School: Fothar (roll number 16903)
- Location:
- Faugher, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Bláthnaid Ní Fhannghaile
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1077, Page 208
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Amhrán (continued)
“O, Wild are the hills of Donegal, ¶ That frowning darkly rise, ¶ As if to greet the mist that falls, ¶ Upon them from the skies,”
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Then with a shriek, she madly leaped from the tower to the ground.
Where by her faithful waiting maid, her gory corpse was found.
And in Doe castle green, beneath the mouldering soil.
Mulmurrough's daughter sleeps in death, With Turlough Og O'Boyle.
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And (fier) fishermen, say along the beach a phantom boat is seen.
To gently glide by pale moonlight, along the Lackagh stream.
- Collector
- Brian Harkin
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballymore Lower, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Neill Mc Bride
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 78
- Address
- Faymore, Co. Donegal