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The monk of Eymstadt

An account of the Dutch monk's visit to Lough Derg and his charges of usury.

Tags: archaeology, fifteenth century, Folklore, Heemstede, misconduct, monk, purgatory, suppression, William Pinkerton

"The water, the water of the seas and of lakes and of mist and rain, has all but made the Irish after its image"

Yeats' reflection on the affinity for bodies of water within the Irish poetic imagination and psyche

Tags: Folklore, Irish identity, mythology, religion, W. B. Yeats, water

St. Patrick's well at Tullaghan

"St. Patrick’s Well at Tullaghan has a legend. St Patrick stopped the night in a house near a mountain. The woman told him not to look at the light on the mountain, but he went up and saw a serpent and when he struck it, St. Patrick’s Well sprang up.…

Tags: blood, Bundoran, County Donegal, etymology, Folklore, holy well, mountains, St. Patrick, Tullaghan

How the demons came to Lough Derg

"Some of the evil spirits settled on the Island of Swimmers to which they gave the name of demons. The demonaic island in truth is girded by an inland lake..."

Tags: banishment, Croagh Patrick, demons, Folklore, Isle of Demons, Isle of Swimmers, myth, mythology, origin of purgatory, Shane Leslie, St. Dabheoc, St. Patrick, Station Island

The Island of Swimmers

"There is on the cliff of Cruachan looking out on the sea and the Western sun a very deep cave exhaling icy blasts all the time..."

Tags: banishment, Croagh Patrick, demons, Folklore, Isle of Demons, Isle of Swimmers, myth, mythology, origin of purgatory, Shane Leslie, St. Patrick

The comedy of fantastical myth

"Whether this narrative should have been given in a tragic or comic style; or should excite tears or laughter, is wholly submitted to the state of spirits your lordship shall happen to be in when it shall arrive from."

Tags: amusement, Clogher, derision, Folklore, mythology, Philip Skelton, pilgrimage, Protestant critique

Keeronagh, the Devil's mother

"They here shew a bass relief of Keeronagh, the devil's mother, rudely done on a coinstone of one of the chapels, a figure somewhat resembling that of a wolf, with a monstrous long tail and a forked tongue..."

Tags: blood, Caoranach, Clogher, Dabheoc's seat, etymology, Fionn mac Cumhaill, Folklore, Keeronagh, monster, mountains, mythology, Philip Skelton, pilgrimage, Protestant critique, stonework

Templecarne Graveyard, County Donegal

Graveyard on irregular-plan, laid out c. 1600. Now out of use. Contains a collection of multidenominational cut stone gravemarkers (upstanding, recumbent, and table-type memorials) mainly dating from c. 1750 to c. 1900. Two ashlar limestone…

Tags: 1795 disaster, building survey, built heritage, burial, Folklore, Parish of Templecarne, Templecarne, Templecarne Graveyard

St Peter's Island and St Peter's Well

"St. Peter's Island and St. Peter's well are situated about a half a mile due North of the village of Mountcharles. They are in the townland of Turras Hill. The little Island is in the centre of the lake, but since the erection of the waterworks in…

Tags: Augustinians, Catholicism, exile, Folklore, hills, holy well, island, lake, Mountcharles, seventeenth century, St. Peter's Island, Turras Hill, vanished island

Water-Horses

"Long ago the people used to send their horses to the mountain for the summer months.

One day a man was going to the mountain for his horse as he required him to do some work at home.

When he went up to the mountain he saw all the horses…

Tags: Croaghbrack townland, fairies, Folklore, horse, lake, Lough Kilraway, mountains, Oral History, supernatural, water, water horse

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