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Oo GigIb blade cleat copp Of houses graceful, handsome- 
ridged, 
O04 pndite teaé na ciméroll Each street by two ranges is lined, 
Cp clap cilze 00 Go1sead Thick set with houses is the level 
Opum an acaid Pron-cloipos ~——Of the ridge of habitations, with 
its white enclosure. 
Aca ap Chl an cldaip cilce At the end of the crowded level 
OGn ina cafp cinlicpe Is a mansion like a capital letter; 
Cinlicip cloice alle An illuminated capital, a beau- 
teous castle; 
On na plata pion saille The Dun of a fair-cheeked chief, 
Oainsean cloé an ofnaid de And the stronger is the Castle 
Dun by it, 
Loc ap cilaib na cloiée. A lake behind the Castle. 
Realca cloice ap cian popeap A star of a Castle as such long 
acknowledged 
Of lif loca na n’Cigear Over the waters of Lough na-n- 
Eigeas; 
O10 dille an élaé von caob Gall However beauteous the Castle 
within, 
G caom amaé map theampam. Its outer surface was like vellum. 
« After carefully examining the locality, I feel no doubt 
on my own mind that this very remarkable vestige of the days 
of yore is the scene of the entertainment immortalized by 
O’Daly, and that the Castle of Gallagh, which then adjoined 
it, was the ‘illuminated capital letter of a Dun’ described by 
the poet as dominating over the straight lines of streets, as may 
be beheld in any of our old MSS., and a very apt simile it 
was for the relative positions of the locality. It is true the 
lake no longer forms part of the scene, but any one who takes 
his stand on the mound where once the Castle stood will 
perceive, just behind it, an extensive morass, which, before 
these days of drainage, may well have been Loch na-n-Eigeas.” 
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