Station Island

Location: Station Island, Lough Derg

Location: Station Island Basilica

A disappointed description of Station Island

The History and Suppression of Lough Derg

The purgatorial chapel

The tradition of the Purgatorial Myth

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

"The Profit of a Ferry-Boat for wafting the Pilgrims over the Lake"

Station Island, View from Ferry House

A Map of the Island of Purgatory

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"

Timeline: 1503

Rathnacross Archaeological Survey

Lines Written on St Patrick's Purgatory Lough Derg

Station Island Townland

Seavog Mountain Pilgrim Road Archaeological Survey

"A clear barometer"

"Towards the bottle-green, still / Shade of an oak"

"I had long experienced extreme anxiety to visit"

Jenny crosses to Station Island

Boat keel on Station Island

Cardinal Michael Logue arrives at Station Island, 1913

Cardinal Michael Logue boards a boat at the Station Island ferry house, 1913

Ferry boat house, Station Island

Pilgrims board their boats south-east of Station Island

Pilgrims setting out from Pettigo

Station Island boat leaving

Station Island Boiler

View of Station Island from east shore

View of Station Island with boats and Friars' Island

A rower and Station Island with detail of rocks and water

Boarding a pilgrim boat

Ferry house and view of Station Island

Friars' Island detail

Penitential beds and view of lake

Pilgrims at the stations

Pilgrims at the water station, north view

Pilgrims resting, and view of Sanctuary and shoreline

Rowing boats leaving the ferry house

The landing pier, Station Island

The penitential beds with lake in background

View of Station Island with man in boat

"Fare thee well, Lough Derg"

A man in a boat with Station Island in the background

Photograph of a crowd at the Ferry House, Lough Derg, Co. Donegal

Photograph of Islets on Lough Derg south shore

Photograph of Lough Derg, Co. Donegal

Photograph of Station Island

Pilgrims arriving at Lough Derg

Pilgrims at the water station

Rowers in front of Friars' Island

Station Island and its reflection

The Landing, Station Island

The Oratory, Station Island

The Sanctuary, Station Island

Station Island Archaeological Survey

The Drowning of the Boat

"In media lacus"

A 1603 description of Lough Derg

The March of the Dead Maguires

"A fantastic display of lightning which continued for nearly two hours"

"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"

"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"

"There were boats at hand, and presence of mind, even among the onlookers, could have averted the tragedy"

Burials on Friars' Island, in Templecarne, and further away

The 1795 disaster

The Franciscans

"Floating on some miracle raft"

"Oh Fare Thee Well, Lough Derg"

"Rolling, tawny bogland framed the blue water"

"Suddenly the far-famed waters of Lough Derg appear close at hand"

"The buildings give the impression of resting on the water"

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

Forty-six small islands

The lake returns to the Diocese

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

John O'Donovan described the lake

Secrets of Templecarne Graveyard

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

Destroying Station Island

How the demons came to Lough Derg

The demon Corna

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

Attempting to walk on water

Lough Derg and its islands

The call to prison

The moveable purgatory

"I felt ashamed for human nature"

The lough in the twelfth century

The stones of Station Island

Unimpressed by Lough Derg

A story of Ugolino's death on Station Island

An early description of the stations of Station Island

Drinking the "wine" of Lough Derg

Full immersion at the water station

Saint Bridget's Chair

The business of ferrying pilgrims to Station Island

The ferry to Lough Derg

Pilgrims being transported to Station Island on Lough Derg