School: Com Liath (Scoil Brighde) (roll number 8924)
- Location:
- An Com Liath Thiar, Co. Chorcaí
- Teacher: Muircheartach Ó Cróinín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0282, Page 518
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- (continued from previous page)Another part of the district was Diarmuid Ó Seaghdha na Bolgaighe. He lived between Glengariff and Adrigole. He go the gift of Poetry in the following way:-He was out fishing in a boat one night when suddenly a violent storm arose. Suddenly a woman dressed in white appeared to him and drew his boat through the rough waves to the shore. From that night forward he had the gift of poetry. Hereunder are some lines of a song he composed for a woman who refused him lodgings. It is said that the song cause the woman to lose her mind afterwards.
(I)Ins an Goil atá an Di-bhean mar mheasaim
Go dearbhtach callaighe gan daonacht
Dar go dimhin dhuit dá dteigheadh sí ins na bhfláithis
Do dheigilidís na h-aingil ó chéile
CurfáSing Tailí hi hó hi hó
Sing Thailí hi hó the grinder
Sing taili hi hó hi hó
Sí cailleach bhuidhe srón no Goile í.
(II)Do íosfadh sí fuighleach na mbanbh
Is do shínfead 'na n-aice gan léine
Nuair do mhaoidheamh sí orm an t-aoileach mar leapthan
Do mheasas go stracfainn an plaosc di
CurfáSing Tailí hi hó srl.
( Cnoc na Goile - Irish for Sugar loaf )(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Pádriag O Mathghamhna
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Drom Cloch, Co. Chorcaí
