The keen of the South of Ireland: as illustrative of Irish political and domestic history, manners, music, and superstitions / Collected, edited, and chiefly translated by T. Crofton Croker.
- Thomas Crofton Croker
- Date:
- 1844
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The keen of the South of Ireland: as illustrative of Irish political and domestic history, manners, music, and superstitions / Collected, edited, and chiefly translated by T. Crofton Croker. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![The woman of wailing At Gur’s voicy lake.* From Glen Fogra of wordst Came a mournful whine ; And all Kerry’s hags Wept the lost Geraldine. The Banshees of Youghallf And of stately Mogeely,§ circle of Belus, i.e. of the sun, or the annual course of that planet through the ecliptic.” —O’Brien’s Irish Dictionary, where to this Celtic monosyllable is referred the Latin word annus. Ain-a means from out of this mysterious circle. * Lough Gur, in the county of Limerick, is perhaps that above all other spots in Ireland to which a careful antiquarian research should be directed at the present moment. The data which forced this conviction on the Editor’s mind are curious, and re- quire to be more minutely detailed than the present space admits; probably no where in the world exists such an extended and connected series of stone circles with similar works. + Literally, the glen of warning—proclamation—decree. [ Fo- gradh] from a proclamation against the Earl of Desmond having been published there in the reign of Elizabeth. It is now called Glenogra. In the county of Limerick, about a mile and a half N.W. of Lough Gur. + Thomas Fitzjames, the eighth earl of Desmond, procured the incorporation of Youghall in 1462. He founded the colle- giate church of that town in 1464, and in 1467 he was beheaded at Drogheda. It is generally believed that his tomb is that now commonly pointed out in Dublin as the tomb of Strongbow. § A castle in the county of Cork, on the river Bride, two miles west of Tallow, and the favourite seat of Thomas the](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33285676_0078.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
