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| | Later Poems of Yeats: Notes |
 | | 3).--The gods of ancient Ireland, the Tuatha De Danaan, or the Tribes of the goddess Danu, or the Sidhe, from Aes Sidhe, or Sluagh Sidhe, the people of the Faery Hills, as these words are usually explained, still ride the country as of old. |
 | | Sidhe is also Gaelic for wind, and certainly the Sidhe have much to do with the wind. |
 | | Knocknarea is in Sligo, and the country people say that Maeve, still a great queen of the western Sidhe, is buried in the cairn of stones upon it. |
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