Pilgrimage

Location: Aghalurcher

Location: Castlekeeran

Location: Devenish

Location: Drumlane

Location: Inishmacsaint

Location: Kells

Location: Kilmore

Location: White Island

"Full of robbers and rascals"

"Innumerable different visions appear to them"

"Salt fish, hides, cattle, and Irish hobby-horses"

"They conveyed us across to the rock one by one"

"This place I could not see, because I was unwilling to look into it"

"We passed over level ground through country pleasing enough to the eye"

Location: Donaghmore

Location: Drogheda

Location: Lusk

Location: Mellifont

Location: Slane

Location: St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin

Location: Swords

"An anecdote of the bard Carolan"

"And out of there I crossed the sea"

"And there I embarked and crossed to Calais"

"I reached one of their towns called Tearmann"

"I reached the port of Dover where I saw Sir Gawain's head"

"Of all our Acquo Sanctificato, Lough Derg is the most celebrated"

"The purgatory is in this priory and there is a great deep lake"

"We arrived at Dublin where we embarked to cross to England"

"We returned by the road to king Ó Néill who received us very well and had great joy"

"And these two had orders to take me to the archbishop of Armagh"

"For nothing in the world would I abandon this journey"

"He rebuffed me very strongly and put great fear in me"

"He strongly advised and begged me to by no means enter the purgatory"

"I at once departed from him and went to the aforesaid town and from there sent to king Ó Néill"

"I departed and crossed the deep"

"I had news that the king of England was in a great enclosed park"

"I would have to go through strange places inhabited by wild people"

"Saint Patrick had the reports set down in writing"

"The first prior of the aforesaid church"

"The prior advises them and if he sees that he cannot dissuade them from their intention"

"The whole island is surrounded by the waters of a large, very deep lake"

"As hard and wild as if they were beasts"

"I have sustained great dangers"

"Our Lord led him to a deserted place"

Laurent Vital hears of a pilgrimage to Donegal

Laurent Vital hears of a pilgrimage to Donegal

Laurent Vital hears of a pilgrimage to Donegal

Laurent Vital learns of Purgatory in Kinsale

Preface to Laurent Vital's visit to Kinsale in Ireland

Ramón de Perellós sets off for Saint Patrick's Purgatory

Location: Dublin

Location: Castlederg

Castlederg to Lough Derg

Donegal Town to Lough Derg

Ease of travel to Lough Derg

Gazetteer description of the pilgrim crossing

Gazetteer description of view from lake shore

Pettigo to Lough Derg

The quality of Lough Derg's road access

An account of the stations

Questioning the boatman

The boatmen describes the "wine" of Purgatory

The O'Donnells and Lough Derg

The purgatorial chapel

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

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

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].

Feijoo's critique of Purgatory

"A mere rock"

"Dore bowden with iron and stele"

"Foundations can scarcely now be traced"

"Here where thy saints have trod"

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

"It was originally a pagan idol"

"Long ago filled up"

"St. Patrick most likely did visit the lake"

"The mark of St. Patrick's knee"

"The pilgrimage was again resumed"

"The pilgrimage was suppressed and the cave destroyed"

Clogh-oir, the golden stone

The ancient pilgrimage

"A huge quarry"

"Rich in legendary, historic, and poetic association"

"There is no grandeur in the surrounding scenery"

"Two islands which have made it famous"

Lough Erne, "The Windermere of Ireland"

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Castlederg to Lough Derg Pilgrim Path

Donegal Town to Lough Derg

Rathnacross Archaeological Survey

Lines Written on St Patrick's Purgatory Lough Derg

Sibby's moat

"A clear barometer"

"An Excursion into the Fifth Century"

"A miracle! - A miracle!"

"I had long experienced extreme anxiety to visit"

"Multitudes of the lower classes of the native Irish"

"A boy was standing like a ballet dancer poised on the rock"

"Monks in convents of coracles"

"The penance wheel turned round again"

"Three boatloads of Dublin’s unemployed came in"

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

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

"Women and men in bare feet turn again"

Bobby interrogates Jenny about her motivations

Jenny struggles with her emotions

The Island's gift

Pilgrims board their boats south-east of Station Island

Pilgrims setting out from Pettigo

Station Island Boiler

Pilgrims at the stations

The landing pier, Station Island

A man in a boat with Station Island in the background

"Lough Derg" by Thomas D'Arcy McGee

"All around it is the glint and stir of water"

"In going there they are answering the call for blood"

"Recited in the open, while facing the airy spaciousness of mountain, sky and water"

"Rip Van Winkle whose experience is reversed"

"The shaft on which this iron cross is set is precious, for it was salvaged from the lake"

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

"The very strangeness of the whole rite is like an old memory overlaid by time"

An omen of disaster prior to the 1795 accident

The Franciscans

The journey of five women returning to Ireland in 1922

"He always looked for the most inaccessible place in every district"

"Oh Fare Thee Well, Lough Derg"

"The Church never relinquished her hold upon the one grey rock"

The snake of Lough Patrick and Lough Peter

Leprechauns and Mermaids

"We left the Island with dry skies but still carrying our fast with us"

"We seemed to stand in a dim place where two worlds meet"

John O'Donovan described the lake

The approach to the lake

A great thunder

Antonio Mannini prepares for his journey

The sanctity of Lough Derg

Attempting to walk on water

Keeronagh, the Devil's mother

Lough Derg and its islands

The acknowledgement of a rebaptised pilgrim

The call to prison

The comedy of fantastical myth

Otway muses on the metaphor of birds

The 1795 disaster

The origin of Lough Derg's name

Unimpressed by Lough Derg

A scriptural account of immersion in Lough Derg

A story of Ugolino's death on Station Island

Full immersion at the water station

Rathnacross Fairy Fort

Saint Bridget's Chair

The business of ferrying pilgrims to Station Island

The ferry to Lough Derg

The journey from Pettigo to Lough Derg

The Rathnacross to Saints Island pilgrim road

Pilgrims being transported to Station Island on Lough Derg

Saints Island on Lough Derg

Hybernia Nunc Irlant