Eighteenth Century

Situating Lough Derg

The excavations of Ludovicus Pyrrhus

The tradition of the Purgatorial Myth

"A very strange Story hath been invented"

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

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

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

"Surrounded by Wild and Barren Mountains"

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

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

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

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

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

A Map of the Island of Purgatory

The Orange Order in Pettigo

An omen of disaster prior to the 1795 accident

The 1795 disaster

The Franciscans

Friars' Island