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

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"Long ago filled up"

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

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"St. Patrick most likely did visit the lake"

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

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"The mark of St. Patrick's knee"

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

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"The pilgrimage was again resumed"

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

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"The pilgrimage was suppressed and the cave destroyed"

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

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Clogh-oir, the golden stone

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

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The ancient pilgrimage

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

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"A huge quarry"

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

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"Rich in legendary, historic, and poetic association"

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

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"There is no grandeur in the surrounding scenery"

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

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"Two islands which have made it famous"

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

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Lough Erne, "The Windermere of Ireland"

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

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Timeline: 1870

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Timeline: 1877

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Timeline: 1879

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Timeline: 1880

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Timeline: 1881

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Timeline: 1882

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Timeline: 1882

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Timeline: 1891

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Timeline: 1904

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Timeline: 1905

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Timeline: 1909

chronology, events, Margaret Gibbons, pilgrimage, prior, timeline

Timeline: 1910

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