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Ella Young
Ella Young, "Cleena. A Legend of the South", The Dublin book of Irish verse 1728-1909, pp. 734-5, 784


 * PALE, in the twilight, the crested waves are falling On a lone shore where never a sea-bird strays; Softly the twilight wind is calling, calling, Calling for Cleena of the olden days.


 * Once a thousand lovers sang her praises, Wove her name in chant and storied rann; Cleena, for whose sake the sea-god raises, Wave on wave, his crested foam white clan.


 * Gods and heroes once the battle-gear uplifted All for Cleena of the curling, golden head; O'er her beauty now the dust has drifted, The songs are silent, and her lovers dead.


 * Only where waves in shadowy foam are falling, Falling, falling ever, with a sound of tears, Earth and sea a vanished joy recalling, Mourn for Cleena and the long-forgotten years.


 * Mournful wind, your grief cannot avail her. Sea-foam drifting, drifting through the night- She has peace and silence, why bewail her? Cleena! Cleena! dead, forgotten quite!

Rebecca Scott
Rebecca Scott, "Cleena", The Dublin University magazine: a literary and political journal, Volume 87. 1876. pp. 669-74

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Mary Jane O'Donovan Rossa (poet or editor?), "A South of Ireland Legend" and "The Beads of Mary. A Legend of Ross-Carberry", Irish Lyrical Poems. 1868. pp. 13-8

Caomh
Franklin, D., "Cliodhna, the Queen of the Fairies of South Munster", in Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society, Volume III, Second Series. 1897. pp. 81 ff

Donal III O'Donovan
Black, Ronald, Poems by Maol Domhnaigh Ó Muirgheasáin (II), SGS XIII Pt I, 1978, 46-55.

Domhnall's son, dragon of Clíodhna, is guardian of the ancestral name...

Bound to rock and wails for princes

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