School: Drom an Mhadaidh
- Location:
- Drumavaddy, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: S. Ó Murchadha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0990, Page 101
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- Come all ye foolish young men
That have been led astray
And listen to this dreadful tale
Upon my dying day.
It was by cursed temptation
As you all may plainly see
I am condemned with grief and shame
To die on the gallow’s tree.
My name is Patrick Power
Near Wexford I was from
I attain the age of twenty years
I die in public scorn.
I broke the laws of God and man
For which I must now die
My father’s bloody vengeance
To heaven loud does cry.
A young girl who lived near me
I courted as you’ll hear
I often robbed my father for
To spend it on my dear.
A good advice she gave me
Though the bloody deed I done
I thought own my father’s farm
I been the eldest son
On the fourteenth of October
I watched him coming home(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Rose Tully
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Dennmore or Legganden, Co. Cavan
