DUNLUCE CASTLE 156 DUNSOGHLY CASTLE 164 ENNISKILLEN CASTLE 173 GLENARM CASTLE 190 GREENCASTLE, COUNTY DONEGAL 199 GREENCASTLE, COUNTY DOWN 203 HOWTH CASTLE 208 KILBARRON CASTLE 215 KILKEA CASTLE 221 KILKENNY CASTLE 229 KILLYLEAGH CASTLE 238 KING JOHN’S CASTLE, CARLINGFORD 245 KING JOHN’S CASTLE, LIMERICK 251 LEA CASTLE (INTERIOR) 258 LEA CASTLE (EXTERIOR) 262 LEAP CASTLE 265 LEIXLIP CASTLE 273 LISMORE CASTLE 282 MALLOW CASTLE 298 MAYNOOTH CASTLE 304 ROSS CASTLE 324 SHANE’S CASTLE 337 SWORDS CASTLE 345 TRIM CASTLE 361 THE LEGEND OF KILKEA CASTLE. It is seven years since they last awoke From their death-like sleep in Mullaghmast, And the ghostly troop, with its snow-white horse, On the Curragh plain to Kilkea rode past. For the Lord of Kildare goes forth to-night, And has left his rest in the lonely rath. Oh, roughen the road for the silver shoes, That they wear full soon on his homeward path. So thus to his own he may come again, With a trumpet blast and his warriors bold, And the spell that was by his lady cast Will pass away as a tale once told. For dearly she loved her noble lord, And she wished that no secret from her he kept, So she longed to know why in chamber small He watched and toiled while the household slept. But the Wizard Earl would not tell to her The secret dark of his vaulted cell, “For fear,” he said, “in the human frame, Lets loose the power of furthest hell.” But she feared for naught save his waning love, And at length to her wish he bent an ear, So flood, and serpent, and ghost gave place, For the lady’s heart had shown no fear.