An Chraobh Airgid
In soft rain a swollen river runs through a steep heather glen towards a misty crag at its head, a great flat pale stone beside it, a thrush in a budding hawthorn.

Laigin · Leinster

Gleann an Smóil

Glenasmole · Co. Dublin

The glen where Oisín lifted the stone, and fell.

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 valley in the Dublin Mountains, with the River Dodder running through it; Joyce calls it “a fine valley about seven miles south of Dublin”. In the Lay of Oisín it is where Oisín, home from Tír na nÓg, leaned from the white horse to throw a marble flag off the men crushed beneath it, and the golden girth broke. The name is old: the Metrical Dindshenchas, about 1100, has a Glend Smoil. One nineteenth-century verse translation of the lay calls it the Thrushes’ Glen.

In the tales

  • Oisín in Tír na nÓg Niamh of the Golden Head carries Fionn’s son away to the Land of the Young. Three hundred years go by like three, and then he asks to go home.

See also

  • Bruiden Da Derga Da Derga's Hostel, Bohernabreena. The great hostel on the road of Cualu where Conaire Mór died.
  • Oisín Fionn’s son, the poet of the Fianna, who went to Tír na nÓg and came home three hundred years too late.

Sources

Each tale above lists the sources it is retold from. Every source the site draws on is listed on the full site.