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School: Leitirfreag

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Letterfrack, Co. Galway
Teacher:
Míchéal Ó hIfearnáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0006, Page 020

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0006, Page 020

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    “i often sat i raptures and listened with delight.”

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    (continued from previous page)
    III
    Now George's men were cowards
    For they turned and they fled
    From a speck upon the ocean crest
    Just outside Cleggan Head
    It was a phantom quadruped
    That appears each seventh year
    For a day on Boffin Island and then twould disappear
    IIII
    Cuculainn dwelt on Dochru
    Finn Mac Cúl on Diamond Hill
    They flung the smoothing iron
    To each other with a will
    IIIII
    One day as Finn went hunting
    With his famous stag-hound Bran
    It fell and there it is to-day called Leac an Bódacháin
    IIIIII
    The hound pursued the royalstag
    With all its canine skill
    Round the shores of Log na nEach
    Andround that health cladhill
    Finn saw his hound in danger
    He called him back in vain
    But he leapt off Léim na h-eilte.
    And was never seen again
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. poetry
        1. folk poetry (~9,504)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    John Conneely
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Dawros Beg, Co. Galway
    Informant
    Michael Malley
    Gender
    Male