School: Cratloe (C.)
- Location:
- Cratloe, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Máire Ní Shitric
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0597, Page 167
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- (continued from previous page)riding a white horse, she started talking to the Fianna. Oisin, the son of Fionn, went over to her and she asked him to go with her to 'Tír na n-Óg'. He refused at first but after a while, he consented. She told him that he would never grow old. Off he went with her to Tír na nÓg. This lady's name was Niamh Cunn Ór. He married her and they lived happily there for three hundred years which only seemed to him like three months. he wished to come home to Ireland to see the Fianna once more. Niamh Cunn Ór
would not consent to let him go at first but at last she let him go and she told him not to dismount the white steed.
Off he started and he never stopped until he reached the green shores of Ireland. He then went to the home of the Fianna but there was nothing to be seen but ruins and weeds and nettles. He was looking for traces of the Fianna but he did not find any.
He saw a crowd of men trying to lift a heavy stone but they were not able to do so. Oisin said he would lift it with one hand. He bent down to lift the stone but the girdle of the saddle broke and Oisin fell down, a week and feeble old man. He met St patrick and he said all the Fianna were in Hell and Oisin said he would rather be in hell with(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Anna Lee
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cratloe, Co. Clare
