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Abbey of Clonard died in pilgrimage at Glendaloch.* In 1129 a prin- 

 cess of Munster died "in peregrinatione " at Derry, " post laudabi- 

 lem pcenitentiam."-f- A pilgrimage to Armagh in 1131, and another 

 "sancta peregrinatio animam salutari" in 1134, are recorded in the 

 Trias Thaumaturga, (p. 303 ;) and the same work makes mention 

 (p. 306) of the death of a princess in pilgrimage at Armagh. The 

 Annals of Innisfallen record, at the year 1043, a pilgrimage even to 

 Jerusalem ; and one to Rome in 1064 is mentioned by Tigernach, 

 In later days we find the ill-fated Pierce De Gaveston making his 

 offerings at the shrine of Saint Kevin, in Glendaloch, after he had 

 routed the O'Byrnes.J That Saint Patrick's Purgatory in Lough 

 Derg was also frequented in these ages, appears from Caesarius of 

 Heisterbach,§ who urges (" Qui de Purgatorio dubitat, &c.") "He 

 that hath the least doubt of Purgatory, let him go to Scotia, and 

 enter into the Purgatory of Saint Patrick, and then he will no longer 

 doubt of the pain of Purgatory." While Doctor Hanmer records the 

 pilgrimage thither of a knight, who had long served in King Stephen's 

 wars, " the strange sights he saw there, and how he made report 

 thereof unto King Stephen."|| 



One of the supposed uses of the round towers, was, it will be re- 

 membered, as chambers in the nature of stylite pillars for penitents 

 of the order of Inclusi.** No evidence, however, we believe can be 

 adduced to their being so tenanted in Ireland ; there are, however, 

 notices in this interval of individuals, defined to be " Scoti," who 

 submitted to such inclusion in foreign countries. Florentius Wigor- 

 niensis (ad ann. 1043) mentions one instance in Aminchad, ("Amin- 



• Acta Sanctorum, p. 407. f Trias Thaum. p. 507. 



:j; Pembrige's Annals. § Dial. lib. 12. c. 38. cited Ware's Ants. p. 8. 



II See Henry of Saltrey in 1 153, and also the Ulster Annals at 1497- 

 •* Vide, anU, p. 138. 



