What is recorded here

No special day, but fasting bodies still circle the small lake three times because St. Patrick drove its monsters out. Picture Hill beside it keeps the memory visible: a spotted horse and two beasts marked on the eastern slope. Dunagard lives at the edge of that story, where water becomes a boundary and the lake refuses to hold what Patrick banned.

Unlocated holy well within the townland of Dunagard, listed by Ó Muirgheasa as well no. 102 (Ó Muirgheasa 1936, 159). Described by Ó Muirgheasa in 1936 as, 'On the hill of Cnoc a' Loch, north of Malin, and very near Malin Head, is a small lake dedicated to St. Patrick, around which a turus is yet made, no special day, but they go fasting and walk round the lake three times; the whole lake being holy. Adjoining this lake is Picture Hill, where the picture of a spotted horse and two monsters are seen on eastern slope of hill. St. Patrick banished these out of the lake and killed them. Hence there is no "water horse" in the lake now. So says tradition' (Ó Muirgheasa 1936, 159). Compiled by Caimin O'Brien Date of upload/revision: 05 January 2012

Linked to Saint Gobnait, the holy well in Dunagard was traditionally visited for cures related to fertility and childbirth. Local folklore associates the site with miraculous interventions by the saint, who is known in Irish tradition for her healing powers and protection of women in labor.

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