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

bogland, disappointment, J. B. Doyle, lake, negative description, nineteenth century, ugliness

An account of the town of Pettigo

Clogher, James Fraser, Kesh stream, Lough Erne, moorland, nineteenth century, Pettigo, River Termon, roads, transport

"A very strange Story hath been invented"

A critique of St. Patrick's Purgatory and Catholic pilgrimage in general.

Caoranach, cattle, eighteenth century, etymology, Fair Lake, Fenian Cycle, Fionn mac Cumhaill, giants, imagination, John Richardson, legend, myth, Protestant critique, Red Lake, superstition

"Every Body knows how excessively the Irish are addicted to Pilgrimage"

A critique of St. Patrick's Purgatory and Catholic pilgrimage in general.

eighteenth century, John Richardson, penitential beds, pilgrimage, Protestant critique, Station Island

"Lakes, Ponds, Wells, Trees, Stones, Crosses, Images, and Relicks"

A critique of St. Patrick's Purgatory and Catholic pilgrimage in general.

cross, devotional activities, eighteenth century, holy well, immersion, John Richardson, Protestant critique, relics, superstition, water

"Such dismal and loansom Places are very apt to make frightful and melancholy Impessions upon the Minds for Weak and Ignorant"

A critique of St. Patrick's Purgatory and Catholic pilgrimage in general.

approach, bogland, eighteenth century, inaccessibility, John Richardson, mountains, Protestant critique, roads, rocks, terrain, wildness

"Surrounded by Wild and Barren Mountains"

A critique of St. Patrick's Purgatory and Catholic pilgrimage in general.

devotional activities, dimensions, eighteenth century, John Richardson, Protestant critique, relics, remoteness, stone, superstition, wildness

"The Profit of a Ferry-Boat for wafting the Pilgrims over the Lake"

A critique of St. Patrick's Purgatory and Catholic pilgrimage in general.

Armagh, Augustinians, boating, eighteenth century, islands, John Richardson, pilgrim crossing, profiteering, Saints' Island, St. Dabheoc, Station Island

"When any Superstitious Place is defaced or demolished, they repair it"

A critique of St. Patrick's Purgatory and Catholic pilgrimage in general.

Catholicism, eighteenth century, John Richardson, pilgrimage, Protestant critique, superstition

A 54 page report lifting the suspension of John Goodwin

A summary of a case initially arising from a confession given to a widow during the Lough Derg pilgrimage.

Clogher, confession, conversation, dispute, John Goodwin, misconduct, nineteenth century, report, sacrament, Vatican

Letter, James Hamilton Jnr, Strabane, Co. Tyrone, to [Marquess of Abercorn, London]

A report of the 55th Regiment displacing a group of entrenched squatters upon an island in Lough Derg for which they refuse to pay rent.

eighteenth century, Glaslough, islands, James Hamilton Jr, Leslie family, Lough Derg, military intervention, Public Record Office of Northern Ireland, regiment, report squatters

Letter, James Hamilton Jnr, Strabane, Co. Tyrone, to Marquess of Abercorn, General Post Office, Dublin. (To be forwarded).

A report including details of a gathering of pilgrims at Lough Derg with 20,000 attendees.

eighteenth century, James Hamilton Jr, Lough Derg, pilgrimage, Public Record Office of Northern Ireland, report

Letter, Robert Jamison, Baronscourt, to [Marquess of Abercorn, London].

An account of the 1795 disaster from a report to the Marquess of Abercorn.

1795 disaster, description, disaster, drowning, eighteenth century, Lough Derg, Marquess of Abercorn, pilgrimage, report, Robert Jamison

Station Island, View from Ferry House

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

ferry house, J. B. Doyle, nineteenth century, pilgrims, sketch, Station Island, vista, water

A Map of the Island of Purgatory

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

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

Lough Hill Bog Natural Heritage Area

A description of the Lough Hill Bog Natural Heritage Area (NHA)

Meenagarranroe Bog Natural Heritage Area

A description of the Meenagarranroe Bog Natural Heritage Area (NHA)

Cashelnavean Bog Natural Heritage Area

A description of the Cashelnavean Bog Natural Heritage Area (NHA)

