School: Northampton (roll number 6396)
- Location:
- Northampton, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Tomás Ó Domhnalláin
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- (continued from previous page)Whose golden tresses loosely hung adown
her shoulders bare.7. A lovelier maid you could not find,
had you searched this island o'er,
For she was styled, as records tell,
the "Rose of Ballymore."8. They offered large, the gift was great,
but no hero would demand,
To undertake for love or gold,
to slay the Long Black Hand.9. And thus the elf was left at ease,
for three long years and more,
Till Lynch's friends a visit paid to him
at Ballymore.10. As annals say there also came a bold
and valiant knight
Who vowed to God he'd have revenge
on Killeen's churchyard sprite.11. This young Ó Héidhin from Inse Guair,
for so the youth was called;
As annals said he scarcely was
full twenty summers old.(continues on next page)
