School: Glassalts (roll number 1239)
- Location:
- Glasalt or Treanfasy, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: M. P. Ó Dochartaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1116, Page 73
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- (continued from previous page)Rare and gorgeous are the hats and mantles that they’re wearing,
with fairy pipers playing upon prancing fairy steeds.
As they gather ‘round old Aileach, once proud home of kings of Erin,
Then, with all the pomp of ancient days, away the weird host speeds.down the mister mountain side and through the bog-land rushes,
Move they like a shadow dim, and ne’er a noise they make,
Over brea and glen they speed, by thorn and holly bushes,
Noiseless as the moonbeams that are shimmering on the lake.
They ride around the fairy duns, where lonely winds are sighing.
Perhaps recalling memories of Danaan times gain.
There, oft, the frightened peasantry have heard the Banshee crying
For some death-marked one among them who was soon to leave the glen.(continues on next page)
