Protestant Critique

"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"

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

A Map of the Island of Purgatory

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

"A spreading hawthorn tree"

"He had swallowed up a very wicked man"

"I insisted that they should take me to an island"

"So ended my pilgrimage to Lough Derg"

"They told the marvellous incidents of the voyage to their listening friends"

"They would make a Jonas of me against my will"

"What we saw was the great serpent or fish"

"A lonely and remote region"

"A miracle! - A miracle!"

"All was as still as death"

"An incredible quantity of rags"

"I at length reached the goal of my long-nourished desire"

"I gazed on the distant borders of the Lake"

"I had long experienced extreme anxiety to visit"

"Multitudes of the lower classes of the native Irish"

"So far shalt thou go, and no farther, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed"

"So long as the Church of Rome finds dupes"

"The lake itself changes its wonted blue into a dull brown colour"

"The pilgrims throng the shore opposite to the island"

"The unbroken stillness of this consecrated spot, was exchanged to bustle, noise, and jarring, of a countless multitude"

The Orange Order in Pettigo

The Franciscans

Secrets of Templecarne Graveyard

"There is a pool or lake saith he in the parts of Ulster that invironeth an Island"

Destroying Station Island

The seizure of Purgatory

Attempting to walk on water

Keeronagh, the Devil's mother

Lough Derg and its islands

Saints Island is too close to shore

Sketches of greedy monks

The acknowledgement of a rebaptised pilgrim

The call to prison

The comedy of fantastical myth

The moveable purgatory

The movement of Purgatory

"I felt ashamed for human nature"

Otway muses on the metaphor of birds

The "wine" of Station Island

The poteen shack

The stones of Station Island

Unimpressed by Lough Derg

The business of ferrying pilgrims to Station Island