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1. Turlough Óg O Boyle and Aileen Mc Sweeney (continued)

   

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   At the Castle strand two boats were manned to wait the rising tide,
   Maolmuire there in chief command right cowardly did hide;
   And when O'Boyle his homeward course steered by the Bishop's Isle,
   He was waylaid and a prisoner made of fearless young O'Boyle.

   They brought him to the Castle, in strong irons he was bound,
   And by Maolmuire was confined in a dungeon underground;
   But on a few days after, inside the graveyard wall,
   Four stalwart ruffians bore a bier wrapped in a funeral pall.

   Poor Aileen from her tower above beheld the mournful scene,
   In mute amaze she cast her gaze on the Castle graveyard green,
   All pale in death beside a mound of freshly risen soil,
   The pall removed, she there beheld the features of O'Boyle.

   Then with a shriek she madly leaped from the tower to the ground,

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   History Edit

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Colum Ua Ceallaigh

   Gender

   Male

   Informant

   Niall Mac Giolla Bhríghde

   Relation

   Relative (other than parent or grandparent)

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   An Craoslach, Co. Donegal