Desarted

• Dysart O'Dea: a hermitage founded in the 8th century by St Tola, near Corofin, County Clare; it was the site of a decisive battle in 1318 in which the O’Briens defeated the Anglo-Norman leader Richard de Clare (a descendant of Strongbow)
  • A Finnegans Wake Gazetteer

• deserted → Oliver Goldsmith, The Deserted Village → see auburn mayde