"A spreading hawthorn tree"

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Title

"A spreading hawthorn tree"

Subject

Travelogues--James Spencer Knox--Lough Derg--Description

Description

Knox visits a lone tree on an island, a home of fairies in local folklore

Creator

James Spencer Knox, 1789-1862

Source

Pastoral Annals. By an Irish Clergyman [i.e. James S. Knox], p. 388-89

Publisher

R. B. Seeley and W. Burnside, London

Date

1840

Contributor

Digitised by Google, sponsored by Princeton Library

Rights

Public domain

Format

Monograph

Language

English

Type

Travelogue

Identifier

DD_0278

Coverage

54.620679, -7.902967

References

https://books.google.com.mm/books?id=kIIuAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q=lough%20derg&f=false

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Text

"We reached the island in a few minutes. It contained nothing else worthy of notice, than a spreading hawthorn tree, the special object of my visit; - for this, the only arboreal occupant of the spot, had, as was afformed, and as all good men believed, braved the storms of many centuriesl and moreover, it was the repair 'of many fairy elves that be,' or did once be; for fairies become extinct as well as mammoths or leviathans, thought I question whether the Buckland caves have yet produced a fossil fairy which might lead one to conclude with the British Association - who will meet at Glasgow this year, as they have done with other less worthy competitors - that because there are no fossil remains of fairies to be seen, therefore the breed or race of fairies still exists, as I am confident it does, in that great body itself, if it would call the roll of all its members, and so find them out."

Original Format

Monograph

Citation

James Spencer Knox, 1789-1862, “"A spreading hawthorn tree",” Digital Derg: A Deep Map, accessed March 28, 2024, https://digitalderg.eu/items/show/298.

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