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1196. Leannan graidh chliar an chruine (aceph) $
Length: short 4qq (incomplete)
Certainty: 1
Period:
  1. 16th ult
Areas:
  1. Ulster
Classes:
  1. elegy mp
Manuscripts:
  1. Cambr. Add. MS 3082 O’Reillys 1598-9
Prints:
  1. text Carney POR no. ii
Motifs:
  1. Envoi to spouse
  2. poet as patron’s spouse or lover
  3. poet’s own mourning
  4. condolence to patron for another’s death
Patron Christian Names:
  1. Pilib mac Aodha
Patron Surnames:
  1. [O Raighilligh] d. 1596
Meter Vars:
  1. deibhidhe
Poem:

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Leannán gráidh chliar an chruine


[Carney, James: Poems on the O’Reillys, Dublin, 1950, poem 2]


Acephalous


1 Leannán gráidh chliar an chruine

gontar ar áth n-iorghaile,

thuilg sa chruine mar do chuir,

na huird uile fa énghuin.

2 Fan ghuin-sin oighre Aodha

gontur ríoghna rochaomha

[damhna guil dúnn agus dí]

a bhfuil go rún a Róise.

3 Guin Filib do mhothaigh mé,

gé mó do mhearaigh Róise;

guais leam cneasghuin a chinidh,

easbhaidh ar gach éinfhilidh.

4 Guin ó fhoghlaidh ina ucht

do ghon inghean Chon Chonnucht:

re leigheas di ar fhear da fhuil,

ní cneadh í mur gach énghuin.