Browse Items (13 total) Browse All Browse by Tag Search Items Browse Map Tags: etymology Previous Page Page of 2 Sort by: Title Creator Date Added Sibby's moat "There is a moat or mound in the townland of Cullion where a woman named Sabina did penance on the way to Lough Derg. She used to sleep on this mound the night before she went no matter whether the weather was wet or dry. It is still called Sibby's… Tags: Cullion Townland, dryness, etymology, Folklore, moat, mound, pilgrimage, place name, Sibby's moat "The mark of St. Patrick's knee" An account of Lough Derg from a late-nineteenth-century pilgrim. Tags: description, etymology, Fair Lake, Irish Monthly, miracle, monster, pilgrimage, purgatory, Red Lake, rocks, St. Patrick, Station Island "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 Previous Page Page of 2 Output Formats atom, csv, dc-rdf, dcmes-xml, json, omeka-xml, rss2