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Clíodhna legend

Fairy queen standing on Irish coastal cliffs as a great wave rises behind her, Irish folklore scene.

The Legend of Clíodhna

Along the southern coast of Ireland, where Atlantic waves crash against rugged cliffs and mist drifts over hidden coves, stories are still told of Clíodhna, a radiant fairy queen whose beauty rivaled the dawn and whose sorrow shaped the tides of Munster. Her legend, preserved in Irish tradition and recorded by Geoffrey Keating in Foras Feasa ar Éirinn, speaks of
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