Sinann
The Metrical Dindsenchas

Sinend daughter of Lodan Lucharglan son of Ler, out of Tir Tairngire (‘Land of Promise, Fairyland’) went to Connla’s Well which is under sea, to behold it. That is a well at which are the hazels and inspira tions [?] of wisdom, that is, the hazels of the science of poetry, and in the same hour their fruit, and their blossom and their foliage break forth, and these fall on the well in the same shower, which raises on the water a royal surge of purple. Then the salmon chew the fruit, and the juice of the nuts is apparent on their purple bellies. And seven streams of wisdom spring forth and turn there again.

Now Sinend went to seek the inspiration, for she wanted nothing save only wisdom. She went with the stream till she reached Linn Mnó Féile ‘the Pool of the Modest Woman’, that is Bri Ele — and she went ahead on her journey, but the well left its place, and she followed it to the banks of the river Tarr-cain ‘Fair-back’. After this it over whelmed her, so that her back (tarr) went upwards, and when she had come to the land on this side [of the Shannon] she tasted death. Whence Sinann and Linn Mná Fêile and Tarr-cain.