Gearagh Waterhorse, Co. CorkThe name came from a film. I'd been watching The Waterhorse, a Loch Ness story, not long before I found this root rising out of the still water in the Gearagh. That sinuous S curve, the way it lifts like a serpentine neck and head. It looked exactly like something surfacing from the deep. The Gearagh is a strange and wonderful place. The last remaining alluvial forest in Western Europe, or what's left of one. When the Lee was dammed in the 1950s, it