Editing Balor (section)

===Severed head and lake origin tales===
According to a lay in ''[[Duanaire Finn]]'', after he was slain, Balor's severed head was set in the fork of an oak, and the tree which absorbed the venom became the timber-wood made into the shield of [[Fionn mac Cumhaill]].<ref name=duanaire-shield-of-fionn/>

In "Balor on Tory Island" and the Irish text close to it, Lui Lavada (or Lugh) sets Balor's head on a rock, and a lake forms from the dripping pool of liquid. The Irish text does not specify location, but Curtin's tale in English names [[Gweedore]] Loch (in County Donegal, local to the storyteller).<ref name=curtin-p283-donegal/><ref name=laoide/>

According to folklore from [[County Sligo]], Balor was said to have a glass through which he would look to destroy a person with his eye. He used the glass to burn and wither all of the plants at [[Moytura]], which prompted a hero to ask how he did this. Balor, being duped by the trick, removed the glass from his eye long enough for the hero to put the eye out. The blood running from Balor's eye{{efn|Or alternatively, a "tear" from the object he dropped.}} created a lake called ''Suil Balra'' or ''Lochan na Súil'' (Lough Nasool, "lake of the eye"),<ref>{{harvp|Borlase|1897|pp=<!--806–808-->}} [https://books.google.com/books?id=wvJMAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA806 pp. 806–808]. Collected from Thomas O'Conor and originally transcribed in O'Donovan, O.S.L. [Ordnance Survey Letters] <math>\tfrac{14}{F. 14}</math>, p. 205.<!--As provided by {{harvp|Borlase|1897}}, p. 803, note †.--></ref> near [[Ballindoon Friary|Ballindoon Abbey]].<ref name=muirhead/>