School: Corra Cluana (roll number 14054)
- Location:
- Corracloona, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Caomháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0193, Page 351
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Song (continued)
“One evening as I wandered by the setting of the sun.”
(continued from previous page)"Your herds are in "May Bruree" ? Your men are prisoners all
Your head and theirs by morrow's sun shall grace my castle wall
Unless your speed for ransom back to Mayo's fertile plain and I pledge your oath on faith and name you'll soon return again."
His oath he pledged his men unbound, them dungeon bolts undone
Afar they shout "We'll soon return, my Lord of Hamilton"
III
The night was wild and windy, the revel lasted long Sir Fredrick's men were seated with wassail wine and song
Like fire upon the casement, loud shrieked the startled dames
The Mayo men have sealed the wall and the castle's wrapt in flames
The melting lead like molten mines in bubbles blue it ran
That night saw Fredrick fleeing far from Manorhamilton
IV
A looklet (?) by that castles side moves onward evermore
And oft the urchin playing there he delved in leaden stone
And Benbo mass a cloudy peak towering high above the valley green
And dimly through December haze the Shannon hills are seen
And Screeny groves are beautiful as they were in ages gone
But grim and darkly flowing now sits castle Hamilton.
- Collector
- Nancy Keany
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Laghty Barr, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- Terence Keany
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 57
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Laghty Barr, Co. Leitrim