Stations

Location: St. Brigid's Cross, Station Island

Location: St. Patrick's Cross, Station Island

Location: Water Station, Station Island

Location: Penitential Beds, Station Island

An account of the stations

"Long ago filled up"

The ancient pilgrimage

Jenny completes the stations

Jenny struggles with her emotions

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

"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"

John O'Donovan described the lake

Destroying Station Island

An early description of the stations of Station Island

Another fictitious Lough Derg, Coronea, County Cavan

Drinking the "wine" of Lough Derg