Purgatory

"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"

"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"

"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"

Ramón de Perellós sets off for Saint Patrick's Purgatory

Purgatory at Inis Cealtra

Location: Station Island, Lough Derg

Gazetteer description of the pilgrim crossing

The monk of Eymstadt

The excavations of Ludovicus Pyrrhus

The tradition of the Purgatorial Myth

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"

The Invasions of England and Ireland with al their civil ware since the conquest

Ultonia ; Hibernis Cui-Guilly ; Anglis Ulster

The Province of Ulster

Provincia Ultoniae. The Province of Ulster

Nautical Chart Of Western Europe, Ca. 1400-1425

Map of the British Isles f. D1v

ANGLIAE, SCOTIAE & HIBERNIAE NOVA DESCRIPTIO

Map of Ulster with "Escheated" Counties, 1609

A Coloured Map of Great Britain and Ireland; Drawn on Vellum, in the period 1534-1546

Portuguese portolan chart of Ireland

"In media lacus"

The Franciscans

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

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

A great thunder

The miracle of the floating crosses

"That's the Red Lake unless I mistake"

Lough Derg in the Seventeenth Century

The sanctity of Lough Derg

The moveable purgatory