Two older strands meet on the Crom shore. The first is a light. The Great British Ghost Tour says locals report a strange ball of light hovering above the surface of Upper Lough Erne, and some believe it to be ghostly. Spirited Isle states the tradition more specifically, saying that major events across Ireland are preceded by a glowing ball rolling across the lake. Neither names a date or a witness.
The second is a figure. Both pages mention a woman seen standing alone on the shore. Fermanagh Lakelands connects the Crom estate with the Lady of the Lake, said to be the spirit of Erne, the mythical woman who, with her maidens, drowned while fleeing a giant and whose body dissolved to make the lough.
The drowning of Erne is one of three folk explanations of the lake's origin, according to Wikipedia. The light and the woman may well be separate stories fixed to the same place, but they are always told together at Crom, so they are given one record.
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