An Chraobh Airgid
In clear spring light the terraced grey hills of the Burren rise above green fields and a silver sea, a lone round thatched house with a pale figure at its door.

Mumu · Munster

Corco Modhruadh

Corcomroe · Co. Clare

Where Máel Dúin went to the druid Nuca for a charm and a blessing on his boat.

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 barony in north-west Clare, the southern half of the old kingdom of Corco Modhruadh, “the people of Modhruadh”. In The Voyage of Máel Dúin the druid Nuca lived here, and told Máel Dúin the day to begin his boat, the day to put to sea and the number of his crew. The tale says that Boirenn Nuca is named after him. Boirinn, “rocky district”, is the Irish name of the Burren, the limestone country of north Clare, which takes in part of Corcomroe.

In the tales

  • The Voyage of Máel Dúin He set out to avenge his father and found the killers’ island in the dark. Then a wind took him, and for three years and seven months the ocean showed him wonders.

See also

  • Máel Dúin The son of a raider and a nun, who put to sea to avenge his father and was three years and seven months among the islands of the ocean.

Sources

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