• St Patrick’s Purgatory is an ancient pilgrimage site on Station Island in Lough Derg, County Donegal, Ireland.
  • (Robert Sepehr) St Patrick’s Purgatory is an ancient pilgrimage site on Station Island in Lough Derg, County Donegal, Ireland.
  • It has stocks of pike, perch and brown trout for angling. It is best known for St Patrick's Purgatory, a site of pilgrimage on Station Island in the lake.
  • In Ireland, on Station Island of the coast of Lough Derg, County Donegal is St. Patrick’s Purgatory.
  • The point that is taxing my grey cells is to do with somewhere called St Patrick’s Purgatory on Station Island in the waters of Lough Derg, County Donegal.
  • Glimpses of heaven from purgatory isle. ... It may retain it’s name of St.Patrick’s ‘Purgatory’ but there are glimpses of heaven to be found there.
  • Medieval accounts describe the ‘pit’ as a shaft that was a low and narrow kiln. Ever since, the island has sometimes been referred to as ‘St. Patrick’s Purgatory’.
  • Other well-known poets, such as Denis Devlin and Patrick Kavanagh wrote works on St. Patrick's Purgatory as well.
  • St. Patrick's Purgatory is a cave that was once located on a small island in the middle of Loch Derg in County Donegal.