Browse Items (4 total) Browse All Browse by Tag Search Items Browse Map Tags: Fenian Cycle Sort by: Title Creator Date Added Situating Lough Derg A history of Lough Derg and its Antiquities. Tags: blood, Bundoran, commentary, Derg abban, dimensions, eighteenth century, Fair Lake, Fenian Cycle, Fionn mac Cumhaill, Folklore, Gerald of Wales, James Stephens, mica, moorland, railway, red, slate, St. Dabheoc, St. Fintan, Tirconnell, water "A very strange Story hath been invented" A critique of St. Patrick's Purgatory and Catholic pilgrimage in general. Tags: Caoranach, cattle, eighteenth century, etymology, Fair Lake, Fenian Cycle, Fionn mac Cumhaill, giants, imagination, John Richardson, legend, myth, Protestant critique, Red Lake, superstition The monster guards a crock of gold "The same or a similar monster inhabits the lake yet (still) and was seen not many months ago. It guards a crock of gold which lies buried in the ancient island of the Purgatory…" Tags: Fenian Cycle, Fionn mac Cumhaill, Folklore, gold, John O'Donovan, letters, Ludovicus Pyrrhus, monster, mythology, nineteenth century, ordnance survey Fionn Mac Cumhaill and the worm of Lough Derg O'Donovan's account from a local of the origin of Lough Derg's name in a story from the Fenian Cycle Tags: etymology, Fair Lake, Fenian Cycle, Fionn mac Cumhaill, John O'Donovan, lake, letters, mythology, nineteenth century, ordnance survey, Red Lake, worm Output Formats atom, dc-rdf, dcmes-xml, json, mobile-json, omeka-xml, rss2
