Donegal

Stories tagged Donegal:

• The Selkie Bride of Donegal Aug 20, 2025

  

  On the storm-lashed coast of County Donegal, where the Atlantic hurls itself endlessly against granite cliffs and the wind carries the ancient songs of the sea, there stands a cottage whose empty windows look out over waters that hold both beauty and sorrow. This was once the home of Ruairí MacSweeny and his selkie bride, whose story has become a legend whispered along the western shores—a tale of love and captivity, of freedom lost and the price that both captor and captive must pay when the bonds of the heart become chains of possession.