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Patrick and Corra on the Holy Mountain
The legend of Patrick and Corra tells how St Patrick fasted forty days on Croagh Patrick, County Mayo, routed a plague of demonic birds with his bell, and, in later folklore, banished the she-demon Corra into the lake still called Lough na Corra.