Name: | Station Island | CISP No: | STISL |
Place: | Loch Derg | Grid Ref: | H 83 736 (IR) |
Parish: | Tirhugh | Stones: | 1 |
County: | Donegal (Dún na nGall) , Ireland | Saint(s): | none |
Site Type: | ecclesiastical |
Macalister/1945, 301, simply refers to the place as `this sacred island'.
Lacy/etal/1983, 282, states that Station Island was the destination for large scale pilgrimage in the central middle ages, focussed on a cave known as St Patrick's purgatory.