Boyne

Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx

• attestation: Then she, fleeing her shame, turns seaward, with the water behind her as far as Boyne-mouth, (where she was drovraed) (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter VI: The Folklore of the Wells)

  "Then she, fleeing her shame, turns seaward, with the water behind her as far as Boyne-mouth, (where she was drovraed).'"

• attestation: Such was the shepherd's yarn, which partly agrees with the Boyne and Shannon stories in that the woman was pursued by the water, which only stopped where she died (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter VI: The Folklore of the Wells)

  "Such was the shepherd's yarn, which partly agrees with the Boyne and Shannon stories in that the woman was pursued by the water, which only stopped where she died."

• attestation: In the summer of 1894, I spent some sunny days in the neighbourhood of the Boyne, and one morning 1 resolved to see the chief burial mounds dotting the banks of that interesting river; but before leav (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter VIII: Welsh Cave Legends)

  "In the summer of 1894, I spent some sunny days in the neighbourhood of the Boyne, and one morning 1 resolved to see the chief burial mounds dotting the banks of that interesting river; but before leaving the hotel at Drogheda, my attention was attracted by a book of railway advertisement of the kind which forcibly impels one to ask two questions: why will not the railway companies leave those people alone who do not want to travel, and why will they make it so tedious for those who do?"

• comparison: With my head full of these and the like dreams of folklore, I was taken over the scene of the Battle of the Boyne; and the car-driver, having vainly tried to interest me in it, gave me up in despair a (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter VIII: Welsh Cave Legends)

  "With my head full of these and the like dreams of folklore, I was taken over the scene of the Battle of the Boyne; and the car-driver, having vainly tried to interest me in it, gave me up in despair as an uncultured savage who felt no interest in the history of Ireland."