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Tomás Ó Foghlú
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  1. Story - How the Lake Was Formed at the Top of Mount Gabriel

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    Long ago the devil was flying over Mount Gabriel and he was flying so low that he hit his wring against a rock. He got so cross that he took a bite out of the rock. When he had gone eight or nine miles from Mount Gabriel, he left the rock fall into the sea. The rock was so large that a part of it remained over the water and it is on that rock the lighthouse is built on now and it is known as the Fastnet Rock.
    There is a large lake where he took the bite and the water in that lake is of a black colour.
    Josephine O'Mahony
    Dreenlomane
    Told by Patrick O'Mahony
    Dreenlomane
    Ballydehob
    60 years
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. objects
      1. man-made structures
        1. historical and commemorative structures (~6,794)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Josephine O' Mahony
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Derreennalomane, Co. Cork
    Informant
    Patrick O' Mahony
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    60
    Address
    Ballydehob, Co. Cork