School: Ballinard (B.), Cnoc Luinge
- Location:
- Baile an Aird, Co. Luimnigh
- Teacher: Ss. Ó Riain
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- (continued from previous page)and was drowned. When he was sinking, he screamed, but nobody heard him. Every seven years a piper is heard playing his pipes from the well, and before the music is heard loud screaming is heard. The well is known as "Piper's Well".
- The seven years are up astore, if memory serves me right
And Garrett sits astride once more his milk-white steed to-night.
Down by Lough Gur's enchanting lake where Desmonds chiefs of old
Had gathered all their henchmen brave to gaurd this last stronghold
He gallops past the Castle Bán, drawbridge and Giant's grave
Where Diarmuid and fair Gránia slept beside the silver wav
When in their flight and sorry plight so runs the bardic tale
Just to evade the shining blade of angry Conan Máol(continues on next page)
