#FolkloreThursday #Celtic: `Grace McGloighlin lived in the townland of Creevelea at the north-west corner of Glenade Lough. One day in 1722 she went to the river to wash some clothes and, failing to return that evening, her husband Terence went looking by the lough shore. Tradition has it that he found her bloody remains with the Dobhar-Chú asleep on her breast. James Roonian's version, recounted to Patrick Tohall in the 1940s, details how Terence “returning to the house for his dagger he stole silently on the Dobhar-Chú and drove the knife into its breast. Before it died, however, it whistled to call its fellow.” Terence was forced to flee with the animal in pursuit. He was joined by a second man and “realising that they could not shake it off they stopped near some old walls and drew their horses across an open door. The Dobhar-Chú rushed under the horses' legs to attack the men, but as it emerged from beneath them one of the men stabbed and killed it.” Source: https://www.leitrimobserver.ie/news/features/the-tale-of-leitrims-own-loch-ness-monster-the-dobhar-chu-8301142