To make thee undergo this rueful change?
Thou wert, O, happy one of the bright walls,
The Fortress of the Meetings of Clann-Connell,
The Tara of Assemblies to Conn’s offspring,
O, thou resplendent fount of nobleness!
Thou rivalledst Emania in Ulster,
Thou wert the peer of Cruachan in Connaught,
Or of the mansion over the bright Boyne,
Thou Rome of all delight for Erin!
In thee, thou fair, capacious dome,