School: Más an Easa (B.) (roll number 14775)
- Location:
- Masiness, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Prionnseas Mac Carraigh
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- (continued from previous page)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,(continues on next page)- 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