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The Bull Rock rises dark and sheer from a heaving grey Atlantic, white with seabirds, the swell bursting through its sea-arch, gannets wheeling and Dursey behind.

Mumu · Munster

Teach Duinn

The Bull Rock, off Dursey · Co. Cork

The House of Donn: a rock at the western edge, named for a drowned son of Míl.

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.

Keating says that Donn son of Míl drowned in the druids’ storm at a place in west Munster “which is called Teach Duinn”, and that it is named after him. It is usually identified with the Bull Rock, which rises sheer out of the sea about four kilometres off Dursey Island, at the end of Béarra: 93 metres high, with a tunnel right through it that the sea runs in and out of. In Irish tradition it is also the place where the souls of the dead gather.

In the tales

  • The Song of Amairgen A poet sets his right foot on Ireland and sings that he is the wind on the sea. Three queens of the old gods meet him, and each asks for the island’s name.

See also

  • Béarra The Beara peninsula. The long peninsula in the south-west that gave the Old Woman of Beare her name.
  • Donn son of Míl The eldest son of Míl, who said he owed Ireland to no one, and did not live to enjoy it.

Sources

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