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Wed 09 Sep 2010The lonesome west
GREAT IRISH DRIVES DELPHI TO LEENANE:THE ORACLE OF DELPHI was famous in classical literature for the obscure and ambiguous nature of its foretelling, which perhaps is a clue to why this spectacular part of Co Mayo was thus named by the marquis of Sligo, who built a famous hunting lodge here.
Its Irish name is Fionnloch – White Lake – but it is the pseudoclassical name that has stuck and by which it is best known today.
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