corcar-an-deirg

Updated: June 2, 2025

And do not be crying tears after me, queen with the white hands," he said; "but remember your constant lover, Aodh, the son of the best woman of the world, that came out from Spain asking for you, and that I fought at Corcar-an-Deirg. And go to him now," he said, "for it is bad when a woman is in want of a good man." And he lay down on the rocks, and at the end of twelve days he died.

Lady Gregory - The Kiltartan Poetry Book; prose translations from the Irish