Browse Items (2 total) Browse All Browse by Tag Search Items Browse Map Tags: rock Sort by: Title Creator Date Added "The Chair stands out sharply against the vandyke brown of hibernating heathers and the orange of wilted bracken" "Returning to the lake shore, another notable landmark there should be considered, Saint Brigid's Chair. It is a large rock, roughly-shaped like a high-backed chair, and its is prominent even among the large boulders surrounding it..." Tags: Alice Curtayne, Bracken (Pteridium aquilinum), Bridget's Chair, colour, Heather (Calluna vulgaris), lake stones, pilgrim, pilgrim crossing, pine, rock, shoreline, St. Brigid, St. Brigid's Chair, St. Dabheoc's Seat, tree, twentieth century "What we saw was the great serpent or fish" Knox describes the fear of his Irish boatmen at the appearance of a lake monster, which he sees as a rock just above the waterline Tags: elitism, Folklore, James Spencer Knox, lake, monster, nineteenth century, Protestant critique, rock, serpent, superstition, Travelogue Output Formats atom, csv, dc-rdf, dcmes-xml, json, omeka-xml, rss2