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1829. Tir gan eagla deargruathar $
Length: short 2qq
Certainty: 5
Period:
  1. 17th early
Areas:
  1. Munster
Classes:
  1. miscellaneous
Manuscripts:
  1. RIA 259 (23/N/32) M.OLongain 1829-31
  2. RIA 490(23/N/15)MmcPUiLongain 1740-
  3. RIA 257(23/G/24)M.OgOLongain 1795-
  4. RIA 203 (E/v/5) Pol O Longain 1819
Prints:
  1. transl. McKenna, AOD, p. 75
Motifs:
  1. legal terminology
  2. mythical allusions
  3. biblical allusion?
  4. siodh, people of fairy mounds
Poet Christian Names:
  1. sname only (RIA 490)
Poet Surnames:
  1. O Dalaigh Fionn
Patron Christian Names:
  1. sname only
Patron Surnames:
  1. O Suilleabhain of Glanorought ?
Meter Vars:
  1. deibhidhe
  2. Ae freislighe &
Poem:

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Tír gan eagla dearg-ruathair


[McKenna, L.: Dánta do chum Aonghus Fionn Ó Dálaigh, Dublin 1919, poem 54]


Gleann Ruachtaigh


1 Tír gan eagla dearg-ruathair

oraibh i n-ard ná i bhfánaidh

cóir na bhfear ón sean-Ruachtaigh

ní facas riamh ag námhaid.


2 Gleann mar ghleann daingean Dalláin

fa shíoth-bhruighibh Manannáin

mín-réidh na ród gcorr uile

fód do shein-tír tarngaire.