School: An Ráth Mhór (Clochar) (roll number 13742)
- Location:
- Rathmore, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Sr. M. Dolores
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- On the Death of Muircheartach O'Griffin.I
Thou has taken Muircheartach from us, O Death,
Too late is the time for everyone
Snatch Tadhg quickly from us to the churchyard,
It is not fitting to separate him from him for everII
For ever, O rude stone, bind down with zeal
The wandering rake by whom the country has been wofully despoiled
Hesthe might come back to us suddenly from Acheron Press the villian tightly and bruise his heart III
A heart pitiless and without mercy
A heretic who met with a sudden death
He is in hell tortured
Roasted among a hand of demonsIV
Griffin is feeble, weak, helpless in the stream of Styx
Accompanied by thousands of maidens at the rivers marge
His great body is beneath the stone, and chafers mangle it
While the primal hounds of evil and demons execute his damnatnation with bitterness V
The demons of hell he put to flight
Which made his countenance of the colour of coal(continues on next page)