Caoránach
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In Irish folklore
, Caoránach was a monster which was banished by St Patrick
to Lough Derg
. Perceived as female, Caoránach was said to be the mother of demons and devils.
Lough Derg ('red lake')was named for the blood of the dragon Caoranach issuing from an old witch's thigh bone, the dragon was slain by Finn Mac Cumhaill.
Irish mythology
The mythology of pre-Christian Ireland did not entirely survive the conversion to Christianity, but much of it was preserved, shorn of its religious meanings, in medieval Irish literature, which represents the most extensive and best preserved of all the branch and the Historical Cycle. There are...
, Caoránach was a monster which was banished by St Patrick
Saint Patrick
Saint Patrick was a Romano-Briton and Christian missionary, who is the most generally recognized patron saint of Ireland or the Apostle of Ireland, although Brigid of Kildare and Colmcille are also formally patron saints....
to Lough Derg
Lough Derg (Donegal)
Lough Derg is a small lake in County Donegal, Ireland, about seven kilometres north of the border village of Pettigoe...
. Perceived as female, Caoránach was said to be the mother of demons and devils.
Lough Derg ('red lake')was named for the blood of the dragon Caoranach issuing from an old witch's thigh bone, the dragon was slain by Finn Mac Cumhaill.