School: Knockaville (roll number 14185)
- Location:
- Knockaville, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: C. de Búrca
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0730, Page 378
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With our plunder we found them, our fleet garrows and kine
And each chalice cruet, they snatched from Gods shrine,
But a red debt we paid them the Sassanach raiders,
As we scattered their spearmen, slew chieftains and leaders
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In the Pale there is weeping and watching in vain,
De Lacy and Dalton can ye reckon your slain.
Where's your chieftains, fierce Nangle? Has De Neterville fled?
Ho ye riders from Ormond, will ye brag in your hall
How your lord was struck down with his mail'd knights and all?
Swim at midnight the Shannon beard the lion in his den,
Ere you ride to Moycashel on a foray again.
