The Dead at Clonmacnoise

14th-century poem by Aongus Ó Giolláin

The Dead at Clonmacnoise is a 14th-century poem by Aongus Ó Giolláin. It commemorates the many royal kings and princes of Ireland that were buried there.

## Excerpt (translation)

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> There they laid to rest the seven Kings of Tara
>  there the sons of Coirpre sleep –
>  battle-banners of the Gael, that in Kieran's plain of crosses
>  now their final hosting keep.

## See also

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* Clonmacnoise

## References

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* 1000 Years of Irish poetry, Kathleen Hoagland New York, 1947, pp. 6–8. ISBN 1-56852-235-5.

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