There were three poets in this district formerly. They were - Cairn Timothy Mc Govern, and Pat O Donnell. It is not know, when exactley did Cairn live, but it is believed that it was about a hundred years ago. He made a song when he was leaving Kilcara to settle down in Moynsha. In the song he said that he would rather spend one hour in Kilcara than three years in Stile-a'-baincigearna. Timothy Mc Govern lived in Moynsha, and died in 1931, aged about sixty years. Here are the names of some of the songs
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