The Holy Wells of Ireland (1840)

Author: Philip Dixon Hardy

Book ID: 68018

Price: 95.00

The Holy Wells of Ireland Containing an Authentic Account of Those Various Places of Pilgrimage and Penance Which Are Still Annually Visited by Roman Catholic Peasantry. With a Minute Description of the Patterns and Stations Periodically held in Various Districts of Ireland. Dublin : Hardy, & Walker, [1840]. Fourth Thousand. Small 12mo. Pp viii, 120. Ex library copy, with ink stamps & with occasional label residue to endpapers. Rebound in green cloth boards, title in gilt to spine. Original cloth covers bound-in. A good copy.

Illustrated with ten (of eleven) engravings, this copy one engraving in the text.

An authentic account of the various places of pilgrimage and penance visited by thousands of the Roman Catholic peasantry in Ireland.

It also includes detailed descriptions of the patterns and stations held periodically in different districts of Ireland

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