Ballinamore

The ford is the point of the whole place. It sits on the canal that links the Erne to the Shannon, abandoned within a few years of opening in the 1860s and reopened in 1994, so the town has had two goes at being a crossing-place.

• Magh Slécht · ‘The plain of prostrations’, where the idol Crom Cruach stood ringed by twelve others. Patrick is said to have felled it with his crozier from the next hill, and the twelve to have been swallowed by the earth. A decorated La Tène stone found at Killycluggin is the candidate for the idol itself.
• Shannon Pot — Sionann’s well · Sionann, granddaughter of the sea god Manannán mac Lir, came to the well of knowledge for its forbidden fruit. The water rose and took her, and went on rising — it is the Shannon, and it still carries her name.

All of these are pinned on the Hidden Ireland map.