FOOTNOTE:

[I] Doubtless Clooth-na-bare should be Cailleac Bare, which would

mean the old Woman Bare. Bare or Bere or Verah or Dera or Dhera was a

very famous person, perhaps the mother of the gods herself. A friend

of mind found her, as he thinks, frequenting Lough Leath, or the Grey

Lake on a mountain of the Fews. Perhaps Lough Ia is my mishearing, or

the story-teller’s mispronunciation of Lough Leath, for there are many

Lough Leaths.

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