Mysterious Creatures : A Guide to Cryptozoology

on the Folklore of Irish Plants and Animals,” Irish
Naturalist 23 (March 1914): 53–64.
Lough Keel, County Donegal. Janet and Colin
Bord, Alien Animals (Harrisburg, Pa.: Stackpole,
1981), p. 220.
Lough Kylemore, County Galway. Roy P.
Mackal, The Monsters of Loch Ness (Chicago: Swallow,
1976), p. 37.
Lackagh Lake, County Kerry. W. J. Wood spotted
a yellowish-brown animal about 7 feet long
while fishing in 1967. F. W. Holiday, The Dragon
and the Disc (New York: W. W. Norton, 1973), p.
66.
Lough Leane, County Kerry. Traditional home
of a PÉIST. A hoaxed photo, possibly made by
Tony Shiels, appeared in August 1981. Peter
Costello, In Search of Lake Monsters (New York:
Coward, McCann and Geoghegan, 1974), p. 183;
Mark Chorvinsky, “The Lough Leane Monster
Photograph Investigation,” Fate 46 (March 1993):
31–35, and (April 1993): 31–34.
Little Brosna River, County Offaly. Home of a
PÉIST known as St. Abban’s cat. Mary Donatus
MacNickle, Beasts and Birds in the Lives of the
Early Irish Saints (Philadelphia: Mary Donatus
MacNickle, 1934), p. 203.
Lough Looscaunagh, County Kerry. F. W. Holiday,
The Dragon and the Disc (New York: W. W.
Norton, 1973), p. 64.
Lough Major, County Monaghan. In July
1963, three teens saw an 8- to 10-foot monster
splashing in the lough. Tim Dinsdale, The
Leviathans (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul,
1966), pp. 151–152.
Lough Mask, County Mayo. A DOBHARCHÚ was
said to have inhabited this lough and killed a man in
1674. A. R. Lawrence saw a two-humped, eel-like
animal on June 16, 1963. Roderick O’Flaherty, A
Chorographical Description of West or H-Iar Connaught
(Dublin: Irish Archaeological Society, 1846),
pp. 19–20; F. W. Holiday, The Dragon and the Disc
(New York: W. W. Norton, 1973), pp. 43–44.
Lough Muck, County Donegal. An animal with
two humps was seen by a woman in 1885. Constance
Whyte, More than a Legend (London:
Hamish Hamilton, 1957), pp. 137–138.
Lough na Corra, County Mayo. Mrs. A. V.
Hunt saw several black shapes in the lough in
1911. St. John D. Seymour and Harry L. Neiligan,
True Irish Ghost Stories (Dublin: Hodges,
Figgis, 1926), p. 6.
Lough Nahanagan, County Wicklow. Traditional
home of a WATER HORSE. Robert Lloyd
Praeger, Irish Landscape (Dublin: Colm O.
Lochlainn, 1961), pp. 20–22; John M. Synge, The
Aran Islands, and Other Writings (New York: Vintage,
1962).
Lough Nahillion, County Galway. Roy P.
Mackal, The Monsters of Loch Ness (Chicago: Swallow,
1976), p. 37.
Lough Nahooin, County Galway. A 12-foot
PÉIST with a long neck and two humps was seen by
seven members of Stephen Coyne’s family on February
22, 1968. This lough is no bigger than 100
yards x 80 yards and only 20 feet deep. F. W. Holiday,
The Dragon and the Disc (New York: W. W.
Norton, 1973), pp. 49–50, 56–62, 68–71.
Lough Ramor, County Cavan. Traditional
home of a PÉIST. Peter Costello, In Search of Lake
Monsters (New York: Coward, McCann and Geoghegan,
1974), p. 183.
Lough Ree, County Roscommon. Three
Dublin priests were fishing off Holly Point on
May 18, 1960, when they saw a long-necked animal
with a flat, snakelike head and one hump
swimming for two minutes before it submerged.
Jan-Ove Sundberg, Nick Sucik, and Espen
Samuelsen picked up sonar readings of a large animal
on June 25, 2001, using a sensitive hydrophone.
Harry J. Rice, Thanks for the Memory
(Athlone, Ireland: Athlone Printing Works,
1952); Westmeath Independent, May 28, 1960;
Tim Dinsdale, The Leviathans (London: Routledge
and Kegan Paul, 1966), pp. 44–48; Peter
Costello, In Search of Lake Monsters (New York:
Coward, McCann and Geoghegan, 1974), pp.
165–171; “Lough Ree ‘Monster’ Detected,” Irish
Times, June 28, 2001.
Lough Shanakeever, County Galway. Patrick
Canning saw a WATER HORSE threatening his
donkey in 1954. In the early 1960s, Tommy Joyce
saw a dark-gray object more than 7 feet long
among some reeds. F. W. Holiday, The Dragon
and the Disc (New York: W. W. Norton, 1973),
pp. 40–41, 67, 74–77.
Lough Shandangan, County Clare. Michel
Meurger and Claude Gagnon, Lake Monster Traditions:
A Cross-Cultural Analysis (London:
Fortean Tomes, 1988), p. 161.
Shannon River, County Limerick. Traditional
home of a PÉIST. In July 1922, Capt. Hugh Shaw
and others on his ship docked at Limerick saw an
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