Lough Erne

last last tournament on the EuroPro last ever one

Loch Erne Northern Ireland I was cruised like proper as good as I could play and then I three puttied for about 70 feet on 10 three puttied for about 35 feet on 14 and then three puttied the 17th and I was like Well, that happened fast and finished second by a shot.

I had to win it to get my card, but I was leading with nine holes to play.

So that was a tough one.

Uh, to give Camden credit though, he does not just repeat Gerald's mistake about the Shannon.

Instead, he claims that Ulster is divided from Connacht by Lough Erne and a river that flows from it into the ocean.

Though today we call this river the River Erne, Camden's 1590 and 1594 edition of the Britannia labels it as the Banna or the Bannius.

The question arises of where Camden got this name for this river.

Spenser, then, might have heard from Gaelic Irish sources how the drows is a boundary point, but likely thought that it was another name for the Erne, as Mercator did.

Since Spenser and Mercator conflate the drows with the Erne, to what cultural reference is Spenser referring when he claims that the Trowis overran its people? Since neither Lough Melvin nor the actual River drows appear on the maps of Ortelius or Mercator or are not labeled in any English maps of, of Ireland contemporary to Spenser, we need to consider are there any other lake-bursting tales associated with the Erne to which Spenser may be alluding here.

So Lough Erne has its own well-attested lake-bursting or tomaine tale in Gaelic Irish lore.

In this story, a king called Fiacha Labraidhna battles and defeats a group called the Ernai.

Mitchellburn was there with the stubborn defenders of Londonderry, and Wolseley with the warriors who had raged the unanimous shout of Advance on the day of Newton Butler.

Sir Albert Cunningham, the ancestor of the noble family whose seat now overlooks the Boyne, had brought from the neighbourhood of Lough Erne a gallant regiment of dragoons, which still glories in the name of Ennis Killen, and which has proved on the shores of the Euxine that it has not degenerated since the day of the Boyne.

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English authorities on the coast responded with grim resolve.

Lord Bingham’s troops stationed at Lough Erne were quick to seize any Spanish survivor they encountered.

In many cases, the English shot them or sent them back into the sea in a boat of their own making, a brutal testament to the wartime mentality of fifteen eighty-eight.

Survivors were viewed not as prisoners of war, but as threats that could aid Spain if left alive.