_The Fairy Tree of Dooros._
The forest of Dooros was in the district of Hy Fiera of the Moy (now
the barony of Tireragh, in Sligo).
On a certain occasion the Dedanns, returning from a hurling match with
the Feni, passed through the forest, carrying with them for food
during the journey crimson nuts, and arbutus apples, and scarlet
quicken-berries, which they had brought from the Land of Promise. One
of the quicken-berries dropped on the earth, and the Dedanns passed on
not heeding.
From this berry a great quicken-tree sprang up, which had the virtues
of the quicken-trees that grow in fairyland. Its berries had the taste
of honey, and those who ate of them felt a cheerful glow, as if they
had drunk of wine or old mead, and if a man were even a hundred years
old he returned to the age of thirty as soon as he had eaten three of
them.
The Dedanns having heard of this tree, and not wishing that anyone
should eat of the berries but themselves, sent a giant of their own
people to guard it, namely, Sharvan the Surly, of Lochlann.--"The
Pursuit of Diarmuid and Grania," "Old Celtic Romances," p. 313
(Joyce).