Note 790 — Chapter XVI · FATHER JOVE AND MOTHER VESTA
Reading edition
Douglas Hyde, A Literary History of Ireland (London, 1899), p. 158. The tradition of the oak of Kildare survives in the lines,
“That oak of Saint Bride, which nor Devil nor Dane
Nor Saxon nor Dutchman could rend from her fane,”
which are quoted by Mr. D. Fitzgerald in Revue Celtique, iv. (1879-1880) p. 193.