Bell Heather (Erica cinerea), Bilberry (Vaccinium myrtillus), biodiversity, Black Bog-rush (Schoenus nigricans), blanket bog, Bog Asphodel (Narthecium ossifragum), Bog Myrtle (Myrica gale), Bog Pondweed (Potamogeton polygonifolius), Bog Sedge (Carex limosa), Bogbean (Menyanthes trifoliata), bogland, Bottle Sedge (Carex rostrata), Common Cottongrass (Eriophorum angustifolium), Common Reed (Phragmites australis), conifer plantations, Cross-leaved Heath (Erica tetralix), Crowberry (Empetrum nigrum), Deergrass (Scirpus caespitosus), dryness, Great Sundew (D. anglica), Heath Bedstraw (Galium saxatile), Heath Rush (Juncus squarrosus), Juniper (Juniperus communis), Lesser Bladderwort (Utricularia minor), Ling Heather (Calluna vulgaris), Purple Moor-grass, Purple Moor-grass (Molinia caerulea), Round-leaved Sundew (Drosera rotundifolia), sphagnum moss, Star Sedge (Carex echinata), Tormentil (Potentilla erecta), vicinity, White Beak-sedge (Rhynchospora alba)

Barnesmore Bog Natural Heritage Area

A description of the Barnesmore Bog Natural Heritage Area (NHA)

Badger (Meles meles), Bell Heather (Erica cinerea), Bilberry (Vaccinium myrtillus), biodiversity, Black Bog-rush, Black Bog-rush (Schoenus nigricans), Bladderwort (Utricularia sp.), Bog Asphodel (Narthecium ossifragum), Bog Pondweed (Potamogeton polygonifolius), Bog Sedge (Carex limosa), Bog-myrtle (Myrica gale), Bogbean (Menyanthes trifoliata), bogland, Bottle Sedge (Carex rostrata), Bracken (Pteridium aquilinum), Broad-leaved Pondweed (Potamogeton natans), Bulbous Rush (Juncus Bulbosus), Carnation Sedge (Carex panicea), Clogher, Common Butterwort (Pinguicula vulgaris), Common Cottongrass (Eriophorum angustifolium), Common Frog, Cross-leaved Heath (Erica tetralix), Deergrass (Scirpus cespitosus), Devil’s-bit Scabious (Succisa pratensis), dryness, Fir Clubmoss (Huperzia selago), Golden Plover, Great Sundew (D. anglica), Green-ribbed Sedge, Green-ribbed Sedge (Carex binervis), Hard Fern (Blechnum spicant), Heath Bedstraw (Galium saxatile), Heath Grass (Danthonia decumbens), Heath Milkwort (Polygala serpyllifolia), Irish Hare, Lesser Spearwort, Ling Heather, Ling Heather (Calluna vulgaris), Marsh Pennywort (Hydrocotyle vulgaris), Marsh Thistle (Cirsium palustre), Marsh Violet, Mat Grass (Nardus stricta), Peregrine Falcon, Purple Moor-grass, Purple Moor-grass (Molinia caerulea), quaking bog, Quillwort (Isoetes lacustris), Red Grouse, Round-leaved Sundew (Drosera rotundifolia), Royal Fern (Osmunda regalis), Sheep’s Fescue (Festuca ovina), Shoreweed (Littorella uniflora), sphagnum moss, Star Sedge (Carex echinata), Sweet Vernal-grass (Anthoxanthum odoratum), Tormentil, Tormentil (Potentilla erecta), Velvet Bent (Agrostis canina), Water Horsetail (Equisetum fluviatile), Wood Sorrel (Oxalis acetosella), wood-rushes (Luzula multiflora L. sylvatica)

Feijoo's critique of Purgatory

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

Augustinians, description, disputation, disrepute, Feijoo, Irish Monthly, monasticism, negative description, pilgrimage, polemic, purgatory, St. Patrick, Station Island, treatise

"A mere rock"

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

aesthetics, description, Irish Monthly, moorland, mountains, negative description, pilgrimage, purgatory, sheep, Station Island

"Dore bowden with iron and stele"

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

Clogher, description, Henry of Saltrey, Irish Monthly, pilgrimage, purgatorial legend, purgatory, Station Island

"Foundations can scarcely now be traced"

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

description, Irish Monthly, monastery, monasticism, pilgrimage, Purgatorial cave, purgatory, ruins, Saints' Island, Station Island

"Here where thy saints have trod"

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

Catholic Church, Catholicism, description, Irish identity, Irish Monthly, narrative, pilgrimage, purgatory, reflection, Station Island, suppression, timelessness

"If there was no appearance of the pilgrim, he was given up for lost"

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

Augustinians, description, Irish Monthly, monasticism, pilgrimage, Purgatorial cave, purgatorial legend, purgatory, Station Island, trials of purgatory