Davog was a woman?

Davog was a woman?

Lough Derg--Folklore--O'Donovan--Dabheoc's Seat

"Now let me at my old antagonist Oral tradition: The chair of Davog lies in the townland of Suidhe Dhabheog (Seeavoge) where in the living rock some impressions of elbows &c are strewn. Davog was a woman, who came to make the turas but she died during its progress and was revived by St Patrick that she might finish it..."

John O'Donovan, 1806-1861

Letter from John O'Donovan, Ballyshanny, 1st of November, 1835, p. 247, O’Donovan, John, Ordnance Survey Letters, Donegal: Letters Containing Information Relative to the Antiquities of the County of Donegal Collected during the Progress of the Ordnance Survey in 1835, p. 122

Four Masters Press, Dublin

1835 [2000]

Transcribed and edited by Michael Herity, MRIA

Citation for the purposes of criticism

Edited edition of letters

English with Irish text in Celtic script

Ordnance Survey Letters

DD_0175

54.596797,-7.859638

"Now let me at my old antagonist Oral tradition: The chair of Davog lies in the townland of Suidhe Dhabheog (Seeavoge) where in the living rock some impressions of elbows &c are strewn. Davog was a woman, who came to make the turas but she died during its progress and was revived by St Patrick that she might finish it. After terminating it at the rock called her chair within sight of Station Island, she died again and was interred on Saints Island, as are all those who die at present during the turas on Station Island."

Hand written letters held in Royal Irish Academy