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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

The Orange Order in Pettigo

A description of the context surrounding the formation of the Orange Order district lodge and its relationship to Lough Derg

Tags: 1795 disaster, eighteenth century, etymology, Fionn mac Cumhaill, monster, Orange Order, Pettigo, Protestant critique, Protestantism, sectarian violence, serpent, St. Patrick

The origin of Lough Derg's name

"There are two different opinions to account for the meaning of the denomination, Lough Derg..."

Tags: Annals of the Four Masters, blood, bogland, colour, Daniel O'Connor, etymology, Fionn mac Cumhaill, Folklore, John O'Donovan, pilgrimage, place names, Royal Irish Academy, St. Patrick, water, wine

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