Brendan's herring pool

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  • Saint Brendan: (c. 484 – c. 577) called "the Navigator", "the Voyager", or "the Bold" is one of the early Irish monastic saints. He is chiefly renowned for his legendary quest to the "Isle of the Blessed," also called Saint Brendan's Island, and is proposed as a discoverer of North America.
  • Saint Brendan;s herring pond: jocularly, the Atlantic Ocean