Editing Manannán mac Lir (section)

=== County Donegal ===
In a folktale from Donegal, St. Colum Cille broke his golden chalice and sent a servant to the mainland to have it repaired. While returning to the mainland in his currach, the servant met a stranger in a currach (later identified as Manannán), who blew his breath on the chalice, which then became whole again. Manannán then asked for a response from Colum Cille, who relayed that there would be no forgiveness for the man responsible for such works. When Manannán heard this, he said he would provide no more help to the Irish until they are "as weak as water", and then retired to the gray waves in the Highlands of Scotland.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Fitzgerald |first1=David |url= https://archive.org/details/revueceltiqu04pari/page/176/mode/2up?view=theater |title=Popular Tales of Ireland |date=1880 |publisher=Revue Celtique |page=177 |access-date=6 November 2021}}</ref> In a variant of this story,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Cor Críochach {{!}} The Schools' Collection|url= https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/4723815/4715997|access-date=25 December 2021|website=dúchas.ie}}</ref> Manann was said to live in a castle near a lake, and at night, he would draw the lake around the castle like a moat, but each morning he would return the lake to its proper place. A boy gathering water from a well ran into Manann and accidentally broke his Delft pitcher. Manann offered to put the Dellft pitcher back together using witchcraft if the boy would ask Colum Cille what sort of people go to hell. Colum Cille told the boy that people such as Manann go to hell, and when he returned to report this to Manann, Manann was so enraged that he packed up his gold in a barrel and enchanted both the gold and himself. A diver from Dublin later went down into the lake and found Manann's barrel of gold with a monstrous serpent chained to it. Men from the village then tried to drain the lake, but the morning after drilling the drain, they found it all closed up with grass growing over it.

Manann was king of the faeries and coveted a beautiful meadow in Carndonagh owned by Neill na hAirde (in some versions another faery king). Manann bought the land from Neill with pearls from the ocean and built a beautiful castle there. Neill's wife grew jealous, and she compelled her husband to go to war over the castle. Neill's army was defeated Manann's, but in retribution, Neill (or in a variant, Manann<ref>{{Cite web |title=Málainn {{!}} The Schools' Collection|url= https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/4493809/4422986|access-date=25 December 2021|website=dúchas.ie}}</ref>) rode out to Bar Mouth; there he removed three enchanted rods that held back the ocean. The castle and land were subsequently submerged, but the gardens and castle can still be seen beneath the waves in Straghbregagh.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Clochar na Trócaire, Carn Domhnaigh {{!}} The Schools' Collection|url= https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/4493773/4418844|access-date=25 December 2021|website=dúchas.ie}}</ref>

According to Donegal folklore, Manannán is said to be buried in the Tonn Banks off the coast of [[Inishowen]], which form part of a Triad called the Three Waves of Erin. When [[Cú Chulainn]] struck his shield, the three waves of Erin echoed the sound and roared across the ocean. Manannán's spirit is believed to ride the storms that occur when ships are wrecked. The three legs of Manannán "paradoxically" make up the [[Coat of arms of the Isle of Man|heraldic arms of Man]], and are said to represent the "storm-god careering over land and sea with whirling motion".<ref>{{Cite web |title=St Columb's Moville {{!}} The Schools' Collection|url= https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/4493791/4420791|access-date=25 December 2021|website=dúchas.ie}}</ref>