"A spreading hawthorn tree"
Dublin Core
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.