1\11•.l ~Jfltcn i11 Dunt riJI,\· W1w1t he'd h1•ul t.bt? .leer ·ar!•~ h <1.1 c, :Uut. Ute wi\chllg ~kc1· th.1.l l11-:: 11 ghl ·him hen: wtis Mu:rnurrough',; daughter fair, And there was no man in an tl":e land. er trod on frish soil, Mul:nu:rough's daughter lcved so well as Tur:ough Og O'BoyJe. In Duntally .vv·ccd as tfSt he cot:!d his lcve to her he vowed, But ter fathe·r, ove1he2ring him chastised O'Boy:e aloud. In hsugh1y pride he say£: 'Abice in Faughter by the sea, But you'll never \\·Cd the duughter of Mulmunough an Bh<t!a Bhuidhe. In his litEe boat O'Boyle would float, a-fisting he wou'.d go. With l:ook and line to Lackagh st:·eam that runs by Castle Doe, High on the ca:;t:e's tower of strength, r.is darling was confined, A!ld :m its !ofty battlcn:er.ts in sorrow deep she pi!1ed. By Doe Cast!e stra!ld two beats lay manned to wait the risi:lg tide; Mulmi.:rrough th:re in chief ccmrr. and right cowardly did hide, And as O'Boyle his homeward cou:se steered by fr.e Bi:;hop's Isle. They there way:aid and a priscn€r made of the fearless you~1g O'Boyle. They tcok him to Doe Ca!:tle, in sh ong it ons he was bound And by Mulmuuot:gh w::s ccnfined to a dungeon underground, And in a frw days :afte1wa1 ds, ber.eath the Castle wa1!, Four-stahvard iuffians tore a biEr ;wrapped in a funeral pa'.l. Young Aileen from her tower on high beheld this mournful scene: In mute an:aze she oast her gaze on the castl2 ~raveya:-d green Where. i:;ale in death, l::ei:ic'e a mound of freshly risen coi:. The pall rfrr'.-0ved, she then beheld the featt:res of O'Boy!e. T!-.en with a shriek she madly jumped f1om the tower to the grouml. Where by ;!",er faithful waiting maid her gory corpse was found. And in Doe Castle gravi:y.ard green beneath the mouldering soil, Mu!munough's daiighter slet:~.s in death with Turlough Og .O'Boylc. A!:d fishes ~ay a:cng H·.e l:c::r:h a ph::ntom boat is ;:ccn To gently glide by pa'.2' m:Jo,lig!:t adow:i by Lackagh stream While in that boat two figures sit and on each face a smile They say it is young Aileen and her Turlough Og O'Boyle." ~03,
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