{"id":35995,"date":"2018-05-21T06:37:24","date_gmt":"2018-05-21T06:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/insidethegoblinuniverse.com\/index.php\/2018\/05\/21\/dobharchu-irish-lake-monster\/"},"modified":"2018-05-21T06:37:24","modified_gmt":"2018-05-21T06:37:24","slug":"dobharchu-irish-lake-monster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/insidethegoblinuniverse.com\/index.php\/2018\/05\/21\/dobharchu-irish-lake-monster\/","title":{"rendered":"DOBHARCHU &#8211; IRISH LAKE MONSTER"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: large\"><i>For those who catalog variant names of cryptids, I was recently informed by cryptozoologist Garry Cunningham that another name in the Irish language for the <\/i>dobharch\u00fa\u00a0<i>is <\/i>c\u00fa b\u00e1n.\u00a0 <i>This literally means &#8220;white hound&#8221; and there may be some confusion here, as sometimes the term <\/i>dobharch\u00fa <i>has been applied to an albino otter.<\/i><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: large\"><i><br \/><\/i><\/span><span style=\"font-size: large\"><i>The term <\/i>dobharch\u00fa <i>has also been used to mean an otter generally.<\/i><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: large\"><i>It is pronounced either <\/i>dovarchoo<i>\u00a0or <\/i>doorchoo\u00a0 <i>with the <\/i>ch<i>\u00a0sounded as in Bach.<\/i><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: large\"><i><br \/><\/i><\/span><span style=\"font-size: large\"><i>A variant meaning simply &#8220;otter&#8221; is the word <\/i>dobhr\u00e1n <i>(doorawn)<\/i><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: large\"><i>while an early Irish-English dictionary by Peter O&#8217;Connell (manuscript in the Library of Trinity College, Dublin) gives <\/i>dobhr\u00e1n boisleathan <i>for beaver, an animal not found in Ireland.<\/i><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: large\"><i><br \/><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-95CKkViY6pg\/WwF_xHsyqYI\/AAAAAAAAZa4\/5DEKNrONXi4mA2R2lmXF5h_L3pIq1noTwCLcBGAs\/s1600\/images%2B%252889%2529.jpg?ssl=1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-95CKkViY6pg\/WwF_xHsyqYI\/AAAAAAAAZa4\/5DEKNrONXi4mA2R2lmXF5h_L3pIq1noTwCLcBGAs\/s1600\/images%2B%252889%2529.jpg?w=1080&#038;ssl=1\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large\"><i><br \/><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cfz-usa.blogspot.com\/2018\/05\/dobharchu-irish-lake-monster.html\" target=\"_blank\">source: CFZ-USA<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those who catalog variant names of cryptids, I was recently informed by cryptozoologist Garry Cunningham that another name in the Irish language for the dobharch\u00fa\u00a0is c\u00fa b\u00e1n.\u00a0 This literally means &#8220;white hound&#8221; and there may be some confusion here, as sometimes the term dobharch\u00fa has been applied to an albino otter.The term dobharch\u00fa has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":35996,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[28,30,29,27,15],"class_list":["post-35995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-update","tag-bryanbowden","tag-cryptozoology","tag-itgu-insidethegoblinuniverse","tag-ronaldmurphy","tag-paranormal"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8EDHE-9mz","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":31608,"url":"https:\/\/insidethegoblinuniverse.com\/index.php\/2017\/09\/12\/dobharchu-an-early-ballad\/","url_meta":{"origin":35995,"position":0},"title":"DOBHARCH\u00da &#8211; 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