School: Más an Easa (B.) (roll number 14775)
- Location:
- Masiness, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Prionnseas Mac Carraigh
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1075, Page 152
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Más an Easa (B.)
- XML Page 152
- XML “Turlough Óg O Boyle and Aileen Mc Sweeney”
- XML “Another Legend about Maolmurra Mc Sweeney”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- (continued from previous page)Where by her faithful waiting maid her corpse all cold was found.
And in Doe Castle's graveyard green beneath the mouldering soil,
Maolmuire's daughter sleeps in death with Turlough Og O'Boyle.
- Maolmurra had a daughter named Judith, and his castle was besieged by the English. He accused her lover who was in the Castle at the time of attempting to surrender the Castle to the enemy. He seized a battle-axe, and as he was going to strike him down, Judith rushed in and received the blow instead. He threw her dead body into a great well inside the ramparts. Afterwards the well was filled up and it is said the Castle kitchen is now built on the spot.
The ghost of Judith McSweeney was supposed always, locally, to haunt the kitchen of Doe Castle.
