CONTENTS

1. The Legend and Literature of St. Patrick’s Purgatory

2. Medieval Irish History and Archaeology

Aalen, F.H.A, Kevin Whelan, and Matthew Stout. Atlas of the Irish Rural Landscape. Cork: Cork University Press, 1997.

Charles-Edwards, T.-M. Early Christian Ireland. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.

Edwards, Nancy. The Archaeology of Early Medieval Ireland. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1990.

Hamerow, Helena. Early Medieval Settlements: The Archaeology of Rural Communities in Northwest Europe 400–900. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.

MacCotter, Paul. Medieval Ireland: Territorial, Political, and Economic Divisions. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2008.

Ó Cróinin, Dáibhí. Early Medieval Ireland. London and New York: Longman, 1995.

Richter, Michael. Medieval Ireland: The Enduring Tradition. Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, 1988.

Stout, Matthew. The Irish Ringfort. Irish Settlement Studies 5. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 1997.

3. Irish Monasteries

4. Pilgrimage

Badone, Ellen, and Sharon R. Roseman. Intersecting Journeys: The Anthropology of Pilgrimage and Tourism. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2004.

Bieler, Ludwig. The Irish Penitentials. Scriptores Latini Hiberniae, v. 5. Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1975.

Coleman, Simon, and John Eade. Reframing Pilgrimage: Cultures in Motion. London: Routledge, 2004.

Coleman, Simon, and John Elsner. Pilgrimage: Past and Present in the World Religions. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1995.

Craig, Leigh Ann. Wandering Women and Holy Matrons: Women As Pilgrims in the Later Middle Ages. Leiden: Brill, 2009.

Cunningham, Bernadette, and Raymond Gillespie. “The Lough Derg Pilgrimage in the Age of the Counter-Reformation.” Éire-Ireland 39.3–4 (2004): 167-79.

Cunningham, John B. Lough Derg, Legendary Pilgrimage. Monaghan, Ireland: R. & S. Printers, 1984.

Davidson, Linda Kay, and Maryjane Dunn. Pilgrimage in the Middle Ages: A Research Guide. Garland Medieval Bibliographies 16. New York: Garland, 1993.

Finucane, Ronald C. Miracles and Pilgrims: Popular Beliefs in Medieval England. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1995.

Harbison, Peter. Pilgrimage in Ireland: The Monuments and the People. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1995.

Haren, Michael, and Yolande de Pontfarcy. The Medieval Pilgrimage to St Patrick’s Purgatory: Lough Derg and the European Tradition. Enniskillen: Clogher Historical Society, 1988.

Howard, Donald Roy. Writers and Pilgrims: Medieval Pilgrimage Narratives and Their Posterity. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1980.

Macneill, John Thomas. The Celtic Penitentials and Their Influence on Continental Christianity, a Dissertation. Paris: É. Champion, 1923.

McNeill, John T., and Helena M. Gamer. Medieval Handbooks of Penance: A Translation of the Principal “Libri Poenitentiales” and Selections from Related Documents. Records of Western Civilization. New York: Columbia University Press, 1990.

Melczer, William. The Pilgrim’s Guide to Santiago de Compostela. New York: Italica Press, 1993.

Nichols, Francis Morgan, and Eileen Gardiner, eds. Marvels of Rome. New York: Italica Press, 1986.

O’Connor, Daniel. St. Patrick’s Purgatory, Lough Derg: Its History, Traditions, Legends, Antiquities, Topography and Scenic Surroundings. With Some Account of Its More Notable Pilgrims and a Detailed Description of the Authorised Devotions Performed at Its Venerable Shrine. Dublin: J. Duffy, 1903.

Sumption, Jonathan. Pilgrimage: An Image of Mediaeval Religion. Totowa, New Jersey: Rowman and Littlefield, 1975.

Turner, Victor, and Edith Turner. Image and Pilgrimage in Christian Culture. New York: Columbia University Press, 1978.

Webb, Diana. Medieval European Pilgrimage, c.700-c.1500. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave, 2002.

5. Saints, Relics and Reliquaries

Adamnan, and Marjorie Ogilvie Anderson. Adomnan’s Life of Columba. Oxford Medieval Texts. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990.

Bourke, Cormac. “Medieval Metalwork from the Diocese of Clogher.” In History of the Diocese of Clogher, ed. by Henry A. Jefferies. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2005, 25-40.

—. The Archaeology of a Saint. Belfast: H.M.S.O., 1993.

Brown, Peter Robert Lamont. The Cult of the Saints: Its Rise and Function in Latin Christianity. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981.

Crawford, H.S. “A Descriptive List of Irish Shrines and Reliquaries.” Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 52 (1923): 74–93, 151–76.

Geary, Patrick J. Furta Sacra: Thefts of Relics in the Central Middle Ages. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990.

Herbert, Máire. Iona, Kells, and Derry: The History and Hagiography of the Monastic Familia of Columba. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 1996.

Lucas, A.T. “‘Penal’ Crucifixes.” Journal of the County Louth Archaeological Society 8.2 (1954): 145–74.

—. “The Social Role of Relics and Reliquaries in Ancient Ireland.” Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 116 (1986): 5–37.

