John O'Donovan catches a cold

John O'Donovan catches a cold

Lough Derg--Ordnance Survey--Description--John O'Donovan

"I visited the far famed terrestrial purgatory of Lough Derg, but received no benefit from my turas except a severe cold, which I attribute more to the wet mountain bogs that surround the lake, and to the chillyness (chilliness) of the wind than to any lack of devotion in myself..."

John O'Donovan, 1806-1861

Letter from John O'Donovan, Ballyshanny, 1st of November, 1835, p. 243-44, O’Donovan, John, Ordnance Survey Letters, Donegal: Letters Containing Information Relative to the Antiquities of the County of Donegal Collected during the Progress of the Ordnance Survey in 1835s, pp. 120-21

Four Masters Press, Dublin

1835 [2000]

Transcribed and edited by Michael Herity, MRIA

Citation for the purposes of criticism

Edited edition of letters

English with Irish text in Celtic script

Ordnance Survey Letters

DD_0172

54.6083, -7.8714

"I visited the far famed terrestrial purgatory of Lough Derg, but received no benefit from my turas except a severe cold, which I attribute more to the wet mountain bogs that surround the lake, and to the chillyness (chilliness) of the wind than to any lack of devotion in myself, for I viewed Station Island with a good deal of veneration, not on account of its antiquity, but for its preserving a sort of model of the sacred crosses and penitential beds, which anciently existed on St Daveog's Island, which was visited by not many half centuries ago by French and Spanish knights, and other men of distinction."

Hand written letters held in Royal Irish Academy