{"id":144,"date":"2014-07-13T05:32:19","date_gmt":"2014-07-13T05:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=144"},"modified":"2015-03-14T17:38:02","modified_gmt":"2015-03-14T17:38:02","slug":"in-the-shadow-of-cairn-hill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/in-the-shadow-of-cairn-hill\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Shadow of Cairn Hill"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Cairn
Cairn Hill – aka Corn Hill in Longford in Ireland<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Are they true the old tales, that he who slay Queen Maeve,
\nNeath one of these cairns in death enjoys sleep?
\nThat the grass and the rushes of the sides of the hill
\nHis corpse till resurrection safely does keep? <\/p>\n

We know not, is it, and is he but a tale,
\nI wonder as past it I walk today,
\nStories now kept between pages of books
\nAnd a people who think things are better that way. <\/p>\n

We are all the poorer these stories we don’t know
\nWe are like a boat with a motor but no sails,
\nWe get where we are going, we are what we are,
\nBut not what we could be, forgetting these tales. <\/p>\n

In the shadow of Cairn hill, generations before,
\nHad legends, had faith, honesty and truth,
\nWe lost the first, the second, and are losing the others,
\nLife is about the rule of the brute. <\/p>\n

There will be a time when the times of the present,
\nFolk will talk of fondly by then being long past,
\nThey will rue what we knew we forgot and we lost,
\nIgnorance rules when knowledge is forgotton, and will last.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Are they true the old tales, that he who slay Queen Maeve, Neath one of these cairns in death enjoys sleep? That the grass and the rushes of the sides of the hill His corpse till resurrection safely does keep? We know not, is it, and is he but a …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,23],"tags":[228,1218,1721,1722,42,567,227,1234,1723],"class_list":["post-144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-folklore-and-legend","category-north-longford","tag-cairn-hill","tag-folklore","tag-hillwalking","tag-legends","tag-longford","tag-longford-stories","tag-poems-on-cairn-hill","tag-queen-maeve","tag-stories","column","twocol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-2k","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4631,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/old-crone-of-cairn-hill\/","url_meta":{"origin":144,"position":0},"title":"Old Crone of Cairn Hill","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"8th March 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Old Crone of Beara is said to have dropped stones that make up cairns on Cairn Hill in Longford. 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