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Episode 53: Dobhar-chú
Glenade does not announce itself. It lies in a long green trough in north County Leitrim, pinched between the Arroo mountains and the Dartry range, with Benbulben’s bare forehead watching from the Sligo side. The lough is small by tourist maps. A mile of dark water. Half a mile across. Pike and perch and eel in the weed. White-clawed crayfish in the stones. Cars take the Bundoran road and never look down. The people of the glen always looked down
In the National Folklore Collection, the school copybooks of the 1930s, when children still wrote what the old people would actually say, the…
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