⁶Cross, Tom Peete, and Clark Slover, eds. Ancient Irish Tales. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1936.
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The first published text to connect the tomb on Knocknarea with the mythological Queen Maeve was in 1761. (Dowd, Marion. “The Folklore and Folk Traditions Associated with Knocknarea Mountain.” Sligo Field Club Journal, Vol. 10, 2024.
The detail of Queen Maeve being "buried standing upright" may have originated from a conflation with the story of King Eoghan Bel. (Ibid).