School: Lathach Barr
- Location:
- Ardbane or Laghy Barr, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Seaghan Ó Gallchobhair
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1032, Page 291
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- (continued from previous page)let it into the water at the farthest end of the lough from the river. They had a net set in the mouth of the river. They rowed back quickly and the salmon was in the net when they went down.
Lough Derg was in olden times called Finlock or the Fair Lake. Later in Christian times it came to be called Lough Deire or Lough of the cave or Lough Dearg the Red Lough because there as a legend in connection with the lake to the effect that St. Patrick killed a terrible monster that had been ravaging and terrorising the district for years and that its blood reddened the waters. In the old chapel there was inset in the gable a stone on which was carved a wolf with a serpents’ tail. This was supposed to represent the ravenous monster.My Grandmother told me all this about Lough Derg.
- Collector
- Brigid Barron
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Mullanasole Barr, Co. Donegal
