On a hazy midsummer afternoon two men lift an eel line from a boat among the reeds of Lough Neagh, swans scattered over silver-blue water to a far shore lost in haze.

Ulaid · Ulster

Loch nEathach

Lough Neagh · Five counties of Ulster

The hollow Fionn left behind.

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.

The largest lake in Ireland or Britain. In Patrick Kennedy’s telling (1866), Fionn tore up rocks and clay to hurl at a red-haired Scottish giant; the mass fell short into the sea and became the Isle of Man, and the hollow filled with water and became the lough.

In the tales

Boann and the Secret Well Whoever looks into Nechtan’s secret well, his eyes burst. Boann walks three times round it to show it has no power over her, and the water rises.
Fionn and the Giant’s Causeway The strongest giant in Ireland is coming for Fionn. Fionn’s wife has a plan, a cradle and twenty-one iron griddles.

Sources

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