Penitential Beds

Location: Tree, Penitential Beds, Station Island

Location: Penitential Beds, Station Island

An account of the stations

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

"Long ago filled up"

Clogh-oir, the golden stone

The ancient pilgrimage

"An incredible quantity of rags"

"I had long experienced extreme anxiety to visit"

"Women and men in bare feet turn again"

Jenny completes the stations

Jenny crosses to Station Island

Jenny struggles with her emotions

Penitential beds and view of lake

The penitential beds with lake in background

"The stones become doubly slippery and the whole slope acquires a slithery and greasy surface"

John O'Donovan described the lake

Destroying Station Island