Negative Description

The ugly terrain of Lough Derg

Feijoo's critique of Purgatory

"A mere rock"

"A rock, which, rising to the surface of the water, the breeze had exposed"

"So ended my pilgrimage to Lough Derg"

"So long as the Church of Rome finds dupes"

"For this is Lough Derg, St. Patrick’s Purgatory"

"Their hands push closed the doors that God holds open"

"They come to Lough Derg to fast and pray and beg"

Bobby describes Station Island

Bobby expresses his confusion

Lough Derg in the rain

The impression of Lough Derg on Jenny and Bobby

"In nine cases out of ten, the legend is simply an attempt made by an unlettered, but imaginative people, to account for natural appearances by supernatural agency"

John O'Donovan catches a cold

Templecarn is a "barren subject"

The appearance of Lough Derg

The general appearance of Templecarn

"You will find instead only stumps, bumps, and conquering armies of weeds, cruel in their strength"

"One of the loneliest places on earth"

The approach to the lake

"Fainting heart and failing eye, Aching head and footstep weary"

"A coffin doth the bark appear"

"An easy passage may be found"

"I am an abyss of crimes"

"See ye not here this rock some power secureth"

"Tempt the lake's dark wave"

"The dark place reserved for sin"

"The fatal refuge of the frozen night"

"The Mouth of a Horrible Cave"

"Without doubt to-day some pilgrim Roweth to this island shore."