotion and expression.

The story opens as Jenny asks to visit Patrick's purgatory, to the confusion of her male companion Bobby

An extract from Seamus Heaney's poem 'Station Island'

A topographical dictionary entry for County Donegal and the Barony of Tirhugh

A topographical dictionary entry for County Donegal and the Barony of Tirhugh

A topographical dictionary entry for County Donegal and the Barony of Tirhugh
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