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Under big sailing clouds the rust-brown mountains of Béarra rise above blue water, Bere Island's long green back across a narrow sound, white surf on the rocks.

Mumu · Munster

Béarra

The Beara peninsula · Co. Cork

The long peninsula in the south-west that gave the Old Woman of Beare her name.

Open it on the full site There it is marked on the map of the five fifths, where the road of a tale can be traced.

A long, mountainous peninsula between Bantry Bay and the Kenmare River, with the Caha Mountains and Slieve Miskish along its spine and Bere Island and Dursey Island off its shores. Its northern side is in Co. Kerry; the rest is the barony of Béarra, or Bear, in Co. Cork, and logainm.ie records early forms of the name such as Berri and Bérre. The prose before the early Irish lament says the Old Woman of Beare took her name from it, because she had fifty foster-children here.

In the tales

  • The Old Woman of Beare She had her youth seven times, and outlived every man who lived with her. Now she sits under a white veil, and her lament begins with the ebbing of the tide.

See also

  • The Old Woman of Beare The woman of the early Irish lament, who had her youth seven times and outlived every man who lived with her.
  • Teach Duinn The Bull Rock, off Dursey. The House of Donn: a rock at the western edge, named for a drowned son of Míl.

Sources

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