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1. Kathleen Ryder's Well (continued)

   

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   XXII
   See again false Kathleen walking,
   With her former treacherous lover,
   For he courted the fair Kathleen
   In her mountain cabin poor
   He a churl in Rosspoint nurtured,
   Ledger man and trading clown,
   Was preferred before De Freyne
   Belted knight of high renown.

   XXIII
   For insooth when the good chieftain,
   Pledged his troth in Balyneale
   To the coy and shrinking maiden,
   Listening to his ardent tale,
   She, by wild ambition prompted,
   Sold her heart and catered sin,
   And henceforth her pleasing features,
   Hid a serpent heart within.

   XXIV
   See again those lovers walking,
   Not through forest pathway deep,
   But where spreads an open meadow,
   Under Ballyreddy's keep,
   Where beneath the golden sunset,
   Through the grass a fountain springs,
   And a dark-haired child beside them,
   Hears them plotting wicked things

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   History Edit

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Caitlín Ní Bholguidhir

   Gender

   Female

   Informant

   Brighid Ní Mhurcadha

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Ballyfoile Upper, Co. Kilkenny