An overnight wild camp at Lough Shannagh in the Mourne mountains , Northern Ireland. The lough was known in the past as Loch Seannach ‘Lake of the Foxes’ (Ordnance Survey Name Books, 1834), where seannach is a variant of the Irish sionnach for 'a fox'. A story goes that a long time ago there was a great hunter called Sheelagh, the daughter of one of the Clan Chiefs. On a hunt in the area around the Mournes she chased a fox. Such was her skill as a rider that she broke away from the rest of the hunt and was able to chase the fox into the high Mournes. The rest of the hunt tried to keep up but she was soon on her own and kept chasing the fox. The mist closed in and the visibility dropped to nothing. The fox ran straight into the lough and the woman followed only to see the fox disappear. The woman tried to find a way out of the lough, only to get deeper and deeper in until she died, with her horse, sinking to the bottom. The rest of the hunt were said to have searched in the mist for many days but never found her. Apparently, when the mist closes in, the woman can be seen haunting the lough on her horse.
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