Browse Items (13 total) Browse All Browse by Tag Search Items Browse Map Tags: mythology Previous Page Page of 2 Sort by: Title Creator Date Added 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 March of the Dead Maguires An account of Lough Derg folklore on a fishing trip, explaining the strange circular currents of the lake in supernatural terms Tags: fishing, Folklore, ghosts, Henry Newland, lake, Maguire family, memoir, mythology, nineteenth century, seventeenth century, Station Island, supernatural, water, weather 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 Previous Page Page of 2 Output Formats atom, csv, dc-rdf, dcmes-xml, json, omeka-xml, rss2
