In one local story from Fair Head, a servant danced a beautiful young woman off the cliff in vengeance, and her body washed up across the sound at the foot of Benmore, where she became known for her yellow hair.
Pans Rock, Carraig Uisnigh, is named in the same essay as the legendary landing place of Deirdre of the Sorrows. IrishCentral records that Deirdre, after years in Scotland with her lover, landed at Ballycastle Bay, was forced to marry the King of Ulster and later took her own life when threatened with being given to another man, and that she protested to the end against landing there and wanted to land on Rathlin instead. The rock has a carved face accessible only by sea.
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