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The call to prison

"I was just on the point of enjoying a little rest, when a man ringing a large hand-bell, came round, crying in a low, supernatural growl, which could be hear double the distance of the loudest shout - 'waken up, waken up, and come to prison.'..."

Tags: dormitory, immersion, pilgrimage, Protestant critique, Station Island, water station, William Carleton

Unimpressed by Lough Derg

A dismal scene of the view to the lake on the walk from Pettigo, originally included in Caesar Otway's 'Sketches in Ireland'

Tags: bogland, Caesar Otway, disappointment, hills, landscape, medievalism, mountains, negative, Pettigo, pilgrimage, Protestant critique, St. Patrick, Station Island, The Gothic, William Carleton

"The water, the water of the seas and of lakes and of mist and rain, has all but made the Irish after its image"

Yeats' reflection on the affinity for bodies of water within the Irish poetic imagination and psyche

Tags: Folklore, Irish identity, mythology, religion, W. B. Yeats, water

A Coloured Map of Great Britain and Ireland; Drawn on Vellum, in the period 1534-1546

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A map of the British Isles dating from the period 1534-46 and by an unknown draughtsman.

Tags: British Library, cartography, Ireland, islands, lake, Map, purgatory, sixteenth century, Ulster

Nautical Chart Of Western Europe, Ca. 1400-1425

This chart, from an atlas by an unknown chartmaker probably working in Venice, shows an awareness of most of the eastern and southern coastlines of the British Isles stemming from voyages of Venetian galleys to the area since 1300.

Tags: British Library, cartography, fifteenth century, Ireland, Map, purgatory

"Lough Derg" by Thomas D'Arcy McGee

"In a girdle of green, heathy hills,
In song-famed Donegal,
An islet stands in a lonely lake,
(A coffin in a pall)..."

Tags: barefoot, death, environment, history, nature, pilgrimage, poetry, Thomas D'Arcy McGee, tradition

St. Patrick's well at Tullaghan

"St. Patrick’s Well at Tullaghan has a legend. St Patrick stopped the night in a house near a mountain. The woman told him not to look at the light on the mountain, but he went up and saw a serpent and when he struck it, St. Patrick’s Well sprang up.…

Tags: blood, Bundoran, County Donegal, etymology, Folklore, holy well, mountains, St. Patrick, Tullaghan

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