Petticoat Loose and the Legend of Bay Lough Here’s a great account of the famous ‘Petticoat Loose’ character that I recorded in Cahir, Co. Tipperary in 2008. She sounds like a right one altogether and it is easy to see how stories like this developed as they were used by the church and society in general to keep people on their moral track and their understanding of social norms. I found this fear of strong independent women crops up a lot of in our folklore in Ireland and in particular around t