as long as
she lived in the sea.

It is nearly eight hundred years ago since the story was transcribed
from some old authority into the Book of the Dun Cow, the oldest
manuscript of Gaelic literature we possess.--Joyce's "Old Celtic
Romances," p. 97.

VI.

_The Fairy Tree of Dooros._

The forest of Dooros was in the district of Hy Fiera of the Moy (now
the barony of Tireragh, in Sligo).

On a certain occasion the Dedanns, returning from a hurling match with
the Feni, passed through the forest, carrying with them for food
during the journey crimson nuts, and arbutus apples, and scarlet
quicken-berries, which they had brought from the Land of Promise. One
of the quicken-berries dropped on the earth, and the Dedanns passed on
not heeding.

From this berry a great quicken-tree sprang up, which had the virtues
of the quicken-trees that grow in fairyland. Its berries had the taste
of honey, and those who ate of them felt a cheerful glow, as if they
had drunk of wine or old mead, and if a man were even a hundred years
old he returned to the age of thirty as soon as he had eaten three of
them.

The Dedanns having heard of this tree, and not wishing that anyone
should eat of the berries but themselves, sent a giant of their own
people to guard it, namely, Sharvan the Surly, of Lochlann.--"The
Pursuit of Diarmuid and Grania," "Old Celtic Romances," p. 313
(Joyce).

VII.

_Prince Cuglas._

In the list of the historic tales mentioned in the Book of Leinster,
and which is given in O'Curry's appendix to his "Lectures on the MSS.
Materials of Ancient Irish History," "The Cave of the Road of Cuglas"
finds place. O'Curry has the following note:--

"Cuglas was the son of Donn Desa, King of Leinster, and master of the
hounds to the monarch Conaire Mor. Having one day followed the chase
from Tara to this road, the chase suddenly disappeared in a cave, into
which he followed, and was _never seen after_. Hence the cave was
called _Uaimh Bealach Conglais_, or the cave of the road of Cuglas
(now Baltinglass, in the County of Wicklow). It is about this cave,
nevertheless, that so many of our pretended Irish antiquarians have
written so much nonsense in connection with some imaginary pagan
worship to which they gravely assure the world, on etymological
authority, the spot was devoted. The authority for the legend of
Cuglas is the _Dinnoean Chus_ on the place _Bealach Conglais_ (Book of
Lecain). The full tale has not come do