The harper’s song at Ballyshannon

Early in the eighteenth century an old Irish harper sang before the Bishop of Derry at dinner. The song told of a giant buried at a named spot, with plates of gold on his breast and back and gold rings on his fingers so large a man could creep through them. Two of the company went and dug there and found two thin circular pieces of gold, though nothing more the next day. The song was later identified as Moira Borb, and its ‘loud cascade’ was the Salmon Leap waterfall at Ballyshannon.