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16. A bhean na dtri mbo $
Length: short (3qq)
Certainty: 5
Period:
  1. 14th ult
Areas:
  1. Munster
Classes:
  1. Love
Manuscripts:
  1. NLS Adv.72/1/37 Bk of Dean of Lismore
Prints:
  1. transl. (Eigse ii,64)
Motifs:
  1. Hag with the money
Poet Christian Names:
  1. Gearoid Bk Dean
Poet Surnames:
  1. MacGearailt ? (3rd Earl Desmond?)
Meter Vars:
  1. leathrannMhor
Poem:

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A bhean na dtrí mbó


[Ó Murchú, G.: ‘A ughdar so Gearóid’, Éigse 2, 64]


1 A bhean na dtrí mbó

giodh mór leat do chrudh,

tá bean dob fhearr linn

gan bhoin fhinn nó dhuibh.


2 Tigidh aire ann

chugat, mar is dóigh:

tuitfidh bó ar tom;

báidhfidh pol a dó.


3 Is caol cam do chas,

is is glas do cheann,

is castar é ort

fear bhus bocht, a bhean!