are not navigable.--_Chronicles of Eri.--O'Connor._

[9] Ballyshannon is evidently a very slight corruption of this term.

[Illustration: THE GOBLIN BUILDERS.]




THE GOBLIN BUILDERS.


"By well and rills, in meadows green,
We nightly dance our heyday guise;
And to our fairy king and queen
We chant our moonlight minstrelsies.
When larks 'gin sing,
Away we fling,
And babes new-born we steal as we go,
And elf in bed
We leave instead,
And wend us laughing, ho, ho, ho!"--BEN JONSON.

The story which serves for the basis of the following legend will be
easily recognised in the neighbourhood where the transactions are said
to have occurred, though probably not known beyond its immediate
locality.

The accessories are gathered from a number of sources: and the great
difficulty the author has had to encounter in getting at what he