O’Donovan, Patrick F. Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan. Dublin: Stationery Office, 1995.

Ó Floinn, Raghnall. “The Soiscél Molaise.” Clogher Record 13 (1989): 51–63.

—. Irish Shrines & Reliquaries of the Middle Ages. Dublin: Country House, in association with the National Museum of Ireland, 1994.

—. “The Bell of Saint Ninnid of Inishmacsaint, Lough Erne, Co. Fermanagh.” In The Modern Traveller to Our Past, Festschrift in Honour of Ann Hamlin. Ed. by Marion Meek. N.p.: DPK, 2006, 145-49.

Sharpe, R. Medieval Irish Saints’ Lives. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991.

Stokes, Whitley. Lives of Saints, from the Book of Lismore. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1890.

Spears, Arthur. The Cult of Saint Catherine of Alexandria in Ireland. Rathmullen: Rathmullen and District Local History Society, 2006.

6. Guides to Sites and Monuments

GENERAL:
Boylan, Henry. A Valley of Kings, the Boyne: Five Thousand Years of History. Dublin: O’Brien Press, 1988.

Casey, Christine, and Alistair Rowan. North Leinster. The Buildings of Ireland. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002.

Cunningham, John B. Monasteries and Early Church Sites of the River Erne. N.p.: Cumann Cléir Chlochair, 2000.

Harbison, Peter, Homan Potterton, and Jeanne Sheehy. Irish Art and Architecture from Prehistory to the Present. London: Thames and Hudson, 1978.

Harbison, Peter. The High Crosses of Ireland: An Iconographical and Photographic Survey. Bonn: R. Habelt. 1992.

—. Guide to National and Historic Monuments of Ireland: Including a Selection of Other Monuments Not in State Care. Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, 1992.

—. The High Crosses of Ireland: With the Figure Sculptures Explained. Drogheda: Boyne Valley Honey Company, 1994.

Lalor, Brian. The Irish Round Tower. Cork: Collins, 2005.

Rowan, Alistair. North West Ulster. The Buildings of Ireland. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003.

Wood, Helen Lanigan, and Bill Porter. Images of Stone. [Enniskillen]: Fermanagh District Council in co-operation with the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, 1985.

DEVENISH:
Hamlin, Ann Elizabeth. Devenish, Co. Fermanagh. Belfast: Historic Monuments and Buildings Branch, Dept. of the Environment for Northern Ireland, 1979.

DROGHEDA:
Bradley, John. The Topography and Layout of Medieval Drogheda. Aspects of the History of Drogheda 1. [Drogheda]: Old Drogheda Society, 1997.

Eoin Halpin. “Excavations at St. Mary d’Urso, Drogheda, County Louth.” Journal of the County Louth Archaeological (& Historical) Society 23 (1996): 452-510.

DRUMLANE:
O’Reilly, Patrick. “Drumlane Abbey” 1 & 2. Breifny Antiquarian Society Journal 2.2 (1924), 2.3 (1925–26): 311-38.

DUBLIN:
Crawford, John and Raymond Gillespie, eds. St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2009.

INISHMACSAINT:
Parke, William K. The Parish of Inishmacsaint. Inishmacsaint, Co. Fermanagh: The Parish, 1982.

KELLS:
Battersby, William. A Walk around Kells. Navan, Co. Meath: William Battersby, 2000.

Roe, Helen M. The High Crosses of Kells. Meath: Meath Archaeological and Historical Society, 1966.

LOUGH DERG:
Cunningham, John B. Lough Derg, Legendary Pilgrimage. Monaghan, Ireland: R. & S. Printers, 1984.

Flynn, Laurence J. Lough Derg, County Donegal: St. Patrick's Purgatory. [Dublin]: [Eason], 1987.

Harbison, Peter, and Joss Lynam. Lough Derg: The Shore by Saints Island, Co. Donegal. The Heritage Council of Ireland. Kilkenny: Heritage Council, 2004.

Mac Tréinfhir, Noel. “The Todi Fresco and St. Patrick’s Purgatory, Lough Derg.” Clogher Record 12.2 (1986): 141–58.

McGuinness, Joseph. Saint Patrick's Purgatory, Lough Derg. Dublin: Columba Press, 2000.

MELLIFONT:
Colmcille, Father O.C.S.O. The Story of Mellifont. Dublin: M.H. Gill, 1958.

Mellifont Abbey: Visitors’ Guide. [Dublin]: Dept. of Arts, Heritage, Gaeltacht and the Islands, 1999.

Mellifont Abbey Press. Mellifont Abbey and Its Environs: An Illustrated Guide and History. Louth: Mellifont Abbey Press, 1980.

Paor, Liam de, John Hunt, H.J. Plenderleith, and Michael Dolley. Excavations at Mellifont Abbey, Co. Louth. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, 1969.

Stalley, R.A. Mellifont Abbey: A Study of Its Architectural History. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, Section C,80,14. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, 1980.

SLANE:
Trench, C.E.F. Slane. Dublin: An Taisce, 1976.

WHITE ISLAND
Chambers, Richard. White Island: History and Mystery. Private printing, 2002.