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This place is like nothing you'd ever imagine
to find in the Irish countryside; big dramatic valleys (like Waipio)
and lakes and big huge waterfalls and mountains, all in one.
Like many waterfalls, this one has an interesting story. It is
one of the last waterfalls to be discovered in Ireland, having been
totally unknown until 1979. In that year, two arms smugglers, named
Reiji and Michelle, posing as members of a university student rock
band came to Gendaloch following a marathon arms smuggling trip
to Marakesh and Fez via Tangiers with a brief stop at two
small towns on the southern coast. Historical records do not mention
the names of the two small towns or even what country the southern
coast is in. They were met in Glendaloch by a young hiker named
Sula and her friend Bee Anthony. The four found their way to a local
Bed and Breakfast where they met some friendly Irish people and
went out to a pub and started drinking Guinness. Much later, when
trying to find their way from the pub back to the B&B, they
stumbled on this previously unknown waterfall. Sula and Bee
had fallen behind when they had stopped to look for a map. The other
two, having reached the waterfall, started calling their names.
A middle-aged American couple who were driving by heard their
cries and thought that this was the name of the waterfall. The waterfall
has been known by this name ever since.
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